 Hi Longmont! My name is Karen Stallard. I'm the membership director with the Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce. The Longmont Chamber has been working hard to support our local businesses and connect the community during this challenging time, because we don't think that being physically distanced means that we can't still socially connect and support one another. So I'd like to tag in Jessica Wanasek, the Chamber Event Director, to tell you a little bit about what we've been up to. Hey everyone! So the Longmont Chamber of Commerce has been hosting daily Facebook Live events Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. over on our Chamber Facebook page. We are featuring a local business or a non-profit while having fun interactive activities, giveaways, and just connecting with our community. We wanted to share the fun with you after the facts, so we are airing all of our episodes from last week with you here now so you can enjoy. And we hope that you see some familiar faces from around Longmont. And remember, if you ever want to see the live thing, just tune into the Chamber Facebook page at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Or check out a themed list of businesses over on our Chamber website, www.longmontchamber.org forward slash long is open and find a business that you would like to support. Enjoy the show! Hello everyone. Hello, hello. Happy Friday. This is your official notification that yes, it is Friday. It is May 8th. And happy Friday to all of you. This is the capstone of Business Spirit Week with the Longmont Chamber. This is Feel Good Friday. And do we have some good feels for you? It is going to be such a fun day. I'm super excited. So come on in here. Join me. Say hello because I am a people person and I've been away from people from far too long. Don't turn me into a crazy cat lady. Please join me. Say hello. Put your harrowing in the comments. I would appreciate it. So yes, it is Friday and we have some fun things dished up for you guys. This Spirit Week has been really fun for us. We love kind of shining some spotlights on amazing members of this community and our local businesses through this Spirit Week. We've had mindfulness Monday, tunes and art Tuesday. We've got We Shop Wednesdays, thankful Thursday. And then of course, my personal favorite, Feel Good Friday. And this is all to support the fact that Longmont is still open for business. Hi Cathy. Thanks for joining us. Longmont is open for business. And we know that a lot of things are changing as we move into the safer at home order, which starts effective in Boulder County tomorrow. And some businesses in this community have worked really, really hard over recent months. And we just want to showcase that because yes, there's a lot of uncertainty right now. But what is amazing to me and still very, very certain is how amazing my Longmonsters are. Am I right? Amazing. Longmont has really risen to the occasion right now in supporting their neighbors, their local businesses. And this is just a way to celebrate that. So what we have slated today is some sit-down time with the ladies of Fox Feather. And we're also going to give away a $50 gift card later. So stay tuned, my friends. You have to be here in order to win that. Yes, I'm baiting you. Hookline sinker. Great. Well, I say let's get the fun. Let's get the fun of going. Do you guys want to see Fox Feather? Yes. Do you want to hang out with them? I do. Let's get them. Carly and Laura. Let's hit them up. Get them to join me. Here they are. Oh, the wave? Yes. Yes. Is it windy? Are we just dancing? Oh, it's so good. They've probably been doing this for 10 minutes. Our screen's dark. We have to dance. We have to be ready for the moment. The intro music started. We did a little bit of this. A little bit of that. A little bit of that. Not too close. Not too close. Only a six per row. Here we go. So when I ask you guys, you know, how have you been guys keeping yourself entertained? The answer is clear. You just need a little bit of a beat and go from there. Absolutely. Excellent. That is fantastic. So Carly, Laura, how are you guys doing? How have you guys been doing during quarantine? Pretty good. You know, I mean, considering it's a little different, a little weird, but getting through it and feeling fortunate to be here in Lama where we feel a lot of community around us. That's really nice. Yeah. So far, it's been okay. When was your guys last in-person show? Oscar Blues and Lions. That was March 6th. No, no, no. It was before that. It was like earlier in the month. It was like March 7th, I think. Yeah. It was sometime in March. Yeah. Time. Water dates. What are numbers? What's time? We don't know. Fielding. Friday. It was definitely Oscar Blues, Lions, sometime in March. And, you know, we didn't know that that would be kind of our last show for a while with the band. And it was a great show. Good. Just ride that wave. Have you guys done any like Facebook live concerts or anything like that? We did a stream for the cause with left-hand right at the beginning of all of this. So before a lot of regulations