November 13, 2024 • 34 mins
This week on the CPMPodcast we have:
Nick Mucci:
Development Director for Christian Churches United. Nick heads the annual Joy To he Berg album, which features local artists. All proceeds benefit the unhoused in Central PA. Nick has a heart of gold and an amazing outlook on life. Please check out the upcoming 2024 release of Joy to the Burg.
https://www.joytotheburg.com/
https://www.ccuhbg.org/
Faith Noel:
2x CPMA winner, 4x CPMA nominee. Faith is a multi talented Singer Songwriter from Gettysburg, PA. From recording in Nashville, to being featured on the 2024 Joy To The Burg album. Faith has also been recognized as one of PA's top 10 Youth Artists.
https://faithnoel.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Faithnoel15/
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Central Pennsylvania Music
Podcast Tonight Nick Mucci andFaith Noel.
This episode is sponsored byURL Insurance Group.
And now your hosts, daniel Kimeand Alan McCutcheon.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hello and welcome to the Central Pennsylvania Music
Podcast.
I'm your host, Daniel, Comingup.
We have Nick Mucci and FaithNoel Stay tuned Sitting here
with Nick Mucci, Director ofDevelopment for Christian
Churches United.
Nick, thank you so much forcoming on the show tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm excited to be here.
Of course, dude, we're excitedto have you here too.
You do a lot of differentthings.
You're heavily involved withthe Central Pennsylvania Music
Podcast when it comes to Joy tothe Berg.
Yes, let's dig into that alittle bit.
Tell us what you do.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah.
So Joy to the Berg is a projectthat started almost six years
ago now.
Central Pennsylvania musiciansgot together and said hey, what
if we used our talent, used ourgift and gave it away to serve
those who are living on thestreets?
And so Joy to the Berg was bornbecause of an idea of a bunch
of musicians.
They've recorded five albums.
(01:17):
This year we're coming up onour sixth album.
We're pretty excited about it.
So you've got the sale of thealbum.
A concert TV special prettyexcited about it.
So you've got the sale of thealbum.
A concert TV special justincredible opportunity for
people to enjoy Christmas music,because it's a big deal for
lots of people.
Oh yeah, and to support thosewho kind of end up on the edge
of society at times.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Gotcha.
That's awesome that you havethat opportunity to give back to
the community, help out andthen have the community help out
another community while you'reat it.
So what is your involvementwith Joy to the Berg?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah.
So my role with myself andBrendan Valentine and Bob Geiger
we kind of work together tohelp produce the album.
I help get some of thefundraising side of things and
get some things sponsored so wecan get the album produced, get
the concert scheduled and thingslike that.
But working with ChristianChurches United, the money
(02:09):
that's raised through theproject goes to support the work
that we do for our streetoutreach, our overnight shelters
and our safe haven house, andso a big part of what I do is
try to encourage, try to talkabout it Any chance I get.
I'm a guy who likes to talk, soif I can be in front of
somebody sharing about it andspreading the word, that's my
role.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Hey, that's why you're here, man, exactly.
And now you mentioned, you havea concert for it every year too
.
This one you said it's.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
December, december 15th.
So that is the third Sunday inDecember.
We'll be out at the Englewood,where we've been the last few
years.
The Inglewood is absolutelyamazing.
Shout out to the Inglewood.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yes, sponsor of the podcast.
We love the Inglewood.
Let's go, we love you.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Inglewood.
So the Inglewood's been anincredible host the last few
years, so we'll be there againin the afternoon from about 2 to
6.
Four hours of Christmas music,good food, good drink and just a
good time to be together.
We had Santa Claus was therelast year, and so we're hoping.
We're hoping the big man makesan appearance again.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Oh man, I'm sure he will.
Yeah, I wouldn't miss that forthe world, Absolutely.
Oh my goodness.
So now, when you so?
We talked about the concert.
Yeah there's also album salesas well.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So what's been done over the last six years is we've
produced CDs.
People still buy CDs and stilllisten to them.
There's also an opportunity todownload the MP3s.
Okay, and so this year's albumis going to be a double disc set
.
We've got 24 songs on the album.
Oh my goodness, we're reallyfired up about it, got one for
every day leading up toChristmas, exactly.
So it's just going to be one ofthose things.
It's like your own littleadvent calendar.
(03:36):
You can just one song a day andwork your way there to
Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, man, yeah yeah, I love that Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
We also this year did a best of vinyl.
Okay, you know there have beena lot of musicians that have
been on every album, and so itwas an opportunity to kind of
celebrate their gift, the waythat they give to the project,
and with the resurrection ofvinyl it's cool to get it back
out there and be on vinyl.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh yeah, who doesn't have a good classic vinyl?
Exactly.
So now we have ticket salesfrom the concert.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
We have sales from the, from selling the CDs.
What is all this going towards?
Yeah, so all of it goes tosupport the street outreach work
amongst the homeless.
Um, our, our overnight shelterfor women and non-binary
individuals, and then also ourmen's overnight shelter in our
safe Haven house, the the thewomen's overnight shelter in our
safe haven house the thewomen's overnight shelter is a
really cool story.
Uh, the.
The first album was 2019.
The funds raised from thatfirst album opened that women's
(04:31):
shelter.
There hadn't been a shelterspecifically just during the
winter, uh, for women at thattime, and so it gave birth to
that.
Wow, which is super incredible.
We got some incredible storiesuh, from the shelter shelter and
impacted there.
And then this year, the thingthat we're really excited about
is that shelter that was openedby the Joy to the Berg albums is
going to be expanding to ayear-round shelter, so no longer
(04:54):
just December to March, it'sgoing to be November and we're
not closing, oh my gosh.
So it's going to be awesome.
That is awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's going to be really cool man, Really cool
Goodness.
That is awesome.
It's going to be really coolman, Really cool Goodness.
So you've been doing this forgoing on six years now.
How much have you guys?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
raised over this?
We have raised over $187,000.
Oh my God.
Selling CDs, selling digitalmusic, having a concert.
There's been Christmas cardsthat have come and gone in the
midst of it too, and it's anexpression of generosity that
just blows me away man, it'sbeen so fun to be a part of.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's amazing.
So you said it's a 24 songalbum.
Is this the biggest album?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
yet there was one album that was done a few years
ago.
That was just a digital releasethat had 30 songs, but this is
the largest kind of physicalalbum that we've produced.
So that's why the two discs,and we're pretty excited to be
able to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
That's awesome.
So you know seeing that youeven you know raising more money
over time and you were growingas an organization.
What's what's uh?
What are you guys' plans forthe future?
Do you have anything uh in mindin terms of expansion, uh,
outside of expanding to a yearround shelter?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Well, I mean I, there's a lot of different ideas
that we have.
You know, I think the thingthat we're excited about with
this women's shelter is it'sreally going to allow some of
our case management to expand.
You know, the women's shelteris a place of respite that women
and non-binary individuals cancome to for safety in the winter
.
But man, that opens up so manydoors for relationships and so
(06:20):
by expanding year round, it'sgoing to allow us to maintain
some of those relationshipsbeyond just the winter months.
Sometimes we have individualsthat come and they come, they
use it, they make use of thespace and they have a safe place
to rest and then when theweather gets nice, we don't see
them as much.
We have other individuals thatwhen they come in, they need
that man.
I mean so many of those livingon the street.
(06:42):
What they're desperate for ispositive and encouraging
relationships.
We had one individual, nikki,who came to us last year.
Nikki hadn't been on the streetfor very long.
She was scared, you know, asyou would expect, and came to
the shelter and she sent thisemail about a month after first
coming to our staff and it wasso encouraging.
(07:03):
She talked about how the staffwere gracious and kind and
patient with her and she feltlike she was safe.
Fast forward a couple months,man.
She sent us another email andsaid hey, I want you to know, I
just entered the army and I'm atbasic training.
We're like oh, that's awesome,Nikki we're excited for you.
A few months later, she emailedus and said hey, I want you to
(07:26):
know that I've graduated and I'mgoing to be stationed in
Georgia, and so it's that kindof stuff, that those
relationships that can beextended year round, that we're
so fired up about oh my gosh,and I can only imagine that
feeling so irreplaceable,knowing that you were able to
help someone that was on thestreets and that a couple months
later joins our military and isnow serving our country A
hundred percent, and that's thebeauty of Joy to the Berg man.
(07:48):
To be able to offer this spaceis directly because of this
album and the musicians thathave given themselves to it.
