It was December of the year 2019, Alisha had just moved up to Red Bluff from Sacramento and was visiting her sweet Grandma Pat at a local Fiddle association's Christmas Potluck. Looking to meet some new people, she wandered about until she happened upon a fine lookin' fella in a yellow jacket holding a mandolin!

"Hey, how do you play a Texas go-around on the mandolin?" she asked.

"I dunno, just started a week ago!" Nathan responded jovially, and proceeded to show her a song he wrote.

A month later, Nathan and his dad, Don Townley, came over to Alisha's house to tune her piano. After the tuning, Alisha asked Nathan some questions about music theory and Nathan wouldn’t stop talking for the next 3 hours about pianos, tunings, and Irish music. It was then Alisha started getting a bug to learn Irish music on the fiddle, and they started meeting weekly to learn and play as much Irish music as possible. Not 6 months later, they started a band called Valley Quest, complete with 2 of their close friends. Over the course of the next 2 years, Nathan and Alisha spent a lot of time getting to know one another and developed a deep friendship.

But there was a problem.. Alisha was wasting her time goin to college! What the heck! Lameeee who want’s an edgemucation amirite? She had no passion like that which she had for music and finally took the leap of faith to pursue her dreams in July, 2022. Coming home from an inspirational music camp, she excitedly called Nathan on the phone.

“I’m quittin’ school, quittin’ my job, and playin’ fiddle!”

“Finally, took you long enough!”

Three days later, they started dating!

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