had been put into place, and we got to work with the St. Rain event center and left-hand and they put on a really cool stream for the cause. Just with the duo, not with the band, but all those proceeds went to helping restaurant workers that had lost their jobs or were about to. Yeah. We did that. And then, that's the only live stream show we've done. Yeah. You've been featured on the hippie happy hour. Yeah. That's great. What was that, Laura? Well, my lovely boyfriend does a live stream concert every Friday, who actually, we should mention that he helped with the jingle as well, as well as Carly's partner. He does a live stream concert every week. He picks a musician from the community who's been struggling due to loss of gigs and everything. And so just asked for people to send some money their way. And actually today, Carly was the guest of honor. So he plays for like an hour show. So sometimes I like to pop in and play a song or two. It's a pretty cool thing. He usually features some sort of form of local food or from a local restaurant and something like that to sort of promote our local community. Yeah. It's a pretty cool little thing that happens every Friday at noon. Check out Free Driving on Facebook. Cool. That's, and that was something that's been going since long before COVID that's just been an established. It started what, five weeks ago? It started with COVID thing. So yeah, it was, I guess this is, yeah, the fifth week. And yeah, so picks a member of the community that's been, yeah, that's been hit with this, particularly like the musician and actually like someone from Texas. So just, you know, just asking for friends and general just to kind of help out and yeah, give a chance to a local restaurant and brewery as well. Yeah, free drive. And hospitality has just been, oh, it's terrible. It's like it literally dried up overnight. I mean, no one can plan for that. But it is amazing. I mean, I've seen so many people try to pay it forward and find ways to get people because we've gotten calls a lot at the chamber of people calling saying, like, I got my stimulus check. I don't need it. What's the best way for me to get that to people that do need it. And I've seen a lot of that in Longmont and it's just so encouraging to see people try to band together and support their neighbors and their friends. And those are my cats wiggling the curtain. It's apparently racetrack hour. I tell you, deliveries that are taken in this house, it's like, you think the rule of law would be strong since we've been home for eight weeks. But no, no, they're like, I don't know what the pets are going to do. What are they going to do after this? The cats are going to be fine. The dogs, the dogs are going to need like long-term medication because the cats are going to be a mess. Peal over the house. It's going to be a terrible time. Well, you guys already mentioned it, but this is something very near and dear to my heart after this week was the release of the jingle. You guys mentioned it. I'll talk a little bit about the program before you guys perform live. But this jingle that we recruited you guys for is in one of those efforts to kind of lift up the community members and just extend the opportunity for people that can support businesses during this time. I mean, every business is affected by this. And the Longmont Chamber has over 780 members, most of which like 90% of them are small family owned and operated businesses. And those are normally very narrow margin businesses. And the Chamber has been working to try and connect all of those resources for businesses, whether it's information about the loans or unemployment for their employees. And there's so much information out there that having an entity that's working on that constantly for businesses was so important. And so we opened up this member helping member fund to help keep businesses plugged into those resources. And what's a more fun way to talk about that than in song? I can't think of a way. And I also am not a great singer. So we recruited professionals to write us a little, a little jingle, a little ditty about members helping members. And I'm probably going to cry and you guys can sing it now for the adoring fans. All right. Yes. We're very happy to bring this little jingle to you. Yeah. All right. Yeah, we were, we were, we were stoked to, to be asked to write this little thing. And, and here it goes. We had a great time doing it. So I think my favorite line in that is the with you boomer bust. I feel, I mean, Longmont was named the, the boom town last year, you know, and, and that didn't happen overnight. And that's also not going to be, you know, lost overnight either. So while this feels like this really low period, it's like we, if we stick together, we're going to get through the bust part too. And I, that was when that line hit, I lost it. I was like, full, full on the emotion of music, man, it hits you right there. So I think you guys have totally an album of jingles in your future. Because everyone that was watching that is going to be singing it all weekend. So for those of you that need to get your fix later this weekend, that is on the chamber Facebook page, you can listen to that jingle on loop. It is the new baby shark. I tell you, baby shark members helping members. So, so good. So how long have you two known each other? Long time. What, 2004? 