Isn't it crazy that?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
domino effect it is man it's nuts.
Let's get together, let's makea Christmas album, let's put on
a concert.
Right, you're housing peopleand looking at them, just
turning around their lives, andthat's phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
It's awesome.
I came to this project after itwas five years into it and
joining Christian Church'sUnited staff.
My kids think it's hilarious.
I'm one of those guys that Idon't want to hear Christmas
music until the day afterThanksgiving.
I'm the same way, and so mykids are all loving the fact
that here I am in July listeningto Christmas music and planning
(08:27):
a Christmas album.
They think it's great that Ihave to go back on my rule, but
it's such a cool thing to be apart of.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, so wow, I mean you said back in July, so it
takes you all year to get this.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
It's all year.
We start opening up thesubmissions in May, june.
We're spreading the word injanuary, february, getting
people to think about it so thatthey can start submitting their
songs.
Then we're figuring out whichsongs are we going to fit on the
album, which ones can we use,because when christmas comes the
album's got to be produced andit takes time to have it ready,
to go, to be able to, to get outthere and so it is very much a
(09:02):
year-round project um well, Iguess and you're working with so
many musicians too, you knowabsolutely got to make
everyone's schedules work to getthem all in the studio get it
all recorded.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And now, what is the recording process like?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
so the recording process is different for each of
the artists and so for a lot ofthe artists they have their
studios that they like workingwith and we have some different
studios that that we'reconnected to that help support
the project and provide studiotime and different things like
that as well Like donate studiotime, yeah, and so it is you
have, you have the artists, youhave the studios.
we have different videographerproducers that take, they offer
(09:37):
up the video time and therecording for that as well, and
so it is such an incrediblecollective of people working
together to make this happen.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
That's so cool.
Yeah, man, it's awesome.
So how would someone getinvolved with something like
this?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, man.
So joytothebergcom.
That's where you can get all ofthe information.
Our first submission this pastyear came the second week of
January.
Wow, and so it came quick.
People are like Christmas isover.
Here's my submission, I'm readyfor next year.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, give me to the top of the list Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
We.
We've had some people alreadyafter we've we've kind of picked
our songs and we're starting tomove towards producing the
album.
We've had people like, hey, canwe submit for next year?
And so if you go togeordiethebergcom um, that's
where you can get all theinformation, where you can
contact myself, get connectedwith Brandon on a Central
Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fameto be a part of that project.
But there are so many differentthings beyond the album.
(10:29):
There's the street team,there's the concert itself,
there's the work, there'sopportunities for volunteering
with the shelters too.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
How do you do that?
I'm going to say you're not amusician, but you're moved by
your story.
Someone was moved by the storywe just talked about and they
want to get involved withhelping out at the shelter how
they go about.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
yeah, so if you go to ccu, hbgorg and so that's
christian churches united'swebsite.
Okay, there's a volunteer pageon there and you can fill it out
there.
Say, I want to volunteer at theshelter.
We have a couple differentshifts for volunteers.
Where there's, there's theintake and it's that's all about
hospitality.
You know you like people, youwant to smile, you want to help
(11:06):
create a safe space as peopleenter the shelter.
It's an opportunity to sit downwith somebody and let them know
like, hey, when you come here,you're safe, we got you.
And so there's volunteers thathelp with that.
There's volunteers that help inthe morning, when it's helping
people kind of gather theirstuff and head out for the day,
um, help with some food, helpclean the place during the day
as well.
So there's many different waysthat people can get involved.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Wow, that's awesome.
Well, please, everyone, makesure you go check that out and
get involved if you're availabletoo.
That's awesome, man, so I'msure you have many great stories
.
Different people have beenthere over the years, more
people like Nikki and whatnot.
What has been your favoritepart of this over the years?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It is watching how people get moved by the project
itself.
Seeing people like Nikki orlike Jose, or the different men
and women that are supported bythis, and watching them, in
their strength and theirresilience, overcome their
challenges, is so life-giving.
But it's also life-giving to meto see businesses, to see
(12:10):
musicians.
I know you guys had a guy onrecently, greg Platzer.
Greg is a big part of thisproject.
He's been on every album,whether it's his own song or
different bands that he's a partof.
To watch Greg be moved by this.
That for me, man, that gives melife.
I love watching other people beinspired and be moved by the
project.
(12:30):
Greg's a big tough guy, right?
Nah, man, greg's got a deepheart.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It's beautiful.
He does man.
That's awesome.
Greg is such a great guy andit's awesome that we have this
community here.
That's the whole reason forwhat we do with the podcast here
is bring the community together, and it's just awesome to see
all the different sides of it,from the live music to the
community, to the, to thevolunteering, to the help and
giving shelter, bringing youknow, a safe place for people to
rest their head at night.
(12:56):
That's awesome that we havethis community that can bring
something together like this.
What do you think that we dodifferently here in Pennsylvania
that maybe other places thatdon't do?
Is it just something in thewater?
I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Something in that Susquehanna river man.
You know, you know, I've I'velived in a lot of different
places, man, I I was born andraised in pittsburgh.
I've spent time in boston andkansas city and portland, oregon
, and then here in harrisburgand I I don't know what it is
about, central pennsylvania, butthere is a there's a
camaraderie and a commitment toworking together on things that
(13:26):
it's just a beautiful, beautifulpiece.
You know, when I I had a chancelast year to, to share at the
the hall of fame ceremony wherewe celebrated Sheldon Jones,
whose idea this was to hey,let's do this.
One of the things I think thatthat musicians and artists get
better than most people is thatpart of part of who we're
created to be and how we'recreated to be is to, to give
(13:48):
ourselves away and to create uh,to create things that are
beautiful and to offer it up asa gift, and so to watch
musicians do that.
There's been over 60 artiststhat have given to this album.
There's a lot of new artiststhis year on the album that I'm
fired up about, who are going tobe a part of the project.
Musicians get it, man.
(14:09):
They understand that theirgifts are a gift to the world,
and so it's an incredible thing,it's a beautiful thing, and I
find myself, as not a musician,to be very fortunate to be a
part of this project and that'sbeautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
How did you get involved in all this in the
first place?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, and that was just coming to work for
Christian Churches United.
Man, I have a passion tosupport people who are
struggling with housing, whetherthat's they're unhoused or
whether there's just notaffordable housing.
People, man, we all go throughstuff we get sick, we lose a job
(14:46):
here, car breaks down, whatever, and we just find ourselves in
a tough spot.
And so, for me, I knew I wantedto be a part of the housing
crisis.
That's a national crisis.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It is.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
And very much something that we experience
here in central Pennsylvania.
And so to see that inHarrisburg I joined CCU and in
the interview process theexecutive director talked about
Jody the Berg.
He talked about this thing thatwe do to help raise money for
the work.
It's a really cool, awesomething.
You're going to love it.
And from that moment, as hetalked about the project, I was
(15:18):
like man, I cannot wait to be apart of this project.
Your ears just perked right upand you were like I love
creativity, I love imaginationand I think, when we allow our
imaginations to run wild, thatwhen we allow our imaginations
to run, wild that's when we cancreate transformation, we can
create opportunity and musiciansand homelessness.
There's aren't necessarily twothings that were like, oh yeah,
(15:38):
those fit together.
Yeah.
But somebody said, I have thisis what I have, I have this gift
, I have this talent and I knowI can use this gift and this
talent to help somebody else.
And other people were like I'min, yeah, I can do that too.
And so just by coming on staffwith CCU, it was kind of like
hey, this is your, you got tohelp here.
I'm, I'm in man, and so that'sthat's how I got to be a part of
(16:00):
the project and I'm I countmyself fortunate Dude that's
awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Did you ever do anything like this before, or
was this just like you heardabout?
And you're like I, I want that,man.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I, I want that I want to be a part of this.
I've worked in social serviceand nonprofit things for my
whole life Okay, whether that'sbeen time as a pastor or a youth
center, parachurchorganizations, and now with CCU,
and so it's one of those thingsfor me that I knew I wanted to
be a part of that.
The Joy to the Berg piece wasnot something I was expecting.
The reality is, with Joy to theBerg is, it has the potential
(16:32):
to just continue to grow.
Continue to grow to become kindof its own thing in a lot of
ways one day, and so getting tobe a part of it right now and to
see what could happen in thefuture is a gift.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, I don't think this isgoing anywhere anytime soon.
I don't think there's going tobe any shortage of musicians
willing to perform for this, andthat's the beauty in the
musicians we kind of talkedabout.
