WEBVTT 00:00:00.303 --> 00:00:05.167 Captioned by StreamCaptions.com 00:00:09.167 --> 00:00:12.907 [funky hip-hop music playing] 00:00:36.122 --> 00:00:36.918 -What's your name? 00:00:36.918 --> 00:00:39.183 -I'm Lindsey Stirling. I'm from Utah 00:00:39.183 --> 00:00:40.700 and I play hip-hop violin. 00:00:40.700 --> 00:00:42.050 -Well, let's see what you can do. 00:00:42.050 --> 00:00:45.845 -[playing violin in tune with hop-hop music] 00:00:56.368 --> 00:00:58.433 [crowd cheering] 00:00:58.433 --> 00:01:01.950 I'm Lindsey Stirling and I am a violinist. 00:01:05.550 --> 00:01:08.688 [playing rock tune] 00:01:10.350 --> 00:01:11.817 What makes me a little bit unique is 00:01:11.817 --> 00:01:15.050 yes, I was classically trained for years and years, 00:01:15.050 --> 00:01:19.467 but I now play with rock bands, I do rock music, 00:01:19.467 --> 00:01:22.567 and, most recently, I like to play hip-hop music 00:01:22.567 --> 00:01:24.561 while I dance. 00:01:24.561 --> 00:01:27.500 So, I write some of my own original music 00:01:27.500 --> 00:01:29.101 that's, you know, backup tracks. 00:01:29.101 --> 00:01:30.418 My music is all original, 00:01:30.418 --> 00:01:32.834 but mostly what I've been doing lately 00:01:32.834 --> 00:01:35.634 is I'll take popular radio hits that I really like, 00:01:35.634 --> 00:01:36.917 'cause I love to go dancing. 00:01:36.917 --> 00:01:39.881 I love to go, you know, bust my white-girl moves 00:01:39.881 --> 00:01:42.189 on the dance floor. 00:01:42.189 --> 00:01:44.345 So, I take songs that I love to listen to, 00:01:44.345 --> 00:01:45.317 and I love to party to, 00:01:45.317 --> 00:01:47.349 and I'll write violin parts over it 00:01:47.349 --> 00:01:49.598 that are my own completely original 00:01:49.598 --> 00:01:52.463 elaborations of the track, the original music, 00:01:52.463 --> 00:01:55.131 and that's something that people seem to really like, 00:01:55.131 --> 00:01:56.548 because it's a recognizable song, 00:01:56.548 --> 00:01:59.265 but yet something completely unique that I add to it. 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:04.000 So, my dad had all these records, 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:06.098 all these classical records that he would play, 00:02:06.098 --> 00:02:08.431 and I can remember dancing to Mozart 00:02:08.431 --> 00:02:11.098 and Scheherazade as a little girl with my sisters. 00:02:11.098 --> 00:02:12.614 And I also remember my dad 00:02:12.614 --> 00:02:14.049 would look through the newspapers 00:02:14.049 --> 00:02:16.564 and circle all the free concerts in town 00:02:16.564 --> 00:02:18.082 and he would take us to all these 00:02:18.082 --> 00:02:20.149 classical orchestral concerts. 00:02:20.149 --> 00:02:22.199 You know, and I would hear the violins 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:24.948 and I just longed to be a violinist after hearing that. 00:02:24.948 --> 00:02:25.848 At the age of five, 00:02:25.848 --> 00:02:28.953 I began begging my parents for lessons. 00:02:28.953 --> 00:02:30.781 They couldn't afford to give me lessons, 00:02:30.781 --> 00:02:32.665 so my mom searched around town 00:02:32.665 --> 00:02:34.332 and made calls looking for a teacher 00:02:34.332 --> 00:02:37.265 that would give me lessons every other week 00:02:37.265 --> 00:02:38.398 instead of every week, 00:02:38.398 --> 00:02:41.131 and no one would agree to teach a six-year-old little girl 00:02:41.131 --> 00:02:42.648 that infrequently, 00:02:42.648 --> 00:02:45.173 'cause they didn't think that anyone could learn at that rate, 00:02:45.173 --> 00:02:46.383 but my mom kept searching 00:02:46.383 --> 00:02:49.267 until finally she found one teacher that she could afford 00:02:49.267 --> 00:02:50.566 and that would do this 00:02:50.566 --> 00:02:53.150 and that was my beginning to the violin. 00:02:53.150 --> 00:02:56.297 I first kind of stepped away from my classical training 00:02:56.297 --> 00:03:00.751 when I was 16 and I joined the rock band Stomp on Melvin. 