Fremont native Cathryn Flores preparing to release new single

It's Hispanic Heritage Month. It may have wrapped up, but celebrating the talent and contributions of the Latino community does not have to end there. This morning, we're highlighting a Bay Area artist who's making her mark in music, entertainment, and academia. Fremont native Catherine Flores blends pop and Latin pop into a sound that's uniquely her own. From performing at San Francisco's Outside Lands Music Festival to her work with the Grammys, and she is getting ready to release a new single called Post Show later this month. We welcome to the show this morning, Catherine Jones. She joins us to talk more about this. Catherine, thanks for joining us this morning. It's great to be here. All right. So, Catherine, tell us a little bit about your music. You built your career right here in the Bay Area, and you do have local roots here. How does that all blend in to the music that you put out? I think that I just love crossing all kinds of genres together. And growing up in Fremont in the Bay Area, being a Mexican-American woman, I think that I just love the ability to cross genres from country to pop to Latin pop and that's all really been part of my style and the music I put out all right and you've also you performed at the Fremont Festival of the Arts recently took the stage at Outside Lands how's that been for you it's been amazing it's just awesome to see also friends and family and people from the community come out and also enjoy the show as well and really support me there yeah you've also back in 2021 and 2024 you wrote music for an adaptation of Shakespeare performed live at Yosemite. Yes. What was that about? Shakespeare and Yosemite performs on stage in Yosemite on Earth Day and Shakespeare's birthday 90-minute comedy adaptations that are eco-based and so I became a songwriter and a singer for those shows as well for environmental justice purposes. And you've also spent time at the Grammys as in like the press room interviewing some of the folks at the Grammys. Tell us a little bit about that. What was that like? Oh, it was so much fun. I got to interview SZA, Lola Young, John Legend. It's just amazing being able, as a songwriter and artist myself, ask them the questions that I want to know. So what was it like? Did they give you any cool information you could share with us about how that may influence every time you step up to the microphone? I think just sing your story and sing it the way that you want to do it also. And just don't be afraid to write what you want to write. You are working toward your PhD in English at UC Davis tell us a bit about that what you know what your other plan is I would love to you know I think that overall you shouldn't have to pick one or the other you can do the PhD you can be a singer-songwriter and my dissertation also blends like environmental justice how the story tell through music as well all right so you have an upcoming single called Post Show that we mentioned a moment ago coming out this month here it's a follow-up track to She's Leo tell fans what they can expect to hear from this and you're going to be performing that single here today i'll actually be performing Loving Yosemite yeah yeah but yeah so give us a preview of the single the Post Show single that for folks that are fans of yours or that want to listen to your music yeah Post Show was co-produced also by my producers Tyler and uh Joe as well um it's something about enjoying the intimate moments whether it's a relationship whether it's friends or family but those are also as exciting as the show itself and so as the show itself and by the what you're working with uh your name is i'm John Thompson John Thompson you're gonna be playing uh bass today uh when Catherine Flores before uh performs for us and so i want you to i want the folks to hear what music that you're going to uh you have for them a Fremont native here that's you know getting to getting working yourself up to the national stage so we want to hear what Fremont's putting out there i'm gonna let you have the stage amazing thank you all right last summer they were Fighting for the same cause Oh, that summer so long ago In San Francisco, a club downtown She was singing and strumming The sweetest sound that he'd ever heard We would stay to fight for the dead Let's go this time We would stay to fight for Maybe this time Maybe this time Maybe this time Catherine Flores, thank you so much. Yes. Yes. Very nice job. So when's your you have another performance coming up? But I do. Yes at Grapevine Vineyards in Davis actually. Okay. What is that gonna be happening? That'll be on October 30th. Also when post-show releases post-show releases as well. Is that a public event? So people can go where to find out more Grapevine Vineyards dot com October 30th. I will be performing. Yes. All right, Catherine Flores. Thank you so much for coming in today I appreciate you sharing your music with us absolutely good luck with that you you know you can handle two things at one time you're handling both music and academia at the same time pursuing a PhD thank you so much thank you all right let's get over to Brian now in the weather center with an update on the forecast