You know, the specialty ofcentral Pennsylvania, the
musicians here.
just like this is, you know, allI have to give, but it's
something that's going to help Ilove to see that, because even
(17:05):
it just goes to show it's likeanything you can give helps and
it can go a very long 100, manand it's, and it's people from
all different genres of musictoo, right, you've got.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You've got canaan's land, that's bluegrass.
You've got faith noel, who'sgoing to be on the album this
year.
You've got greg platzer and thegroove rebels and their, their
rock, that's going to be on it.
We've got a um.
There's your, your traditionalchoral arrangements that are
going to be a part of it.
There's a youth band, thenDebo's going to be a part of the
album, and so it's this justwide range of music and who all
(17:36):
want to be a part of the project.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
And so it's not going anywhere, man and it's awesome,
that's awesome, I'm lookingforward to it this year.
Man Gives me just another thingto look forward to with
Christmas.
So, man, well, that's awesome.
Well, is there anything else?
Maybe I didn't cover Anythingelse.
You want to shout out?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Nah, man, I think that's it.
Joy to the Berg New album willbe out, hopefully by early to
mid-November.
Concert December 15thJoytothebergcom.
Get involved.
Volunteer Serve.
That's it for me All right,cool.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Well, yeah, make sure you go check him out at the
Englewood for the live concert.
Every ticket sale counts andbuy the album as well.
Appreciate you, hey concert.
Every ticket sale counts andbuy the album as well.
So appreciate you, hey.
Thank you so much for your time.
I appreciate it.
I thoroughly enjoyed ourconversation with nick.
Let's keep it rolling.
We got faith noel coming upnext sitting here with faith
noel, two-time cpma winner andfour-time nominee, faith, this
(18:24):
isn't your first time on yourshow, but it is your first time
here.
Thank you so much for comingout tonight thank you so much
for having me.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
I've been saying I need to get on this podcast for
so long because me and you, man,we could yap for hours.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yep, yeah, I'm sure we're probably not going to have
enough time tonight, but youknow doesn't mean you can't come
back another time, or somethinglike that.
But I'm sure we still,regardless, have a lot to cover
and you have a lot to talk aboutbecause you've been in
Nashville recently playing someshows down there.
Let's talk about that a littlebit.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yes, so I have great buddies in Nashville and I kind
of just follow them around andsing and play here and there.
I've played.
The first time I went toNashville, eight stages, the
second time 12 stages, and thisone I don't know too many to
count.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Oh, my gosh, that's awesome, though that's quite the
achievement.
Yes, wow, what was yourfavorite part about playing in
Nashville?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
The adrenaline and the amazing people that I met.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, what do you think is like the biggest crowd
down there?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
No, I don't know.
You had to like estimate, maybeit definitely varies.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I mean you go at like 10 in the morning and there's
people at bars and it's like whyare there so many people here?
This is crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Don't you guys work Like hey, live music though I
mean, people love it, so I wouldlove to see Harrisburg or the
central Pennsylvania area get tothe.
You know the status thatNashville is at with live music.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
That would be so cool .
So I'm from Gettysburg andobviously, like all the old town
buildings and stuff like that,I think they could make
something so cool like Nashville.
That would be great.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh yeah, especially with the square there and
everything.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
That'd be really cool .
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, I know that'd be, that'd be awesome.
Um, I mean, I know Lancasterdoes something kind of similar,
similar to that, with likelaunch launch music conference
where they get like hundreds ofbands over the course of three
days.
But like I think gettysburgwould do a great job at
something like that.
So I'm waiting to see it hey Imean, maybe it'll happen, we'll
get in contact with the rightpeople.
So, outside of playing shows innashville, you're still playing
(20:22):
shows locally as well, right?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
yes, um, every weekend.
I would say.
I played four to five shows aweekend or a week, um, and I've
been doing it since COVID, sofour years now.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Oh my gosh, that's awesome.
Does it ever get a little bitexhausting, or is it still just
so much fun every day?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
No, I mean it's like a reset.
Each time I don't have gigs, soit's like I have some time to
myself to write music or tolearn new songs and then I just
go back.
I mean, I wouldn't say it is aroutine in a way, but it doesn't
feel like it because I'mplaying different places all the
time, so it makes it more fun,it's not just like every day
same place, Like that is cool.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Speaking of writing new music, you are working on
new stuff right now.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yes, I have been, and I have quite a few songs that I
need to get recorded and maybenext time I go back to Nashville
pretty soon I'll be recordingthem.
You never know, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Wow, that is, that's awesome.
Oh my gosh.
So thinking like full length EP.
What do you have?
Any ideas?
Can you not say?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I guess you'll have to find out.
All right, all right there.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Well, we'll have to make sure we stay up to date
with Faith Noel to find out withthat.
So you also recently have beenplaying some pretty big shows
too, as well.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yes, so I made my debut at Barefoot Country Music
Festival this summer and Iactually wore these pink boots
there.
I bought them just for that andthe podcast.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
And, of course, like playing in Nashville, I just had
my first ever show officiallyon the strip on Broadway at
Margaritaville with MikeEasterday, so I got this to, oh
my gosh.
So I got to share the stagewith him and thank you so much,
mike, because that was awesome.
And yeah, I played recently atSecrets for the Country Calling
Festival Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
What was that like?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, oh my gosh.
I can only imagine that's apretty big deal down there.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yes, oh my gosh, I actually visited Secrets and I
got to meet the manager lasttime I was in Ocean City, so
that was great.
I also played Dogfish Head forthe second time ever.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Wow, okay, those are the second time ever.
So wow, okay, that's.
Those are both pretty big featsright there, so that's awesome.
So when you're down innashville, I know you got to
meet some pretty awesome peopleyou want to talk about that a
little bit?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
yes.
So I had a writer's round thatI had to get to.
We were just walking onbroadway.
Normally when we go tonashville we don't like to waste
time, so we kind of just get toit and it's always broadway,
then writers round, normally atthe end of the night.
Um, and I ended up being ableto play at Big Machine.
(23:01):
Thank you to Ian Davis forsharing the stage with me there.
That was awesome because I eachtime I went to Nashville, I was
like I want to play there.
I want to play there so bad.
So thank you to Ian Davis formaking that happen.
And as I was up on the stage,we're sitting and we see like a
bunch of cops and we're like, oh, what's going on?
So laney wilson was having hergrand opening for bell bottom up
(23:22):
and, um, she was going to bethere wow yeah, so eventually we
ended up having to leave for mywriter's round literally three
minutes before laney got there.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Oh no.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yeah.
So then at the end of the nightwe were kind of it was kind of
like a flip a coin thing.
We were deciding do we go backand get some rest, eat some ice
cream, you know, kind of relax,or do we go back and see if we
can see Lainey?
And we went back to Broadwayand we ended up all getting in
and I got to meet up withJackson Dean again and have a
very long conversation with himand he's the sweetest.
(23:56):
I got to meet Priscilla Blockand, to top it off, I got to
meet Lainey Wilson.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, I also got to meet Jamie Johnson as well,
standing outside a big machine.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So what's it like meeting those kind of people?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
It's insane.
It's definitely like they're sodown to earth and I just I
don't know, it's crazy.
Honestly, it's a hugeadrenaline rush, for sure.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Oh, I can only imagine, because I'm sure it's
like.
At first you're just like oh mygosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
And then, after just a coupleof moments of talking to them,
you're like wow, they're just anormal person, just like you and
me.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Of course.
Yeah, I gave Lainey Wilson someof my business cards and she
kind of fanned them and was like, oh my gosh, I'll take them all
.
She was so sweet, oh my gosh,that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Hey, maybe I mean maybe there could be a Lainey
Wilson, faith Noel collaborationin the future.
Maybe that would be awesome.
So I mean, speaking of thefuture, what are some of your
goals and your plans for thefuture right now?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I would love to co-write know I sat down and had
lunch with Lance Carpenter ayear ago.
Thank you, lance.
That was amazing.
He had bought us all lunch inNashville and welcomed us for
the first time coming there andkind of just told me a bunch of
stuff and what it was about.
And I asked my goals and I saidmy goals for 2024 are to
co-write.
I would love to do someco-writing in Nashville.
That would be great.
I haven't gotten there yet butmaybe at the end of the year
(25:15):
there's still time.
Yeah, of course.
And to sing with ChrisStapleton Chris.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Stapleton yes, all right.
All right, that's awesome.
How do you plan on gettingthere Doing what I'm doing?
