The Gilded Iguana hosted a special edition of their Tuesday music night on March 20. The Motet, a funk inspired octet from Boulder Colorado performed to a packed audience of about 250 people. The show had people on their feet dancing and grooving in the bar and on the lawn and drew a diverse crowd as well. The show itself was almost an accident, and happened because the band happened to be playing at a wedding in Nosara. The day after their first show outside the United States, the Voice of Nosara sat down with Dave Watts, The Motet’s drummer and founder, to talk about the show, Nosara and their experiences.

So this is your first show outside the United States right?

Yeah.

Do you see yourselves out more? Do you have any kind of international following?

I don’t know, that’s a good question; do we even have much of a following? We’re just trying to take things as they come and not worry about things that are out of our control, like this thing just sort of fell into our laps.

You guys have been playing together for about 10 years now?

More like 12, but we’ve had changeovers and new players.

Have you done anything in Nosara? How long have you been here?

We flew into San Jose on Friday morning (March 16th) and actually Mike the groom took us out rafting on the Balsa river in the Balsa canyon. It was really beautiful.

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