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SkiP HappEns Podcast
Ada Pasternak: A Journey of Resilience and Creativity in Nashville's Music Scene
Yes, we are now live. Hello everybody and welcome to Skip Happens Skip Clark, your host of Skip Happens podcast, and I know she looks familiar, but before you go there, I'm going to tell you a little bit. She's born in Moscow, raised in Fairfield, connecticut. Ada is an award-winning singer-songwriter, a multi-instrumentalist with a pop Americana sound. I'm reading the violin. I got offline here. So Child Prodigy on the violin, otto was awarded full tuition scholarship. Get this we talked about this before to Berklee. How freaking cool is it to get a full scholarship to Berklee?
Speaker 1:Her music has been featured on Netflix, hulu and she won Best Female Artist in the International Acoustic Music Awards for her original song Grow Older and Perfectly Imperfect. That's when I got to know her. I think that's when we had you on last time, A self-love anthem written by Ada. Get this. Over one million streams, and I'm sure that's a lot higher by now. I can only imagine 1 million streams, and I'm sure that's a lot higher by now. I can only imagine Spotify and her viral video Piano Around the World has a whopping 10 million views on YouTube. Those numbers got to be old. Ada Pasternak, how are you?
Speaker 3:I'm doing good. How are you?
Speaker 1:I'm good, I love your smile. I mean, that's just. You know, here in the Northeast it's cold, it's snowy, it's depressing. It's just. You know, here in the Northeast it's cold, it's snowy, it's depressing. It's that, you know, it's the that it gets to be that point in the in the winter where everybody just kind of you know you want to break free of it. But I see your smile. That kind of helps.
Speaker 3:So I'm so glad I know what you mean. Yeah, it's really cold here in Nashville, so yeah, yeah, nashville.
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah, so, uh, you are in Nashville and we know that we talked about that a while, first of a while ago. But, uh, first of all, what? What? Um, I can't even talk. Welcome back to Skip Happens. These headphones messed me all up. I don't know why. It just, it just happens well.
Speaker 3:Thank you for having me back.
Speaker 1:It's good to see you again it's good and you've got a brand new song. That's why we were talking. I was talking to your press people, your team behind the scenes, and they said, Skip, you got to talk to Ada again because she's got a brand new song out in this. Really, it's country.
Speaker 2:Yes, and it is.
Speaker 1:Can you believe it? Yeah, so tell us a little bit about the song.
Speaker 3:Well, I always write from personal experience and so I was kind of on and off dating somebody long distance, um, and there was just one night where he was. He just said something really disrespectful to me on the phone and I was like, oh my gosh, no, I don't think so. And I hung up and texted him to never call me again and I blocked him and I went home and wrote the song that night yeah, and, and of course it's called when you know, you know.
Speaker 1:So that's when you knew. You knew when you know, you know he ain't the one yeah, exactly, I'm gonna play a little bit of it right here. Let's see just a little bit.
Speaker 4:I'll admit we had some fun and I took some time to see if maybe he'd be right for me. But now I know the answer is no. When you know you know I tried to stay, found out too late, we couldn't meet in the middle. Yeah, I said let's wait to see, just in case we were right. Just a little Took till now to change my mind, but you made it easy to say goodbye, cause when you know you know he ain't the one I'll admit we have.
Speaker 1:And there it is. You know I can go on and on and I want our viewers and if you're listening, watching this, to make sure you download that, because that just came out like a week ago.
Speaker 3:Yeah, less than a week ago.
Speaker 1:Less than a week. Wow, it's so hot, I could feel the heat rising off the no, exactly. So when you know, you know, yeah, you know what's missing the violin, the violin.
Speaker 3:Why is it missing? It's in the song.
Speaker 1:Okay, look, I'm just telling you I play the music on the radio.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But you know what goes into it, so that's kind of cool. I didn't. Was there a violin in there? I didn't hear it. Okay. Okay, All right, call me out.
Speaker 3:It's later on in the song. You gotta hear the whole song Now. I know you haven't heard the whole song Now you hurt my feelings.
Speaker 1:Oh no, okay, Wait a minute. So if I go a little bit ahead in here In this hang on, hang on, we're gonna do something. So let me see, I think, maybe, not, maybe the answer is no.
Speaker 4:When you know, you know let me know yes the answer is no when you know you know. Yeah, yeah, yes, when you know you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, when you know, you know.
Speaker 1:I hear it now.