Just doing what you're doing?
Yeah, just keep grinding,you'll get there.
You never know what's gonnahappen for sure.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I mean, you met laney last time you were in nashville
doesn't mean you couldn't runinto chris next time you're
there either, so I woulddefinitely freak out fool, fan
girl just like oh, yeah, forsure, and that's one thing that
lance was talking about.
He was like, just be casual,you know, talk about something
that you love, about their musicspecifically, and how it
affects you and what it means toyou.
And I really took that advicein, especially when meeting
Priscilla Block and Lainey andJamie Johnson.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
How did you do that?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Just walk up to them and say like OK.
So, for instance, priscillaBlock, she has a guitar strap
that Jerry Hart made, whichJerry Hart made me a custom
guitar strap.
So thank you so much and I loveit.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
And I officially have had it for a year now.
And I walked up to Priscillaand I was like, hey, so Jerry
Hart made your guitar strap.
Well, this is what mine lookslike.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's so cool, she like it.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Oh, yes, yeah, she said that's so cool oh yes, yeah
, she said that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Oh my gosh, I'm trying to remember what it looks
like because I'm sure youprobably had it last time we saw
you perform live.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
So wow, that's cool, yeah, man.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
So I mean you got a lot of different things going on
.
Right now you're working on newmusic.
You're performing downnashville, performing down in
maryland.
Do you have any other plans onmaybe branching out to different
parts of the country to playflorida texas?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I would love to play utah utah okay and the thing is
is like I want to live in utah.
Um, my kind of thing is likefrom all this craziness.
It's kind of like a break, youknow, um, and hopefully in the
future, if I get to tour like,like I said, it would be like a
break from all that like andit's very peaceful and it's just
(27:07):
mountains and I'm just likethat's amazing and I want to
live there so bad.
So I would love to go visitUtah to see the music scene and
I know they said there's notmuch out there, but to me it's
still always an opportunity forsomething.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Of course it doesn't mean you can't go out there and
make something out of it.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Pennsylvania.
I'm sure at one point there wasnothing here, and look at what
we have now.
We have a whole hall of fame, alot of big names coming from
this area.
Hopefully you'll be anotherfuture big name for this area.
I think you keep going.
At the rate you're going, youprobably will be.
So I mean it's really cool tohave this, this opportunity to
sit down and, you know, meetwith with, you know, musicians.
I mean you've you've been withthe, been doing work with
central pennsylvania through theyouth music showcase for the
last what three years now, yeah,2021, I believe, yeah, it was
(27:50):
your first year and then you wonthe one year and I mean it's
cool.
It's the I guess the third timeI'm getting to sit down and talk
with you.
So it's always awesome, youknow, get to catch up with you
and see what you're up to.
And I mean it's just awesomethat you're always out and about
doing these cool shows down innashville and stuff.
I mean just mean it'smind-blowing.
So what would you say is yourdream place to play in Nashville
(28:10):
next then, because you've goneto pretty big places down there
already too.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Oh my gosh, that's a tricky question, because I
really want to sing at thebigger name.
Places like Jason Aldean andLuke Holmes is new as well too
(28:35):
and Miranda Lamberts and HonkyTonk and Kid Rock that would be
amazing.
Um, so I guess we'll have tokind of stick around and see
what happens there fair, that'sfair.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
So back to the local stuff, though.
You are also going to beplaying on the sixth year Joy to
the Berg album, or uh?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
you want a song for it?
I guess I recently recorded,mary, did you Know?
At the Green Room Studio withDerek.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Oh yes, Derek's an awesome guy.
We've had him on here before.
That's awesome.
So, and that's coming out inNovember.
Are you going to be playing atthe concert?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
So I will be going on Good Day PA to do a live
performance of Mary.
Did you Know?
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
awesome.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
December 12th, I believe.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Perfect, make sure you tune into that.
Yeah, that's so cool.
What was that writing processlike, or, I'm sorry, recording
process like with Derek?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Very quick, very tedious, because when I record
you, I mean, if you wantsomething to sound like the live
version, like then just go to alive show.
But when in the recordingstudio I'm very like, particular
with certain things, you know,because if not you might as well
just go to a live show and hearme sing there yeah, I mean I've
(29:35):
heard you sing live.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You're very good live thank you.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I think it's so funny because I definitely sound a
lot younger on recordings andrecording studios.
Like my songs I recorded in anational and then I do them live
and I'm like I feel like Isound older really yes, like in
what way?
Like your voice or like yeah Ifeel like my voice sounds more
mature.
It's, it's hilarious.
I don't know why, butinteresting.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Well, I mean, everyone always has their own
opinions about their recordedvoice.
I know people that have thevoice of an angel and can't
stand their own singing voiceand I'm like, how, come on,
looking at you, julio hunter,you know him.
Um, wow, now that's cool.
What other studios have youworked with?
Or just Derek?
Speaker 4 (30:10):
So I recorded a year ago officially in Blackbird
Studios with Brian Clark.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
That's right.
In Nashville.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Yeah, we did talk about that and that was a great
experience.
Every time I play my songs live, I have the constant images in
my head of the process ofrecording there and it was just
so fun and the guys were so downto earth, which made it even
more fun, and they would jokearound and it's like a great,
it's a great time.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
That's cool.
How many songs did you do downthere?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I'd recorded three songs.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Three songs.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And what was that process like?
I mean, aside from you know,fun and everything like that.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I mean it was a two day process.
So the first day we just wentin and we got.
We got done a lot, honestly ina day.
Um, I recorded, we kind of dida scratch track so they know
where my vocals and everythingare being placed and all that.
And then they went in and didthe instruments and then, um, we
finished that one, so then wewere able to do the vocals on
(31:02):
that song.
So we technically got one songdone in nine hours.
I think it was Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, that's pretty amazing.
Yeah, wow, I mean, that's, Iguess, what makes their name
there, though.
So now, do you have anyonelocally or any venues locally
that you haven't got to workwith that you're looking forward
to in the future?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
I'm down just to play anywhere, honestly anywhere,
and everywhere I can.
I mean, I played in Kentucky,um, recently too as well, and
that was for their spoon breadfestival, and we went straight
from Nashville to Kentucky righton stage and it was.
It was a hot one, um, and Ihonestly missed that, because
I've gotten back to PA and it'sjust been cold and rainy and sad
(31:43):
.
Yeah Well, there's a littledifferent up here yeah, well,
there's a little different uphere, yeah, but yeah, that was
awesome.
Um, I played in kentucky fortheir bourbon festival too as
well.
That was for their um contest.
That was in may in aprilactually um, and it was just
great to be back with my buddiesfrom kentucky too.
(32:04):
Um, savannah dean, she sharedthe stage with me as well, and
it was great that I got to sharethat with her at Tipsy Cow, so
that was my debut there too aswell, which was very important
Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
That's really cool.
So you've been making a lot offriends in different places over
the years.
Yes, that's cool, but I mean,what do you enjoy most about
doing all of that?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Making friends.
Making the friends yeah, yeah,yeah of course and kind of
getting that um bond with them.
I feel like a musician bond isvery different than just a
regular friendship bond well,yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I mean it's um, you know it's not like running a
business, but you know it's also, you know it's it's got, it's,
it's.
You know it's god.
I'm can't find the right wordfor it right now, but you know
it's, uh, it's still struggling,uh, I want to say quirks, and
I'm like that's not the rightword.
Um, it just has that like thatthat's effect to it almost,
though, because it's just likeit's not necessarily a business,
(32:56):
but you know you're, you arealso performing, you're making a
product and you're putting itout there to the world.
So, you know, having that, thatcommon ground, I guess to say,
is probably what makes thatrelationship a little bit
different.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
For sure, sure yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Man, that's great.
Well, is there anything else?
Maybe I'm missing that youwanted to cover, or anything
like that.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
I just wanted to give a huge shout out to Dean Kramer
with the Bret Michaels bandbecause he has been I've known
him for over a year now and hehas just been a huge help and
great guidance in music.
And, yeah, you can check out mywebsite, faithnoellecom, and
everything you could possiblyneed is on there.
(33:33):
I mean social media links andmy schedule and Venmo and PayPal
, which definitely help for thefunds of Nashville, I would say
for sure, especially if I'mgoing to record, yeah, and also
my song links are on there aswell.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Cool, All right, Awesome.
Well, we'll make sure we getall that you know linked in the
description of this and whatnot.
So everyone, please check outFaith Noel.
Please listen to her music.
