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Speaker 1: All right, the salt Lake Incubator helping young emerging artists

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Speaker 1: along their musical journey. I am joined with the president here,

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Speaker 1: Eliza Levy.

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Speaker 2: How are you so good? Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: You're good good, you sound great in hear this is fantastic. Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, what a great thing you guys do

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Speaker 1: for young artists. Tell people who don't know a little

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Speaker 1: bit about it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you well. Salt Lake Incubator we started three years ago,

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Speaker 2: founded by Roger Brown, and we're a nonprofit organization that

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Speaker 2: supports emerging artists through sort of three main activities. One

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Speaker 2: is our grant program. Any artist who's not signed to

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Speaker 2: a label can apply for a grant and get up

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Speaker 2: to fifteen thousand dollars of funding. And with that comes

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Speaker 2: our extended team of industry professionals to help support them

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Speaker 2: in their careers and whatever they are trying to accomplish.

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Speaker 2: We sort of take those steps with them. The second

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Speaker 2: thing we do with the salt Lake Sessions, which is

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Speaker 2: our YouTube series. It's sort of like a tiny desk

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Speaker 2: meets colors. It's in studio performance, live, raw, stripped back,

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Speaker 2: and those are for artists of a career levels. We

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Speaker 2: just finished shooting Grammy nominees in Los Angeles for Grammy

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Speaker 2: Week as well as a bunch of incredible emerging artists.

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Speaker 2: And then the third thing we do our writing camps,

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Speaker 2: songwriting camps and writing and wellness retreats, and the idea is,

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Speaker 2: you know, all ships rise when we have collaboration.

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Speaker 1: Very cool. It is a world where the music industry

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Speaker 1: can be a grind. The radio support isn't always there

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Speaker 1: like it was decades ago, and this is just such

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Speaker 1: a great platform for artists. I know you guys are

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Speaker 1: very proud of what you do.

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Speaker 2: We are thank you, She smiles.

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Speaker 1: What do you So, let's talk about this week too,

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Speaker 1: because you guys have a big event that falls under

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Speaker 1: the whole umbrella this week in Conquered. Tell me a

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Speaker 1: little bit about it.

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Speaker 2: The Umbrella Arts Center and Conquered have been incredible partners

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Speaker 2: for us. One of the things when we first started

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Speaker 2: working with emerging artists was across the board, everyone was

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Speaker 2: looking for more live performance opportunities. They wanted to get

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Speaker 2: in their ten thousand hours. They wanted to connect with

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Speaker 2: fans in a real life setting, and the Umbrella Arts

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Speaker 2: Center series has really provided that opportunity. So we do

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Speaker 2: three concerts a year. One they're sort of a massive headliner.

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Speaker 2: And coming up we have John Batiste who's also on

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Speaker 2: our Artist Advisory Board. He helps choose the artists, so

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Speaker 2: he's not only helped choose our grant winners, but he

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Speaker 2: has selected the three artists who will be opening for him,

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Speaker 2: which are for Rye Melt and Couch Wow. And then

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Speaker 2: we have two other concerts that we do with the

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Speaker 2: Umbrella Arts Center that are just salt like artists.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's a big get. His shows are always electric.

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Speaker 1: So it's a very small venue to see John Patissen,

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Speaker 1: but I know for people who've never gone, so the

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Speaker 1: big intrigue is that is seeing some of these young

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Speaker 1: artists that end up on bigger stages all over the country.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, our Prairie first concert, we were lucky enough to

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Speaker 2: have Brandy Carlisle headlining with Tiny Habits, Alisa Amador and

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Speaker 2: Julia Pratt opening, And since then, you know, Tiny Habits

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Speaker 2: went on to go on tour with Noah Kahan and

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Speaker 2: Gracie Abrams, and Alisa Amador went on tour with Lake

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Speaker 2: Street Dive and Julia Pratt went out with several artists.

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Speaker 2: Joy Lotticoun, Angie McMahon, Sammy Ray and the friends. So

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Speaker 2: they've all sort of blossomed and are all doing their

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Speaker 2: own headline shows now too. Oh and I forgot, of course,

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Speaker 2: Tiny Habits toured all summer last summer with James Taylor.

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Speaker 1: If you've heard of him, he's got real potential.

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Speaker 2: That guy.

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Speaker 1: Very cool. Well, this is exciting, So you got a

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Speaker 1: busy week ahead of you. Obviously that's a small venue.

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Speaker 1: That show is sold out. But keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: all these young artists throughout their musical ride. I guess

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Speaker 1: would be the thing.

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Speaker 2: Right exactly, tap in see him while you can before

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Speaker 2: the ticket is one thousand dollars and you're seeing them

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Speaker 2: in front of one hundred thousand people.

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Speaker 1: Eliza Levy, Salt Lake Incubator President, A very big week ahead.

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Speaker 1: I'm Drew maholland here in the WBZ newsroom, Boston,