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In the last in-studio of the semester, local music director Maddy Erskine chats with Sarah Slaton about her newly released single “Get Up”, and her love towards the music industry that has been struggling so much during the pandemic. Her new song “Get Up” is about finding the inspiration to keep on going during hard times and is sure to help you keep your head up. Additionally, Sarah chats about the importance of Save Our Stages, and an upcoming project she has been working on to highlight the devastation the music industry has faced with COVID-19, and the need to keep music alive despite this.
When she was a middle-schooler in Arkansas, Sarah Slaton would stay up all night downloading music, then burn mix CDs to hand out to her friends. For me, listening to music was so cathartic, she recalls.
At seventeen, she dug out her sister s guitar from the back of a closet and taught herself how to play. In the years that followed, she performed a few gigs and dropped a couple of songs on MySpace, but she was just getting her feet wet.
In 2004, Slaton went to Missouri State University, where she learned about the music industry and earned a degree in entertainment studies. She landed a marketing internship with Live Nation in Denver, and so packed up and moved here, hoping the city would offer even more opportunities. Later, she worked as a talent buyer at Casselman s and the Vinefield Agency, and eventually became a production assistant, doing stints with Live Nation and AEG.