Images from Fire Up Downtown Muncie 2025 - courtesy of Matt Howell

How to Build a Music Scene Part 3: The Fierce 

Magic City Music Hour on IPR

We had the pleasure, and the honor, to sit down with Mike Martin, owner of the Common Market in Muncie, IN, as well as the front man of Mike Martin and the Beautiful Mess for Part 3 of the "How To Build A Music Scene" Podcast series on Indiana Public Radio (IPR).

Mike did an amazing job interviewing us and presiding over the live recording.  Be sure to give it a listen! Thank you Mike and the entire crew of the Common Market for providing the space to do this, for encouraging live, local music, and for supporting the entire local community.

We truly cannot do it without our band members and we appreciate the hours of labor and love they put into each song and tireless preparation that goes into every rehearsal.  Sarah Isenhart / vocals, Ric Dwenger / Bass & vocals, and Robb Johnson / percussion.  You all are rock stars!

We like to say "We can't do it without you" and this rings true in all aspects of bringing our music to the local scene and counting on our good friends and followers to show up and support the cause. Live, original music lives on in places where you'd never guess. Keep it up folks, we truly can't do it without you.

Special shout out to Josh Isenhart, Studio D Media Group for providing sound and audio engineering, recording, mixing and mastering after the fact. You always make us sound better and we can't thank you enough!

Music is not just a part of us. It's what we think about, dream about, and share with each other and those who are gracious enough to give of their time to listen.  We love what we do and we have found that it's never too late to live your passion.

We're thankful to have people who believe with us, that we have something to share outside the living room.  Thank you to all of you who make it happen for us. 

We can't do it without you!