Coastal Saturday is a Corvallis-based indie rock and pop group composed of vocalist Kainoa Taylor, drummer Joshua Phillips, and guitarist Jacob Ramirez.
The Commuter recently published a feature on the group and their music in the May edition that can be viewed here. The full conversation can be found in this article.
Editor’s note: This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
Joshua Phillips: Welcome to the Sunday Studio. This is the place where we live together for Coastal Saturday band and we record music. We live here in Corvallis.
You guys live here, record here, and everything?
Joshua: Yeah. Our little content house. I’m Joshua. I’m the drummer. And this is Kai [Taylor], our vocalist. We’re missing our guitarist right now, Jacob [Ramirez].
Is your full lineup then the three of you or are there four of you?
Joshua: Yeah, we used to have four. Yeah, it was a killer. Oh my goodness, our bassist. His name was Austin [Cassanova]. An incredible player but he ended up moving out to Salem and he’s kind of moving all over the place and going on to better things.
Gotcha. So who’s taking care of bass stuff for you guys now?
Joshua: Well, I play a good few instruments. So on recordings, I’ll take care of it or Kai has gotten really good at doing bass and then some drum plugins as well. So yeah, we all do a little bit of everything.
How did you guys get into music?
Kainoa: I’m from Hawaii and reggae was a big thing that my entire family would listen to. Back in elementary, I would listen to that a lot. And I was in acting gigs. And like, I was very much a theater kid. But I was also like, a center of attention kind of kid. So I wanted to do a bunch of talent shows. So in middle school, I did a talent show and I sang acapella and it was like some kind of island-style song. And, yeah, so that’s kind of where it started. Like, I was singing a lot. I was dancing a lot. Dancing was the first art thing that I wanted to do. I liked the Jabbawockeez.
But then I chose to stick with singing. I did choir in high school. I was also part of a band in high school, but that one was very, very short lived. And then I moved here with my friend, our guitarist. I moved with him from Hawaii. So we both came from there. And we would do some songs together as well. And then in college, I did music production. And then I also did classical singing training stuff. Yeah, it’s been a lot. It’s been a lot of music. Sometimes I don’t give myself credit for it – I feel like I only started making music the past three or four years, but like, I can link it all the way back to then.
Joshua: Well, I got started with music pretty early, I guess. I was so, so privileged to have a piano in my house growing up. And when I was like three years old, I started clinking at the keys, you know, and started writing little compositions and my dad took on that and he got me linked up with a piano teacher. And, man, I was in that for 11 years doing classical piano recitals shows – the whole thing. And I hated it. Hated it. Oh, it seriously almost killed my love for music. I was just not playing anything I wanted to, you know, and my teacher would, just anytime I’d shoot out some jazz or anything like that, she would crack the whip so it wasn’t working out.
But eventually – this is when I lived in California, where I was raised, and then in 2017, my whole family left and moved to the East Coast. And I was going to school out there and spending a lot of my time out in New York City. And I had just sworn off classical music and the piano and I really wanted to find a new love of music, and I found jazz out there. I started playing the alto saxophone and that was like my savior. I spent seven to eight hours a day just practicing and learning tunes and doing it all by ear. And it just pushed me to want to learn more instruments as well. So I picked up drums and bass and started getting back into piano. I learned film score. And then that was kind of my first time starting to teach people as well, becoming the teacher, which I loved turning that around and making something better of it. And I still teach today. That’s one of my biggest musical facets.
But eventually, I moved off to college and I came to Oregon and that’s where I found the guitar. I started really getting into the guitar and I taught myself Brazilian Portuguese in the effort of learning bossa nova, one of my favorite variations of jazz. It’s just always been something that I loved. But I was in this class in my junior year here at OSU and I was like, ‘You know what, we’ve got a final project to do, let’s learn a whole language and write a song in this language for the first time for this.’ I just said that I just went for it. And after that, I just totally fell in love and after that, I was playing guitar and singing and that’s my main gig now: my solo stuff like that. But then on the side, I’m playing drums for Coastal Saturday and yeah, those are the two big sides of my music now. I’ve made some dramatic improvements from just classical piano.
What’s the story behind how Coastal Saturday formed?
