Makayla Scott, a member of Drury University’s own indie/folk band Blue False Indigo, brings her musical talent with a witty twist.

Formed in fall 2013, Blue False Indigo is on the rise on not only on Drury’s campus, but Springfield at large. The band’s next performance is March 23 at the Outland Ballroom.

The Scoop sat down with Scott and discussed her band’s growing popularity in the Springfield community, their current recording process and upcoming shows, and some musical mess-ups.

What led to the manifestation of Blue False Indigo?

Well, Kara LaPage and A.J. Reynolds and I were all music majors together, so that’s how we knew each other. One time, I just asked A.J. if she wanted to sing with me and she said yes. We were playing … and eventually we were like “we need something more” and so we asked Kara to join. And now that’s Blue False Indigo.

How did you come up with the name Blue False Indigo?

My friend Justin Ganoway Googled flowers that were native to Missouri, and that was our favorite.

Did you expect it to turn into anything?

It was kind of just “friends together”; it was an experiment, and even now we still kind of call it an experiment, but it has gotten a lot more serious than I think our original intention was.

How so?

I think we’ve put a lot more into it, and we actually have tried to build somewhat of a fan base and we are playing shows fairly regularly and we started recording pretty recently.

Oh, really? Do you have a production timeline?

We went a few days over Christmas break and recorded a couple songs, and now we’re just kind of waiting on those to be finished before we see what our next move is.

What has been your experience with the local music scene?

It’s been exciting and overwhelming sometimes and competitive, but I’m glad we’re doing it because you’ve got to get yourself out there somehow.

What has been the best/funniest moment of your BFI career? 

Actually, the funniest and the best moment happened like a day apart. One Friday night we had a show where everything that could go wrong was going wrong. We were borrowing someone’s ukulele, and we thought the batteries were dead … so we walked all the way from the Outland Ballroom to the Kum n Go … like really far away. So we go back and put the batteries in, and it’s still not working. The sound guy comes up there and realizes that the volume was just turned all the way down, so that was bad. Also, my guitar broke in the middle of the show, so we ended up having to use my microphone to mic the guitar. A.J. and I had to sing into one microphone, so we literally had to sing face-to-face, singing love songs to each other, and we were like “this is oddly romantic.” I was traumatized then, but now, it’s really funny.

And the best moment?

The next day, we played a show at this park in Rogersville. Nobody came to watch us that we knew, and of course, and it was the best show we’ve ever played.

Has there been any support from Drury students, or Springfieldians in general?

That’s always really cool to look out and see, even if you aren’t close friends with someone, even if they just know you because of Drury… they’ll come out. 

Where do you see BFI in the future?

 I know where I would like to see it, but it’s hard to get there … I would like to see us be successful and at least bust out of Springfield and hit some of the bigger cities in Missouri, but we’ll see.

 You personally in the future?

Hopefully, teaching music somewhere; hopefully, still playing music somehow. I mean, whether it not be in Blue False Indigo, I want to make sure I stay true to that part of me for a long time.

Anything else you want to add?

[Jokingly] We’re not that funny. We’re not that cool.