back i was like hi i'm home again and so over the years i've gotten work with lots of kids haley being one of them haley kind of really got the ball rolling in her class there were three songwriters three very strong songwriters there was haley samantha day in sydney cooney and when we had graduation they all did in the original song for their graduation and then haley went on to be  walking academy of the arts i teach chorus general music i do run the drama program i teach guitar lessons beginning instrument lessons and i have an african drum ensemble and the kids that i program and that was an amazing two years i graduated a year early as a junior so i started songwriting when i was really little twelve years old i guess and i still have those lyrics they're pretty bad but and then i really started seriously songwriting when i was in eighth grade and then as a freshman at mount mansfield high school i posted you tube videos of mostly original songs every tuesday which are still on my so you can find those and then as a sophomore interlocking arms academy i really got interested in taking my career more good in the second year in the program i learned a lot about music productions i have a self produced five track each piece coming out by july first and i have some gigs booked around the summer just you know promoting my music and  you also play when you are in because yeah yeah yeah i i'm home for the summer right now before i try to make nice with college music in the fall i'm just playing at the five corners farmer's market on friday this past  and i was like wow i really want to do that and so my dad bought me a bass and i kind of went out from there and started playing with my brother we made a band and then i started watching him play and i was like that's really cool and so he taught me a couple chords on the tour and i basically graduate i've been playing guitar since i was ten so in fifth grade i started playing piano this year and i started songwriting like i wrote down a couple erik's i like writing poetry so it was a lot of fun we're going to be there yeah yeah you have read in more than five hundred songs you told me sixteen most of them and the google one the good ones that you made first would be better when you study more so don't be afraid of that early but there is a very important composer chairs out in the arabian nights which bouncer middle school did in march and i he approached me in march two thousand and thirteen and asked me if i would be interested in participating and sure i did a lot of thinking grade but yeah i did a lot of brainstorming for the musical over the summer and then i finished the songs in january and then i kept playing them because then i came back and played piano for the show in march so you're going to have it ref knights she comes from a culture where women are very much second class citizens and she took this about to save the kingdom and she's a very powerful woman and  prevents i had to sanitize the story because the original was a little too sexy for middle school and a little too gory for middle school so i had to i had it when i adapted the  script there were things that i had to take out and modify but i really wanted to focus on the character she has because i've been fascinated with her as a character since i was a college student i went down to that a