Kainoa: So, it started off with me and Jacob. Like I said, we both came from Hawaii and we already started playing songs together. And how I met Josh was through one of our classes at OSU and it was like a music production class. And it was basically a year-long class and when I first met Josh, he would be carrying around an entire amp and an entire guitar with him at all times. He’d be walking across campus with it, and that was just so crazy to see him. He’d do that all the time. But part of that class – it was a very small class that Austin was also in – we all had very different skills and genres. Austin was our music production kind of person. So he already came into the class with a lot of the knowledge to record, mix and master songs. And then Josh had a lot of like the live performance aspect, like how to mic up a drum kit and stuff like that. So we formed a couple group projects. And we had to make a song together. And we made a song called ‘Daydream.’ This was with Austin. Josh, another fellow, and myself, of course, but we played a concert.
We got to play ‘Daydream’ in front of the entire music production crew. And that felt good. It felt really, really good, honestly. Austin was on bass. I was playing guitar and I was singing, and then Josh was on the kit. But then, Jacob wasn’t really a part of that at first until I was writing this other song called ‘Talking Hearts.’ And he was a part of that writing process. And then I was already a good joe shmo with Josh. I was like, ‘Hey, would you be down to do drums for a live recording of the song?’ So, I introduced Jacob to Josh. And then we all did a live performance in the room. And then I kind of saw that it was great, working with them together. And then Austin also had the music production knowledge. So, we all vibe together pretty well.
Joshua: We spent that one whole year together in a class, the three of us, and the beauty of Coastal Saturday forming for me, was this mix of genres especially. Because for me, I came in with jazz and classical and rock, and I was playing in a reggae band. And I just had done a lot of stuff. Like I said, just like performance. But Kai, you heard from his background, he’s always been a performer. He’s got the dance, he’s got the singing. He’s got all that. But when I met Kai, he would tell me his influences, and they were just pop. They were just good pop. And so I was like, I was in love. It’s just such green flags for a singer. You know? Like, that’s exactly who I want in front. And then like he was saying with Austin, he came in with this production knowledge. He had watched the YouTube videos, he had gone through it, but really where he could shine as well is making beats and really getting down to the nitty gritty of creating sounds. So he had some incredible influence with that and hip hop influence that came there. But Jacob, he’s like our American player. He’s just an American blues guitarist kind of guy. He’s like, think John Mayer, Chicago – like he’s just, I don’t know, it’s old style and it’s pretty awesome.
Kainoa: But he holds it down. Guitar is his number one thing, like, he can play anything pretty much anything.
What’s the story behind your band name?
Joshua: I’m going to take a prologue to this. I mentioned the name of our studio is Sunday Studios, and then the name of our band and the studio kind of came at the same time for us. We spent every week – we’d come up Friday until we made it our ‘Coastal Saturday’ that we’d start to meet together. But we were meeting every Friday and one day we came back together and we’re like, ‘Man, we should get a name together.’ And I was like, ‘Guys, I’ve been thinking that same thing.’ For the studio. I really like the vibe of Sunday. It’s like the music we’re creating, my bossa nova, the jazz, it’s super chill. It’s relaxed. The Coastal Saturday. It’s a vibe. It’s just the weekend, lay out by the pool, go to the coast kind of vibe. So I was like Sunday studio. That’s kind of it. And then we’re like, ‘Hold on a minute, guys.’ [laughing]
Kainoa: The other half of that actually, originally, when it was just Jacob and I and we kind of went through a couple of our own band names, but nothing ever really stuck. I think we did have a draft though. And it was Coastal Sunday. The ‘coastal’ part was we’re all from the coast, you know, all from the West Coast or Hawaii. Or, you know, Oregon’s a coastal state. And then we always practiced on Saturdays. It’s very on the nose… Coastal Saturday.
What particular bands and artists are your influences?
Kainoa: I can speak for my own and also Jacob’s. I mean, I’m very much into Five Seconds of Summer and One Direction. Their singing is amazing, even though they’re some of the most poppy songs ever. They’re so good! But like, their vocal capacity and range is something I aspire to be. And then as for guitar, Jacob and I both were on the John Mayer train. It’s like, new generational and soulful in a way, I guess. He has some others but I feel like that’s the main one that he and I share.
Joshua: For me, it’s definitely widespread because there are so many genres. But when I started learning Portuguese, especially Jorge Ben, who is considered the king of samba. I learned the language entirely through just listening to his records and dialing in on the lyrics, and same with João Gilberto who I’d say is my number one inspiration for my own sets, doing guitar and singing. But then jazz has been Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderly. Bill Evans is one of my biggest influences for all of my music. But then there’s definitely some modern flavor there too. I’m not just an old soul. So I get with a lot of indie rock and folk.