Speaker 5:When you know, you know.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, okay, you win. There's a fiddle solo just for you. I love it. I love it. So is there everything you do? Do you include the violin or the fiddle?
Speaker 2:Most of the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, because that's what you do. Yeah, you're like a world-renowned violinist and now doing the the acoustic. I could hear the acoustic guitars and the acoustic sound of a country song. I could hear it coming out and it sounds really really good. Did you play the guitar on that as well?
Speaker 3:No, no, aaron Rosen did.
Speaker 1:Oh, I got you. Now, does Aaron? Does he do most of the? Uh, you know the songwriting with you and the playing and all that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that song we created together. I came in with some of the song and we finished it up and we recorded it together at his studio. And two other songs as well my previous single and my upcoming single.
Speaker 1:So you say upcoming single, there's going to be another one after this.
Speaker 3:Always, always. Always as long as I'm breathing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, good, just keep them coming, girl, because it's so talented. It doesn't happen overnight, does it? It doesn't. How long have you been in Nashville?
Speaker 3:I've been in Nashville not very long at all, just really since the summer.
Speaker 1:Did you move from Connecticut to Nashville or were you in New York for a little bit?
Speaker 3:I was in New York for a little bit. I was in New York on and off for many years of my life. But yeah, I was. I was in Connecticut, I came directly from there.
Speaker 1:And why the violin? How long have you been playing that? Obviously, you've done very, very well.
Speaker 3:Thank you. My parents are both musicians, both classically trained musicians, and so they put me on violin when I was six. My mom's older sister is a professional violinist. She plays in the New York Philharmonic, so she would come and give me lessons from the time I was six years old and my mom said that I would wait by the door with my little tiny violin. That is so cool.
Speaker 1:So are you an only child.
Speaker 3:Nope, no, I have an older brother.
Speaker 1:Now is he a musician.
Speaker 3:He is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's all in the fam, it's all in the fam, everybody talked about him. It's in the family.
Speaker 3:It's all in there.
Speaker 1:That's cool. Do you guys get together and play together?
Speaker 3:Yeah, actually, that's cool. Do you guys get together and play together? Yeah, actually, whenever I'm in Connecticut, which is where my family lives, we do live streams of my Instagram and zoom concerts, and yeah, definitely, it's really fun. It's one of my, one of my favorite things.
Speaker 1:No, I um, before we get too deep into this, I would love to see you pick up that violin and give me something a little bit wild.
Speaker 3:Ooh wild.
Speaker 1:Yeah, somebody told me to tell you that. Just saying I bet you can't imagine who.
Speaker 3:I have no idea.
Speaker 1:No idea.
Speaker 3:Wild huh.
Speaker 1:How many violins do you have? Is that the only one?
Speaker 3:How many violins do I have? No, I have a few, I have a few, I have a few, I have an electric one and I have a couple old instruments that are like this, and then I have it's beautiful though yeah, it's 100 years old.
Speaker 1:It does look old, but that's when they're beautiful. You see the age. And if that violin could talk, oh, I can make it talk.
Speaker 1:I bet you can. That's a chair, that violin that you have right there. What would you say that is worth? That's got to be a lot a I'm not trying to get robbed no, I know that that makes a lot of sense, but I get it, I get it all right, I mean the older the better for string instruments gotcha and this one's old because does it make the sound better? Because of the age of the instrument, does it give it a different sound? It does.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean it's. It's a very precious old wood that's irreplaceable. I don't think they, I don't think this can be made. You can't make it the same you know, right, um, the person who made it? Probably not. I mean, I know who fixed it up, but I don't know who who made it. But I know it's a very old instrument. I have one that's even older and even more fancy I'd be so scared to take it anywhere. Well, you know.
Speaker 1:All right, let's hear it. What do you got? This is Ada Pastor, prada Ada. I said Ada Ada rhymes with Prada. I know Prada Prada, prada, ada Pasternak. Here we go, let's see what you got, girl.
Speaker 3:All right, freestyle, it's for you.
Speaker 5:Okay, it's for you, okay, so.
Speaker 1:Wow, wow, wow. Is that something that you put together, or is that what was that called? Let me just ask you.
Speaker 3:Well, you asked for something wild, so I just.
Speaker 1:I loved it.
Speaker 3:Thank you. That is just so cool. Yes, I just composed it at this moment, did you really? Yeah, I could do that all day. It's called improvisation.