She's a phenomenal artist fromcentral Pennsylvania.
Faith, thank you so much forcoming on the show again.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
It's been a pleasure.
Thank you so much for having me.
I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Of course, of course.
We'll have you back on sometimesoon.
Yes, all right.
Well, that about does it forthis week.
Huge thanks to Nick and Faithfor coming out here tonight and
hanging out with us.
Everyone else, stay tuned forthe next episode.
We will see you then.
Outro Music.
Welcome to the Central Pennsylvania Music
Podcast Tonight Nick Mucci andFaith Noel.
This episode is sponsored byURL Insurance Group.
And now your hosts, daniel Kimeand Alan McCutcheon.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hello and welcome to the Central Pennsylvania Music
Podcast.
I'm your host, Daniel, Comingup.
We have Nick Mucci and FaithNoel Stay tuned Sitting here
with Nick Mucci, Director ofDevelopment for Christian
Churches United.
Nick, thank you so much forcoming on the show tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm excited to be here.
Of course, dude, we're excitedto have you here too.
You do a lot of differentthings.
You're heavily involved withthe Central Pennsylvania Music
Podcast when it comes to Joy tothe Berg.
Yes, let's dig into that alittle bit.
Tell us what you do.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah.
So Joy to the Berg is a projectthat started almost six years
ago now.
Central Pennsylvania musiciansgot together and said hey, what
if we used our talent, used ourgift and gave it away to serve
those who are living on thestreets?
And so Joy to the Berg was bornbecause of an idea of a bunch
of musicians.
They've recorded five albums.
(01:17):
This year we're coming up onour sixth album.
We're pretty excited about it.
So you've got the sale of thealbum.
A concert TV special prettyexcited about it.
So you've got the sale of thealbum.
A concert TV special justincredible opportunity for
people to enjoy Christmas music,because it's a big deal for
lots of people.
Oh yeah, and to support thosewho kind of end up on the edge
of society at times.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Gotcha.
That's awesome that you havethat opportunity to give back to
the community, help out andthen have the community help out
another community while you'reat it.
So what is your involvementwith Joy to the Berg?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah.
So my role with myself andBrendan Valentine and Bob Geiger
we kind of work together tohelp produce the album.
I help get some of thefundraising side of things and
get some things sponsored so wecan get the album produced, get
the concert scheduled and thingslike that.
But working with ChristianChurches United, the money
(02:09):
that's raised through theproject goes to support the work
that we do for our streetoutreach, our overnight shelters
and our safe haven house, andso a big part of what I do is
try to encourage, try to talkabout it Any chance I get.
I'm a guy who likes to talk, soif I can be in front of
somebody sharing about it andspreading the word, that's my
role.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Hey, that's why you're here, man, exactly.
And now you mentioned, you havea concert for it every year too
.
This one you said it's.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
December, december 15th.
So that is the third Sunday inDecember.
We'll be out at the Englewood,where we've been the last few
years.
The Inglewood is absolutelyamazing.
Shout out to the Inglewood.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yes, sponsor of the podcast.
We love the Inglewood.
Let's go, we love you.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Inglewood.
So the Inglewood's been anincredible host the last few
years, so we'll be there againin the afternoon from about 2 to
6.
Four hours of Christmas music,good food, good drink and just a
good time to be together.
We had Santa Claus was therelast year, and so we're hoping.
We're hoping the big man makesan appearance again.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Oh man, I'm sure he will.
Yeah, I wouldn't miss that forthe world, Absolutely.
Oh my goodness.
So now, when you so?
We talked about the concert.
Yeah there's also album salesas well.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So what's been done over the last six years is we've
produced CDs.
People still buy CDs and stilllisten to them.
There's also an opportunity todownload the MP3s.
Okay, and so this year's albumis going to be a double disc set
.
We've got 24 songs on the album.
Oh my goodness, we're reallyfired up about it, got one for
every day leading up toChristmas, exactly.
So it's just going to be one ofthose things.
It's like your own littleadvent calendar.
(03:36):
You can just one song a day andwork your way there to
Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, man, yeah yeah, I love that Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
We also this year did a best of vinyl.
Okay, you know there have beena lot of musicians that have
been on every album, and so itwas an opportunity to kind of
celebrate their gift, the waythat they give to the project,
and with the resurrection ofvinyl it's cool to get it back
out there and be on vinyl.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh yeah, who doesn't have a good classic vinyl?
Exactly.
So now we have ticket salesfrom the concert.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
We have sales from the, from selling the CDs.
What is all this going towards?
Yeah, so all of it goes tosupport the street outreach work
amongst the homeless.
Um, our, our overnight shelterfor women and non-binary
individuals, and then also ourmen's overnight shelter in our
safe Haven house, the the thewomen's overnight shelter in our
safe haven house the thewomen's overnight shelter is a
really cool story.
Uh, the.
The first album was 2019.
The funds raised from thatfirst album opened that women's
(04:31):
shelter.
There hadn't been a shelterspecifically just during the
winter, uh, for women at thattime, and so it gave birth to
that.
Wow, which is super incredible.
We got some incredible storiesuh, from the shelter shelter and
impacted there.
And then this year, the thingthat we're really excited about
is that shelter that was openedby the Joy to the Berg albums is
going to be expanding to ayear-round shelter, so no longer
(04:54):
just December to March, it'sgoing to be November and we're
not closing, oh my gosh.
So it's going to be awesome.
That is awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's going to be really cool man, Really cool
Goodness.
That is awesome.
It's going to be really coolman, Really cool Goodness.
So you've been doing this forgoing on six years now.
How much have you guys?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
raised over this?
We have raised over $187,000.
Oh my God.
Selling CDs, selling digitalmusic, having a concert.
There's been Christmas cardsthat have come and gone in the
midst of it too, and it's anexpression of generosity that
just blows me away man, it'sbeen so fun to be a part of.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's amazing.
So you said it's a 24 songalbum.
Is this the biggest album?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
yet there was one album that was done a few years
ago.
That was just a digital releasethat had 30 songs, but this is
the largest kind of physicalalbum that we've produced.
So that's why the two discs,and we're pretty excited to be
able to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
That's awesome.
So you know seeing that youeven you know raising more money
over time and you were growingas an organization.
What's what's uh?
What are you guys' plans forthe future?
Do you have anything uh in mindin terms of expansion, uh,
outside of expanding to a yearround shelter?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Well, I mean I, there's a lot of different ideas
that we have.
You know, I think the thingthat we're excited about with
this women's shelter is it'sreally going to allow some of
our case management to expand.
You know, the women's shelteris a place of respite that women
and non-binary individuals cancome to for safety in the winter
.
But man, that opens up so manydoors for relationships and so
(06:20):
by expanding year round, it'sgoing to allow us to maintain
some of those relationshipsbeyond just the winter months.
Sometimes we have individualsthat come and they come, they
use it, they make use of thespace and they have a safe place
to rest and then when theweather gets nice, we don't see
them as much.
We have other individuals thatwhen they come in, they need
that man.
I mean so many of those livingon the street.
(06:42):
What they're desperate for ispositive and encouraging
relationships.
We had one individual, nikki,who came to us last year.
Nikki hadn't been on the streetfor very long.
She was scared, you know, asyou would expect, and came to
the shelter and she sent thisemail about a month after first
coming to our staff and it wasso encouraging.
(07:03):
She talked about how the staffwere gracious and kind and
patient with her and she feltlike she was safe.
Fast forward a couple months,man.
She sent us another email andsaid hey, I want you to know, I
just entered the army and I'm atbasic training.
We're like oh, that's awesome,Nikki we're excited for you.
A few months later, she emailedus and said hey, I want you to
(07:26):
know that I've graduated and I'mgoing to be stationed in
Georgia, and so it's that kindof stuff, that those
relationships that can beextended year round, that we're
so fired up about oh my gosh,and I can only imagine that
feeling so irreplaceable,knowing that you were able to
help someone that was on thestreets and that a couple months
later joins our military and isnow serving our country A
hundred percent, and that's thebeauty of Joy to the Berg man.
(07:48):
To be able to offer this spaceis directly because of this
album and the musicians thathave given themselves to it.
Isn't it crazy that?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
domino effect it is man it's nuts.
Let's get together, let's makea Christmas album, let's put on
a concert.
Right, you're housing peopleand looking at them, just
turning around their lives, andthat's phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
It's awesome.
I came to this project after itwas five years into it and
joining Christian Church'sUnited staff.
My kids think it's hilarious.
