july now and we have a great band reverend barry in the funk that's a lot of fun and it that is on july twenty seventh and they play rhythm and blues obviously i would assume if you have funk in your name you play funk yes it's going to be a great time and then we have a fantastic young lady who's going to be playing in between the sets a lot and she i heard her play at social one night she is amazingly gorgeous and sounds like an angel i know i'm excited to see her this month i know you said you saw  her so and then we follow that up in august on august seventeenth with rebel heart and what kind of music are they going to have that country so but it's still you know dancing everybody gets up and dances we have a dance floor in the front and everybody's having  dance gras really don't you have dance grass but they have a sectioned off so you can and nobody else has a dance floor like ours and you know as you look out on the gorgeous bay yes it is beautiful and then on september fourteenth we have dr dave band with classic southern rock's bluegrass all sorts of the collective things and then the folks are here from the bay which is the group that are revamping the bayfront for everybody and to turn it into a fabulous arts and great food and drinks here all sorts of food trucks and things and it's one of my favorite and of course i always get the ice cream of course ice cream it's hot it's hot so michelle and i were recently in new york city that was quite some time it was a great time we saw a lot of great shows learned a lot you know to bring that back to sarasota yeah and the tony awards were in june recently and  bunch of them but they were great they were great i thought they were wonderful it was a great nato to watch and see all the different all the different performers and it was a lot of fun a lot of those performers have been here at the van ways will i saw a lot of friends renee fleming peters and it was a good evening but some of the big winners were it was a big night for the band's visit which i happened to see earlier this year in january and the producer was an old friend of mine or  wolf and you know i'm kind of in awe that he was able to do this he saw it was a story about and a gyptian band and this one fellow who's supposed to get the tickets starts flirting with the lady and he sort of gets off topic and orders tickets for the band to go to a wrong city and they go to this israeli town where nobody is expecting them and there's basically nothing happening in that town and the band starts interacting with and they're going to have a tour and it won gosh tony salute won for best actor best actress best musical on and on and on and that meant that a lot of the big shows that we saw like frozen and  not waitress frozen and mean girls went home without a single prize frozen you know i watched the movie over over it with my children so that was a show that was really excited to see it it was great it was fantastic and something that somebody said is the band's visits a very quiet little show you know or and my friend or and watched a movie and thought gee this will be a great you know musical and talk people into writing it but frozen in mean girls has an audience already built in but the best play i got to see and i'm sorry you didn't see this one either but it's harry potter and the curse of child and it's part one and two and you literally go to a matinee have a dinner break and then go see the evening show so it's a long day but it was fantastic and it won a number of prizes and it was the best play and then sadly once on this island i don't think any of us that won it won best musical revival we didn't see that either so many shows going on there and  the best play as we said was harry potter and then the best revival of a play was in america and i would have loved to have seen this but you know when we go to new york our focus is on seeing the musicals because that's what we bring and that's what tours and so we have to see that even if we want to go see another show instead but yeah it was you saw one of the winners glenda jackson tell women it was a great show was actually a midnight show so i say that way past my bedtime but it was shows than you and i did not when i came in very close behind but you know next there's always next year everybody well listen we will be back in just a minute at the van ways so with some lovely lovely people who are some of our great sponsors and  hurricane season is upon us and city of sarasota residents are urged to have an emergency plan and be prepared before the storm make sure your disaster supply kit is well stocked with water food medicines extra batteries flashlights and portable radios first aid kit and supplies for infants children and pets electricity baby out for several days so be sure to get cash and fill your car with gas also know if you live in a flood zone and be aware of evacuation routes near issue having a plan and be prepared to help keep you and your family safe in the event of an emergency or more information on the declarations of emergency services and other story related resources visit f l dot gov and click on services scroll down and select flood map info welcome back to the band ways well as i mentioned we're here with john and joanna bradshaw of light works welcome hey kid q thank you so much for being a sponsor so is this the first year as a sponsor of you've been here with us before this was out this past year was our first year as a sponsor and we are coming back that's great and i have a coupon that should be in everybody's tickets yeah that's correct and two hundred dollars off that is a great deal