In the Mind of Nate

On Saturday, June 28th, the Ridgefield Park Civic Center and Forever Autumn Records present: BravoFest NJ—a charity music event uniting bands across multiple genres to raise funds for Homes For Our Troops. HFOT is a nonprofit organization that has been building and donating specially adapted custom homes nationwide for severely injured post-9/11 Veterans for over 20 years. BravoFest NJ is an expansion of the original BravoFest, first launched at Charlee Bravo’s in Putnam, CT, in 2019. This year’s lineup features six musical acts, including Imbolg, fronted by BravoFest co-founder and organizer Nate Dal Cais, a Ridgefield Park native. Other performers include Jellyfish Jam, Suede Aces, Spoons of Ukobach, classic rock cover band Nobody Famous, and Ridgefield Park resident Nick Schneider, performing classical and jazz piano standards. Doors open at 3pm - All ages are welcome. Admission is $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Free entry for all Veterans and active-...

Hello, I know it has been almost 2 months since my last post. Obviously this has a lot to do with Hurricane Sandy. For the most part I don't discuss my day job, simply because it has nothing to do with our music and I assumed that people have this stigma about a band whose members have to go out and work a "regular" 9-5 isn't worthy of the same respect that bands whose music is their main job get.Of course, I would be much happier to be doing the band full time.Although recently, I have been seeing it from a different angle. We are actually able to fuel our own machine, as opposed to dealing with a large corporate entity (such as a major record label) in order to stay afloat(that's why I started my own record label). Over the course of the years,I learned that many bands that are established, that make album sales,and tour actually do that. For example, some friends of mine in High School found out where the guy from Obituary worked and decided to attempt a p...