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David Young performing. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Have you
In the album’s liner notes, a quote from the philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran reads: “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-
or in
David graduated from Flathead High School in 1995, and while he’s spent most of his adult life carving out a career as a musician in Minneapolis, his and Amber’s connection to the Flathead Valley runs deep.
That much is evident from Young’s new band’s name, Going to the Sun, an homage to the beauty of his hometown mountain
playground of Glacier Nation-
al Park as well as a tribute to
the cyclic nature of life, griev-
ing and healing.
same well from which your laughter rises was of- tentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your be- ing, the more joy you can contain.”
For he and Amber, the quote characterized the depth of their pain as well as the joy and gratitude that welled up within them when they grasped
the enormity of Erin’s and Ca- den’s presence in their lives.
“That quote made us real- ize that our cups were being carved out by grief and it gave us that hope that that hollow space would be filled with joy again, an even deeper joy than we had known,” he said. “It was like a light at the end of the tunnel for us. And mirac- ulously we have found that to be true. Our cups have been filled back up again.”
“Any time you have a trag- edy you try to ask ‘why did this happen,’” David added.
To be able to express their gratitude musically was pro- found, Young said, and in this album – the first he’s record- ed under the “Going to the Sun” moniker – he was writ- ing for family and his local community, and channels his relationship with Northwest Montana and his family here to audiences in Minneapolis.
Album cover for Going to the Sun.
“It’s a heavy album but it
also has a lot of levity, and it’s been really power- ful to share this with people, not only people who knew Erin and Caden, but any time you go through a dark place you think maybe you can hold a light for others going through the same thing,” he said. “The older I get as a musician the less I care about whether something is going to be perceived as cool and the more I care about how much heart is going into it and whether it empowers people.”
Amber Young said the album appeals to “any- one who’s ever loved, lost or lived,” and that it rep- resents the “soundtrack to our hearts’ healing.”
“And it feels senseless and in a lot of ways it still does feel senseless. But anything we can do to take those bits of shattered glass and create a mosaic and turn something painful into something beau- tiful is important.”
The album “Going to the Sun” is available in Kalispell at Moxi Salon, 37 Fifth St. E. #100, where Thompson’s and Young’s brother Thad works. CDs and digital downloads are also available online at https://goingtothesun.bandcamp.com
Learn more about David’s band online at http://www.goingtothesunmusic.com and on F a c e b o o k a t h t t p s : // w w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m / g o i n g - tothesunmusic
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