that yeah that is great work  but i was mentioning before we got on the air that i love glass and i love everything to do with lighting because it makes all the difference in the world with our shows on stage with a little lighting design so but i hear you have an enorm store can you tell us where is it and how do people find it and all the particulars ok we're located in braiding ten downtown on state road sixty four which is manatee abba sure and it's a large store where about thirteen thousand square feet wow of lighting chandelier ceilings hands furniture accessories art decor rugs i mean anything to make your october of twenty fifty also even longer so we've owned the store about three years just a wonderful wonderful thing well i you know i need to get into the fact that you both have backgrounds in other industries but i must say yours is a background you are in the real estate industry and i have a number of friends who are realtors and you know you must have seen every kind of lighting the good and the bad so you can make like thirty eight years so my gosh so yeah you know and very you've seen the good the bad and the ugly way hat and then i know that you have a background in regional environmental consulting what is that well i founded a firm in the early ninety's ninety's in sarasota i graduated from florida state university with a degree in geology and i founded a small consulting firm and twenty years later we sold it and go in there that's the rest is history we actually moved to charlotte north carolina area for six years and we came back to sarasota to our home town to buy what works we do now that was the main reason for coming back you know i'm going to do something as a husband and wife we wanted to build a company and build a corporate culture inside our store build a new family have an employee and we've we've we've done that and how many employees do you have thirteen thirteen and i should mention you aren't just about doing beautiful houses and doing decorating you care about the community i mean obviously you're a sponsor of the van waissel but there's even you know another really fantastic thing you work with you it with habitat on humanity can you tell us a little bit about that how exactly yeah we do we we be doing that two years or so and what we do is basically joanne and i go through the store when recipient homes are getting finished and it's wonderful that something so small that we do but it gives you a really heartfelt warm feeling that we're kind of but i think that's fantastic because it's your business really fits with that it does and it does help to build a habitat yeah yes i did and lee county and they asked me to please never come back but you know build the habitat homes the specifications for that those homes are so energy efficient production standards are way above that really house yes or so they are really really something so a typical day in our star will be someone will come in they'll make an appointment and they'll have all of their plans under their arm and they come in and they've got all the blueprints and they're going to lay em out solve all of our must be exciting i'll add lighting consultants are trained in reading blueprints i mean where the lights go out figuring out what would be the best place to put  foot home to an eight or nine thousand square foot home you know the work order could take several sessions i was charged consultants come in three four times with their blueprints we read law in the blueprints our consultants  over the history is governed by the american lighting association so all of our consultants are certified so it's quite a process have you seen any of those fabulous chandelier as they do in  hanging off them and things like yeah yes we have here and with those yeah we get it yeah i love them or i know sculptures but you know i'm going to mine just installed one and what they didn't know was it takes so many parts we have chandelier is here that we've just know i can't wait to come down to your store and it's it's got a like what like works dot com or and take a virtual tour i saw us a little a and i can't thank you enough for what you've done for us but more every day forty four people in the u s die from drug overdose but they don't have to in florida if you're trying to save the life of another person you're protected from prosecution by the good samaritan well you know this recently there was some sort of animal climbing up the side of a building in st paul i think was a raccoon though wow you know you could tell everybody just climbed through there you know but i'm just kidding with you  michel we have a lot of social media platforms tell us about them what we do we have our facebook twitter instagram and we use these platforms to really interact with our patrons are out and people post things we post things they post things part of because you hear everything that we're doing first you know wilson of the e mail blast if we're having a show coming up to you know to buy tickets before the public knows so definitely go and get on our website and sign up haven't already because if you're on the e u club the nice  if you remember one day before the public sale of tickets the club members get to go on there and buy tickets and the first best thing to do is be a subscriber because it's a subscriber you get first crack at two it's but then subscribers the club people for non subscription shows get to go on their first sometimes people go oh well it's the on sale and yet the tickets were in the thirteenth row and that's because people have bought them through their way well we're talking about subscriptions  we're