On this Episode of I art Asheville, we had the pleasure of chatting with amazing musician and local producer Connor Golden! Connor is the one who created our intro music for the show which hopefully you’ve heard by now, so I jumped at the prospect to have e him come chat! There was a lot of firsts in this episode including this being our first Musician feature where we premiered some of Connor’s brand new music. It was an awesome episode in so many ways! Connor graduated from the Frost school of music at the University of Miami, a prestigious program, arguably one of the best music schools in the country, and man does it show in his style and production value. Connor and I have been friends for close to a year now since he moved up here and there are so many cool things that led us to our current friendship and lend to his amazing story of how he got here to Asheville, man what a ride! You’ve really got to listen to this whole thing because it is a wild and amazing story! Our discussion started with us chatting about his wizardry on a fairly obscure instrument called the Linnstrument: basically, an amazing piece of technology that allows musicians to play with octaves in a digital manner. Hopefully that helps paint the picture a little bit.  Having seen this thing and witnessing him play it in person, you have just got to go check out what it is and how he plays it over o his Instagram! It’s so cool! Now, this particular instrument coupled with an absolutely tragic incident where Connor became an amputee, has played a pivotal role in Connor’s journey here, and without giving away too much of the story, hearing the sequence of events and hearing Connor’s optimism about the scenario kept me on the edge of my seat for the whole show! Such an amazing story! And no surprise that his musicianship and skillset in the industry has landed him with a job at the world-renowned Moog factory here in Asheville. So of course, we chatted about that. And Connor and I have a really cool story of how we met, and it was really cool to relive that as well. This one is packed with Synchronistic magic and the funkiest of tunes! I really hope you all enjoy this one! Thank you so much for listening!

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Intro music by: Connor Golden

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