The C2C Sit Down with Tyler Rich
Given the cold and the rain that we are currently experiencing on a constant basis in London, it's nice to head west to the Golden State and some Californian sunshine as we present our interview with Tyler Rich who is one of the coolest and nicest dudes in country music. Tyler first headed across the pond to play shows before the pandemic and we are so excited to see him again, across our own body of water as we head to mainland Europe to see him at C2C: Country to Country in Berlin, Germany next month. With his new deluxe twenty-three track project 'Poppy & Iris' dropping last winter and a further UK return this summer already in the diary, Tyler had plenty to talk about when we recently had a long overdue catchup over Zoom.
Hey man, how you doing?
“What's up, Jamie? I'm doing good, man.”
Are you back in the realm of power or are we still powerless in Nashville?
“Yeah, I think my house was out for nine days and as of yesterday, we were moved back in or this interview would have been in what my friend called the refugee house. It was him and his wife, his dog, our friend, their dog, me, my wife and my dog, all in this one house, where him and his wife were cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner for us every day, so, now our group chat is called the refugee camp.”
Were you out of town when it hit?
“Luckily, yeah. Because of my wife's work, we have an apartment in LA so we had been having extra sunny weather. We actually had a wedding in Mexico and then she had work up in LA, so I went with her for what was gonna be four days, but then the storm hit and pushed that back an extra, like, six days. So, I only experienced three or four days of the refugee house, whereas our other friend and dog were there for the whole nine days.”
Well, hopefully it should be a little bit warmer next month.
“I'm cool with the cold, I'm cool with the warm, I'm good with whatever, just not the ice.”
That seems to be what everyone's saying. It's not so much the snow and everything, it's just the fact that, particularly in Nashville, people just don't know how to drive with the ice and that's kind of what people are most scared of.
“Yeah, and all this crazy weather down here and the surrounding states, as far as crazy ice storms, snowstorms and all that stuff, it’s really only picked up in the last ten years. When they built all these houses and communities in the city, you know, hundreds of years ago or whatever it was, it wasn't built for snow. Northern places that are built for snow, all the infrastructure is different from the pipes to the houses, like, everything about the city. It's prepared for it, whereas in our entire city is built for rain, heat and tornadoes, I guess. Then all these huge trees have been growing here for centuries, the ice is too heavy and I mean, it literally looks like a war zone everywhere, it looks like a tornado came through. It's trees on top of houses, cars and buildings. Trees even got so cold, they explode, which I just found out is a thing and sounds like bombs are going off but it’s something about sap when they get too cold. Everybody thought that the loud bangs and explosions they were hearing were just trees falling into things, but it turns out, which I know you're thinking this is crazy, because when this was told to me, I was like, you're high, for sure, but apparently, if the trees get too cold, especially the older ones, the sap, something happens and then they literally explode. So, you see huge trees that are split in the middle in four or five ways and then they're just toppled over, but the stump is still up from where it exploded, it's crazy.”
Well, I know what I'm gonna be Googling at 2 o'clock this morning and scrolling through on Insta and TikTok looking for, trying to find stuff about how the trees explode as the way to not go to sleep.
“You’re algorithm will go wild.”
Oh yeah, mess it up even more than it already is but coming away from the science lesson, it’s great to see you, it's been a long time since we've actually spoke. I know you came over more recently and we won't talk about that show too much, but I think it was before the Striking Matches show at The Garage where we hung out before and obviously am looking forward to having another beer with you next month. Looking ahead to Germany, have you like been over there and played shows before?
“I've actually been to Germany, about seven times I think but I've only played in Germany on one trip and it was right after those Striking Matches shows. I played in Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin, doing the same acoustic thing. My best friend in high school was a foreign exchange student to Northern California, he’s from Cologne and he's been my best friend ever since. We were best men at each other's weddings, he got married last year in Wiesbaden, but after high school, he would come back and visit once a year me in California, then when I was like probably 25 or 26, I finally went over to see him for the first time. After that, I basically are going every year or every other year so, I love Germany.”
Hey man, how you doing?
“What's up, Jamie? I'm doing good, man.”
Are you back in the realm of power or are we still powerless in Nashville?
