Ep. 153 - Guests: The Hall Sisters

This is the FCB Podcast Network. This is Fasci's Pass. Hi. Everyone, it's Victoria Elizabeth here for another episode of Backstage Pass. And I am here at the beautiful Griffin Auditorium in Griffin, Georgia with none other than the amazing Hall Sisters. Yes, Hi, thank you so much for having me. I love the energy that you always ring and you look gorgeous. We'll be posting the pictures. They are so so stylish. So let's actually meet the Hall Sisters for those of you who do not know them. All right, hello everyone, I am Valerie Hall. I am the cellist of the group, and I sing soprano, and my name is Lydia. I play viola and guitar, and I sing alto. And I'm Jessica and I played piano, mandolin and a little guitar, and I kind of round out the lower end of the vocals as a contratto. And I'm Natalie and I played violin and I sing soprano. Wonderful, So all right, take us back to the start of the Hall Sisters. You are all sisters. You've been performing for quite some time, but how did you kind of transition into doing this as a profession. You know, that's a great question. You know, it's funny. When we were growing up, we actually never thought we were going to be musician. That's not something we ever really wanted to pursue per se. But we loved music. We grew up listening to all kinds all the time, and so when we were little, we started going to a music camp and the family that ran it needed four girls to sing an a cappella song at during their production their final show, and so. They put us on it. And afterwards they told us they were like, y'all need to look into singing together, and we were like, eh, no. It started taking voiceless and you. Know, we had already been taking instrument lessons at that point, and one thing led after another, and we just found ourselves loving and knowing this was exactly what we were supposed to do. And we've been doing it ever since. Yeah, wonderful. So if you go to a Hall Sister show, you'll see that there's an influence of so many different artists, all genres. It's not just Christian or country or pop. And that's what I think gives you guys that magic. If you had to choose one genre or maybe one song that's like your tops. What would it be? Oh, that is a great question. I think I always go back to Hay Brother, but there's spars two songs that we've mashed together, and I think it's my favorite because I never get tired of playing it. There's always that moment of oh, man, I gotta do this song again. But when you start it, it's always magical from a very beginning, and it's exciting every time you play it. It's really cool and I feel like it combines all genres. Is like a little bit pop in there. There's a fiddle, there's a country. I gotta get that song with it. Exactly. What's the process look like of curating your shows, because you know, again, your shows from start to finish are very content driven. There's no dead space. Who is responsible for putting this all together or is it more of a team effort? It is a team effort, yeah, I think you know. It starts like we all have because we all have different musical face. You know, that helps with figuring out which songs to do and then also putting. Our you know spin on it, with arrangements and everything. Natalie cames to plan out our show line up. She has a great way of feeling like how the direction of the show should go because we combine so many genres together and it's hard to know how to make that flow easily. But she does a great job. I could not if my life depended on it. So it came from a lot of our coaches back in twenty seventeen. They really taught us. It's like, you want the highs and lows, you don't want like too much stead space. Yeah so, because we learned a lot from her inside a lot of practice over the years of. This, but a lot of bad shows, it's a good one. It's a process, always, always, Now on more of an esthetic note, Valerie, I was just complimenting you guys before. Your style is always point, I mean, and I feel like you see a glimpse of each of your personalities in these looks. You're the stylist of the group. Tell us about this? Where do you Is there a certain like boutique or designer you shop with? You know what I wish so bad like I say, yes, there's why where we get all of our stuff from. But sadly it is literally stuff from our oh through the years, all over the States, like anywhere we stop a lot of Amazon, okay, truly. Like Forever twenty one, anywhere where you get your hands nice nice. Yeah, So pretty much anywhere and everywhere we can find stuff, we will. But it's really fun because I love it. How each of them have their own style naturally and just how they would dress casually or whatever, and so it's really fun. Being able to bring out different little traits with each of them. She's been really good over the years of pulling out. Like what we feel comfortable in and highlighting that to the best of her abilities for us, so that we can be confident when we walk out on stage, because the last time you want to worry about is oh my gosh, I feel insecure about this out. But you want to be confident because you want to give that to the audience that she's been good at point that. Out for us. Absolutely, yeah, no, that's vital for sure. So what is the dynamic like of all the sisters when you travel? I mean, because I know, I mean with my I love my family, but if you put us all in a van, we would be fighting cats and dogs. So I'm not saying we never did that. You know, growing up you're learning how you're you're growing and trying to work with your sisters, and it's like just taking a long time because you got to figure out who you are, how you're mixing with your siblings, and you're also trying to work with them. So yes, we went through some bumpy years, but growing up and finally learning how to embrace each of our differences and what makes us unique and work together