Music News: Little Bean Meets Kat Leon
Some Exciting Kid Journalist News!
After our big show with The Warning in Boston, the opening band, Holy Wars, is milling around the merch table meeting fans. Little Bean doesn’t even hesitate because lead singer Kat Leon is right there. Right in front of her!
She runs right up to her and Kat throws her arms around Little Bean and they hug like they are sisters who hadn’t seen each other in years. It’s really something.
Here’s Holy Wars website. Seriously, they’re really good, give them a listen:
https://www.holywarsmusic.com/
They chat for a long time, about the piano lessons Little Bean has started, about her battle vest and about the band’s opening set which was an absolutely blistering, face-melting tornado of seven songs.
“Wow, that’s some pretty hard music for a little girl to like,” a friend of mine mentioned later, referring to Holy Wars and in particular, Kat’s, electric style. At one point during the set, she climbed up on the shoulders of a front row fan and sang from that perch while the crowd went nuts around them. Guitarist Nick Perez’ style is barely contained frenzy and Little Bean and I got a front row seat to his and Kat’s mayhem.
The set captivated her. Here’s a YouTube Vlog we did on the show: Holy Wars / The Warning in Boston 2024
So after a bit, Kat gathered the rest of the band over for a photo with Little Bean and my daughter - who is rarely shy - asked if they had a guitar pick to add to her collection. Nick produced one from his pocket, with a story.
The pick had been with him all summer and he had used it in all the festivals they played. Kat added that such a pick was magical. And while no pick in the history of picks has ever lasted a musician for an entire festival season, Little Bean ate it up. (That pick is now a storied member of her ever growing pick collection.)
Anyway, we bought her a Holy Wars t-shirt which the band also signed and we went our way. They all promised to regroup with her in Atlanta and Nashville where we would see them again. As you all know, hurricane Helene prevented that from happening, the tour ended and that was the end of that.
Or so we thought. And that’s the whole point of our little story today.
After the show I sent an email to the band, thanking them for being so kind to Little Bean and dropping a couple links to this newsletter and the interviews that my daughter had done with Freeze the Fall and Circus du Soleil.
Well, what do you know! Kat actually got back and said she’d be thrilled to be interviewed by Little Bean! And so that’s where we are. We’re working now with Kat and the band to develop the interview format for Little Bean while my daughter brushes up on the band’s music and background.
We’re not exactly sure when the interview will happen, sometime in the next month or so I expect. Obviously we’ll drop that here and hopefully in some other music publications as well.
Little Bean’s music journalist career continues on in surprising and fun ways. Stay tuned and keep your eyes peeled to see where it goes!
And while you’re waiting and if you desire to have your face melted, go like, share and love Holy Wars music. They really are something! Here’s two seconds of Nick and Kat being amazing!
How cool...I repeat how cool is all that!!
This is great! Little beans musical journey is starting off with a bang! Kat might be fierce on stage, but she is a total sweetheart!