Kicking off our number two here on a Friday night, it is a bar band Friday night, as it is every Friday here on Night Light.
Terry Barr will be along shortly with a guest that is going to be officially the youngest guest I've ever had on Night Light.
She will be here in the studio performing
Um, so stick around for that.
That's coming up in just a few minutes.
We do not have a question tonight because it's kind of a best of.
We've put stuff together because Conrad is on vacation.
I hope he's, I hope he's taking care of himself.
Lisa, what do you think?
Do you think Conrad is being responsible?
I think I did, didn't I?
Oh my gosh.
At least when you drop as much gold as I do, it's impossible to remember all of it.
So I actually, I would play naked soccer golf if I could find other willing participants, but I think it could be fun.
But I'd probably be picky about who I would want to see naked.
Like we all would,
You mentioned that you have Terry Barr coming on a little bit later on.
And I have to say this, she's my partner for New WISCO weekend.
She's great.
She and I work in tandem.
If I don't have the cover story, she does.
If she has the cover story, then I open the issue with a feature story and we switch back and forth.
She is just phenomenal.
I absolutely adore her and I could not do it without her.
So I just wanted to say that since she's going to be on here in a little bit
I mean, I'm doing this in Madison right now.
And, you know, I know how much Terry Bar loves Barband Friday night.
It was named after Terry Bar.
And she said, you know, can I be on the stream?
I'm too busy.
And I was like, you live in Madison.
You love the site.
But that's how busy she is.
She does everything.
So she'll still
I agree 100 percent.
Yeah.
And like I'm with you.
I like Silence of the Lambs, but I felt like it was so overt and it was still creepy.
It was still scary.
There was a lot of shock value.
There wasn't as much shock value in Manhunter.
It had an overall eeriness to it, though, that I just loved.
And I love William Peterson, the stuff he did younger in his career when he was younger.
It's just fantastic.
So what else do you have coming up this weekend at New Wisco?
Well,
So we wanted to celebrate the everyday heroes and superheroes.
We've got...
Our cover story is a Wisconsin author who lists 100 Wisconsin idols.
We have a story about the Red Cross looking for nominations for their heroes ceremony that they do every year where they acknowledge somebody who's done wonderful things in their community.
We've got that.
We've got
a story from Conrad on the Green Bay optimists, which I think are superheroes because they help pilot programs for youth.
So, you know, we can, we can take anything and flip it to be super.
We we've always got a musical feature, whether it comes from civic media has such a wide variety of shows.
And we can get musical features that have maybe been on my know in the mayor or that have maybe been on, you know,
mad radio, or maybe have been on your show.
You never know where the musical group is going to come from.
All right, so let's get a quick, my guest is Lisa Hale.
She is the Northeast Wisconsin bureau chief of Pacific Media, and she hosts the news magazine program here in Northeast Wisconsin called New Whisko Weekend, which is outstanding.
It runs two times every weekend.
So definitely check it out if you haven't already.
Next week.
This is exciting.
I know you and Todd Michaels, the producer of Mino and the Mayor, and as a side hustle, he is a paranormal investigator, which I think is so cool.
You're doing a paranormal theme next week.
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, Lees.
You seem like the most on top of everything person I've ever met.
Honestly, the reminders I get from you, there's no way I could ever forget a new WISCO Weekend deadline because Conrad reminds me, but I get the emails from you.
Honest to God.
you know I forgot about a meeting last week and it was in my calendar but like if enough time goes by you can forget stuff like you are on it like if I had something to do I would give it to you and I know what we get done.
You know, I saw, I've seen about four or five of his films, but I have not seen Tusk.
There's a few others too, but it's funny you say Clerks and Chasing Amy because they were very different movies.
Like Clerks was almost had this gritty gorilla style and then Chasing Amy was that with a budget.
They gave him a budget.
It looks cleaner.
It looks nicer.
So it's interesting.
You kind of have opposite ends of the spectrum there.
I think that's
Yeah
You're gonna get your shot with Kevin Smith.
He's probably gonna get divorced again, because he lives, he's in that world.
You'll see that he's available.
You'll dump your husband like a bad habit, and Kevin Smith will be the new Mr. Lisa Hale.
But after about a year, guess what?
He's just a dude, and you're gonna go, what the heck was I thinking?
I'm sorry you couldn't be here in person, but once again, we thought outside the box, Terry, and this was your suggestion, and I loved it.
Let's have someone live in the studio.
And even though you couldn't be here, you still brought an outstanding guest with you.
Why don't you introduce her?
Paige Claiber.
Hi, guys.
What's up?
you're here.
What?
here.
Oh, I'm glad I'm here, too.
No way, actually?
Yes,
am.
I turned 12 in February, so I'm stoked about that.
I am newly 12.
it incredible, you guys?
Like everything happened for me when I was 11, so I'm excited what 12 brings.
Like I released my album when I was 11.
I sang the National Anthem when I was 11.
