Beckett, our drummer, he was eight at the time, and he had this natural sense of rhythm. They kind of dabbled a little bit.ĬOLT: And I would show them things so that they could figure it out. TBPM: Colt, you have a musical background, but what about the kids?ĪUBREE: They had gotten instruments for Christmas, and we didn’t know even if they would figure out how to play it or if they’d have any real interest in it. This gave us something to look forward to every day. We would learn a song in in 20-30 minutes and then record it and it wasn’t perfect, but it was just fun, and it was a way for us to be together. They’re very quick learners when it comes to, well, everything, but especially music and something that they love and can get into. We home school, so we would finish our schoolwork and then we would teach them the song and they learned it really quick. It turned into something we never anticipated but in a good way.ĬOLT: We started doing a song a day because we had so much time. It just turned into something that I think was needed by a lot of people, just some levity in their day to day lives at that time. And we came back like an hour later, it had been viewed around 10,000 times and we were like ‘Who’s been watching this?’ We had no idea that people had seen it and shared it. We left to escape the walls of the house for a while and take a drive around the town. We uploaded it to Facebook and our parents loved it. They learned the song a lot quicker than we thought they would, and we recorded it in the evening. The next morning everybody was excited and the mood in the house changed. It’ll give us all something to look forward to so let’s all work together and pick a song and we’ll play it and record it in the evening.’ I figured we’d send it to our parents because we hadn’t seen them in a couple weeks because of the pandemic, and they were getting lonely. I said, ‘Tomorrow let’s just let’s focus on doing something positive with the kids that they think is fun. I do some woodworking and one night we were in the garage as I was trying to finish a table that I was building. I’m a photographer, of course nobody was taking family pictures during that time, so we were kind of sitting around our house thinking ‘I guess we can live off savings for a while until this blows over,’ but we had nothing to do around the house and we were all kind of down in the dumps as well as everybody around that time. We always thought that was good job security because there were so many places that he played at that, in what circumstance would they all cancel at one time? This is the only scenario that that would happen, so we had no work, no income coming in. He plays at the Don CeSar and he’s played at a lot of hotels and nicer restaurants in the area. TBPM: How did this get started and what brought this on?ĪUBREE: During the very beginning of the pandemic when everything was shut down, it was supposed to be for two weeks, and we didn’t know that it would last longer than that.Ĭolt is a full-time musician. We recently spoke to them about what this has meant to them and how their journey has been as Colt Clark and The Quarantine Kids. What started as a few musical performances in their living room turned into something much bigger, including an invitation to perform on one of Nashville’s most iconic stages. In early 2020, Colt and Aubree Clark, along with their three children (Cash 12, Beckett, 10, and Bellamy, 8) wanted to bring a little joy to others during the pandemic.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |