Yeah, guys, we'll just kind of jump right in.
So welcome to Good News York at the Winter Fair.
This is pretty fun, right? I am joined by a large
number of young people. I don't know what happened.
I was just standing here. Suddenly there's a
crowd of folks. Who are you folks? You can start.
We are Blue's Ignition. That's Madison. This
is Joey. I'm Anthony. That's Tyler. That's Enrique,
and that's Julian. And we've been doing this
for a couple years now. Yeah, so blues ignition,
that implies some kind of music, right? Is that
what's happening here? Yeah. We play gigs a lot.
We always do the New York State Blues Fest. Awesome.
That's really fun. Let me ask you. Blues is not
something you always... feel is synonymous with
young people, right? So what got you interested
in playing that kind of music? I think what got
us interested in blues is kind of like, it's
a fun community. Like, I feel like, especially
with the crowds, they're really supportive and
each other, of course. And it's fun kind of music
because I feel like a really big thing with blues
is you can really make it your own and have fun
with it and make whatever song into how you want
it. So we like to play around with that and have
fun. I love it. Now, I got it with I got to assume
you play some instruments, right? What's everybody
play? I'd love to hear. I play drums. OK. I also
play the drums. Nice. I play the saxophone. All
right. I play the bass. Wow. I play the guitar.
He's got the bass voice too. Look at this guy.
I love this. I'm sorry. I play guitar and vocals.
Wow. I just sing. Just the singer guys. That's
awesome. What's probably one of your most popular
songs that people love to hear you play? Rocksteady
by Aretha Franklin. It's our favorite, probably
a crowd favorite. We love playing that song.
Yeah. That's incredible. And now you said you
play all over the place. Where can folks find
you and learn about where you might be playing?
Yeah, Facebook. You can look us up on Instagram,
Facebook. Just type in Blue Submission. But also
me and Madison and Joey, we have another band
called Mad Tones and the Cup of Joe. Nice. We're
going to be getting more gigs soon. That's great.
You can also find us on Instagram and Facebook.
That's incredible, guys. Let me ask the gentleman,
our bass man here. How long have you been with
the group? I've been with the group for about
last year and this week. Great. Two years. What
what drew you to join? My grandma told me to
join. All right She knows she knows Edgar Pagan.
He's organizing everything and He's like our
agent Yeah, she told me she told me to join and
I thought it was jazz so my first day I brought
like a big upright bass And that didn't go well
From that point on, I just really liked everyone
here. They're really nice to socialize with.
That's great. That's really cool to hear. Let
me ask you guys. Are you from the area? Are you
from Syracuse area? Yeah? I think most of us
are. Some of us are from Liverpool. Gotcha. I'm
from Auburn myself. Okay. And what kind of area
do you play in? Do you play all over New York
State, mostly in the local area? Where might
folks see you around? Me and Joey have played
gigs in A -Bay. Wow. Dinosaur barbecue. All over
the place. I love it. This is great. Before I
let you guys go, anything else that folks should
know about you? Things that are interesting,
something, anything particular, gigs coming up
you want to plug? Anything like that come to
mind? Yeah, I'm a part of a all -star group hosted
by Paul Davey. We're playing July 6th in Liverpool.
Search it up on Facebook. Okay. I know Paul,
I've heard a lot about Beetlecuse, so that's
pretty cool. I love that young people are involved
in that, too. This is great. There's hope for
the younger generation, I think. This is wonderful.
Guys, this has been really awesome. We really
appreciate you coming on Good News York. We are
a podcast based right here in Syracuse that talks
exclusively about good news and fun stuff and
good people. So in the future, when you have
gigs, you have interesting things you want to
talk about, we'd love to have you in the studio
anytime and do that. Thank you. All right. Thanks,
guys.