“I fear rivers overflowing. I hear the voice of rage and ruin,” Dani Glick sings, performing the chorus to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising.” As she does, a small, black, furry dog wanders into the field of the stationary camera and sniffs her feet as she strums her guitar.
“Don’t go ‘round tonight,” the three musicians sing together, in harmony.Glick’s boyfriend and roommate Randy Richter plays lead guitar, and their fellow bandmate Josiah Gamble plays the tambourine and joins for harmonies. “It’s bound to take your life. There’s a bad moon on the rise ….”
With Cottonwood having ordered all its restaurants and bars closed, Glick and her band, Inde Ella, have lost the ability to perform their usual Wednesday night residency at State Bar in Old Town Cottonwood. But with people social distancing at home, Glick and her band mates have continued to hold their weekly performance instead by streaming video on Facebook.
“I feel less lonely doing them, definitely” Glick said. “I feel like it’s my way of trying to fill that gap. It’s the best we’ve got. It’s not the same, but it’s good.”
Glick said that playing without an audience, and without the background noise of the bar that the band is used to, has been a strange thing to adapt to, but that seeing viewers be able to comment has been nice.
The first performance of Live from Quarantine on Glick’s Facebook page has passed over 130 views, meaning that more people likely saw it than some of her in-person performances at the small bar in Old Town.
“I’m constantly trying to grow and overcome and relate to my audience,” Glick said. She noted that this is making her become better at connecting to fans via social media, which she had meant to improve on before the crisis.
“There’s a depth to this time, and I feel like it’s not going to go away after things get better,” Glick said. “We’re going to be more in depth with each other.”
As a songwriter, Glick is finding that all this time locked up in her home — Gamble was the only person she and Richter have had over since the beginning of social distancing — has been good time for creativity, but has also affected the songs she writes.
“I have been able to feel a lot and that definitely provokes writing,” Glick said. “It’s definitely a different tone than I’ve had before, in a more understanding way. I think right now togetherness is what I feel, and a bit of a positive change throughout all of the stuff that’s happening.”
Glick plans to continue posting live performances every Wednesday at 8 p.m. on facebook.com/indeella.