Kainoa: And The Strokes! Oh, my God. Yeah, like okay, so I was originally a guitarist before I really focused on singing, but The Strokes man – the entire inspiration for my guitar. All those indie bands.
What’s your favorite album by The Strokes?
Kainoa: Okay, the first one that came to my mind is ‘Comedown Machine,’ the red one. I think that’s like arguably the people’s least favorite but I like that one.
There’s some romanticism around starting a band in college like you did. What was your experience juggling school work, music, and a band dynamic?
Joshua: Let’s be honest. This is something that I tell a lot of people who are my students or other people in the program to make the most of what they’re doing. Because Kai’s graduated now, I’m still in the program. You can go the entire time. You’re there without having these connections, these projects making this kind of music graduate, and you’ll graduate, but they get you in a room full of 40 other students and Kai came up to me and we started chatting and we just put in a little bit of effort. But the thing with the the year-long program we were doing as well, like we crafted that the we had like exams that were supposed to be we were doing and instead we said we went to the teacher and asked, ‘Hey, can we write a cover for the midterm or do a cover for the midterm and then write an original song for the final?’ And she’s like, ‘Sounds good.’ And then that’s the way they did the class from there on out because they realized that like you get these people in the room. You just have to get them working on stuff. And that’s what doesn’t happen. So for for us, it’s like you gotta you gotta bug each other a little bit just to get the get the wheels turning, but once it does, we make some incredible music. That’s awesome.
Kainoa: To add to that, I think there is truth to that, like starting a band in college. Or even high school. And I think the main reason for that is time. You know, I used to feel like in high school, in college – homework was always on the back of my mind, but I also did have a lot more free time than working a full time job. And I think that’s what romanticizes it because you have that time at a young age and like it’s the best time to capitalize on learning those skills and meeting people. Because, honestly, the number one thing about college is meeting people. I feel like the education comes second after really networking. Career maybe maybe third.
One of you is finishing up college and the other is out of college. What are you guys doing outside of music? Or just outside of this band?
Joshua: Oh. Well, I’m a full time musician. I hold that title very, very highly. But I’ve been teaching music for a number of years since I lived on the East Coast. And I also play in a number of bands. Playing shows is a lot of fun. I’ve been playing quite a few this year, and there are a lot more coming up as well. And so yeah, I’m very fortunate to be able to say that I am a professional musician, and along with being a full time student as well, which is very difficult.
Kainoa: I’m working at a bank to build up my savings for my nest egg so that I can go full time and I feel like it’s been working pretty nicely because it’s a lot of extra cash. Starting out as a full time musician, you gotta get the ball rolling, and I kind of just want to build myself a little bit of rent and expenses and then go into that. I also do photography. I really like photography and making music videos. I really, really liked that. The visual aspect is something that I think a lot of musicians look over.
What were your impressions of the music program at Oregon State?
Joshua: Well, honestly I’ll turn it back on you because I think the LB network is really on the rise. Good friends with [Linn-Benton music professor Buddy Anderson] and he’s been working on that.I think it’s really great what they’re doing at LB. I mean, Kai’s out but I’m still in and they just opened that practice building. I got to play for the grand opening. And there’s some tremendous facilities in there. I’m a part of the CMI program with Dana Reason, which is a very incredible program for musicians who want to pursue the path of being a professional musician. And so with that comes a lot of incredible resources with Prax. But it’s still a small program in music tech, where I was before, where I met Kai, it was only 40-50. People weren’t necessarily jumping up to get on projects, but you know, we found each other thankfully and were able to make something happen.
Kainoa: I’m about to spill some truth and facts. I’m out so I can say whatever I want. It’s definitely getting better. It’s on the rise. I think with that new building the opportunities are growing and we’re part of the early generation of that music program. But honestly, if you aren’t making the most of it networking, it’s probably terrible for people if you’re not networking at all, not working on trying to build your own music portfolio and work with other people. And you’re just doing it alone. Like, you’re gonna suffer in a way. Because, this goes for all classes, you know, if you just turn stuff in, stick to those due dates and you’re not really learning, you’re just trying to go for the grade, then you’re just gonna get a degree with nothing. I feel like I’ve learned way more from the people around me.