“Yeah, I think my house was out for nine days and as of yesterday, we were moved back in or this interview would have been in what my friend called the refugee house. It was him and his wife, his dog, our friend, their dog, me, my wife and my dog, all in this one house, where him and his wife were cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner for us every day, so, now our group chat is called the refugee camp.”
Were you out of town when it hit?
“Luckily, yeah. Because of my wife's work, we have an apartment in LA so we had been having extra sunny weather. We actually had a wedding in Mexico and then she had work up in LA, so I went with her for what was gonna be four days, but then the storm hit and pushed that back an extra, like, six days. So, I only experienced three or four days of the refugee house, whereas our other friend and dog were there for the whole nine days.”
Well, hopefully it should be a little bit warmer next month.
“I'm cool with the cold, I'm cool with the warm, I'm good with whatever, just not the ice.”
That seems to be what everyone's saying. It's not so much the snow and everything, it's just the fact that, particularly in Nashville, people just don't know how to drive with the ice and that's kind of what people are most scared of.
“Yeah, and all this crazy weather down here and the surrounding states, as far as crazy ice storms, snowstorms and all that stuff, it’s really only picked up in the last ten years. When they built all these houses and communities in the city, you know, hundreds of years ago or whatever it was, it wasn't built for snow. Northern places that are built for snow, all the infrastructure is different from the pipes to the houses, like, everything about the city. It's prepared for it, whereas in our entire city is built for rain, heat and tornadoes, I guess. Then all these huge trees have been growing here for centuries, the ice is too heavy and I mean, it literally looks like a war zone everywhere, it looks like a tornado came through. It's trees on top of houses, cars and buildings. Trees even got so cold, they explode, which I just found out is a thing and sounds like bombs are going off but it’s something about sap when they get too cold. Everybody thought that the loud bangs and explosions they were hearing were just trees falling into things, but it turns out, which I know you're thinking this is crazy, because when this was told to me, I was like, you're high, for sure, but apparently, if the trees get too cold, especially the older ones, the sap, something happens and then they literally explode. So, you see huge trees that are split in the middle in four or five ways and then they're just toppled over, but the stump is still up from where it exploded, it's crazy.”
Well, I know what I'm gonna be Googling at 2 o'clock this morning and scrolling through on Insta and TikTok looking for, trying to find stuff about how the trees explode as the way to not go to sleep.
“You’re algorithm will go wild.”
Oh yeah, mess it up even more than it already is but coming away from the science lesson, it’s great to see you, it's been a long time since we've actually spoke. I know you came over more recently and we won't talk about that show too much, but I think it was before the Striking Matches show at The Garage where we hung out before and obviously am looking forward to having another beer with you next month. Looking ahead to Germany, have you like been over there and played shows before?
“I've actually been to Germany, about seven times I think but I've only played in Germany on one trip and it was right after those Striking Matches shows. I played in Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin, doing the same acoustic thing. My best friend in high school was a foreign exchange student to Northern California, he’s from Cologne and he's been my best friend ever since. We were best men at each other's weddings, he got married last year in Wiesbaden, but after high school, he would come back and visit once a year me in California, then when I was like probably 25 or 26, I finally went over to see him for the first time. After that, I basically are going every year or every other year so, I love Germany.”
Cologne is one of my favourite cities in Europe, with that huge cathedral, it's right by the river and it’s got such a great drinking culture, but you know, Berlin's great too and you're finally gonna get to play C2C.
“Finally, I know I've been just begging and being like come on, just let me go please. I mean, I'm so excited to play. I didn't actually play C2C in London, I just was out there playing surrounding shows in York, Leeds and London, so I'm super excited to finally get to be on the lineup and just hang out in Berlin for three days.”
What have you heard about the festival itself and what excites you most about getting to play it?
“I've just heard the fan experience is really cool. It's just all the little shows and different shows, especially outside of the big one in the arena. One of my favourite things about playing overseas is just how much people listen to you talk in your stories, how they want to get to know you as an artist, as a person and then fall in love with the songs. Then you get to do a couple of shows a day for three days in a row and you just have such a cool opportunity to connect with so many different people, from a completely different culture. Country music keeps growing and growing, so it's just cool to see them equally as excited as we are to be there.”
Playing multiple sets is one of the things that is so different to festivals back at home and not just that but with six or seven shows you can mix up what you're going to play across each of them.