But now I'm 12, so who knows what kind of turns are coming my way.
I don't
year?
I don't know I kind of want to like just do more like open mic nights because it's kind of like been my New Year's resolution because I feel like I haven't been like doing that much because I've more been doing like national anthems and like doing like hour gigs at like coffee shops So
planning to do more like open mic night stuff like just more out there kind of things instead of like more like
Big shows,
I do want to play more big shows too.
So yeah, I just like getting myself out there.
It's like another big cool
guitar, writing songs, and the thing about it where many of us, even the ladies rock campers, which I would be one, it's an awesome time.
And then you walk away and you go do other things.
Paige has stayed on top of what she's learned.
And she just keeps, you know, creating and being out there and putting herself out there.
And I feel like a proud auntie or something.
We met her that way.
And then she came on Max Inc Radio.
Ooh, that must have been five months ago already.
And she just blew us away with an hour long performance and interview.
Was it really an hour?
And all the original songs, you write your own stuff.
How do you do that, Paige?
Like, you're in middle school?
Mm-hmm.
Okay, so you got homework, you got your friends, your folks, your family.
When do you find time to write?
Do you lock yourself in a room?
Do you do it between classes?
What's your process?
I mostly do it at like 2 a.m.
in the morning.
What?
Um, no, like I I wouldn't exactly say 2 a.m.
That's that's more of my summer summer bedtime, but um more like like to like the limit is 12 as um 11 p.m.
right
have like wrote like songs at school, but then I don't like like I really continue them like at home because I don't have like a guitar like a piano in my hands because I usually just like write my songs at an instrument because then I can like get a better understanding of like what notes I'm playing you know because
I ever were to like produce that music then I would like tell my producer like okay this is like stuff that I want you know
Yes.
But I don't really think about it every day.
Right.
You know I mean like it's just it's just day like at school like.
right.
Me
I'm like, I'm continuing to writing, but yeah, I'm still deciding if I want to put out a single or another album or something, but yeah.
I'm continuing to write more and more songs every day, so I'm just trying to write more, because I feel like I've been like...
Not writing as much as I used to but I get I kind of like want to get back into like my writing habits
I had this huge writers block, but if I only went away It's still like kind of there, but I think like the more that I write the more it goes away
So
trying to
Absolutely.
All right.
Yeah.
This is exciting, folks.
It's great that you're here tonight.
Paige Cleaver is here in the studio.
She's our guest tonight on Bar Band Friday, along with my Bar Band host, co-host, Terry Barr, who introduced us to Paige Cleaver, who is here.
She's going to perform for us when we come back after a very short break.
Do not go anywhere.
It's Bar Band Friday night on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
She's going off about something that you said.
is singing.
wants to sing.
Hey, y'all.
What's up?
What's
Yeah.
It's great to be back.
I'm so happy.
will do that.
She's
Yeah.
OK.
Friends everywhere you go.
That's that's that's how you got a role.
I will play
Yes, I do.
It
Tell me baby, am I just for the looks?
Will last just as long as it's a music Tell me baby, did I ever make it past you?
What
was I supposed to do?
You say, you said I said
Thank you so much.
I don't
from?
I just started like thinking of like a melody in my head and I just kind of put some words to it, you
kind of like came on.
I just, I just got like a piece of paper and just started like writing and writing and writing.
And it was fantastic.
I never felt so satisfied.
It was satisfying.
That's the word I would say for it.
I think that maybe... I can't say what my most popular song would be.
They're all really good.
I just love them all
It's
you,
I
My last name, Kleber.
It rhymes with Justin Bieber.
That's just what I tell people.
Like, what's your name, Paige?
Paige Cleaver?
Rumple is Justin Bieber
remembering that.
Okay.
It comes from the German word glue.
Um, it means like cleaver.
So my last name in German means glue.
So I call my support is glue sticks So if you go to my website page cleaver.com kind of looks like clever and You like can like put in your email address for the glue sticks fan club you get like notified for like new gigs It's all thanks to my my roadie aka my dad aka website person
builder
website designer.
Makes a team.
does take a team.
Um, I've like done a lot of national anthems at like, um, everywhere in like Wisconsin from like the Mallards game to the Bucks game to
Um, yeah, just kind of anywhere that I can like play at like the high school at like just anywhere that I have an opportunity to like get on stage.
I'll take it.
That's a
Um, I kind of started singing when I was maybe like five or six or just I was just singing as like a toddler in my crib or something.
You know, it's like every day.
Um, yeah, I was in love with Adele.
I loved Adele when I was like really young.
I was an Adele fan.
was
was me.
And then I started playing like piano when I was five because I really wanted to do it because my sister was doing it and just looked so cool.
And I was like, I want to do that.
And then
She signed me up for my mom, signed me up for piano lessons, and then I got into piano.
I started playing more like classical music.
And I liked that, but I was like still really into pop music.
And then I got introduced to like guitar.
