#the command sisters

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Imagine - John Lennon (Cover)

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Earthquake - Radio Edit por Disco Fries, The Command Sisters publicado en el álbum Armada Music - Best Of 2015.

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CBC New Faces - The Command Sisters perform "Sarah's Song" (by thecommandsisters)

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May 9th ♥ first blog, and first week of summer!

  Okay okay, I know what you're thinking. Schools not even out yet, and its only May! But when the suns been hot, $1 drinks are back, and you get a massive sunburn the first day.. its summer enough for me! 

Sooo many random/embarrassing/awesome things has happened this week. Literally. I don't really even know where to start! I guess i'll begin with the first day: last Monday. 

____ Day One ♥ 

On Monday morning Charlotte & I were filming a "bully prevention" video at a local high school! When I say local, I mean it.  Its literally as local as it gets! I can see the high school from my house, and I basically know almost half of the people that go there. 

At first when I found out we were filming there, I was pretty excited. But when it came to the morning of the video, I was soo nervous. Theres something about randomly showing up at a friends school, singing with your guitars, with a huge film crew thats kind of awkward for me. Especially when you don't even go there.

                                              *insert awkward face here* 

But as the filming dudes started to set up, I began to notice it was pretty quiet, and we got to meet the actresses that were being apart of the video, the nerves kind of went away! Until I go make everything so much more awkward and embarrassing, as usual...

my awkward story:  Of course, I usually have no idea whats going on.. and there ended up being two film crews filming two completely different videos. 

1.) the guys filming the bully prevention vid 

2.) guys from CBC that are filming a documentary on Canadian artists, and we were one of them! 

So the CBC guys goal was basically to film the other film guys filming us.. confusing I know. Oh and add in some personal stuff about our lives, Charlotte and I hanging out at the set, and to preform a song or two. It was basically like a mini reality tv show!! I felt kinda like I was on Real Housewives of Orange County.. what? Not a good example.. ahaha 

Anywaays.. they had to hook us up with mics that would go on our shirts so they could hear what we said.  Literally, everything we said. Of course I didn't notice until later that the 'sound guy' had ear buds in his ears the ENTIRE time, listening to us to make sure the mics were working. But by the end of the day, he probably knew us a lot better.. or me a lot better hahaha. 

I don't want to post exactly everything I said.. because its my first blog! And to confess everything would kind of be lame, wouldn't it? All I can say is all of the "super close girl talk" (you know the kind) between my sister and I was completely recorded and listened to.. 

You know.. hair problems, random over excited rants about personal stuff, makeup talk in the washroom, talks about a certain crush of mine.. all of it. ALL recorded. Every single freaking thing !! When I realized what had just happened, I couldn't even look anyone in the eye, or the sound guy. Lets just hope all of that gets cut! haha :) 

_____ Day 2, and conquering my fears ♥ 

I'm just about to take advantage of the sun and go longboarding, so i'll quickly finish this up! 

The next day Charlotte had to get her wisdom teeth removed, but of course that SAME night we had a show. Not just a normal show, a show for the mayor. Charlotte told me the week before, "I'll totally be able to sing that night. I'll be fine" so I believed it.

But when she came home drugged out looking like a chipmunk, I knew right then and there that it was going to be a solo act preforming that night.. me!! 

I've never preformed alone before. I was so scared. I'm so used to having my sister there to harmonize to, and to solo to! But being on my own was a whole different thing. 

But I was willing to do it for my sister. I didn't even know what songs to sing! I only had to do three, but it was still pretty hard. I ended up doing an instrumental guitar piece, and my favourite Brad Paisley song: This Is Country Music. (I knew that there was noo way I would forget the lyrics to a Brad Paisley song hahaha). 

But I still had to decide on one more song. There was a song I wrote back in December.. I never played it for anybody, because I was kind of embarrassed. But it was the only song I was comfortable playing in public, with such short notice. 

