Ramble Live | house show
Hello Friends! It’s been awhile - I’ve never been wonderful at uploading consistent blog posts but as one can try! This pandemic of 2020 has affected people in different ways and at the same time, the same ways. Speaking for our family personally we were affected through business but also side-gigs that we don’t normally talk about. Co-owner and my husband, Ryan Hager, is also a musician. He started playing the guitar when he was 8 and was in his first band when he was 13. Needless to say music is very much apart of our lives and I have a great appreciation for the amount of work and determination it takes pursue music and have a band.
Ryan is actually in two bands at the moment which keeps us very busy. He had 13 shows cancel between full band and acoustic. Fast forward through 3 months of navigating the affects of Covid-19 and we decided to host a little Instagram Live concert with a few of our friends at our house last Friday.
We invited two other local musicians who we are great friends with. Eb Steward and Darion Ryan Roberts set up and they all song swamped on a very beautiful evening in our backyard.
We try our hardest to incorporate the kids into Ryan’s music and so often he plays at bars so they are not able to watch. House shows and small gatherings like this get the kids so excited about what he does musically. I decided to capture a portion of the evening and wanted to share here.
If I have learned anything about being a musicians wife it’s to appreciate music and how much work the process of writing, practicing, and recording is. Songs don’t magically appear on Spotify or Apple Music - it takes many hours of determination to get to that point. Ryan released an album with his rock-n-roll band, Throttlebody, last year and he released another this year which is more singer songwriter.
If you are looking for something new to listen to, tune in! Here is a list of musicians who played last Friday as well as both of Ryan’s Bands.
We hope to be doing this again! Thank you for following along!
