Listening to \u201cSpring Into Summer\u201d by Lizzy McAlpine on her way to a student concert she found on Instagram, biochemistry freshman Niki Kadasani heard the same chords she knew so well. Kadasani said she couldn\u2019t believe the quality of the cover.<\/p>\n
Longhorn Artists Connect, an organization giving student artists a platform, held their first concert of the semester, \u201cFarewell Summer,\u201d on Friday in one of their members\u2019 backyards. The show featured four student artists and bands: The Ramparts, AB, Emma Grace and Monara.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really important to support small artists in general, but supporting fellow students \u2014 it\u2019s a great way to make friends,\u201d Kadasani said, \u201cIt\u2019s a really good way to support them when they\u2019re just starting out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The final two acts of the show featured performances from AB and Monara. AB performed original songs as well as covers, such as \u201cSpring Into Summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c(It felt) electric,\u201d Kadasani said, \u201cIt was amazing. \u2018Spring Into Summer\u2019 is one of my favorite songs ever, and it\u2019s so weird (because) I was listening to it on the way here, so it\u2019s crazy that they played it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ramparts took to the stage, a raised wooden porch, first, playing a mixture of indie rock originals and cover songs. Malachy Breen, a McCombs sophomore, singer and guitarist, wrote the band\u2019s three original songs, \u201cPhoto,\u201d \u201cHangover\u201d and \u201cPunkshyt.\u201d Throughout the night, attendees held signs supporting each act. One read, \u201cThe Ramparts are so gallantly streaming.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c(Longhorn Artists Connect) has made it a lot easier for people who are interested in artistic stuff to find each other and to create a sense of community around that,\u201d Breen said. \u201cI feel like a lot of artistic types of people tend to be introverted and like to sit in their room and play guitar, but this definitely creates a good space for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Performing solo on acoustic guitar, advertising sophomore Emma Grace also blended borrowed and original material including her newest single, \u201cOrdinary Places,\u201d released on Sept. 4. As she played, attendees took photos, danced and sang along to the acoustic pop sound of her set.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho am I gonna be when you finally look at me? \/ And see our lives the way I see it,\u201d Grace sang. \u201cWe don\u2019t have to live in this pain and silence \/ Ultraviolet rays painted on our faces \/ It\u2019s a shame we can\u2019t stay in ordinary places.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elliott Saiontz, a radio-television-film junior and Longhorn Artists Connect president, said the organization will be planning more events like \u201cFarewell Summer,\u201d like a Halloween-themed show.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all going to get to the industry one day \u2026 and the fact that that hasn\u2019t been happening here is crazy because there are so many talented people who all want to do these amazing things, and they haven\u2019t been brought together to do them,\u201d Saiontz said. \u201cWhen you create a space where they are brought together to do that, you find a place where extremely talented people \u2026 are able to flex their muscles and, you know, have those skills shine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listening to \u201cSpring Into Summer\u201d by Lizzy McAlpine on her way to a student concert she found on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-435403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}