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CarliÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s Corner: The Oots n Oots talk ice cream

The childrenÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s band sat down for the latest edition of CarliÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s Corner
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Family band The Oots n Oots were the third guests on CarliÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s Corner. - Credit: Contributed

A local family band says they are continually inspired by food and family when creating their songs.

The Oots n Oots consist of four CipesÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™ brothers, along with singer Ruth, Ezra CipesÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™ daughter. They have been nominated for the ChildrenÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s Artist of the Year award for the Western Canadian Music Awards.

The Capital News sat down with guitarist/singer Ari, singer Ruth and singer/guitarist Ezra to discuss their nomination and their favourite flavours of ice cream.

Q: WhatÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s your favourite song to sing?

Ruth: Too Much Monkey Business which we just put out a video for.

Ezra: I like singing the song called Little Sammy Davis because itÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s based on Chuck Barry

Ari: Yam Fries and itÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s about eating yam fries

Q: Favourite flavour of ice cream?

Ezra: Pistachio

Ari: Spaloni

Ruth: PistachioÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s starting to grow on me, IÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™d have to agree

Q: What was the feeling behind the nomination?

Ezra: It was pretty amazing. We really love doing this and we put a lot into it and we want to give something to the world and grow it so this was really nice. It was a way for us to meet people in the Canadian music industry and spread our wings a little.

Q: How did you find out?

Ruth: I found out after school when my grandma picked me up and told me and mom was waiting at home to tell me.

Q: When will you find out if you won?

Ezra: On Sept. 11, weÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™re going to go to Edmonton for the awards and the conference. The whole bandÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s going and weÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™re going to play a show there.

Q: Your album was released in December, 2016. How was it received?

Ezra: We played around B.C. and itÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s been super gratifying because we hear a lot of kids and their parents tell us theyÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™ve been listening to the album over and over again.

Q: Tell me about Too Much Monkey Business?

Ruth: We did a rehearsed live video in the studio where we got mom to film it and it took a long time.

Ezra: It was just one camera and one microphone, just capturing a performance and I think we got through the whole song five or six times. It took us 19 tries to do it. At a certain point during the takes, we were like Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜OK, when we get through this, weÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™re all going to go get frozen yogurt.Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™

Ari: And then we got it the very next take.

Ezra: It was pretty cool because you canÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™t teach someone how to perform and Ruth just knows how to do it and she really had a natural affinity for the early rock and rollers.

Q: Who are your biggest influences?

Ari: The Cipes brothers, we all grew up with our dad playing music in the house and he played a lot of show tunes from Catz and Les Mis and Phantom of the Opera so thatÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s got some bearing on my influence anyway. Also, that honky tonk, rock and roll, sort of stuff.

Q: How do you come up with lyrics?

Ari: TheyÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™re mostly around simple things everyone relates to.

Ezra: Things that make us laugh.

Ari: Our children are our big inspirations for writing.

Other members of the Oots n Oots are bassist Gabe and drummer Matt Cipes.

Every two weeks throughout the summer, reporter Carli Berry will interview local musicians in a quick Q&A on kelownacapnews.com. Email Carli at carli.berry@kelownacapnews.com to get involved. Check the video features at kelownacapnews.com/video.





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