Rare with Flair

7. thank you for the music


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Last week’s episode was a little bit heavy and we hope you all enjoyed it! Please listen if you haven’t, but this week we’re back on the “flair” talking about one of our greatest loves and hobbies: music! We’ve loved talking about this side of us and we hope you all enjoy hearing us fangirl while also getting some great music recommendations (although we’re a bit biased). We also hit the “rare” by talking about how we enjoy shows of many kinds and touch on our music performance experience.

As always, we love the engagement with our listeners, especially those of you that offered us kind words after our last episode. Thank you all for the support, and feel free to send us any thoughts or stories to [email protected] DM us on instagram @rare.with.flair!

episode summary

First, we start off by making a couple housekeeping announcements, namely that we aren’t accepting follows to our personal instagram accounts to keep our privacy, but jump down to the notes to see how to keep up with us. Then, we talk about our favorite small talk topic: fall (we’re those people lol). Cass tells an unbelievable story you’ve got to hear about her family’s weekend apple picking, and Case talks about her socially distant movie at a local theater. After, we launch into our top ten favorite artists as well as who’s set the mood for us in this very strange year. Next, we transition into concerts and how we see them, moving into seeing plays, sporting events, and audio description at movies. Then, we talk about our experience performing music, especially how we perform for the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network. Finally, we end on a game of naming a song/album for 10 prompts.

Casey + Cassandra singing at the HPS conference, 2018
show notes
  • We aren’t currently accepting follows on instagram for our PERSONAL private instagram accounts. Please please follow the official Rare with Flair instagram! If you’d like to get to know us, please follow our personal outlets linked on our about page!
  • Also, definitely listen to our serious episode from two weeks ago if you haven’t already!
  • top ten artists
    • As promised, we’ve linked all the artists/bands mentioned below! Be sure to check them out if you’re interested, and maybe buy a t-shirt because the arts are getting hit hard in covid-19 and we want them to keep making music 🙂
    • fun fact: after recording this episode and learning a bit more about our faves, each of our #5 picks (Regina Spektor and Kishi Bashi) were in the same act (Regina Spektor’s band) together!
    • Case’s top ten artists
      1. Sara Bareilles
      2. Ingrid Michaelson
      3. Paramore
      4. Billy Joel
      5. Regina Spektor
      6. Taylor Swift
      7. Billie Eilish
      8. Florence + the Machine
      9. Jewel
      10. Of Monsters and Men
      11. Cass’ top ten artists
        1. Death Cab for Cutie
        2. Vampire Weekend
        3. Local Natives
        4. Jukebox the Ghost
        5. Kishi Bashi
        6. The Happy Fits
        7. Fall Out Boy
        8. Bad Suns
        9. Alt-J
        10. AJR
        11. Cass’ 2020 honorable mentions:
          • Everything Everything
          • half•alive
          • Case’s 2020 honorable mentions:
            • Tegan and Sara
            • Emily King
            • Other artists Cass mentions:
              • Skillet
              • Joywave
              • Other artists Case mentions:
                • Kristin Chenoweth
                • how we enjoy shows & music performance
                  • Casey and Cassandra mention visual tools like bioptic lenses (Ocutech) and monocular (Maxi Aids) (half a binocular)
                  • Cass and Case mention singing medleys at the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome conferences as part of a group of five women. Check out our past performances!
                    • 2019: Candy Medley
                    • 2017: TV-themed Medley (starts at 2:50 lol technical issues)
                    • 2016: Wizard of Oz Medley
                    • We’ve also been in a couple virtual choirs in 2020:
                      • National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation (NOAH)’s 2020 virtual choir: “You Will Be Found” from Dear Evan Hansen
                      • game: name a song that…
                        • Artists we mention in our game not mentioned above:
                          1. WALK THE MOON
                          2. Justin Beiber
                          3. Sixpence None the Richer
                          4. Sia
                          5. Lindsey Stirling
                          6. Sufjan Stevens
                          7. Jason Mraz
                          8. The Growlers
                          9. Sea Wolf
                          10. Fleetwood Mac
                          11. ...more
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