very thrilled about the orchestra series this year we have the israel philharmonic coming and that's been made as a last tour and i think they're going to be fantastic and then another big big orchestra we have is the boston pops  it's the music of john williams what are some of the things that john williams has written you know star wars and i think this is going to be something that you know trying to get the younger audience involved if they haven't already so if you're thinking about taking your kids your grandkids i mean this is definitely the show to kind of introduce them to raiders of the lost star yes some fantastic scores and of course keep a la carte is such an exciting energetic conductor absolutely and then we have our annual event salute to vienna yes that's always a great one every year you  know it's something it's a tradition we have it here it's new year's eve or new year's tradition so you know it's something that people look forward to it means so much more to me i spent last new year's in budapest with the folks from salute to vienna and i've also been to vienna and after seeing how my gosh it was in budapest there were thirteen thousand people there it was amazing so that is a great series and we also have some dance and one of the favorites we have is and they're coming back with shadowland to this and what is your thinking on that one oh it's just such a great show you something for something for everybody if you haven't experienced it it's just experience you won't get anywhere else and shadowland you see all the shapes in them the mirror images and it's really fantastic and of course we have the traditional ballet and sleeping beauty with the russian ballet company and then the ballet trocadero which i think you can only see well you dying swan number because that is my favorite absolutely but of course what's closest star hearts i think always is our broadway season in this is a huge one we have lion king roaring into sarasota for three big weeks in march yes it's so exciting i mean it's just something to show in the world it is it is it was my first show i saw broadway so i'm very excited to have it here in sarasota and to be able to take my family as well i bet your kids are going to have a ball they can't wait to talk about all the time and you know you don't have to be buying those stuffed animals but i'll give you a little trick if you want to bring one from just getting this he will kill me but we also have another fantastic show for the whole family cinderella which is stunningly beautiful rodgers and hammerstein show something right we see the poster behind us is his stare i can't wait for that our guests that were just here from white works love that you know it it is so funny and i really really enjoyed that one and we have of course the king and i yeah and i haven't seen that one either some have never seen it so i know you need to bring your children to that would do because there are there are really tons and tons of children in that show because they play the princes  that is like one of my favorite it's great i mean it's just you know they're taking different things and making noise out of it and i you know you think you know it's a lot of fun lots of people have tried to imitate them but this is the original company and then we absolutely can see you marian that singing climb every mountain you know maybe i'll jump up on stage you never know and then we have one hundred ten years of broadway every year there's a new year it is every year is new year and every year we pretty much sell out so you know you have to get your tickets because it's a great show to see and then on the tony awards we saw the heartbreaking kids from stoneman marjorie stoneman douglas going but yeah i mean like it was it was a great performance it was a great performance it's a great show and i really love that show and then the other big show of the year on your feet on your feet and i'm excited that i actually do get to see this in new york  have it here for a great week it's here for the week after christmas it's fantastic show to bring everybody to see at the holiday yes and i can't wait and then we also have on sale a number of other shows lord of the dance went on sale yes that's the way show too i mean that's something for the whole family and that's going to be in october in october yes people always say oh you have everything after the first of the year well we have a lot this year and we haven't announced everything but we've announced lord of the dance it's going to be here on october fourteenth and then another  december eleventh so good because he's doing the christmas album and it christmas so you know should be a great show if we have prime wilson here a couple of years ago and he did a lot of the i think it was animal i'm thinking of course blanking on the pet sounds and you say i'm converting it to my pet sounds and this is the christmas album and so they'll do he'll do some of the beach and now sardine will be with him and he'll do some of the beach boys hits but also and that's also december eighteenth so but that's a great show everybody loves them they do a wonderful job and they have a new p b s special and they do and you know i actually have met them and they're really possible so it's great that i'd like to meet them but i'm sure they want to meet you more of a bunch of handsome young guys but anyway the phone number to call us at nine five three three three six eight you can go on our website to get tickets you can stop into the box office and we hope we see you on your feet at friday fest and at the theater and we'll be back next month at the san