Like, Austin, he knows more than like 90% about mixing and mastering than like some of the programs. Because it’s so small and it’s underfunded. And so if you really want to get the most out of it, you have to be proactive in it, for sure. But it’s still growing and it’ll be easier for people to be proactive in it. But in my experience, I was just being by myself for a long period and I felt like I wasn’t gaining anything until I really talked to people and that was like a huge step up. HUGE step up. And I’ll say I was afraid to play guitar and sing at the same time. I was very scared of that until I was forced to perform live with people.
Joshua: I just pushed. I pushed them pretty hard sometimes, but I think Austin played his first show with us and he had zero live experience. Mixing and mastering was his thing and recording, but he had no taste of performing live at all. But we did some incredible shows here in Corvallis locally and and I’m so thankful for him for it’s been a you know, sometimes it’s a jump to perform live but it’s really so so incredible, to be a part of the local live music community. You know, getting down at these venues meeting people being a part of shows like rosters with others, you know opening for somebody or they’re opening for you. It’s a really incredible thing to be part of.
Are you talking about the music program as a whole or the music production program specifically?
Joshua: I’ve seen both. I think the classical music program is more well rounded than the music production program specifically. I feel like the music production people don’t play live that much. And then the classical musicians, the singers, and the choirs and stuff. There’s a lot more resources and training for them. And they have experience doing live stuff. But a lot of them don’t know how to do the music production stuff and will never record, you know, their own songs that they make because they have no clue how. I think that’s stronger. That area is stronger. There’s way more curriculum and like a growth path, versus it always felt like music production was just kind of stumbling to find the right way to teach.
Did you guys ever take any music classes at LB?
Joshua: I did aural skills. I was very thankful for that. They were good.
What is your relationship with [LB music professor] Buddy Anderson?
Joshua: Buddy is another incredible example of all we’re talking about with networking. And just getting up and making something happen. I met Buddy when I was all the way back in New York. It was the first year when I was at OSU. It was 2020, and I didn’t have a computer, I was just stumbling through Zoom university. I was just waiting and biding my time, saving my money until I could get out to Corvallis. And then when I did, when I finally touched down, I started showing up to my classes and I was seeing some familiar faces, and one of them was Buddy, who I had had almost every single class with, both music and non music classes – I just kept seeing him. And when I got on campus, he was there with me in forum and we were assigned on a project together. I was playing saxophone back at the time, and he invited me to a gig with his band – back then we were called ‘Moonlight Ghosts,’ this was with good friends Shane Evans and Travis Foster.
We were playing at Common Fields in Corvallis, and it was a Halloween show, and after that they liked what I was playing – it was a really fun show, we played for two hours and I was blowing saxophone reggae lines the whole time, it was crazy. And after that I played with them for almost two years. We changed our name to ‘Animals with Clothes On.’ We were a local, Eugene-based reggae rock band. And I also played with Buddy in his closer project, called FAM, ‘From Anotha Mista,’ with his sister Ali. And I played drums and sax with them. They’re just an incredible bunch. I love that family and yeah, they’re good friends.
Your latest song, ‘Magnolia,’ just came out. It’s your best yet. What was the process for writing that and recording it?
Kainoa: The guitar part came first. Jacob and I, we write riffs of our own separately. And then we both were just jamming. I was like, ‘Hey, I got this. I got this line or something.’ And then he was like, ‘Oh, I got this line too, that I really, really want to show you.’ And then I played it. And then he played it and I was like, ‘Wait, these are in the same key.’ And so we meshed the two together. So the very starting riff of the song is the riff that I made. And then Jacob comes in because he’s a more consistent guitarist than I am. So he continues the rest of the song and then in the second verse, we overlap it in the production side of it. And that’s really what started it. We heard the two riffs together. We thought they were very pretty. And then the first word that came to mind was ‘magnolia.’ And then I wrote the lyrics just based off of that vibe: magnolia. The title came first and then the lyrics came really, really easy. They just came out.
Joshua: I was on my way back from France. I was out there recording an EP and I got this text that just popped up from Kai, a voice memo. And I was like, ‘Oh, what’s this?’ And I play it and it’s just the starting riff for Magnolia. And I was coming back like a comet through the atmosphere, coming back from France. Like, I’m ready to put out albums. I want to get working. And so he sends me this little kicker, and oh my gosh, yeah, it was insane. I was so ready to record that. So we got to work. It’s one of my favorite songs we’ve ever written. But like you said, it just keeps getting better every time we write like that. We mess around with a lot of new stuff this time, too. I was doing background vocals. We did some more live drums since I was playing bass. Just had so much fun with it. It’s the first song that we really got to utilize in this studio space. Adapting to all the new changes.