2003? 2004? 2004. So 16 years. I mean, not in a bad way. With your sisters. Yeah. I mean, it just feels like forever, you know, but not in a nice way. You know, that's a long time. It is a long time. Yeah, that's a really long time. It's a decade and a half. Yeah, especially when you go from like, we met senior year of high school. So when you go through like the high school parts, through the college, through the post college, through now we're in our 30s. Yeah, you know, there's a lot of different phases. So it does feel like a long time, but we went through a lot of different phases to go. Yes. And if you can still like each other after all of those phases, like I don't like who I was in high school, you know, you're like, is that me? Like what when you like read things that you wrote and like Facebook was a thing and so you see these things pop up from high school and you're like, no, no, that wasn't me. Yeah, memory say from from 12 years ago, say Carly is oh well, you know what? Carly is everyone has a hard day. You know, so profound. So yeah, yeah, it does. It takes a lot to, yeah, but it's been easy. You're nice. Yeah, you're nice. And you're fun. Yeah, we have a lot of fun together. We have to have some things in common. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Well, I thought it would be fun if we kind of put your guys's 16 years of knowledge to the test. And I think the the viewers present are going to get a hoot out of this and I'm personally very excited for some of the answers. So we're going to do a friendship quiz. Ah, okay. What is more 2004 than a friendship quiz? I don't know. So yeah, warm up, limber up. I will stay to question and you too will point at the person that you think it applies to the most. All right. Nice. Eagle arms that I, you must, I don't, I can't. Oh, there's the cat. Oh no, no. Get away. The eagles. I brought the eagles. I heard about a bird. I know. She was like, what bird? I'll get it. I'll get it, mom. Okay. Are you ready, Carly and Laura? You must still be friends after this. You've made it 16 years. So let's, let's go. I don't know how I'm going to find out how this is going to go. Okay. Okay. Who is more organized? I'm going to say like physical space, Carly meant people need to know physical space or what was it? No. Oh my gosh. We're never going to know. No, we're going to know. We're going to try and get them back. Stay with us folks. This is the cliffhanger like none other. Paging Fox Feather. Please. You are wanted on stage right or stage left. No, no, we're going to, we're going to beam them in. Beam them in, Scotty. Beam them in. Why is it always on feel good Friday? Why? Oh, we found that was intense. We were like physical space. And then it was done. It just froze. You just froze, but you are back now. I see you. I see you. You are back. Your answer because we heard that Carly was more physical space organized and then Laura's more technically like, like a technology computer emails things organized. Great. Excellent. Well, okay. You guys are being very like Bobsi one, Bobsi two for all these long. Yeah. I mean, this is how our friendship has lasted for this long. We're very diplomatic. Yeah. Very accommodating. Well, you know, one to organize the van. I'm going to be the one to organize the tour. Yeah. Like figure out where we're staying every night. She's going to be like, I'm going to clean up all this gross. The oil is changed. The tires are good and the car is clean. Okay. He's going to find us beds that are safe. That is a great dynamic. Actually, I will say. Yeah. Very good. Okay. Who takes longer to get ready? Great. Concise. Who is the early riser? It can be neither. It can be the guitar. Oh, I like having the guitar. The guitar. Yeah. The guitar is in here. That's for neither. Who is the night owl? I'm going to say she is more quarantine is changed. Yeah. Pre quarantine. Let's say before, because that I think we're all night owls now. Like first, we're going to bed at 11. Now we're going to bed at one in the morning. You know, it's just what it is for me. She's lighter. Yeah. Yeah. I stay. I can't. Yeah. I'll be up all night. Wow. Okay. Who is the better cook? What's up? What was that? Who is the better cook? Great. And your husband doesn't count, Carly. Yeah. That's why I'm not as good of a cook. I would do. I would just eat dumplings every day. Yeah. Total side note when I found out that you guys got married, I think it was at the winter walkabout. I was like, she gets dumplings for life. And Jessica Carson was like, yes. Yeah. Yes, she does. Yes. Yes, she does. All the time. All the time. All the dumplings. Who is funnier? Ooh. The guitar. We're both so funny. You're both really funny, but just so different. You just pointed me an off way to you. Great. Great. Yeah. Who is the better driver? Driver? Driver. Driver of a car. Claim yourself, Laura. You