Speaker 1:You just throw it together. Say what do you think that is so cool?
Speaker 5:And what?
Speaker 1:about your songwriting Ada.
Speaker 3:My songwriting is kind of similar. I just jam and then they become songs. But it's similar. But it's a little different, Because usually my songs come from some sort of inspiration, Not always good inspiration, but like this, like my new single when you know, you know right that guy that I was dating.
Speaker 3:He disrespected me. So after that happened I went home and I was just like I just picked up the guitar and the song just came pouring out of me. You know what I mean and that's how most of my songs they just come out. They kind of write themselves for the most part, and then sometimes I'll have the majority of the song, or you know the chorus and the verse, and I'll take it to a producer or another writer. I'll say, hey, help me finish this, and you know what I mean, and then we record it. But yeah, with improvs I mean I could just do that all day and they're always going to be different and I could never recreate what I just did because it's an improv.
Speaker 1:So it's off the cuff, so to speak. So you're writing, and you know this song that you just dropped, were you like so pissed off that you had? This is a way of venting, exactly. You know, you thought in the beginning that I mean we all go through things in our life. I mean, whether it's you, whether it's me or anybody, it's like you know, okay, it's going good, it's going good.
Speaker 3:Then, all of a sudden, the crap hits the fan exactly, and I write about everything and he actually he was mad. He messaged me on instagram. He was was being he's like mad. He's like it's so disrespectful that you wrote a song about me. I'm like, I'm a songwriter. You shouldn't have dated a songwriter.
Speaker 1:You know what? How did he know it was about him? Well, I mean, it was probably pretty obvious, but still.
Speaker 3:Well, because I put it, I put out an Instagram video of the song the night I wrote it, the night he was disrespectful to me.
Speaker 1:Good for you.
Speaker 3:I don't know who you know.
Speaker 1:You're an inspiration to so many women.
Speaker 3:Oh, thank you, that's nice to hear.
Speaker 1:You need to stand strong and in this world nowadays, you know it's so much disrespect going on. Yeah, you should go and kick some ass. I bet you can.
Speaker 3:I can.
Speaker 1:I want to Good good. Do you go and box? Do you do any of that during the day? Do you go to the gym.
Speaker 3:That's a great question and I'm glad you brought it up, because I actually really enjoy boxing and I need more physical exercise in my life and I think boxing is awesome. It's really fun and a great workout and I do. I do want to get back to it. I haven't boxed in a while and I there's like, I guess, our boxing area, the boxing thing right near where I live, so I'm going to have to check that out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's cool, that's great exercise.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, and it's good, how does playing the violin, the way you play it, is that very? Does that give you exercise?
Speaker 3:Like maybe your upper parts of your body, your arms. It gives me something. Yeah, it gives me pain.
Speaker 1:It does give you pain.
Speaker 3:What do you mean? Yeah Well, I couldn't play for three years due to pain.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:Yep, it's very common with classical musicians and athletes, and it's why I'm not a classical musician anymore, because I I physically couldn't handle it.
Speaker 1:But you're, I mean being classical, unless I've got this wrong. I picture a classical musician, somebody in an orchestra playing, you know, just going easy, and the sound is beautiful, and I look easy Huh. Okay, all right. Now I look at what you're doing. It's like a hardcore electric guitar player on a violin. I mean, you're just going hard at it. Does that make sense? I have no idea.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm going to take a moment to stand up for all classical musicians in the world, because you mentioned going easy in the orchestra. That music is extremely difficult to play, extremely tedious and really, really demanding physically, and I dealt with severe tendonitis and pain throughout my whole body and it was so bad I couldn't play violin for three years. So when you see people playing classical music in an orchestra or with an orchestra as a soloist, as I did, it is very difficult.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm glad you said that, because somebody like me I don't know that I go and if I see an orchestra I say, oh, this is beautiful. You know and you're listening.
Speaker 2:It is beautiful yeah.
Speaker 1:And you don't realize what's going on on stage.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, I don't think everyone in the orchestra is suffering physical pain. You know most probably aren't, but some do, like me.
Speaker 1:So where do you see yourself going doing what you're doing? You have the violin, you've got uh, you know you've got a great team with you. Yeah, where do you see yourself like in five years?
