We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Ky and Bo Court a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Ky and Bo, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear how you think where to draw the line in terms of asking friends and family to support your business – what’s okay and what’s over the line?

When it comes to music, the support has to start somewhere. In fact, for us, it started in the home. Our mom homeschooled us and we had practices around an hour and a half every school day. We weren’t able to start our band on our own. Our dad drove us to our gigs until we had our driver’s licenses, and even then he still showed up and helped us set up our gear. Our parents would walk around the venues we played at and help us adjust sound, when they weren’t able to come it was a friend that would help us. Our friends showing up and telling us what songs they enjoyed the most helped us create our set-list (the list of songs you play while performing), which eventually lead to which originals they wanted us to record. We get videos and screenshots when we show up online or on Spotify, they comment on our posts, our dad encourages us and leads us in meetings discussing our goals and what we are hoping for, our mom shows up and leads the “encore!” After the last song. Support from friends and family is not something small when you are a musician, it is EVERYTHING.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

We are a sister band that moved to Austin, Texas two years ago to play music and perform on stage. After performing for a couple years in our hometown of Santa Barbara we felt Austin had an incredible music scene with so many more opportunities than our big town. We felt we could stand out from the rest in Austin not only as a female-led band, but also as sisters. Our originals are indie alternative with lots of harmonies and stories to tell. With continuous performances we have learned how to match the energy in any crowd, and because of that we’ve been able to play over 200 shows since our move in 2021. We’ve played small house shows, wineries and breweries, and bars.
We bring a fun and exciting energy to the stage, constantly looking for ways for the audience to be drawn in and feel the love and passion that we have for our music. We are proud of the following we created while in Austin, we moved here not knowing any connections or having any fans, and it is still so surreal when we play a venue and three-fourths of the people there are our friends and fans.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Bo Court:

The most rewarding part about playing music is connecting people together. There’s lots of different ways to connect people through music and every time someone comes back to see us, or brings friends, or sings and dances along. it’s an amazing feeling that really can’t be topped.

Ky Court:

You don’t become an artist for the money (unfortunately), you are an artist because there is something you love and (sometimes) you do it well. The most rewarding part of being in Let Flo Go has to be sharing that love and that energy that music brings out in me. It’s hard to describe over a tablet, but there is this feeling of connection when the crowd you are playing to is listening intently, dancing to the same rhythm, hearing the same words. Whether it’s to an original or a cover that is a feeling I have come to covet, just one of the small yet amazing aspects of being a musician and the privilege of having a job where you just make people FEEL.

How do you keep your team’s morale high?

Musicians are a finicky bunch. We have the two of us that consistently perform every show as the face of Let Flo Go, and we are lucky to be in a city with so many unbelievably talented musicians. Our best advice to those that are also in a band, is have backups. We have I believe four different drummers and are working on getting as many backup guitarists in the mix- and we still will have dates where we need to make a new connection in order to have a full band at the show. Get out there! Post on Facebook, announce it on stage, always make the musicians that you do play with feel valued- you want them to want to play with you. Share with them your vision and get them invested in what your goal is, and support their musical efforts with other bands as well! If they like you, they’ll want to play with you again.

For Bo and I, keeping morale high is a matter of balance. We both work other jobs as well as being in Let Flo Go, which can lead to burnout if we aren’t careful- your passion very quickly feels like a crux. For example, while we could have played 3 gigs this weekend, we decided to not book knowing that at some point we would need a break. Resting is always so beyond important and keeps us looking forward to our gigs and steers us away from viewing our favorite thing as a burden or exhausting.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.letflogo.com
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/sisterbandletflogo?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
• Other: Find our gigs! https://www.bandsintown.com/a/8576147-let-flo-go?came_from=257&utm_medium=web&utm_source=artist_event_page&utm_campaign=artist

Image Credits
Joseph Von Frechen Conor Huey-Burns Ronny Galdámez