By: M. Michelle Spencer
A sprinkle of country, a dash of rock, and a whole lot of soul, this is what the little girls of Blue Saige are made of! From humble home town beginnings to ever increasing local fame, the girls of Blue Saige are making their own unique mark on the music world.
Deanne Quick, Mondi Taylor, and Mindee Zager have declared that it is their goal to enhance the world with their music and thus far they have succeeded in their goal. What started out as an impromptu funeral performance between friends has ended up with these three women gracing the stage with the likes of Donny Osmond and Patty Loveless. Not to mention that they have already received numerous awards and recognition like being the winner of the 2010 Uinta Basin in Celebration Talent Show and being finalists in the True Value Country Showdown.
I had the opportunity to sit down with these girls and get to know them a little better.
TE: So how exactly did you guys get started?
BS: (Mondi) Well I had to sing for a funeral and so I went and got Deanne. I had met Mindee just the week before and I told Deanne we should go get Mindee and try out for the Country Showdown in Vernal. (Deanne) We only had a week to get ready but we did it. (Mindee laughing) We are just crazy like that. But is was so much fun considering we had just barely started singing together, I mean only one week! Actually it was more like one practice...on the day of the performance.
TE: What kind of music are you guys singing?
BS: (Mindee) We do very few cover songs (other artists), we try to keep that to a minimum. For the most part we write a lot of our own, with Mondi being the one who writes the majority. It is the rock yet country feel we like sing and that's what we write about.
TE: So tell me, how did you guys come up with the name Blue Saige?
BS: (Mondi) We were just throwing names out there like crazy. (Mindee) Ya we were saying things that reminded us of Neola like blue jeans and sage brush and Deanne goes "AAHH, Blue Saige!" But the more we got to thinking about it we realized that in the wintertime when you see the sage brush with dew on it, it has a blue look and that is really a defining feature of this area.
TE: So how long have you guys being doing this?
BS: (Deanne) Well from the time we decided after singing at the funeral to getting in our demo tape to the Showdown with like only 5 minutes to spare, it has been almost a year to date. (Mondi laughing) Yeah a year. Wow it seems like we barely started.
TE: So what are your current goals?
BS: (Mindee) Right now it is song writing and getting our CD out. (Mondi) Yeah our big goal is to just finish up our CD. We are real close to having it finished. We have a couple more songs to finish and then we can get back over to the studio to record them and then we are done and we are really excited. (Mindee) We want our album to be all of our own original songs with no cover songs and that is what we almost have done.
TE: So how can people hear your songs now if it is not at a live concert?BS: (Mondi) Right now we have stuff on ReverbNation and on FaceBook and we are about ready to get our stuff on iTunes so people can download it as well. We have to finish up the copyrights and we will be ready to go.
TE: What is it that you would like to tell your fans out there?
BS: We are just thank-ful for everything that everyone has done for us. We are getting demos submitted to a record company right now and we are really excited. We can not wait to see where this journey takes us!
Blue Saige has many upcoming events and they would love to have you come out to see what they are all about. You need to also go and check them out on FaceBook. Just search for Blue Saige and become a fan today.
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