I didn't even tell my parents until I played it. I was surprised by the reaction I got, and the show ended up going really well! Not gunna lie, I was a nervous wreck the hour before the show. But I ended up conquering my fears! 

_____ Final lesson I learned ♥ 

I got through a video I was nervous to film, talked to somebody I thought I wouldn't talk to haha, signed up for high school :D, did a show I thought I couldn't do on my own, and preformed an original song I hid for five months! Things I never thought I would be able to do the week before. 

Hate to sound super cliche, but I really learned a lot this week. I learned to not be afraid to try something new, and you never know what could happen unless you try!

Well I should go! Vlog comin this Sunday, blog or message me back any video ideas! 

ttyl, Sarah ♥ 

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Interview with The Command Sisters

I had the opportunity to interview Sarah & Charlotte Command via Email so here are the questions that I asked them.

1. Tell us who you are and where you are from?

We are sister singer/songwriters from Alberta, Canada. :)

2. When and how did you first become interested in music?

We always sang for fun and made plays for the neighborhood. Charlotte would write the songs and I would sell penny tickets. One day, a worker at my great-grandma’s senior home, overheard us showing her our Christmas Concert song and asked if we sang. We said no but she still wanted us to get some backtracks and sing at her women’s conference. Somebody else heard us at that event and asked us to sing somewhere else. It just kept going and going and before we knew it we were singing at fundraisers and senior events and small festivals. Then the first time we went to Nashville, David Malloy overheard is and signed us.

3. How long have you been playing music?

About 5 years ago, an organizer asked if we would sing at his country festival but that we needed to learn to play instruments. That’s when everything changed. We learned guitar, piano, bass, mandolin and a little fiddle and banjo. Charlotte is learning the harp now too :) Then we could accompany ourselves and write the kind of songs we liked.

4. What are your musical influences?

We like ALL kinds of music. When we were growing up, we mostly listened to musicals and Disney movie soundtracks. Now we listen to a lot of live music. But we love bands like Imagine Dragons, The Lumineers, Civil Wars, Feist, Taylor Swift, and even Muse and Fun.

5. What was it like getting to perform at Teen Hoot last year?

We love playing the Teen Hoot! Its great being reunited with all the artists each time we play there. David Malloy is out manager/producer/publisher so we love being there recording and always hope its when the Hoot is on. Just like all the artists, the Hoot grows bigger and bigger each time and is becoming very well known. its an awesome event :)

6. If you could tour with anyone, who would it be and why?

Oh, any of the bands I mentioned before :)

7. What was it like filming your music video for White Dress?

It was SO FUN!!! We drove 40 hours in just two days, got to Nashville and went on the roof of a bank downtown Nashville when it was 108 degrees out and all the July 4th fireworks were going off! It was crazy.

8. You released an album on iTunes last summer tell us about it.

It was a really special time recording that album with David. We had recorded two other CDs in Canada but this one means so much to us. We had Faith Hill’s keyboard player and Reba McEntire’s bass player play with us. I played mando and lead guitar and Charlotte played rythym guitar. Charlotte wrote all the songs except “Singing” which I wrote. We will be going back at the end of March to record more with David.

9. What’s been the hardest thing about being sisters in a band together?

Well, sometimes we both think we are right and sometimes we want to wear the same outfit ;)

10. What can people expect to see from you guys this year?

We just signed a distribution deal with Universal/Fontana in Canada. So, once the music is done it will be distributed to stores and online and we will plan out radio tour. We will also be showcasing at two international music conferences in Toronto in February and March. We will also be filming a anti-bullying video that will be shown in schools in Canada. It will feature our song “Something to Live For”. We will also be a part of the NO BULL GUYS 24hr online broadcast on YouNow on March 2nd. Dr. Oz’s daughter Zoe will also be a guest, lots of anti bullying supporters from the movies/TV/music world. And, of course, we will be back for Hoot Fest!!!!

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The Commands Sisters - Something To Live For