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Baylee Peterson hosts Bubba Startz on Dakota News Now talking Midwest Country Music Awards and Building Artist Communities · The Scene Projects

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  Year
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  award at the Midwest Country Music Awards.
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  He joins us
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  this morning to share the experience.
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  Thanks for being here.
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  Oh, thanks for having me back, Bailey.
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  It's good to see you again.
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  Yeah.
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  So tell us a little about this award.
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  So the Midwest Country Music Organization, obviously based in the Midwest, mostly through
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  the Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, South Dakota areas.
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  And they have an award show once a year.
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  Last year we were there just as artists and absolutely blown away by the spectacle of it
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  all, and had the dream immediately of being on that stage and accepting an award.
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  The Content creator of the year award is something brand new that, they created.
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  I don't want say they created it for me, but it definitely felt like that.
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  I've spent the last year, as you know, with the podcast supporting other local musicians and,
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  interviewing all of these people and putting them, out in the forefront.
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  I know that you do a lot for us to have us on these programs, but there could always be more,
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  especially with as many independent musicians that we have in the world today.
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  So, very honored to have this and a big step for us to have a little recognition for what
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  we're doing for our community.
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  Yeah.
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  Tell us where these awards were located and kind of what the night was like.
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  So the awards show took place in Okoboji again this year in Arnold's Park.
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  It was at the Roof Guardian Ballroom, is a beautiful, beautiful theater there.
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  Next year, know they're going to be moving to La Crosse into an even bigger, not stadium yet,
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  but we're getting there, the La Crosse Center.
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  Just really, really appreciative of the organization for doing this, not just for me,
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  for all the artists that won awards there.
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  To get that recognition means a lot.
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  Yeah.
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  How important is that recognition and kind of, you know, raising you move us artists up as
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  well?
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  Well, I've seen what it's done for, other artists, you know, last year watching how other
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  people have used the name and, you know, the awards internally maybe don't mean everything.
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  The recognition outwardly though means a ton.
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  To have someone else say, Hey, you're really good at your job, means a lot to people who are
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  investing and are looking to support these things that you're doing.
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  So for us, you know, just pressing a year of having the podcast, it means a ton to us to
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  have that little bit recognition.
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  So when we go to seek advertisers and sponsors now, which is our big mission, so that we can
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  do more to support the artists that we've been, you know, kind of supporting, but just putting
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  their art out there.
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  We're big music fans like you, Bailey.
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  We just want to see them do better.
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  Yeah.
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  What what's next on the horizon for you?
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  Well, what's next is that we actually formed our own organization, the Midwest Original
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  Music Organization we built to kind of, expound on what we saw with the MCMO.
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  It's a wonderful organization, and we're not leaving that organization, but a lot of our
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  friends are either in the rock world or in the hip hop world, my friend Night Shield.
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  So we wanted to open those doors a little bit more and to provide a little bit more,
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  education is what I'm interested in doing.
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  So we're just launching that.
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  You can find it at thesceneprojects.com and find out more about what we're building,
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  not just for now, but for the future and for future artists.
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  Yeah.
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  What's it been like to just see how far you've come in such a short amount of time?
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  It seems like
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  I was definitely reflecting on it in the green room where a year ago I was here with my guitar
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  and it was just about our own music and what we were doing.
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  And now it's turned into so much more and we're supporting.
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  I mean, have 200 episodes out, so that's 200 artists or over 100 that have been part of our
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  show.
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  Our songwriter showcase programming where we feature them much like you do for us here, but
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  I'm able to give them three songs in a little bit longer format.
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  And, that's been very great.
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  We got 20 of those episodes in the can.
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  Just looking to get that sponsor support before we start rolling out what is Shot and Broadcast
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  HD television, right?
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  It's TV and this independent media is changing the world.
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  We're just looking to kind carve out a name for ourselves in it.
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  Yeah, what's been the feedback from the community as well just having this for people?
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  Well, the members vote for this.
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  So the feedback is that, right?
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  The feedback is thank you so much for investing your time into us and bringing awareness to our
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  music and our dreams.
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  The people have spoken, The members themselves appreciate what we've been able to do for them
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  in a short amount of time.
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  And where we go from here is straight up.
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  This is not a finish line.
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  This is the starting gun.
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  Awesome.
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  Well, thanks for being here.
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  Thanks for having me, Bailey.
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  I always appreciate you.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, stick around.
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  We have more after the break.
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  Thanks.
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  Sweet.
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  No.
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  Thank you.
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  It's alright.
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  It's gonna be me who breaks it if it's anyone.
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  Yeah.
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  I would
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  That was fun.