I'm one of those guys that Idon't want to hear Christmas
music until the day afterThanksgiving.
I'm the same way, and so mykids are all loving the fact
that here I am in July listeningto Christmas music and planning
(08:27):
a Christmas album.
They think it's great that Ihave to go back on my rule, but
it's such a cool thing to be apart of.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, so wow, I mean you said back in July, so it
takes you all year to get this.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
It's all year.
We start opening up thesubmissions in May, june.
We're spreading the word injanuary, february, getting
people to think about it so thatthey can start submitting their
songs.
Then we're figuring out whichsongs are we going to fit on the
album, which ones can we use,because when christmas comes the
album's got to be produced andit takes time to have it ready,
to go, to be able to, to get outthere and so it is very much a
(09:02):
year-round project um well, Iguess and you're working with so
many musicians too, you knowabsolutely got to make
everyone's schedules work to getthem all in the studio get it
all recorded.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And now, what is the recording process like?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
so the recording process is different for each of
the artists and so for a lot ofthe artists they have their
studios that they like workingwith and we have some different
studios that that we'reconnected to that help support
the project and provide studiotime and different things like
that as well Like donate studiotime, yeah, and so it is you
have, you have the artists, youhave the studios.
we have different videographerproducers that take, they offer
(09:37):
up the video time and therecording for that as well, and
so it is such an incrediblecollective of people working
together to make this happen.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
That's so cool.
Yeah, man, it's awesome.
So how would someone getinvolved with something like
this?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, man.
So joytothebergcom.
That's where you can get all ofthe information.
Our first submission this pastyear came the second week of
January.
Wow, and so it came quick.
People are like Christmas isover.
Here's my submission, I'm readyfor next year.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, give me to the top of the list Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
We.
We've had some people alreadyafter we've we've kind of picked
our songs and we're starting tomove towards producing the
album.
We've had people like, hey, canwe submit for next year?
And so if you go togeordiethebergcom um, that's
where you can get all theinformation, where you can
contact myself, get connectedwith Brandon on a Central
Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fameto be a part of that project.
But there are so many differentthings beyond the album.
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There's the street team,there's the concert itself,
there's the work, there'sopportunities for volunteering
with the shelters too.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
How do you do that?
I'm going to say you're not amusician, but you're moved by
your story.
Someone was moved by the storywe just talked about and they
want to get involved withhelping out at the shelter how
they go about.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
yeah, so if you go to ccu, hbgorg and so that's
christian churches united'swebsite.
Okay, there's a volunteer pageon there and you can fill it out
there.
Say, I want to volunteer at theshelter.
We have a couple differentshifts for volunteers.
Where there's, there's theintake and it's that's all about
hospitality.
You know you like people, youwant to smile, you want to help
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create a safe space as peopleenter the shelter.
It's an opportunity to sit downwith somebody and let them know
like, hey, when you come here,you're safe, we got you.
And so there's volunteers thathelp with that.
There's volunteers that help inthe morning, when it's helping
people kind of gather theirstuff and head out for the day,
um, help with some food, helpclean the place during the day
as well.
So there's many different waysthat people can get involved.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Wow, that's awesome.
Well, please, everyone, makesure you go check that out and
get involved if you're availabletoo.
That's awesome, man, so I'msure you have many great stories
.
Different people have beenthere over the years, more
people like Nikki and whatnot.
What has been your favoritepart of this over the years?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It is watching how people get moved by the project
itself.
Seeing people like Nikki orlike Jose, or the different men
and women that are supported bythis, and watching them, in
their strength and theirresilience, overcome their
challenges, is so life-giving.
But it's also life-giving to meto see businesses, to see
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musicians.
I know you guys had a guy onrecently, greg Platzer.
Greg is a big part of thisproject.
He's been on every album,whether it's his own song or
different bands that he's a partof.
To watch Greg be moved by this.
That for me, man, that gives melife.
I love watching other people beinspired and be moved by the
project.
(12:30):
Greg's a big tough guy, right?
Nah, man, greg's got a deepheart.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It's beautiful.
He does man.
That's awesome.
Greg is such a great guy andit's awesome that we have this
community here.
That's the whole reason forwhat we do with the podcast here
is bring the community together, and it's just awesome to see
all the different sides of it,from the live music to the
community, to the, to thevolunteering, to the help and
giving shelter, bringing youknow, a safe place for people to
rest their head at night.
(12:56):
That's awesome that we havethis community that can bring
something together like this.
What do you think that we dodifferently here in Pennsylvania
that maybe other places thatdon't do?
Is it just something in thewater?
I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Something in that Susquehanna river man.
You know, you know, I've I'velived in a lot of different
places, man, I I was born andraised in pittsburgh.
I've spent time in boston andkansas city and portland, oregon
, and then here in harrisburgand I I don't know what it is
about, central pennsylvania, butthere is a there's a
camaraderie and a commitment toworking together on things that
(13:26):
it's just a beautiful, beautifulpiece.
You know, when I I had a chancelast year to, to share at the
the hall of fame ceremony wherewe celebrated Sheldon Jones,
whose idea this was to hey,let's do this.
One of the things I think thatthat musicians and artists get
better than most people is thatpart of part of who we're
created to be and how we'recreated to be is to, to give
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ourselves away and to create uh,to create things that are
beautiful and to offer it up asa gift, and so to watch
musicians do that.
There's been over 60 artiststhat have given to this album.
There's a lot of new artiststhis year on the album that I'm
fired up about, who are going tobe a part of the project.
Musicians get it, man.
(14:09):
They understand that theirgifts are a gift to the world,
and so it's an incredible thing,it's a beautiful thing, and I
find myself, as not a musician,to be very fortunate to be a
part of this project and that'sbeautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
How did you get involved in all this in the
first place?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, and that was just coming to work for
Christian Churches United.
Man, I have a passion tosupport people who are
struggling with housing, whetherthat's they're unhoused or
whether there's just notaffordable housing.
People, man, we all go throughstuff we get sick, we lose a job
(14:46):
here, car breaks down, whatever, and we just find ourselves in
a tough spot.
And so, for me, I knew I wantedto be a part of the housing
crisis.
That's a national crisis.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It is.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
And very much something that we experience
here in central Pennsylvania.
And so to see that inHarrisburg I joined CCU and in
the interview process theexecutive director talked about
Jody the Berg.
He talked about this thing thatwe do to help raise money for
the work.
It's a really cool, awesomething.
You're going to love it.
And from that moment, as hetalked about the project, I was
(15:18):
like man, I cannot wait to be apart of this project.
Your ears just perked right upand you were like I love
creativity, I love imaginationand I think, when we allow our
imaginations to run wild, thatwhen we allow our imaginations
to run, wild that's when we cancreate transformation, we can
create opportunity and musiciansand homelessness.
There's aren't necessarily twothings that were like, oh yeah,
(15:38):
those fit together.
Yeah.
But somebody said, I have thisis what I have, I have this gift
, I have this talent and I knowI can use this gift and this
talent to help somebody else.
And other people were like I'min, yeah, I can do that too.
And so just by coming on staffwith CCU, it was kind of like
hey, this is your, you got tohelp here.
I'm, I'm in man, and so that'sthat's how I got to be a part of
(16:00):
the project and I'm I countmyself fortunate Dude that's
awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Did you ever do anything like this before, or
was this just like you heardabout?
And you're like I, I want that,man.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I, I want that I want to be a part of this.
I've worked in social serviceand nonprofit things for my
whole life Okay, whether that'sbeen time as a pastor or a youth
center, parachurchorganizations, and now with CCU,
and so it's one of those thingsfor me that I knew I wanted to
be a part of that.
The Joy to the Berg piece wasnot something I was expecting.
The reality is, with Joy to theBerg is, it has the potential
(16:32):
to just continue to grow.
Continue to grow to become kindof its own thing in a lot of
ways one day, and so getting tobe a part of it right now and to
see what could happen in thefuture is a gift.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, I don't think this isgoing anywhere anytime soon.
I don't think there's going tobe any shortage of musicians
willing to perform for this, andthat's the beauty in the
musicians we kind of talkedabout.
You know, the specialty ofcentral Pennsylvania, the
musicians here.
just like this is, you know, allI have to give, but it's
something that's going to help Ilove to see that, because even
(17:05):
it just goes to show it's likeanything you can give helps and
it can go a very long 100, manand it's, and it's people from
all different genres of musictoo, right, you've got.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You've got canaan's land, that's bluegrass.