don't have to go like this. Okay. Very diplomatic. Very diplomatic indeed. Who is the better dancer? The guitar. The guitar. We all think we're good dancers, but I mean, if we're honest, the guitar. The guitar. Great. Who is more patient? Very good. You're both very good. Good. I like that instead of just going like this, it's like a double-handed motion. Who is the messy one? Again, messy if we're talking. What is best? If we're talking about the van. Are you the one that walks in and like you just like toss your stuff when you come in? Like you're a tosser? Yeah, I am also a tosser. That's why I knew the definition of messy. Who is the social butterfly? Oh, both. Okay. I mean, you're so good at it. No, you're good at it. You have so many more friends than me. That's not true at all. Who is more stubborn? Great. How can you be patient and stubborn? Very good. She's stubborn and patient. I'm very patient. I'm also stubborn. I'll wait forever, but I don't want to change the plan. Good. Who is more sentimental? That's both of us. We're both songwriters. Everything means something. Who's the hoarder? There we go. Very good. That also comes in with stubborn. You're like, I will definitely use that Vubuzela. Yes, I don't even know what a Vubuzela is, but I will figure out how to use it. She'll figure it out of the way. And it'll be a great, cool thing. One time I found a bag, a bag, like a duffel bag. I don't even know. How dare you? Yes, you have to finish it. You have to finish it. It's just a bunch of socks that none of them match. You keep them in case you find them in that case. Everyone always finds that they're sea soft sometimes. After they throw, I did the one that matches it. So you just keep it. I don't have that anymore. But I did have that. A duffel bag of mismatched socks. I mean, if they're not bad yet, they don't have a hole in them. They're still good socks. You know you're going to find that other one like in your pillow case from the dryer. Behind the dryer. And then you're going to be like, I don't need to go spend $20 in five new pairs of socks. Where do you buy your socks? Well, I'm like five new. Okay. I was like, I need to show you Sam's Club. Like, where are you buying socks? I buy them usually at like a Marshall's or something. You know, we're the cute, colorful ones. Yeah. Who is better at sports? Definitely Carly. Carly. Great. Who is better at... Yeah. The guitar is so... I mean, look at that. Carly the guitar and your slipper. Not the gift. Not the gift. Who is better at rollerblading? Oh, well, I don't have rollerblades, but roller skating. Roller skates. Carly the redder at roller skating. Man, probably rollerblading too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, good Carly. Great. This was definitely after I added, after I watched the music video. I was like, well, you have to ask, how did that shoot go? For those who haven't seen it, make sure you check it out. Come and get me a music video. Highly entertaining. Who writes the lyrics to your music? Mostly me. But we co-write, so we bounce ideas and we have new... It's not a clear delineation. Mostly Carly, but it's collaborative. I'd like to know. I think of myself as an editor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's a good sounding board and editor. Yeah. Perfect. Who writes the music? Laura, for the most part. I mean, same kind of thing. Yeah. She writes with all those, all the basic, not basic, but the chordal progressions to sort of the meat of the song. And then the melody and the lyrics sort of come together through that work from me. Very collaborative, though. Yeah. Very, it's all very collaborative. And the guitar. And the guitar plays the drums. Yeah. See, you guys are funny. You guys are funny. Who asked to start a band together? Oh, I mean, I want to say we both did. We started playing music in college and we wrote... I came to you with a first song idea right after our freshman year. And then we were just sort of piddling around in it. But for Fox Weather, the band, I mean, I kind of think we came to it together. We were at a festival and we were like, we need to do this for real. And then we just did it. So I don't know. But we've both been in other bands. Laura was in an awesome bar band back in the day. I was in a bar band back in the day. So it was always like a thing, like we played music for a long time together before we started Fox Weather. So it was sort of like a thing that we always knew and hoped that we would get to as like a more serious thing. But so it's like we always had it in the back of our minds. And then like there was just like a time in our lives where we it was mutual. Where we're like, this is, yeah. Is this happening? Are we the same? Starting a relationship in the 21st century. You're like, are we dating? Do you think we're dating? Oh, we've been dating for six months. We've been dating for six months. Do we make it Facebook official? Yeah. Do we make it Facebook official? Are you in a band with Carly? Okay. That's pretty yeah. Bands are relationships. Yeah, they are. 100%. Yeah. Who plays more instruments? Laura technically