Casey Garvey of Yer Cronies on Music and Arts Education

How did you get into making music, and how did arts education (or lack thereof) affect you and your music?

Short answer: Naturally. Long answer: It was a way too keep sane and perhaps not sane in those dirty high school years. Back then we all played together in late night basements with the windows open just because it made sense, it was natural. After high school we were distanced from each other because of college in other states, but now we’re all back together again, naturally.

We have have different levels of art education (especially referring to music). I don’t think we’d be here doing this today if it wasn’t for some sort of art education in our glory days, which undoubtedly sparked the need to create in some way. After the initial spark, it gets a little hazier, which is why I think our band works so well sometimes; someone went to school for music, someone didn’t go to school for music, someone didn’t go to school… it’s a mix bag of education or a lack there of and it just happens to work out perfectly.

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