Speaker 3:you know, I know that's a big question people ask. I never really um, I never really personally like think about, like I don't ask myself that, but maybe I should. Um, I just want to continue to put out music and I just want to continue to stay inspired and inspire others and just put out all my songs. So I don't feel like they're sitting inside me, like I just want to release, express and release, um. And yeah, my goal is to put on my album by may may 8th actually I have a date, um and then I'm hoping to just go on tours for the album, maybe a summer tour and, um, yeah, just more music that would be so cool.
Speaker 1:Have you um seen the tri-siberian orchestra or any of those? It's just that's a wild show. I love it, with the lights and the pyro and everything that's going on from the violins to the guitars. Have you ever thought about that? Or that's not what you want to do?
Speaker 3:That's not what I want to do.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, I gotcha, so you want to do your own thing 100% 100%. You go. You got your dreams. You got your dreams, you got your passion. You you've got the education. You now writing songs that's right all day have you not? All day, but no, I know, I get you. So all right. You say all day, but what's your day like?
Speaker 3:well, sometimes I really do write all day. Sometimes I just put my phone away and just yeah yeah, um, but yeah, my day I'm just doing. I'm trying to get my album done, so I'm trying to finish songs and record them and just like putting out singles right now. And um, yeah, I also just moved into my own apartment so I'm very excited about that, so trying to make it home and what's it like to be to being new to Nashville?
Speaker 1:I know you've been there, but you never really lived there.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:But what's it like to now live in Nashville? You're there.
Speaker 3:I know.
Speaker 1:Do you just kind of like? You're looking at me right now and you're probably going? God, I love it here.
Speaker 3:I do. I'm happy I live in Asheville. I guess I haven't like fully processed or reflected on it yet because it's been kind of go go go with moving in and yeah, I haven't had a lot of time to really meditate on it. But I live in Asheville. That's great, very cool.
Speaker 1:Like I say you got some great friends.
Speaker 3:You got a great team behind you. Do you like your parents or the rest of the family members? Do they come and visit you? I'm hoping to have them come visit now that I am an official resident and have my own place where they could come. Yeah, my mom's going to come visit next month and then hopefully the rest of the family will come at some point as well, and yeah, Now talk to me.
Speaker 1:I know you've been on skip happens before, but you were born in Moscow. What age? What age I'm sure you told me in a previous podcast, but what age was it that you left Moscow?
Speaker 3:Around six.
Speaker 1:Now is is. Are your parents russian or?
Speaker 3:um my dad. My dad, my dad is part russian I got you yeah my mom is ukrainian jewish and tatar on her dad's side, and my dad is um russian jewish austrian very cool, very cool.
Speaker 1:god bless him. It's so awesome. I mean I don't hear it in you at all, I don't hear any type of accent or anything like that, but obviously you left there at six, so yeah you know, been here pretty much all your life.
Speaker 3:Exactly. Yeah, if I left at 11, I'd probably have a little accent Like my cousins left around 10, 11, 12, and they have accents.
Speaker 1:Now, now do you go back and visit?
Speaker 3:the bullet.
Speaker 1:Just kidding, I think accents are cool do you get to go back at all, do you like?
Speaker 3:I wouldn't want to go to moscow right now. I don't want to go anywhere near putin I got you I got you. No, my family, I family in ukraine yeah, I still support ukraine.
Speaker 1:On your I might've been your website or something, and I think that's very cool, absolutely, and do you? Are you in touch with them?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, my mom is actually well. She has three sisters, but she's closest closest with her sister in in Ukraine and, yeah, it's a, it's a really scary time.
Speaker 1:It's a very scary time. It's a very scary time. It's a scary time, but you know what heals or makes us feel better? Music, music from Ada. Yeah, your music makes us feel a whole lot better, and that's a cool thing. So do you get out and do you play with some of the big artists at all, do you? I mean, you do your thing, you're big in what you do. I get that, thank you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I think I know what you're asking. Yeah, sometimes I haven't recently really done shows with like as a fiddle player with any other artist, but I'm open to it Absolutely open to it. I do occasional recording sessions where I like I record a fiddle violin on other artists' songs, which is really fun, but yeah.
Speaker 1:And, if you don't mind me asking, is you as an artist and somebody asked you to come on board and play the fiddle? Um, you get paid for that right? Yeah well, you never know some people. I'll do it for you, but no, I think that's cool. That's cool, and would you? You said you'd like to do that someday, but to get out on tour, maybe somebody needs a fiddle player to go on on the road with them. You would love to do that.
