Hotel Café (Los Angeles, CA)
06/08/23
On June 8th, Nettwerk Music Group hosted a happy hour event at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles, California. The event featured acoustic performances by Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Katelyn Tarver and U.K.-based singer-songwriter Paris Paloma. Many label executives and employees gathered inside the venue for the intimate performance, snacking on food and socializing with one another before the performances began. Nettwerk considers itself to be a label for songwriters and prides itself on being a song-focused company, and this event proved all of the above to be true.
Recently signed to Nettwerk, Katelyn Tarver performed first. Katelyn was accompanied with backing vocals onstage by Riley Biederer, a fellow songwriter and co-writer of Tarver’s recent single, “Starting to Scare Me,” which was the first song she sang for her short and sweet 3-song performance. She prefaced her second song, “Parallel Universe,” as being written about all the different paths life can take you on. Her last song was “quitter,” which she wrote with Riley as well after a three hour rant in the studio. The chorus features vulnerable and honest lyrics, “It’s kinda nice to be a quitter, giving up on who I thought that I had to be. Honestly, I’m not even bitter, looking back I only lost what I didn’t need.” Catch Katelyn Tarver performing her new album and incredibly personal songs live on her headlining U.S. tour this fall!
Ending out the happy hour was Paris Paloma. The storyteller introduced each song by telling its backstory, starting with their song, “notre dame,” and how it was written about a religious crisis. Standing solo onstage with just an acoustic guitar, Paloma relied on her stage presence to captivate the attention of the audience. The second song she introduced is unreleased and although worried she would get in trouble for leaking it, she realized that everyone present was a part of her label. Lastly, Paris played her recent hit single, “labour,” which has amassed over 9.7 million views on YouTube and almost 42 million streams on Spotify. The start of the song was met by cheers and the audience even joined in to sing along to the chorus.