You've got faith noel, who'sgoing to be on the album this
year.
You've got greg platzer and thegroove rebels and their, their
rock, that's going to be on it.
We've got a um.
There's your, your traditionalchoral arrangements that are
going to be a part of it.
There's a youth band, thenDebo's going to be a part of the
album, and so it's this justwide range of music and who all
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want to be a part of the project.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
And so it's not going anywhere, man and it's awesome,
that's awesome, I'm lookingforward to it this year.
Man Gives me just another thingto look forward to with
Christmas.
So, man, well, that's awesome.
Well, is there anything else?
Maybe I didn't cover Anythingelse.
You want to shout out?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Nah, man, I think that's it.
Joy to the Berg New album willbe out, hopefully by early to
mid-November.
Concert December 15thJoytothebergcom.
Get involved.
Volunteer Serve.
That's it for me All right,cool.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Well, yeah, make sure you go check him out at the
Englewood for the live concert.
Every ticket sale counts andbuy the album as well.
Appreciate you, hey concert.
Every ticket sale counts andbuy the album as well.
So appreciate you, hey.
Thank you so much for your time.
I appreciate it.
I thoroughly enjoyed ourconversation with nick.
Let's keep it rolling.
We got faith noel coming upnext sitting here with faith
noel, two-time cpma winner andfour-time nominee, faith, this
(18:24):
isn't your first time on yourshow, but it is your first time
here.
Thank you so much for comingout tonight thank you so much
for having me.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
I've been saying I need to get on this podcast for
so long because me and you, man,we could yap for hours.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yep, yeah, I'm sure we're probably not going to have
enough time tonight, but youknow doesn't mean you can't come
back another time, or somethinglike that.
But I'm sure we still,regardless, have a lot to cover
and you have a lot to talk aboutbecause you've been in
Nashville recently playing someshows down there.
Let's talk about that a littlebit.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yes, so I have great buddies in Nashville and I kind
of just follow them around andsing and play here and there.
I've played.
The first time I went toNashville, eight stages, the
second time 12 stages, and thisone I don't know too many to
count.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Oh, my gosh, that's awesome, though that's quite the
achievement.
Yes, wow, what was yourfavorite part about playing in
Nashville?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
The adrenaline and the amazing people that I met.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, what do you think is like the biggest crowd
down there?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
No, I don't know.
You had to like estimate, maybeit definitely varies.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I mean you go at like 10 in the morning and there's
people at bars and it's like whyare there so many people here?
This is crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Don't you guys work Like hey, live music though I
mean, people love it, so I wouldlove to see Harrisburg or the
central Pennsylvania area get tothe.
You know the status thatNashville is at with live music.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
That would be so cool .
So I'm from Gettysburg andobviously, like all the old town
buildings and stuff like that,I think they could make
something so cool like Nashville.
That would be great.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh yeah, especially with the square there and
everything.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
That'd be really cool .
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, I know that'd be, that'd be awesome.
Um, I mean, I know Lancasterdoes something kind of similar,
similar to that, with likelaunch launch music conference
where they get like hundreds ofbands over the course of three
days.
But like I think gettysburgwould do a great job at
something like that.
So I'm waiting to see it hey Imean, maybe it'll happen, we'll
get in contact with the rightpeople.
So, outside of playing shows innashville, you're still playing
(20:22):
shows locally as well, right?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
yes, um, every weekend.
I would say.
I played four to five shows aweekend or a week, um, and I've
been doing it since COVID, sofour years now.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Oh my gosh, that's awesome.
Does it ever get a little bitexhausting, or is it still just
so much fun every day?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
No, I mean it's like a reset.
Each time I don't have gigs, soit's like I have some time to
myself to write music or tolearn new songs and then I just
go back.
I mean, I wouldn't say it is aroutine in a way, but it doesn't
feel like it because I'mplaying different places all the
time, so it makes it more fun,it's not just like every day
same place, Like that is cool.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Speaking of writing new music, you are working on
new stuff right now.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yes, I have been, and I have quite a few songs that I
need to get recorded and maybenext time I go back to Nashville
pretty soon I'll be recordingthem.
You never know, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Wow, that is, that's awesome.
Oh my gosh.
So thinking like full length EP.
What do you have?
Any ideas?
Can you not say?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I guess you'll have to find out.
All right, all right there.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Well, we'll have to make sure we stay up to date
with Faith Noel to find out withthat.
So you also recently have beenplaying some pretty big shows
too, as well.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yes, so I made my debut at Barefoot Country Music
Festival this summer and Iactually wore these pink boots
there.
I bought them just for that andthe podcast.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
And, of course, like playing in Nashville, I just had
my first ever show officiallyon the strip on Broadway at
Margaritaville with MikeEasterday, so I got this to, oh
my gosh.
So I got to share the stagewith him and thank you so much,
mike, because that was awesome.
And yeah, I played recently atSecrets for the Country Calling
Festival Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
What was that like?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, oh my gosh.
I can only imagine that's apretty big deal down there.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yes, oh my gosh, I actually visited Secrets and I
got to meet the manager lasttime I was in Ocean City, so
that was great.
I also played Dogfish Head forthe second time ever.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Wow, okay, those are the second time ever.
So wow, okay, that's.
Those are both pretty big featsright there, so that's awesome.
So when you're down innashville, I know you got to
meet some pretty awesome peopleyou want to talk about that a
little bit?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
yes.
So I had a writer's round thatI had to get to.
We were just walking onbroadway.
Normally when we go tonashville we don't like to waste
time, so we kind of just get toit and it's always broadway,
then writers round, normally atthe end of the night.
Um, and I ended up being ableto play at Big Machine.
(23:01):
Thank you to Ian Davis forsharing the stage with me there.
That was awesome because I eachtime I went to Nashville, I was
like I want to play there.
I want to play there so bad.
So thank you to Ian Davis formaking that happen.
And as I was up on the stage,we're sitting and we see like a
bunch of cops and we're like, oh, what's going on?
So laney wilson was having hergrand opening for bell bottom up
(23:22):
and, um, she was going to bethere wow yeah, so eventually we
ended up having to leave for mywriter's round literally three
minutes before laney got there.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Oh no.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yeah.
So then at the end of the nightwe were kind of it was kind of
like a flip a coin thing.
We were deciding do we go backand get some rest, eat some ice
cream, you know, kind of relax,or do we go back and see if we
can see Lainey?
And we went back to Broadwayand we ended up all getting in
and I got to meet up withJackson Dean again and have a
very long conversation with himand he's the sweetest.
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I got to meet Priscilla Blockand, to top it off, I got to
meet Lainey Wilson.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, I also got to meet Jamie Johnson as well,
standing outside a big machine.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So what's it like meeting those kind of people?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
It's insane.
It's definitely like they're sodown to earth and I just I
don't know, it's crazy.
Honestly, it's a hugeadrenaline rush, for sure.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Oh, I can only imagine, because I'm sure it's
like.
At first you're just like oh mygosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
And then, after just a coupleof moments of talking to them,
you're like wow, they're just anormal person, just like you and
me.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Of course.
Yeah, I gave Lainey Wilson someof my business cards and she
kind of fanned them and was like, oh my gosh, I'll take them all
.
She was so sweet, oh my gosh,that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Hey, maybe I mean maybe there could be a Lainey
Wilson, faith Noel collaborationin the future.
Maybe that would be awesome.
So I mean, speaking of thefuture, what are some of your
goals and your plans for thefuture right now?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I would love to co-write know I sat down and had
lunch with Lance Carpenter ayear ago.
Thank you, lance.
That was amazing.
He had bought us all lunch inNashville and welcomed us for
the first time coming there andkind of just told me a bunch of
stuff and what it was about.
And I asked my goals and I saidmy goals for 2024 are to
co-write.
I would love to do someco-writing in Nashville.
That would be great.
I haven't gotten there yet butmaybe at the end of the year
(25:15):
there's still time.
Yeah, of course.
And to sing with ChrisStapleton Chris.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Stapleton yes, all right.
All right, that's awesome.
How do you plan on gettingthere Doing what I'm doing?
Just doing what you're doing?
Yeah, just keep grinding,you'll get there.
You never know what's gonnahappen for sure.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I mean, you met laney last time you were in nashville
doesn't mean you couldn't runinto chris next time you're
there either, so I woulddefinitely freak out fool, fan
girl just like oh, yeah, forsure, and that's one thing that
lance was talking about.
He was like, just be casual,you know, talk about something
that you love, about their musicspecifically, and how it
affects you and what it means toyou.