“Yeah, I'm gonna switch it up for sure. Firstly, it keeps it less monotonous and boring for me, but also I've got German fans that have been writing to me ever since those German shows in 2019, where they're like, when are you coming back? Some of these people might be at multiple shows that I'm playing and they don't want to see the same set either. Other than the writers round, they're all thirty minute sets and I released twenty-three songs last year so I’ve got a lot of songs to choose from for playing six or seven songs. I'm gonna have a lot of fun with it, I mix in covers in the middle of my songs, medleys and that kind of stuff, at least when I play acoustic, you know, it’ll be cool.”
Another part of not rushing away after a gig, I spoke to Spencer Crandall last week and he was saying one of the things he was most excited about was just the fact that you guys will actually be able to hang out for a change and not just pass like ships in the night at a festival.
“Yeah, that was something else I was gonna say too, festivals in America, are always cool, because they're kind of like, little mini reunions, because we all live here, we all know each other for the most part, but then we don't really see each other much because we're always all on the road separately. Then all of a sudden, we end up at a festival, you're backstage and it's all your buddies you haven't seen for a long time, which it's awesome and then you take us all to Germany instead so we're just gonna have a great time. Spencer's one of my really, really good friends, he actually calls me dad ha-ha. He was visiting town years after I moved here and when I met him, I had seen a couple of his things that he had posted online and I was like, you're that guy from Denver! He's like, yeah and I said you’ve got to move here, man. We kind of started talking, then he moved out here and he's called me dad ever since even though I'm not that much older than he is but I will accept the nickname because it makes me feel responsible.”
I've seen on the tour dates that you've posted, you've got a show in London, does that mean we may see you at our festival too or are you just having your own show in the UK the following week?
"We are not doing C2C in London, when I got C2C in Germany, we were fighting to get that next weekend, but it didn't work out. I mean, we're doing Berlin and then Prague, Vienna, Milan and then basically I wanted to hit the UK before heading back home and we ended up getting show in London on the 12th at O2 Academy, Islington just before C2C. I might just come to hang out and experience it and whatnot but at the same time, we just booked a show in Warsaw right before Berlin, so now I'm in Poland for two days first. Basically, I'm leaving like six days after I turn forty, so I'm going to turn it into a fortieth birthday trip for myself because I'm just going out alone. My wife's gonna try to join if she can for part of it but after London, I'm either gonna just chill in London and hang out for C2C or I'm gonna carry on to Scotland and Ireland for a few days and probably do some pub pop-up type shows, like not even book things, just kind of post, hey, I'm here and I've got my guitar, should I show up at a pub somewhere and play some songs? That's kind of where my brain is at but I wish I was playing C2C in London too."
It sounds like it basically is kind of a glorified lad's holiday with you and Danny Worsnop the then.
“Yeah, 100%. I'm gonna see if he wants to carry on with me to Scotland and Ireland so we’ll see.”
“Finally, I know I've been just begging and being like come on, just let me go please. I mean, I'm so excited to play. I didn't actually play C2C in London, I just was out there playing surrounding shows in York, Leeds and London, so I'm super excited to finally get to be on the lineup and just hang out in Berlin for three days.”
What have you heard about the festival itself and what excites you most about getting to play it?
“I've just heard the fan experience is really cool. It's just all the little shows and different shows, especially outside of the big one in the arena. One of my favourite things about playing overseas is just how much people listen to you talk in your stories, how they want to get to know you as an artist, as a person and then fall in love with the songs. Then you get to do a couple of shows a day for three days in a row and you just have such a cool opportunity to connect with so many different people, from a completely different culture. Country music keeps growing and growing, so it's just cool to see them equally as excited as we are to be there.”
Playing multiple sets is one of the things that is so different to festivals back at home and not just that but with six or seven shows you can mix up what you're going to play across each of them.
“Yeah, I'm gonna switch it up for sure. Firstly, it keeps it less monotonous and boring for me, but also I've got German fans that have been writing to me ever since those German shows in 2019, where they're like, when are you coming back? Some of these people might be at multiple shows that I'm playing and they don't want to see the same set either. Other than the writers round, they're all thirty minute sets and I released twenty-three songs last year so I’ve got a lot of songs to choose from for playing six or seven songs. I'm gonna have a lot of fun with it, I mix in covers in the middle of my songs, medleys and that kind of stuff, at least when I play acoustic, you know, it’ll be cool.”
