Connor Flanagan Interview Preview

My interview with Connor Flanagan releases on August 6th, 2025
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I mean music has been a part of my life,
my whole life. I feel like I grew up in
a big Irish family, and so every family gathering or
party had live music in it in somewhere, you know.
I grew up playing the flute and the tin whistle.
My cousins played the tin whistle of the fiddle. My
I had other cousins who Irish danced, and so every
family party had some sort of music and dancing element

(00:20):
to it, and so I fell.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
In love with music.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I learned to play by ear from a very young age,
and then picked up instruments in like great.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
School and played all through high school.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
And but always I always just had a love for
live music. I grew up going to this festival called
the Alivefest and in Ohio, and that's when I really
felt the like fire start to grow in my heart
of like I watched these artists on these stages and
I was like, man, I just want to do that.
And I didn't know, Like I remember thinking like I
know you could do this, Like you could use your
musical gifts to glorify God and worship in this way

(00:51):
and communicate joy in this way. And it was just
I was so captivated by it, and it was actually cool,
like from that moment sitting or on a campfire, because
we would camp at this festival. Yeah, the record's called Seasons.
It's coming out August fifth, so maybe if yeah, depending
on when you released this episode, you might have.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Already heard it. Maybe today's release day. I don't know.
Who knows.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's it's really just the story of these last two years.
So about two years ago to this summer, I quit
my full time work to be an artist.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I've been building my music business in.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
My artistry for almost ten years now, and it was
just two years ago that I quit my job to
go full time.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
And we quit.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
I mean, we discerned it, we prayed into it, we
felt really called to it.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
We felt a.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Lot of peace about the decision. But once you're on
the other side of that decision, man, it was it's
been a wild ride, the ups and downs of making
a living as an artist and paying bills and providing.
You know, I have four kids and another on the
way very very soon, so we'll have five kids here soon.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
And it's just been a wild ride.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
And I thought the discernment to make the decision to
go full time was hard, and that was an.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Easy part, Like praying into that was the easy part.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Now being on the other side of it, living it,
like living that yes, like we said yes to God's call,
and now living that yes has been the hard part.
And and I say that in a joyful way, like
it's been awesome. You know, it's been so life giving
for our family. It's been God has been providing for us,
but it has been tough. And so this record is
just that story. It's called Seasons because it just talks

(02:23):
about the different seasons of life that God has us in,
and it's these songs are songs that I wrote for
myself to help me get through this season of life,
like to keep me anchored and to keep me grounded,
to keep me close to Jesus in times where I
felt immense stress and anxiety, to keep me to keep
my spirits up when I felt like I was down
in the depths of despair, and like this God, you know,

(02:45):
we followed you into this unknown of a music career
as a full time artist, and you know where are
you now in the midst of it. So it's been Yeah,
this record has really been kind of the soundtrack to
my last two years, and as I was going through
the ups and downs of the last years, we were
just I was getting together with my producer every other
week and we were just writing, and we're just and
we're just kind of putting demos aside. And it wasn't

(03:08):
until like even like eight months ago that I was like, Man,
I think I think it's time we really finished some
of these And so we got together and cranked it out,
and Yeah, I'm really excited. It's the best music I've
ever made by far, and I can't wait for people
to hear it. And with that being said, like even
Nork on this for the last two years, it's ky
of like that Pike, because I was just