instead of just getting frustrated at each other. You know, we really works so well together now and I'm really thankful. Honestly, it's just fun. It's today we were in the hotel sitting around and we had on a murdery rope. Were just kind of laying on the hotel beds and let it just fell off. With us. We are like not on the best of terms. We always come around really fast, and when we're not having the like the good times, we put our hairbuts in so get into the zone and that's how we go through the car rise. It's like, you know, you have your space and you might be on like a two by two space, but it's most of the time it's great fun shows sharing everything. With them and it translates so well on stage. Your energy is so good, the camaraderie, every element of the show is just so much fun to watch. So I'm very excited about the show to come. Now, on a little bit more serious note, Natalie, you have been very open about your struggles with eating disorders, and as you know, someone who's worked in fashion and has scene a lot of that, I appreciate that. When did you decide, Hey, I'm going to share this really deeply personal thing with so many people. That's a great question. I'm sorry you had to be around it so much. Honestly, it's such a sad thing that so many people just really struggle with, and honestly, I always was open about it, even in the middle of my INNERXC, I was just always really open about it. I don't know what that is about my personality. I know it's really backwards with eating disorders, but I always wanted to share about it and talk about it because it's like, if I can share my struggle and it helps anybody, then I'm good with that. So, of course, and you've written a book, yes, about your experience, can you share a little about it? So I knew back in twenty sixteen, when I was still in the middle of it. I needed to write a book, and so I started writing and I just kept writing and nothing to. Lose but everything to gain. That is my book and. It came out in twenty twenty one and it just kind of talks about how my journey with food started at a young age, but how music kind. Of enhanced it and then it just kind. Of one eating disorder led to another eating disorder, and then it led to recovery. So that's all in the book. I'm so glad you came out on the other side to share your journey with everyone, and we will be posting those links as well if you want to shop that book for sure, because that's such a great resource for people. And now, speaking of multi talented queens, Lydia, you blow me away with your art that you share all my and it's incredible. So it just makes me sick. You're cute and you see it and I do art. Tell us a little bit about your art, like what started that and how can we shop it? You can. I have an Etsy shop called Dahlia Art and that is on Etsy. But I think I started actually when Natalie was going through her eating disorders. I used it as a way to express what I was feeling. And my grandpa was an artist, and so I know it comes from definitely down the line. But I just started picking it up, and slowly and surely I got out of the dark, depressing drawings that I was doing, and I started finding joy and color again. And that was super fun to just get to know color in that way and experience color theory and going out things that I've always. Loved, to love nature my whole life. And so being able to put that on paper and then to give it to people has been a really cool experience which I did not expect to happen at all. I just did to express what I was feeling at the time. Absolutely. And now we can shop your paintings on the whole Sister's. Site or is it separate? Okay, it is linked. Yes, it's wonderful and we will be sharing the website the social media pages because you want to get connected. Now we also have what Wednesdays? Am I saying that right? And we have one of your super fans, Angela. We're here from her in a little bit, but she is obsessed with your wet Wednesday. She's always boarding them to me and I'm so how did that begin? No, Yeah, well we had one of our producers. He was like, y'all need to really start doing something weekly, go live, do something like that. So it was like, what can we do. We're on our way back from nationale long car ride, so I started thinking about just play on. Words and with what Wednesday and so you kind of we started in twenty twenty. And age segment, Oh what sands for something? Exactly is what's up with us? The age is how's it going with you guys? The A is ask away any question? And then T is that's it. I love it. I love it, And you guys interact with the fans as that's awesome, and I love how up close and personal you guys are with your fans. Speaking of fans, I have Angela here, So Angela, I think you're catching up to your Crystal Gale record, slowly but surely. With the Hall Sisters, what's your favorite thing? What keeps you coming back for more at these shows? Just their personality and just their show is amazing. Like you said earlier, it's just all different genres and it's something for everybody. I agree. I agree. It's definitely a feel good show in these crazy times that we're in you know, so, how do we keep up with your upcoming shows because you have tours things like that. Yes, a great way to do that is either on social media Facebook, Instagram, and we also have our website. The Hall Sisters dot com has allrator info on there. Of course wonderful. We'll be sharing photos links. Now there is another Hall Sisters group and sometimes they get confused, so we'll make sure we don't have confusion there. Ladies, thank you so much for spending time with us. Thank you or for having us. We appreciate it. Thank you talking. Again absolutely, and thank you all as always for joining us on backstage pass. We'll catch you next time. This has been a presentation of the FCB podcast Network, where Real Talk lives. Visit us online at Fcbpodcasts dot com.