Another part of not rushing away after a gig, I spoke to Spencer Crandall last week and he was saying one of the things he was most excited about was just the fact that you guys will actually be able to hang out for a change and not just pass like ships in the night at a festival.
“Yeah, that was something else I was gonna say too, festivals in America, are always cool, because they're kind of like, little mini reunions, because we all live here, we all know each other for the most part, but then we don't really see each other much because we're always all on the road separately. Then all of a sudden, we end up at a festival, you're backstage and it's all your buddies you haven't seen for a long time, which it's awesome and then you take us all to Germany instead so we're just gonna have a great time. Spencer's one of my really, really good friends, he actually calls me dad ha-ha. He was visiting town years after I moved here and when I met him, I had seen a couple of his things that he had posted online and I was like, you're that guy from Denver! He's like, yeah and I said you’ve got to move here, man. We kind of started talking, then he moved out here and he's called me dad ever since even though I'm not that much older than he is but I will accept the nickname because it makes me feel responsible.”
I've seen on the tour dates that you've posted, you've got a show in London, does that mean we may see you at our festival too or are you just having your own show in the UK the following week?
"We are not doing C2C in London, when I got C2C in Germany, we were fighting to get that next weekend, but it didn't work out. I mean, we're doing Berlin and then Prague, Vienna, Milan and then basically I wanted to hit the UK before heading back home and we ended up getting show in London on the 12th at O2 Academy, Islington just before C2C. I might just come to hang out and experience it and whatnot but at the same time, we just booked a show in Warsaw right before Berlin, so now I'm in Poland for two days first. Basically, I'm leaving like six days after I turn forty, so I'm going to turn it into a fortieth birthday trip for myself because I'm just going out alone. My wife's gonna try to join if she can for part of it but after London, I'm either gonna just chill in London and hang out for C2C or I'm gonna carry on to Scotland and Ireland for a few days and probably do some pub pop-up type shows, like not even book things, just kind of post, hey, I'm here and I've got my guitar, should I show up at a pub somewhere and play some songs? That's kind of where my brain is at but I wish I was playing C2C in London too."
It sounds like it basically is kind of a glorified lad's holiday with you and Danny Worsnop the then.
“Yeah, 100%. I'm gonna see if he wants to carry on with me to Scotland and Ireland so we’ll see.”
Tell us a bit about him because he's quite a new name for me.
"Danny has got a cool history, he's the singer of a really big metalcore band called Asking Alexandria. He's from England originally but has been in the States for like twenty years, once he started that band out here. The band doesn't tour too much anymore and he's doing the solo thing. First of all, he's such a good dude, all the time I was in LA super warm during all this chaos, he was literally every day, going and helping homeless that were freezing, helping animals and rescuing them in this ice storm and all this crazy stuff. He's got a great accent, he's funny and his music, he sent me his new album that's not out yet and it's so good. He sounds like Chris Stapleton meets Teddy Swims; I'm assuming he would take that as a compliment, I don't know how anybody couldn't, but that's what it sounds like to me. He has a great voice, great songs and it's just real raw, organic music. I've never seen him live other than in his metal band back in the day before I knew him but we've been getting to know each other in town, golfing and stuff, so yeah, he's a cool dude, it’s gonna be fun to tour with him. I’m super stoked to kick off this US tour now with a bunch of dates in Europe and we're calling it our almost a world tour."
You're coming back in the summer as well and you're playing my hometown, as Chelmsford is where I grew up. Country Calling is a really cool festival and I think it probably has the most similar feel to a US festival, just in terms of layout and how it runs. Are you hoping to build that into a bit of a longer trip as well with a couple of other shows thrown in too?
“It's just one show on August 15th at Country Calling which is full band, which I'm super excited about but I mean, there's no way that we're not at least gonna play one or two other shows somewhere because of the cost of getting everybody out there and everything. So yeah, the plan is to book some stuff around it and I'm super excited about that one because our show is so high energy and fun. I equally love playing acoustic and full band for so many different reasons, they're both completely different for me as an artist. I love the freedom of just playing acoustic and getting to do anything I want at any given time, in the middle of songs, but being on the stage with my boys is something special.”