Speaker 3:It's not my, it's not my dream and my my goal, Cause I want to do my own tour my original music where I'm singing my songs that I wrote, Cause that's my passion and that's what I'm working toward Five for fighting.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, he's great Five for fighting.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, he's great. John is such a sweetheart. It was so much fun meeting him and playing with him in Washington DC, where we were just there supporting Israel and and and celebrating and love and light and music and yeah, he's a great guy and he's so talented as well. So it was really fun sharing the stage with him.
Speaker 1:Awesome, awesome, see, and you get to know these people and sometimes I hate to say it but I'm going to say it You're great. But sometimes knowing somebody will also help that out a little bit. So, knowing somebody like him, with five for fighting, I mean you know, now you got a little bit of a like. Okay, you know, help me out here a little bit, so do you? Um, well, the reason, the reason I was asking you about the fiddle player and going out on the road, uh, when post malone was in town here in the northeast in syracuse, he had a fiddle player and I'm probably a woman about your age and she was a blonde, and then I mentioned it to somebody and they, she goes oh yeah, that's my friend and that's she does what you do. Yeah, along the same lines, I guess, but she was on the road to Post Malone and I thought that was kind of kind of cool to get that. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I can't even imagine what that would sound like I have to. I'm curious to hear now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Post Malone set with with fiddle I fiddle. I gotta hear. I'm sure that's awesome it was awesome.
Speaker 1:The show was awesome here in syracuse yeah just one of the best concerts I had ever seen. Wow, I love it. I love it. So here we are. There you are, you've made the move to nashville. You're putting an album. The album's going to come out when may 8th may 8th and the name of the album I.
Speaker 3:I'm not 100% sure yet, but I have a working title Okay.
Speaker 1:You don't have to.
Speaker 3:No, I could share because I might change my mind, but as of now I'm going to call it Free.
Speaker 1:Free.
Speaker 3:Because that's going to be the last song on the album.
Speaker 1:And because you're doing all this, you have nobody else. I mean, this is what you want to do. Nobody's going to say, ada, you can't name it that name, you can't call it that, no, you're not going to put out that song. And that's an advantage of an independent artist like yourself. Exactly, you can say no, this is what I want to do. The rest of you can go away.
Speaker 3:Take a walk.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, and as long as you can make a living and do you get to, do you play at all like downtown Broadway or any of those places, crazy places.
Speaker 3:That's not my cup of tea.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:I didn't think so. I don't like loud and I don't like crowds.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it's gotten. It's gotten a little crazy down on Broadway.
Speaker 3:I get it. But there to go outside of town, right, I mean, you got the station in, you got places like that. Yeah, it's kind of. Yeah, I have some shows coming up. I'm doing the whiskey jam on thursday, um in nashville, and then I'm playing at the listening room on february, I think 10th, and yeah. So I have some nashville stuff coming up and I'm sure I'll be booking some outside of nashville shows soon and it's gonna be.
Speaker 1:It's gonna be a beautiful year you know, you got to tell your team that you need to be at the. Uh, I might've mentioned this before. You know what I'm going to say, right?
Speaker 3:I do, I think I do, yeah, your area.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, the country radio seminar. Oh, yes, and also, yeah, the wood down in Bethel, new York is in the. That's the Woodstock area, if that's what you were.
Speaker 3:Is that where you're based?
Speaker 1:No, I'm in Syracuse.
Speaker 3:Okay, how far is that from Woodstock?
Speaker 1:It's a good couple hours.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, okay. That was in Woodstock, new York, just like a week and a half ago, really.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, no snow right.
Speaker 3:I don't remember.
Speaker 1:We are, our forecast is calling for.
Speaker 3:That's exciting? Well, I think so, because I love this now.
Speaker 1:No, no, you know what it is. It is, If you don't have to go out and work in it, you can just like I go to the radio station or I come home and I do this. I got my own studio here. It's you know what. Nothing you can do about it. So just it is what it is. You know, we look forward to baseball spring training. Every day is just another day closer to that. So right, exactly it all happens, so all right.
Speaker 3:So if somebody wants to go online and get a hold of your music, yes, my music is available to listen to on all the streaming platforms spotify, apple music, amazon music, apple music, deezer, youtube. I have music videos on youtube as well. People could check out. Um, I just released a music video for my single, I wish I never, which is the song that I released when we last did this. Um, yes, and then my new, my brand new single, when you know, you know, is out on all the platforms and, yeah, I'm just really excited that people are enjoying it and I hope everybody goes and listens to it yeah, yeah, I do too, and it's going to drive him nuts.
