Dear young rocker season 4 Hosted by Nadia Marie Belvanson
“I was born and then I was born again at the age of 23”
Musician/Photographer Nadia Marie had her life severely interrupted, and inner world reset, when at 23 she was hit by a car while on her bike. As a result, she suffered a concussion and amnesia that nobody around her was able to help her understand. She was unable to remember much of who she was, or what the people around her had meant to her.
The instruments she loved were suddenly foreign, and even her musical taste was different. In this season you’ll get to hear the flashbacks to her early life and some twists and turns along the way, as her newly 23-year-old self navigates the world around her as she reestablishes and creates new connections within music and within herself
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This is a podcast for the weirdos. The loners. The ugly ducklings.
DEAR YOUNG ROCKER is an audio memoir.
Seasons 1 and 2 profiled Chelsea — a young teen seeking relief from the anxiety, body issues, and pent up aggression of adolescence and a way to connect to others through rock music. The audio memoir detailed the trials of being the only girl rock musician in her conservative hometown and shed light on the un-talked about issue of aggression in girls and the importance of providing outlets. The show is also a series of letters about everything we wish we could tell our young selves.
The podcast was born from an idea many of us share – a desire to go back and tell your younger self a lot of things. Chelsea says - “I want to talk to not only the kid me but every kid out there who wants to be invisible, who feels strange in their growing body, who might imagine everyone hates them or that they hate everyone else and feel like no one on earth would ever get it.”
In Season 3 Chelsea invited other musicians to tell their own stories in each episode and in Season 4 Nadia Marie is recounting her life with music.
Your first band is one of the most important things in your life.
Watch the trailer for season one of Dear Young Rocker ☝️
“I want to tell them that they actually aren’t alone. I want to tell them that the pressures put on them as a girl or a boy or whatever their gender identity or sexual orientation or race or class or culture aren’t always right or fair no matter what their parents say. And though this is my specific story, I hope it might help anyone who struggled or is struggling with those pressures. So this for the young me and the young you and if you’re currently young and feel weird and alone it’s for you too. Music, specifically rock music, is what got me through it all. And my dear young rocker it’s time for you to tell that story…”
SEASON 1
SEASON 2
SEASON 3
You might not feel it but you are loved, you are safe, and you are on the path you are meant to be on. what’s more — you are not alone.
Chelsea ursin - Creator/Writer/nerd/musician.
Chelsea created, wrote, produced and narrated Seasons 1--3 and is executive producing Season 4.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. Her master’s thesis, a memoir titled Bass Player was intended to be published as a book — but she fell in love with audio storytelling and decided to combine the memoir with her audio engineering and music composition skills and create the podcast Dear Young Rocker. She’s been playing bass and guitar since she was 12, but only had the confidence to write songs and start her own band at 26. She lives in Boston with her cat Alaska and performs around the northeast with her ‘grunge-pop’ band Banana. She was formerly the Associate Producer for Not Sorry Productions (Harry Potter and the Sacred Text), has worked for NPR’s Wow in the World, and volunteers as a bass instructor for Girls Rock Campaign Boston.
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