plays more instruments with a level of proficiency. I also play around, I studied ethnomusicology in college. And so I play around on little instruments. I play around a little on a bunch of instruments, but I wouldn't call myself proficient. And I rarely perform with an instrument that's not my voice. But you play, I would say we're kind of equalish. Yeah. But Laura is definitely more of an instrumentalist as far as skill level and proficiency in the instruments that you play. Right? Yeah. Like you play guitar much better than me. You play piano much better than me. But I'm not saying I'm bad. I'm just saying you're really good at those. So I'll say we'll give it an even. Yeah. Because she has a couple of instruments that I don't play the didgeridoo. Yeah. She has a didgeridoo. Yeah. Or a Native American flute. Or a viola. Or a viola. Yeah. You don't have a vuvuzela? She doesn't have a viola. You could play the viola though, because it's basically a lot like a guitar. It's just a couple. All the fans out there, you know, you can just get Carly a random instrument and she'll learn how to play it. Please do. For those. For anyone but you. But if you've gotten one, I will play it for you. I'm going to get here like a customized kazoo. Yeah. Yeah. Or a hurdy-gurdy. I've always wanted one of those. Those are awesome. Hurdy-gurdy. What fun names. Yeah. Who came up with the name Foxfeather? Megan. Megan O'Sullivan. Megan O'Sullivan. She's our buddy. That's not our guitar. Is the guitar named? No. No. Yeah. Yeah. That's our good friend Megan. She's been one of our best friends since college and when we were transitioning from the name of Carly E. Laura and when we had that conversation of let's be a real band, we went through a bunch of different name ideas and nothing was sticking. Nothing felt right. Right. And so our friend Megan was like, well, Laura likes foxes and Carly likes owls and owls have feathers. So what about like Foxfeather or feather fox? And we were like, cool. That sounds great. And then we did it and now it's great. Yeah. Thanks Megan. Way to go, Megan. Awesome. Yeah. Well, you guys slayed that friendship quiz and it was very entertaining. Any questions from the audience, adoring fans that need to know? The last thing I saw was living for the distance, long distance dance moves. That was one comment. They loved it. They loved it so much. Okay, well, let's give away a gift card for one lucky person that has stuck with us today. I know right now they are not able to have live shows, which is so sad for all of us. But I asked, you know, what was one of their favorite restaurant gigs to do in Longmont? And they said Rosalie's Pizza picture on a Friday night, they'd be, you know, packed on the patio front and back, you know, people on the bar stools waiting to get their hot pies and Foxfeather just jamming in that corner with like all of their people and way too close proximity. But we loved it. So Rosalie's has donated a $50 gift card for one lucky winner today, today, today. And Laura and Carly are going to help me. So for the first person with us right now that can comment their favorite Foxfeather song, you're going to get $50 from Rosalie's. So hit me with those comments, favorite Foxfeather song, come on guitar, play the drums. Remember the band and you play the drums. Favorite Foxfeather song. That's not a fuck feather song. Come on, Laura. Come on. They said we're watching Sesame Street. Someone just said Sesame Street. Peter Lassis. We do know him, but that's not a Foxfeather song. Give me a song that Foxfeather plays on your album. The Rules. The Rules. Very good. That's the new one, isn't it? That one just came out. The Rules. Who said that? I guess. That's Peter. Oh, Peter. Yes. Peter Dance. Sesame Street. Ridiculous. Very good. All right, Peter. Awesome. Thank you so much for showing your love of the Rules and Foxfeather. You will get $50 to Rosalie's Pizza for being killer and supporting local musicians, as they have done for a very long time. I think that concludes our Hangout with Foxfeather. Carly and Laura, thank you guys so much for joining us. You too are a blast and thanks for helping us with that amazing jingle and just doing what you do in Longmont. Stay well and take care into future dates of witnessing you guys and the magic that you create live in the hopefully not so distant future. Thank you guys so much for joining us. Longmont loves you. The Chamber loves you. You guys are wonderful and have a happy Good Friday. Thanks for making this feel good. Thank you so much. We love you guys. We love you so much. Have you feel Good Friday. We love you guys. Yes, the dance and they're out with the dance. I feel like I've got to continue it. They were doing something like that. Thank you guys so much for tuning in for the second official Feel Good Friday. We are doing these in the honor of Longmont Spirit Week. Something started by the Longmont Chamber amid COVID-19 to just help support our local businesses and the community here. So I want to show you what we did earlier this week with some credits. So enjoy that. Thanks, Longmont. This is awkward.