Soundpost Sessions SPOTLIGHT: Matthew Fowler w/ Nina de Freitas

Join us for a night of live music in Longmont's premier listening room with Matthew Fowler and Nina de Freitas Soundpost Sessions Spotlight is an intimate listening room concert series showcasing exceptional songwriting and live performance. Each show features two outstanding artists or bands—often pairing nationally touring acts with some of the best local talent from Colorado's Front Range and beyond. With impeccable sound, a welcoming community, and unforgettable performances, Spotlight creates a space where artists and audiences connect through the power of live music. Matthew Fowler Born and raised in Florida, Fowler fell in love with music at an early age: at 14, he was already writing and recording his own original material in his parents’ kitchen, and the week he turned 19, he released his debut collection, a stripped-down batch of live performances aptly titled Beginning. Critics were quick to take notice, with American Songwriter praising Fowler’s “earnest, strummy songcraft” and The Bluegrass Situation proclaiming that his “assured, velvety vocals are rivaled only by the intimacy of his lyrics.” Two years later, Fowler headed to Gainesville to begin work on a follow-up, but instead of a three-week trip, as planned, the journey turned into a multi-year odyssey in which he learned to produce and engineer records and began managing a live music venue. “Living in Gainesville, the album became this thing that I was eternally working towards, but never working on,” says Fowler. “With my job at the venue, I was coordinating all of these great shows and meeting all of these songwriters I really admired, but I was basically just facilitating other people’s dreams. Eventually, I got tired of showing up to work every day and watching somebody else do what I wanted to be doing with my life.” https://www.matthewfowlermusic.com/ Nina de Freitas Nina de Freitas is a singer-songwriter currently based in Denver, CO. Born in Salvador, Brazil to musician parents, she embraced her artistic inheritance from an early age. Her musical upbringing is echoed throughout her intimate songwriting that drips with as much honesty as it does complexity. Her rich voice, “dark as the sea and smooth as good espresso,” (303 Magazine), luxurious melodies and evocative lyrics envelop and halt listeners in a visceral sheet of warmth while her live performances silence crowds in cities across the globe. Nina is currently working on highly anticipated new releases. https://ninadefreitas.bandcamp.com/track/madness-everlasting