I am SO excited to be sharing the first clip from Episode 1 of Live from Nonna's House!! This performance was shot in my Nonna's (Italian word for Grandma) living room. First things first I have to give a shoutout to my Nonna, who is an 86 year old woman who moved to America in the 1950s from Sardinia, Italy with my late Nonno. I've spent every holiday at her house with my family eating life changing home cooked Italian food. When I was a kid, if I ever stayed home from school because I was sick I would go to Nonna and Nonno's house and eat soup and ice cream all day. I have a lot of fond memories in this house and I'm so happy to be able to bring you all into this space!

Before we get any further, I want to shoutout the entire crew:
Video shot/edited by Stefan Forintos at Mitten Mob
Bass Guitar - Brandon Rose
Drums/Audio Engineering - Anthony Fiolek
Guitar - Ryan Haley
Alto Background Vocals - Grace Thomas
Soprano Background Vocals - Paige Chapman
Baritone Background Vocals - PJ Roberts
Photos - Emily Dekoster
House - Nonna
Keyboards, Lead Vocals, Audio Mixing/Mastering - JonPaul Wallace (me)

Sponsored by The Parlour in Hadley, Michigan and Dope Water

This is the first song from Episode 1 of the Live from Nonna's House series. The inspiration of this series is to emulate a Tiny Desk style energy in a space that is sacred to me. I wanted to create something where to two worlds of my music and my family and childhood can collide to create new art. My band and I actually rehearse in my Nonna's basement every week so it's already a space in which we've grown fond of creating in.

I also wanted to create a space where we can perform songs in a more stripped down fashion than we normally would at a regular show. The band and I pride ourselves in curating the most high energy and electric sets we can when we perform live, and very rarely do we pull back and do something fully stripped down. Live from Nonna's House is a vessel for us to explore new arrangements on new original music, older original music, and some cover tunes. "Come Through", which is an original song I recently released (link - https://songwhip.com/jonpaul-wallace/..., was a no brainer to be the first song to come out from this episode. On top of it being the most recent release, I'm just so pumped about how this one came out. Well, to be honest I'm pumped about how all of them came out. But I'm already fired up about this song finally being out on streaming, and then this performance came out super dope so I could not wait to get it out in the world!

Looking forward to the rest of this episode, there 's a handful of other songs including an unreleased original and a super cool cover that I'm also excited about. This was so much fun to shoot and put together and I am so excited to share it!

Looking forward even further, we are hoping to turn this into a series with more episodes. In future episodes, we'd like to bring in some guest artists and grow this so it becomes a really cool experience for the artists involved and for everyone to watch and enjoy!