That chorus is money.
Joshua: Jacob wrote that chorus. Yeah, it was so simple. And it captured the vibe so perfectly.
Can you preview some future music?
Joshua: So now in November, we moved into this new space and we started building the brand new Sunday Studio and so ‘Magnolia’ was the first of the stepping stones of getting into the space and getting it kind of dialed in. We’ve been recording vocals here and our own booth, drums, all the layers. Everything we need is really fantastic. And we’ve got a new song that’ll be coming out very soon, a single that we’re going to be recording in a way that we can capture a music video of us doing a fully live recording in the space, and then that same recording will be put out on the album… That’ll be the precursor to this. Yeah, this bigger album that’s coming out very soon.
Is this new music going to have the same style and vibe as your previous work?
Joshua: I think it’s getting a little more indie rock… I mean, we’re exploring more influences. Especially when it comes to instrumentation. We’re trying to find new ways to explore. You know, Kai has been getting really into some synths and adding those into the songs. And with background layers. We’re looking into Beatles songs and we played one in one of our last sets and just kind of going back to some really classical influences to dial in a really great sound. We’re working on new guitar tones. New sounds across the board. Our first iteration with ‘In My Own Mind‘ was a showcase of Kai’s writing talent and the first steps of us getting together. But this next album is going to be showing those different musical influences like I was telling you. You know, I’ve got the Brazilian, the jazz, all this different kinds of stuff. Kai with the pop and Jacob with the blues, like it’s coming in. There’s gonna be a lot of variety. That’s what you’re paying for with Coastal Saturday.
Where do you see this band going and what are your future plans and goals?
Joshua: We came together because we share so many of the same passions and goals and the same sort of drive. So Sunday Studio, it’s our home and it’s also kind of a blanket for all of our other endeavors. You know, I’m doing a lot of things – a professional musician means doing a lot of things. You’re putting on a lot of different hats, whether it’s scoring, teaching… There’s so many different things that you can do underneath the studio. That’s a lot of different musical facets. I’m also opening up the studio to record others, and then there’s Kai’s work, his music is solo art as well. And then Jacob, who is our guitarist, he’s also a graphic designer who makes all of our posters, all of our album art. And they are incredible. And so he’s doing freelance work and he’s making the transition to become also remote. So it’s becoming more centralized here in the Sunday Studio house and we’re taking off.
Kainoa: I think the main goal is to switch everyone to full time because more or less, we want to do the same things that we have been doing just on a more consistent basis and just more often. With me and Jacob both working full time jobs, that’s one of the biggest barriers. Having music to come back to when I get home is also a part time job in itself. So I’m trying to squeeze that in while just trying to exist as a person. So that is the biggest thing: just more shows, more music, and getting the time to learn how to do these things better and more refined.
Joshua: Yeah, it’s hard to be creative when you’re doing a lot of things like that. You know, when you’re working a full time job, it’s hard to come home and pick up the guitar and write a song sometimes, even though he’s thinking of ideas the whole time. Being a student is enough of a block. Yeah. And so it’s hard to be creative sometimes. But when I get a break from that and I’m just teaching or just composing, then I’m fully in my musical world and I get to be so creative and write so many more songs. So that’s the goal for these guys.
Kainoa: My Notes App is literally everything. Like it goes on, just lyric ideas. And I have like three notebooks for songs I will pull individual lyrics from if they have the same vibe or same story to them. Every time I come home, sometimes I plug in the guitar and then Josh just hears me noodling around. Because I have an idea that came to me on the car ride home. It’s another job but like, I love it. You know? I’m just constantly thinking about it all the time.
You guys both have solo projects going on too. Can you tell me about those?
Kainoa: I released a song just a couple of days ago, actually. It’s called ‘paper boat.’ Josh kind of showed me the jazz chords for the song. And then I had these lyrics that really fit the vibe and I made a music video and I’m so proud of how it came out. Right now I’m the one doing the production for our songs since Austin is doing his own thing. And I feel like working on this song for myself has really shown me how I stepped up my own mixing and mastering and my own writing as well. It was really a practice to see what I can do to my fullest potential. And I feel like I really did that in this one.