One of the biggest changes in your career since we last spoke is that you're putting music out yourself now. With being independent, what have you found have been the biggest challenges and the biggest rewards of putting music out on your own?
"I would say, for sure, the biggest reward is creative freedom and falling in love with music all over again. Record labels are great for so many different reasons, but then you definitely lose yourself in the middle of it, so getting to just release, write and record music that I want to, how I want it to sound and when I want to release it, is super rewarding. The connection with the fans has been tenfold, getting to release songs that aren't just country radio love songs over and over again, getting to release songs that have heart and real challenges in my life that people can relate to, crying with fans at shows and all that stuff, last year was incredible for all those reasons. I would say the challenges when you don't have, like a huge, massive machine with million dollars of promo and all that stuff, you've gotta rely on the fans, you gotta rely on social media promotion and that's basically all you've got. With algorithms and all that stuff nowadays, it can be disheartening when it comes to promotion, and all that stuff, but I would say the rewards, outweigh the challenges, because you can always figure out how to get around the challenges, but if you don't have any rewards, you're just stuck, right?"
"Danny has got a cool history, he's the singer of a really big metalcore band called Asking Alexandria. He's from England originally but has been in the States for like twenty years, once he started that band out here. The band doesn't tour too much anymore and he's doing the solo thing. First of all, he's such a good dude, all the time I was in LA super warm during all this chaos, he was literally every day, going and helping homeless that were freezing, helping animals and rescuing them in this ice storm and all this crazy stuff. He's got a great accent, he's funny and his music, he sent me his new album that's not out yet and it's so good. He sounds like Chris Stapleton meets Teddy Swims; I'm assuming he would take that as a compliment, I don't know how anybody couldn't, but that's what it sounds like to me. He has a great voice, great songs and it's just real raw, organic music. I've never seen him live other than in his metal band back in the day before I knew him but we've been getting to know each other in town, golfing and stuff, so yeah, he's a cool dude, it’s gonna be fun to tour with him. I’m super stoked to kick off this US tour now with a bunch of dates in Europe and we're calling it our almost a world tour."
You're coming back in the summer as well and you're playing my hometown, as Chelmsford is where I grew up. Country Calling is a really cool festival and I think it probably has the most similar feel to a US festival, just in terms of layout and how it runs. Are you hoping to build that into a bit of a longer trip as well with a couple of other shows thrown in too?
“It's just one show on August 15th at Country Calling which is full band, which I'm super excited about but I mean, there's no way that we're not at least gonna play one or two other shows somewhere because of the cost of getting everybody out there and everything. So yeah, the plan is to book some stuff around it and I'm super excited about that one because our show is so high energy and fun. I equally love playing acoustic and full band for so many different reasons, they're both completely different for me as an artist. I love the freedom of just playing acoustic and getting to do anything I want at any given time, in the middle of songs, but being on the stage with my boys is something special.”
One of the biggest changes in your career since we last spoke is that you're putting music out yourself now. With being independent, what have you found have been the biggest challenges and the biggest rewards of putting music out on your own?
"I would say, for sure, the biggest reward is creative freedom and falling in love with music all over again. Record labels are great for so many different reasons, but then you definitely lose yourself in the middle of it, so getting to just release, write and record music that I want to, how I want it to sound and when I want to release it, is super rewarding. The connection with the fans has been tenfold, getting to release songs that aren't just country radio love songs over and over again, getting to release songs that have heart and real challenges in my life that people can relate to, crying with fans at shows and all that stuff, last year was incredible for all those reasons. I would say the challenges when you don't have, like a huge, massive machine with million dollars of promo and all that stuff, you've gotta rely on the fans, you gotta rely on social media promotion and that's basically all you've got. With algorithms and all that stuff nowadays, it can be disheartening when it comes to promotion, and all that stuff, but I would say the rewards, outweigh the challenges, because you can always figure out how to get around the challenges, but if you don't have any rewards, you're just stuck, right?"
You said earlier that you put out 23 tracks last year, where towards the end of the year ‘Poppy & Iris’ was essentially a duel deluxe of ‘Hello California’ and ‘Leaving California’ with some new songs in there too. Just loosely through this year is there a plan for more new music, potentially another extended project, or is it just a case of trying to get songs out when you feels it hits, doing the stuff on the socials and seeing what happens?