Speaker 5:If his local radio station starts playing.
Speaker 1:That I can't even imagine. And you're just going to smile.
Speaker 3:I could do that.
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly right. I love it, I love it. Upstate New York. Have you, you've, you've never been in this area. Then the Syracuse area.
Speaker 3:Not that I can recall I may have at some point throughout my life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because Connecticut is just over there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I'd love to come.
Speaker 1:You should have your team bring you, if you know what I mean, I want a 25. He knows how to get here.
Speaker 3:Anything's possible.
Speaker 1:I love it. What are your resolutions for 25? Do you have anything? It just have you.
Speaker 3:I haven't really thought about it, because I feel like resolutions are tricky. People make them every year, I make them every year, and then usually I'll tell you quitter's day, you know.
Speaker 1:Have you heard about quitter's day?
Speaker 3:no, what's quitter's day?
Speaker 1:quitter's Day is the 10th. It's the second Friday in January. By that date, or on that date, most resolutions are forget it.
Speaker 2:It's so true.
Speaker 1:They're all gung-ho for the first week, week and a half, then it's like nothing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So they call the 10th Quitter's Day. It's always the second Friday in January. Yeah, so they call the 10th Quitters Day. It's always the second Friday in January. Yeah, tell my friend Jeff that.
Speaker 3:Okay, I will. I think for myself. I'm just going to choose one thing that I want to improve about myself and just try to do that, instead of having 10 things you know and then not reach them and then be disappointed in yourself Like what's one thing you could improve.
Speaker 1:Just be yourself Smile.
Speaker 3:Be your best self, live your best life.
Speaker 1:That's it and don't put up with any crap.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:Otherwise I love this.
Speaker 3:That probably wasn't my best form, but I've got to work on it.
Speaker 1:You'll get it. You'll start boxing Ada. Ada Pasternak, Did I say that right?
Speaker 3:You did Ada Pasternak.
Speaker 1:Ada Pasternak. I love it. I love it. World-renowned violinist, vocalist too, obviously. So wait a minute. How can you play the violin if you're singing?
Speaker 3:You mean at the same time?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 3:I can what you can't.
Speaker 1:I can't. I guess you can, she can't.
Speaker 3:It's definitely not an easy procedure, but I can. You believe me or you want proof?
Speaker 1:I want proof.
Speaker 3:Ah, all right.
Speaker 1:Okay, here we go, here we go.
Speaker 3:Just because it's a Happy New Year gift.
Speaker 1:Oh, here we go.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Thank you yay okay, I get it, and you also. You play the violin. Oh, all the time.
Speaker 3:This is my thing yeah this is what I do I strum, I strum all day.
Speaker 1:That is so cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it just feels so natural, it feels like home.
Speaker 1:Do they teach you that if you're going to play the violin?
Speaker 3:Definitely not. It's just something you do. I'm sure a lot of classical musicians are very critical of me and my choices.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but look where you are and maybe look where they are and just say it.
Speaker 3:People, hopefully, are where they want to be.
Speaker 1:That's right. So do you have a favorite song that you play on that?
Speaker 3:That I play strumming while singing, yeah.
Speaker 1:You know where I'm going with this.
Speaker 3:I do, do I? I don't know. I mean, I like a lot of songs. I like singing Moon River and strumming. I like doing my song Perfectly Imperfect, because it's just fun to play on the violin.
Speaker 1:I don't know, If I was to ask you to play a song right now, what would it be? What do you think that's like? Okay, this is the one I want to do.
Speaker 3:Right now. I mean I kind of want to do my new single Okay let's do it. But I also.
Speaker 1:You don't Okay.
Speaker 3:No, I do. I just I don't know if I know how to do it on violin, but I kind of want to see if I could.
Speaker 1:All right, let's try it, and it's a first right here. Skip Happens Podcast Out of Pasternak.
Speaker 3:All right, I'm just going to do a little chorus.
Speaker 1:All right, let's see what we got.
Speaker 4:When you know, you know he ain't the one. I'll admit we had some fun and I took some time to see if maybe he'd be right for me, but now I know the answer is no.
Speaker 2:When you know you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. When you know you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. When you know you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wait a minute, I got it, let's see.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can't see them, they're like over behind the wall. But yeah, that's awesome. See, that's talent, that you can just pick that up. You know, obviously you know the song, it's your song, but still be able to go. Okay, let's see if I can.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't usually play it on violin.