Joshua: I’ve been through a lot of challenges in the last couple of years and and that’s shown me that what I need to do is kind of hunker down and focus on what really drives me and what that’s been is just the the bossa nova and Coastal Saturday, so I’ve stepped away from a lot of other projects and just tried to own what I’m doing. I’ve been writing a lot of music and I’ve got a lot of more Brazilian music coming out as well as a lot of English music, exploring a lot of genres. This new album I’m calling ‘Milk and Honey.’ Got a little bit of a leak here, I guess. But that’s gonna be a really, really incredible project. I can’t wait to put that out. I came back from France like I mentioned. And while I was out there, I recorded my debut EP called ‘TSL‘ which is an homage to the town I recorded it in. I posted that on Spotify, Apple Music, all the rest of them, and it’s been doing really well it’s almost 25,000 or something views in total on Spotify. And it’s been good. So I’ve just gotta keep that train rolling.
What decides what makes it a solo project song versus what makes it a Coastal Saturday song?
Joshua: Well, there’s actually a lot of factors. There’s a lot that goes into it. But we come together to write songs a lot. When they’re organic ideas that just come out of a jam then it’s very easy to say yeah, it’s a Coastal Saturday song. But what we’ve also gotten into is this idea, like I mentioned, going back to some of the technique of the Beatles a bit – those guys were bringing in songs left and right from their different influences. They would give one to Ringo on the album, and that’s just how they work. So, in this next album, it’s definitely gonna be kind of a reflection of that where you’ll hear a song that might be a little bit jarring. A little bit more Brazilian focused, and you’ll be like, ‘Oh, that’s cool,’ but it’s still a Coastal Saturday song and you’ll hear that. Same thing with Jacob coming in. But when it comes to my work and my original music, the bossa nova. It’s very genre specific. These guys get up on stage with me and hit the bongos. Do a little shake. We’re still separate, you know? It’s still fantastic having them to be able to do that with me, you know?
Kainoa: For me, specifically – I actually wanted to tell the boys because I was just thinking about this. So this is going to be new to you. I was thinking about having a director for each song like a creative director and vision person for certain songs. I think we should assign a song like, alright, Josh is the creative director for this. And then Jacob, you’re going to take care of this one, and we’re going to fulfill that vision as best we can. Because I feel like a lot of the songs, I’ve mainly ran a lot of the lyrics and the melody, and I want to give more voice to everyone. Because the previous album, it was like a kind of a Taylor and a Coastal Saturday blend together but then we kind of took those songs and made it all Coastal.
But like, some songs like ‘paper boat,’ my solo work, that one really meant a lot to me. And the fact that it was so vulnerable, that I wanted to really keep that in that vision. But there are songs that I feel like if I want, I bring it to the table and show everyone. And either we add so much to it as a group or I’m okay with the vision, I feel like it should be shared with everyone because I’m not so attached to a certain way that it shouldn’t be. And yeah, Jacob will bring songs all the time. He’ll bring chords with an idea and a thought and then write around it, and it’s a Coastal Saturday song.
Joshua: So some of the best songs, some of our favorites, have just been Jacob even coming up with a little idea. ‘Magnolia’ – he came up with that chorus and it’s really a blessing. I mean, ‘paper boat’ is a song that he and I worked on together and we were working on the mixing and Kai was spending so much time. He was, oh my gosh, he was so dedicated. And I was watching that and I felt like it’s a blessing to be able to play that in a show and to be able to to share that as well. So yeah, I mean, if there’s a song that he writes that he says, ‘this is mine,’ then frankly, it is. But you know, I’m still gonna pester him to play it because, like, that’s what we’re here for.
Do you have any upcoming shows?
Joshua: Let me tell you about this event at OSU. I mentioned Dana Reason – she’s leading a team of other students setting up this music festival at OSU, the seventh iteration of Soundbox. Last year was my first year taking part in it. It was an incredible time. I did a solo set. I was playing music with poets, I was playing in an orchestra of 40 people playing improvised pieces, it was just so much incredible music. It’s an insane event for the student body when it comes to the music program. It’s our best way to show the rest of the campus and really the town what we’ve got. So that’s going to be happening at the end of May. It’s a really incredible program. I’m gonna be working on it doing sound and helping set up the event, but we’re also going to be playing there as Coastal Saturday. I’ll be doing a solo show, and plenty more.
Is there anything else you’d like to add?
Joshua: We’re coming in hot with some music!