“I would say now at this point because with ‘Poppy & Iris’ which like you said, ‘Hello California’ was ten songs on side A that came out in the spring, then ‘Leaving California’ was 10 songs which came out in the fall, then the three bonus tracks that came out in November, so all combined that’s twenty three songs in twelve months. I am definitely already writing and stuff, I don't have plans to put out a whole new album or anything this year but an EP would be cool but I think twenty three songs is just so much work, right? I've got all these ideas of doing like a duet album of a bunch of songs that I put out last year, but as duets with other people, also genre bending and finding obscure, cool features and that kind of stuff. I do a big charity show in my hometown area every year and we had a full film crew and full audio package of everything to record visual and audio of the entire show, so there will be a live album coming out this year. With those twenty three, I think four or five of them were songs that were written last year or the year before, whereas the rest of them were from two or three years ago and I didn't really get to do the social media aspect of showing people, like what do you think of this? I'm really excited about doing this next chapter, because that was the other thing when you're on a label, I would post teasers of songs that would then go viral and have like ten million views and then the song wouldn't come out because I didn't have any control. I haven't gotten to do that part yet being independent, I mean, I could have lied but I'm not really good at lying. I feel like when you're genuine and honest, it comes through, if I would have been like, I just wrote the song guys, check it out, do you like it? When I wrote the song like three years ago, I just couldn't do it and I'm super pumped about that aspect. I've got a write in about ninety minutes or so with a few guys here and maybe it'll go through and be the first one that sparks the thing that makes me want to post about it, we’ll see.”
Nice, I look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks, we can talk about how Sam Darnold ruined your year and it was all there for the 49ers taking over some beers but appreciate you taking the time today and see you soon.
“I'm excited, it's gonna be fun, it’s great to see you brother and catch you soon.”
Tyler Rich will be appearing at C2C: Country to Country in Berlin over the weekend of March 6th to March 8th where you can further details on the festival WEBSITE or on INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK. Tyler’s latest album ‘Poppy & Iris’ is out now which is available HERE and to keep up to date with all that he is up to ahead of the festival, you can follow him socially on INSTAGRAM TIKTOK & FACEBOOK.
“I would say now at this point because with ‘Poppy & Iris’ which like you said, ‘Hello California’ was ten songs on side A that came out in the spring, then ‘Leaving California’ was 10 songs which came out in the fall, then the three bonus tracks that came out in November, so all combined that’s twenty three songs in twelve months. I am definitely already writing and stuff, I don't have plans to put out a whole new album or anything this year but an EP would be cool but I think twenty three songs is just so much work, right? I've got all these ideas of doing like a duet album of a bunch of songs that I put out last year, but as duets with other people, also genre bending and finding obscure, cool features and that kind of stuff. I do a big charity show in my hometown area every year and we had a full film crew and full audio package of everything to record visual and audio of the entire show, so there will be a live album coming out this year. With those twenty three, I think four or five of them were songs that were written last year or the year before, whereas the rest of them were from two or three years ago and I didn't really get to do the social media aspect of showing people, like what do you think of this? I'm really excited about doing this next chapter, because that was the other thing when you're on a label, I would post teasers of songs that would then go viral and have like ten million views and then the song wouldn't come out because I didn't have any control. I haven't gotten to do that part yet being independent, I mean, I could have lied but I'm not really good at lying. I feel like when you're genuine and honest, it comes through, if I would have been like, I just wrote the song guys, check it out, do you like it? When I wrote the song like three years ago, I just couldn't do it and I'm super pumped about that aspect. I've got a write in about ninety minutes or so with a few guys here and maybe it'll go through and be the first one that sparks the thing that makes me want to post about it, we’ll see.”
Nice, I look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks, we can talk about how Sam Darnold ruined your year and it was all there for the 49ers taking over some beers but appreciate you taking the time today and see you soon.
“I'm excited, it's gonna be fun, it’s great to see you brother and catch you soon.”
Tyler Rich will be appearing at C2C: Country to Country in Berlin over the weekend of March 6th to March 8th where you can further details on the festival WEBSITE or on INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK. Tyler’s latest album ‘Poppy & Iris’ is out now which is available HERE and to keep up to date with all that he is up to ahead of the festival, you can follow him socially on INSTAGRAM TIKTOK & FACEBOOK.