Speaker 1:Right, no, exactly Exactly, ada. You're so sweet. Thank you so much, thank you. We want to make sure that you know you subscribe to Skip Happens. We have guests on, like Ada. I know tonight these headphones are driving me nuts and you know people don't realize it. Do you wear inner ears when you do anything or?
Speaker 3:anything. Sometimes it depends on the show.
Speaker 1:Sometimes they can mess you up and I think these headphones are like messing me up tonight. I don't know, weird.
Speaker 2:I don't know, it'll be okay.
Speaker 1:It's the holiday thing, I think.
Speaker 3:I think you're doing great. I could hear you loud and clear.
Speaker 1:Testing one, two Testing.
Speaker 3:Now, at the end of the interview.
Speaker 1:How's it sound now? All right, no, just kidding, but uh, out of pasternak. Um, you told us where you can get the music. Uh, online, just about everywhere, anywhere. Go and get it and support this young lady. She's living her dream. Uh, she moved to nashville. She's got rent to pay. Um, gas to put in the car. Do you have a car?
Speaker 3:no, I don't okay, that's why.
Speaker 1:All right, so do you Uber. Yeah, that's probably a better way.
Speaker 3:Or walk or go in cars with other people.
Speaker 2:But you're not Go in cars with strangers.
Speaker 3:Hitchhike what?
Speaker 1:You do not hitchhike.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was just.
Speaker 1:Don't.
Speaker 3:I was trying to make you laugh.
Speaker 1:Well, you did, you did, you did. You're sweet. I hope to see you at the Country Radio Seminar.
Speaker 2:I hope to too.
Speaker 1:Make sure your team brings you down, I know at least maybe we can go get a cocktail with everybody That'd be great and hang out a little bit and be able to talk in person.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And all that. It's always fun. I've been doing better well over 20 years and I know you're with the right people and, uh, some good people behind you. So let me ask you before I let you go to um all your social media? Are you doing all that yourself, geez?
Speaker 3:wow, I am. It's a full-time job it is.
Speaker 1:It is a full-time, and.
Speaker 3:Patreon and Bandcamp and TikTok and YouTube. I wish there was just one, just one platform.
Speaker 1:That covers everything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I use Instagram the most. That's the one I'm like, most proficient at.
Speaker 1:TikTok. You know so many artists have jumped on TikTok and it's been very beneficial to some people I know, but I heard that they're shutting down.
Speaker 3:I don't know if it's a rumor.
Speaker 1:Well, you know the government, whatever's going on, I don't know if it will, ever will, or maybe it will. I have no idea.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Still, it kind of makes you wonder, because all these artists that count on platforms like TikTok, you know what are they going to do? They're going to have to go over to Instagram or they. I'm sure they're on all of them, so, but still, it's just the point. Who knows, yeah, who knows? All right, well, you know what?
Speaker 1:It's past my bedtime, so there you go, I know, oh, come on. So uh, yeah, it's been a pleasure having you on skip happens tonight and uh, just having a little chit chat about the new single that dropped about a week ago and when, when you know, you know we get you, you know he doesn't know what he's missing.
Speaker 1:Seriously, you just stand, stand tall, hold your head high. You know what? Just all right. All right, now you're out of view. There you are, but no, you deserve that. You're an inspiration to a lot of women too. They need to understand what you've been through and what you're doing and that you're speaking up for yourself. That's what it's all about. So, absolutely 100%, tell everybody there. I said hello. I know we have some friends, that we kind of mutual friends so, uh, tell them. I said hello and, uh, you know what? I hope to see you real soon. It's a February, he's coming up pretty quick. Uh, uh, pastor neck, go online, look her up and, uh, subscribe to her as well.
Speaker 3:Yes, I have my own YouTube channel. I have my own Patreon and Instagram, so, yep, everybody subscribe.
Speaker 1:She's got rent to pay, uber to pay. She's got things to do, groceries to buy.
Speaker 3:It's true, it's all true.
Speaker 1:I know you live a life like the rest of us.
Speaker 2:Yep I I know you live a life like the rest of us.
Speaker 1:Yep, I'm only human.
Speaker 2:Well, so good to see you.
Speaker 1:So good to see you too. I know I've been kind of all over the place here but kind of a last minute thing and then my headphones have been messing up a little bit. But, ada, you're awesome. Thank you for joining us here on Skip Happens Tonight.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:There you are.