I just got a guitar for like anything that was Christmas or maybe my birthday.
Nobody knows and then and then I just yeah long ago That's that's how long nobody knows and I just started like looking up songs to play on YouTube and every everything just like that and then I went to girls rock camp Which was awesome.
You like go there for a week and you like You will write a song with a band
and then you name the band, and then you get to perform it.
Perform the song that you wrote with your band, with your band that you named.
It was incredible.
I was like, wait, people do this in a week?
Apparently.
break?
We can wait after the
It wasn't necessarily about like, I was just like,
Generally, you know, I just I with that song.
I don't really know what I was like I don't remember what I was thinking about when I was writing it.
I just was like, oh, what's wrong with me?
B and I just wrote a line with that was like B, you know, I just um But I like that song so much because it just kind of like shows how I was like grown is like a songwriter and
cuz like
I have written even better songs than that, but it's still a really good song, you
Yeah, totally.
My guest is Paige Cleaver.
She is our guest tonight for Bar Band Friday Night, as is Terri Bar.
Terri introduced Nightlight to Paige.
She's here in the studio.
It's great to have her.
We just heard her song Better Than Me.
She's gonna perform another one after we do a quick break, but before we get to the break, I wanna, when you're not performing or writing songs,
I know you like Taylor Swift, but would you say she's your main influence or who do you listen to now?
I think she's like I like Olivia Rodrigo.
I've been recently listening to a lot of her music She's been she was like my my inspiration at like 11 when everything kind of just like started to kick up She was like what I thought about during like the recording process of my album
So I do, I do love Taylor, but then I think like my earliest inspiration was, um, Adele.
Yeah.
Cause like, have you, have you heard her sing?
Yeah.
How can you not love her?
Anyway, she's great.
Taylor's great.
She's calling you
She is calling you.
I'm used to it.
Not by a 12 year old, but this is the first for that.
But, um, so how do you like,
Do your classmates see you, Paige, doing these great things?
Like you said, you sing the National Anthem at school events and all this kind of, what's their take on what you're doing?
Are they supportive or are they envious or do they think you're really cool because you're doing this thing you dream about?
What's the deal
there?
I think they are a little envious, but we push
We, yeah, we
Thank you
And then we just, I just use that as like material to write songs.
There you go.
Cause there's-
Yeah.
That's the way to use it.
As Taylor once said, there's no greater revenge than writing a song about someone you hate and getting, and winning a Grammy over it.
So.
I mean.
Oh, I loved it.
Um, I don't, um, yes, I'm performing at the Whammy's.
nice.
You are.
Whammy's are Wisconsin Music Awards.
Yeah.
So you can find me.
That's incredible.
Congratulations.
Thank you so much.
I'm up for Rising Star.
It's on May 4th.
And you can go.
It's called...
your website?
What?
on my website.
civicmedia.us.
is
Hey guys, how's it going?
Hey Terri, what's up?
It
Thank you for
Just so welcome.
Thanks so much for having me here.
I'm going to play for you guys a song called 2025.
And I originally wrote this about the election, but I think things took a little turn for the worst.
So I'm going to I just called it a Happy New Year song.
OK.
So
Yeah.
Cue's 20-25.
20-25.
Yeah.
I kind of wrote it in like, like in November of 2024.
And I was like, I'll just sing it in 2025.
But then I didn't sing it in 2025.
So then everyone was like, you know, it's not 2025, right?
I'm like, yes, I'm very aware of the year.
I'm also up for Best New Artist in the Madison Music Awards, the Mamas, M-A-M-A.
I haven't.
I'm really excited.
When I found out that I was up for Best New Artist, I'm like, you got to be kidding me, right?
And then my mom was like, no, you're up for Rising Star.
Oh, okay.
I was kind of like, what does this mean now?
Like, what happens if I win?
Okay.
Okay, so I have to ask you this.
Where do you see yourself?
Where do you want your career to go?
Do you want to sell out arenas?
Do you want to write movie scores?
Do you want to just have a great, like, what do you, what do you see yourself?
Let's say 25 year old Paige, where are you?
I want to like sell out arenas.
I would say like well I want to be a pop star like like what what Taylor Swift does Yeah, but I just I just say singer-songwriter because it just it sounds better like oh, I'm missing a song writer It's true, but I just I just kind of lean more with singer-songwriter.
Yeah, I kind of like that term better
welcome.
Thanks for having me, guys.
It's my pleasure.
Thank you all for listening.
Thanks to my guests, Lisa Hale, Frank Anderson.
And Monday on Nightlight, we have comedian Zayn Lamprey, who is coming back to Wisconsin.
filmmaker behind the Dell's Nelly Clues, which you can see at the Milwaukee Film Festival.
That's all Monday night.
On nightlight, I'll be back in Green Bay.
Thank you so much.
Erin Zommers, thank you as always, my friend.
Just crushing it as usual.
Thanks,
Thank you.
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