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BANDS on the block
Coronavirus couldn’t stop ZCHS students from playing music; quarantine brought on the creation of two student bands, Remember June and The Papercuts.
By Elizabeth Rexing, Staff
REMEMBER JUNE “One day I was just sitting in my room and I just called Frances and I was like, ‘Frances we’re going to start a band!’” junior Elia Makinson said. “It was just going to be one performance.” Working at The Scoop and inspired by past bands who had performed there, junior Frances Stemme agreed and enlisted the help of Emma Page and Lainey Seitz, both juniors. The group performed together in Choralaires and the new Songwriting class the year prior. “We didn’t really decide we were going to be a band until a couple weeks before we performed,” Seitz said. “We were like, ‘Let’s be a band!’” What started as a one-time only performance, spiraled into the creation of the band, Remember June, with Stemme and Makinson playing guitar, Page playing ukulele and piano, Seitz playing guitar and piano, and all four singing. “We used the word “June” because June was the month we started the band in and we just thought, ‘Remember when we started the
band in June?’” “We do a lot of Page said. The group harmony songs has had one that tend to be gig which took more upbeat but place at The Scoop on July we’ll do slower 18 and drew a large crowd. songs, too. It’s Around 40 kind of a mix of people came everything.” to watch the performance, - Emma Page, 11 mostly friends and family. “It was really, really fun and I was blown away by the amount of people that came out,” Stemme said. “People were so nice. It was kind of mind blowing.” They sang a variety of songs ranging from pop to Indie. “We do a lot of harmony songs that tend to be more upbeat but we’ll do slower songs, too,” Page said. “It’s kind of a mix of everything.” Some of their favorites to perform are “Adore You” by Harry Styles, “Still Intø Yøu” by Paramore, and much to the group’s surprise, “She’s So Gone,” sung by Naomi Scott in Disney’s Lemonade Mouth. “We started playing that song a week, or maybe two weeks, before our performance,” Stemme said. “Someone suggested it and we started playing it and we loved it.”
Remember June band members pose together on Zionsville’s Main Street. photo provided by Emma Page
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While the group rehearsed rigorously before their first performance, they marveled at the songs they threw together spontaneously. “The ones we add last minute, turn out to be the best,” Seitz said. The group gathers twice a week to rehearse and plan for future gigs. “At our last performance, we didn’t really know what we wanted to perform yet, we just threw out songs that we liked,” Stemme said. “For our next gig, we’re wanting to move into songs with drums and other instruments.” On top of trying out new genres of music, the group is planning on singing originals in the future. “Since we were all in Songwriting together, we all have “Since we were writing backgrounds,” Page all in Songwritsaid. ing together, we “We’ve done some origiall have writing nals and we’re working on some backgrounds. more originals We’ve done for later gigs.” They hope to some originals perform again at and we’re workThe Scoop and at other locations ing on some like Cobblestone more originals Grill, Books and Brews, and Clay for later gigs.” Terrace. - Emma Page, 11 “I feel like we’re a friend group now,” Seitz said laughing. “We were friends, but not super close, so [in the beginning] I was like ‘What the heck? Why are they asking me to do this?’ But now we’re all close.”