00:03:00.751 --> 00:03:03.033 At the time, it was totally just a fun thing 00:03:03.033 --> 00:03:04.701 and we were all just about having fun. 00:03:04.701 --> 00:03:06.216 We went on a little rock tour 00:03:06.216 --> 00:03:08.052 and, you know, it was just fun and games, 00:03:08.052 --> 00:03:10.085 but it was such an inspiration to me, 00:03:10.085 --> 00:03:11.638 because for the first time, 00:03:11.638 --> 00:03:13.852 I realized that the violin could be fun. 00:03:13.852 --> 00:03:15.051 It could be exciting 00:03:15.051 --> 00:03:17.384 and you didn't have to just stick in this mold regiment 00:03:17.384 --> 00:03:19.401 of proper and classical. 00:03:19.401 --> 00:03:21.434 So, that was when I first realized 00:03:21.434 --> 00:03:23.635 the endless limitations of the violin. 00:03:23.635 --> 00:03:27.326 [violin playing] 00:03:30.095 --> 00:03:32.552 Music is completely my creative outlet. 00:03:32.552 --> 00:03:34.919 It's how I love to express myself. 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:36.886 It's how I release my emotion 00:03:36.886 --> 00:03:40.573 and it's just something that I absolutely love to do. 00:03:40.573 --> 00:03:43.019 Not only do I love to play the violin for myself, 00:03:43.019 --> 00:03:46.885 but I enjoy it so much when I can see people smile 00:03:46.885 --> 00:03:49.718 or when I can their emotions come across, 00:03:49.718 --> 00:03:51.386 you know, when they hear my playing, 00:03:51.386 --> 00:03:53.354 and that just brings me so much joy 00:03:53.354 --> 00:03:54.737 when I can tell that other people 00:03:54.737 --> 00:03:56.804 are enjoying what I love to share. 00:04:02.066 --> 00:04:05.686 Hey, I'm Lindsey Stirling and you're watching Urban Media. 00:04:21.994 --> 00:04:26.353 [playing dramatic tune] 00:04:30.153 --> 00:04:31.819 Now that I've gotten a lot of exposure 00:04:31.819 --> 00:04:35.348 and that I realize that people really enjoy what I do, 00:04:35.348 --> 00:04:38.436 the future is wide open and I'm actually super-excited 00:04:38.436 --> 00:04:40.703 because I took this semester off school 00:04:40.703 --> 00:04:43.570 just to kind of try the life of a musician. 00:04:43.570 --> 00:04:44.986 I'm kind of in limbo right now. 00:04:44.986 --> 00:04:47.509 I've contacted several agents and whatnot 00:04:47.509 --> 00:04:50.841 and I'm just pursuing my own soloist career 00:04:50.841 --> 00:04:52.059 as a violinist. 00:04:52.059 --> 00:04:55.265 [playing folk music] 00:05:04.911 --> 00:05:07.275 I have to thank my old teacher. 00:05:07.275 --> 00:05:09.326 My first teacher, Janna Allred, 00:05:09.326 --> 00:05:11.829 who put up with a lot from me. 00:05:11.829 --> 00:05:13.007 She was so patient, 00:05:13.007 --> 00:05:14.713 and even though I didn't always practice 00:05:14.713 --> 00:05:16.908 and even though I probably gave her some attitude, 00:05:16.908 --> 00:05:18.244 she's the best. 00:05:18.244 --> 00:05:20.482 So, thank you, Janna Allred, my teacher. 00:05:20.482 --> 00:05:24.263 And also to my band boys, Stomp on Melvin. 00:05:24.263 --> 00:05:26.013 You guys are the ones that gave me my start, 00:05:26.013 --> 00:05:27.896 so Randy, Adam, Brandon, and Jeff, 00:05:27.896 --> 00:05:28.947 you guys are the best. 00:05:28.947 --> 00:05:30.796 And, Mom and Dad, I love you 00:05:30.796 --> 00:05:34.484 and thanks so much for your endless support and love. 00:05:34.484 --> 00:05:37.164 Lindsey Stirling, signing out. 00:05:38.426 --> 00:05:39.331 -I'm NAWM. 00:05:39.331 --> 00:05:40.414 -I'm AkbAr. 00:05:40.414 --> 00:05:41.315 -Red Spectral. 00:05:41.315 --> 00:05:42.232 -Killawatts. 00:05:42.232 --> 00:05:44.614 -(all) And you're watching Urban Media. 00:05:44.614 --> 00:05:46.731 -I put it on YouTube and made this little... 00:05:46.731 --> 00:05:49.631 [child yelling in background] 00:05:49.631 --> 00:05:53.927 Oh, my God. I'm gonna kill whatever else makes noise. 00:05:53.927 --> 00:05:56.582 It was a bug or a child.