And I really took that advicein, especially when meeting
Priscilla Block and Lainey andJamie Johnson.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
How did you do that?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Just walk up to them and say like OK.
So, for instance, priscillaBlock, she has a guitar strap
that Jerry Hart made, whichJerry Hart made me a custom
guitar strap.
So thank you so much and I loveit.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
And I officially have had it for a year now.
And I walked up to Priscillaand I was like, hey, so Jerry
Hart made your guitar strap.
Well, this is what mine lookslike.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's so cool, she like it.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Oh, yes, yeah, she said that's so cool oh yes, yeah
, she said that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Oh my gosh, I'm trying to remember what it looks
like because I'm sure youprobably had it last time we saw
you perform live.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
So wow, that's cool, yeah, man.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
So I mean you got a lot of different things going on
.
Right now you're working on newmusic.
You're performing downnashville, performing down in
maryland.
Do you have any other plans onmaybe branching out to different
parts of the country to playflorida texas?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I would love to play utah utah okay and the thing is
is like I want to live in utah.
Um, my kind of thing is likefrom all this craziness.
It's kind of like a break, youknow, um, and hopefully in the
future, if I get to tour like,like I said, it would be like a
break from all that like andit's very peaceful and it's just
(27:07):
mountains and I'm just likethat's amazing and I want to
live there so bad.
So I would love to go visitUtah to see the music scene and
I know they said there's notmuch out there, but to me it's
still always an opportunity forsomething.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Of course it doesn't mean you can't go out there and
make something out of it.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Pennsylvania.
I'm sure at one point there wasnothing here, and look at what
we have now.
We have a whole hall of fame, alot of big names coming from
this area.
Hopefully you'll be anotherfuture big name for this area.
I think you keep going.
At the rate you're going, youprobably will be.
So I mean it's really cool tohave this, this opportunity to
sit down and, you know, meetwith with, you know, musicians.
I mean you've you've been withthe, been doing work with
central pennsylvania through theyouth music showcase for the
last what three years now, yeah,2021, I believe, yeah, it was
(27:50):
your first year and then you wonthe one year and I mean it's
cool.
It's the I guess the third timeI'm getting to sit down and talk
with you.
So it's always awesome, youknow, get to catch up with you
and see what you're up to.
And I mean it's just awesomethat you're always out and about
doing these cool shows down innashville and stuff.
I mean just mean it'smind-blowing.
So what would you say is yourdream place to play in Nashville
(28:10):
next then, because you've goneto pretty big places down there
already too.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Oh my gosh, that's a tricky question, because I
really want to sing at thebigger name.
Places like Jason Aldean andLuke Holmes is new as well too
(28:35):
and Miranda Lamberts and HonkyTonk and Kid Rock that would be
amazing.
Um, so I guess we'll have tokind of stick around and see
what happens there fair, that'sfair.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
So back to the local stuff, though.
You are also going to beplaying on the sixth year Joy to
the Berg album, or uh?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
you want a song for it?
I guess I recently recorded,mary, did you Know?
At the Green Room Studio withDerek.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Oh yes, Derek's an awesome guy.
We've had him on here before.
That's awesome.
So, and that's coming out inNovember.
Are you going to be playing atthe concert?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
So I will be going on Good Day PA to do a live
performance of Mary.
Did you Know?
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
awesome.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
December 12th, I believe.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Perfect, make sure you tune into that.
Yeah, that's so cool.
What was that writing processlike, or, I'm sorry, recording
process like with Derek?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Very quick, very tedious, because when I record
you, I mean, if you wantsomething to sound like the live
version, like then just go to alive show.
But when in the recordingstudio I'm very like, particular
with certain things, you know,because if not you might as well
just go to a live show and hearme sing there yeah, I mean I've
(29:35):
heard you sing live.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You're very good live thank you.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I think it's so funny because I definitely sound a
lot younger on recordings andrecording studios.
Like my songs I recorded in anational and then I do them live
and I'm like I feel like Isound older really yes, like in
what way?
Like your voice or like yeah Ifeel like my voice sounds more
mature.
It's, it's hilarious.
I don't know why, butinteresting.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Well, I mean, everyone always has their own
opinions about their recordedvoice.
I know people that have thevoice of an angel and can't
stand their own singing voiceand I'm like, how, come on,
looking at you, julio hunter,you know him.
Um, wow, now that's cool.
What other studios have youworked with?
Or just Derek?
Speaker 4 (30:10):
So I recorded a year ago officially in Blackbird
Studios with Brian Clark.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
That's right.
In Nashville.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Yeah, we did talk about that and that was a great
experience.
Every time I play my songs live, I have the constant images in
my head of the process ofrecording there and it was just
so fun and the guys were so downto earth, which made it even
more fun, and they would jokearound and it's like a great,
it's a great time.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
That's cool.
How many songs did you do downthere?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I'd recorded three songs.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Three songs.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And what was that process like?
I mean, aside from you know,fun and everything like that.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I mean it was a two day process.
So the first day we just wentin and we got.
We got done a lot, honestly ina day.
Um, I recorded, we kind of dida scratch track so they know
where my vocals and everythingare being placed and all that.
And then they went in and didthe instruments and then, um, we
finished that one, so then wewere able to do the vocals on
(31:02):
that song.
So we technically got one songdone in nine hours.
I think it was Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, that's pretty amazing.
Yeah, wow, I mean, that's, Iguess, what makes their name
there, though.
So now, do you have anyonelocally or any venues locally
that you haven't got to workwith that you're looking forward
to in the future?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
I'm down just to play anywhere, honestly anywhere,
and everywhere I can.
I mean, I played in Kentucky,um, recently too as well, and
that was for their spoon breadfestival, and we went straight
from Nashville to Kentucky righton stage and it was.
It was a hot one, um, and Ihonestly missed that, because
I've gotten back to PA and it'sjust been cold and rainy and sad
(31:43):
.
Yeah Well, there's a littledifferent up here yeah, well,
there's a little different uphere, yeah, but yeah, that was
awesome.
Um, I played in kentucky fortheir bourbon festival too as
well.
That was for their um contest.
That was in may in aprilactually um, and it was just
great to be back with my buddiesfrom kentucky too.
(32:04):
Um, savannah dean, she sharedthe stage with me as well, and
it was great that I got to sharethat with her at Tipsy Cow, so
that was my debut there too aswell, which was very important
Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
That's really cool.
So you've been making a lot offriends in different places over
the years.
Yes, that's cool, but I mean,what do you enjoy most about
doing all of that?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Making friends.
Making the friends yeah, yeah,yeah of course and kind of
getting that um bond with them.
I feel like a musician bond isvery different than just a
regular friendship bond well,yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I mean it's um, you know it's not like running a
business, but you know it's also, you know it's it's got, it's,
it's.
You know it's god.
I'm can't find the right wordfor it right now, but you know
it's, uh, it's still struggling,uh, I want to say quirks, and
I'm like that's not the rightword.
Um, it just has that like thatthat's effect to it almost,
though, because it's just likeit's not necessarily a business,
(32:56):
but you know you're, you arealso performing, you're making a
product and you're putting itout there to the world.
So, you know, having that, thatcommon ground, I guess to say,
is probably what makes thatrelationship a little bit
different.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
For sure, sure yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Man, that's great.
Well, is there anything else?
Maybe I'm missing that youwanted to cover, or anything
like that.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
I just wanted to give a huge shout out to Dean Kramer
with the Bret Michaels bandbecause he has been I've known
him for over a year now and hehas just been a huge help and
great guidance in music.
And, yeah, you can check out mywebsite, faithnoellecom, and
everything you could possiblyneed is on there.
(33:33):
I mean social media links andmy schedule and Venmo and PayPal
, which definitely help for thefunds of Nashville, I would say
for sure, especially if I'mgoing to record, yeah, and also
my song links are on there aswell.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Cool, All right, Awesome.
Well, we'll make sure we getall that you know linked in the
description of this and whatnot.
So everyone, please check outFaith Noel.
Please listen to her music.
She's a phenomenal artist fromcentral Pennsylvania.
Faith, thank you so much forcoming on the show again.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
It's been a pleasure.
Thank you so much for having me.
I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Of course, of course.
We'll have you back on sometimesoon.
Yes, all right.
Well, that about does it forthis week.
Huge thanks to Nick and Faithfor coming out here tonight and
hanging out with us.
Everyone else, stay tuned forthe next episode.
We will see you then.
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