‘Ogden City Limits’ announces local musicians featured in season two
Scott Rogers, Natalie Haws and Shane Osguthorpe of "Ogden City Limits" participate in a recording of "Strangers Have the Best Conversations," a live talk show with host Paddy Teglia, on Sunday, June 27, 2021, at Lighthouse Lounge.
Cherry Thomas joined season two of the "Ogden City Limits" docuseries, to be released this year.
Alicia Stockman plays music with Shane Osguthorpe and Scott Rogers in their downtown Ogden studio for an upcoming episode in season two of "Ogden City Limits."
The "Ogden City Limits" docuseries takes viewers through the process of local musicians teaching hosts Shane Osguthorpe and Scott Rogers their original songs.
Scott Rogers, Natalie Haws and Shane Osguthorpe, center, of "Ogden City Limits," pose for a photo during a visit to Lighthouse Lounge on Sunday, June 27, 2021, as guests on podcasts hosted by R. Brandon Long and Todd Oberndorfer, right, and Paddy Teglia, left.
Scott Rogers and Natalie Haws of "Ogden City Limits" participate in a recording of "Strangers Have the Best Conversations," a live talk show with host Paddy Teglia, on Sunday, June 27, 2021, at Lighthouse Lounge.
Scott Rogers of "Ogden City Limits," left, participates in a recording of "Strangers Have the Best Conversations," a live talk show with host Paddy Teglia, on Sunday, June 27, 2021, at Lighthouse Lounge.
Alicia Stockman will appear on season two of the "Ogden City Limits" docuseries, to be released this year.
Gordon Greenwood, center, visits the studio with Shane Osguthorpe and Scott Rogers for season two of "Ogden City Limits," to be released this year.
The team behind “Ogden City Limits” sat down for back-to-back interviews on Sunday at Lighthouse Lounge — for Paddy Teglia’s live talk show “Strangers Have the Best Conversations” and “Nine Rails Arts Podcast” by The Banyan Collective — to talk about how the docuseries came to be and what’s happening in season two.
“Ogden City Limits,” which first aired in March 2020, was created by musicians Shane Osguthorpe and Scott Rogers, of the Ogden-based bluegrass band The Proper Way.
For each 20-minute episode, Rogers and Osguthorpe invite a musician friend to their downtown studio at the Old Post Office for a day to teach them one cover song and one of their originals. The entire process “warts and all” is recorded and filmed with the help of good friend Natalie Haws (Beehive Photography).
Spending a lot of time together in a truck talking and listening to music and podcasts while driving to gigs, the idea came about as they discussed a favorite podcast, PRX’s “Song Exploder.” While they love the show, in which musicians take apart their songs and tell the story of how they were made, they thought it would be even better to watch the process from the beginning instead of just watching it after it’s done.
It would also give them a chance to see musician friends they never get to see due to similar gig schedules. Now, they bring their friends into the studio to hang out and play music, and document the whole thing.
In the first season, friends Carrie Myers, Michelle Moonshine, Andrew Wiscombe, Christian Scheller and Marny Proudfit each spent a day making music and being documented on an episode of “Ogden City Limits.” (Often, brunch at the neighboring UTOG brewery was involved.)
The result is local musicians supporting and getting to know each other better in the process of making music together.
Season one episodes were quickly edited and released to help the musicians, especially those playing full time, during the pandemic.
“Ogden City Limits” is a passion project for Rogers and Osguthorpe, partially funded by an Ogden City Arts Grant and additional sponsorships by UTOG and The Monarch.
A “pie in the sky” dream Osguthorpe shared with Teglia on “Strangers” is to have an “Ogden City Limits” festival each year at The Monarch, where fans could come together for a day of episode screenings and live performances from their favorite local musicians and discover new ones.
If such a festival were to occur this fall, it would include a lineup of the eight musicians spotlighted in season two, announced on Sunday — Gordon Greenwood, Alicia Stockman, Cherry Thomas, Carson Wolf, Sammy Brue, Korene Greenwood, Daniel Young and Nick Nash.
Most of season two of “Ogden City Limits” has been recorded and will be released sometime this year. Episodes 1-5 of season one can be streamed on YouTube, Facebook @ogdencitylimits or downloaded at Bandcamp.
The Proper Way is a special guest of Van Sessions this Friday from 7-10 p.m. at The Monarch’s Open Studio Night, along with Cory Mon and Sammy Brue’s new band, Brue. The musicians will each play a four-song set and share stories about the songs with The Banyan Collective podcasters R. Brandon Long and Todd Oberndorfer.
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