Episode 57: Lark LePage - The Music of NYC
Artists of New York by Dan Riley
Episode notes
Lark LePage is a musician based in New York City.
(00:00) Born-and-raised LES; New York as first love
(02:05) Parents’ Montreal–Dublin backstory and 9/11 link to her birth
(04:18) Mom’s “now or never” baby decision after the attacks
(06:22) Fleeing the city; upstate refuge and choosing life in NYC
(08:36) Cab radio moment—realizing it wasn’t an accident
(11:02) Why New York: the dream, noise, and artists everywhere
(13:14) Resilient people, service-job confessions, radical openness
(15:58) Loud kid to vocal nodules; NYC as a soft landing
(18:12) Guitar lessons to songwriting; collaborating with mom
(21:00) COVID pause and rejecting college to pursue music
(23:58) Broken ...