thank you all so much for being here this afternoon we love those reminders to be outside on a gorgeous day like today and we haven't had a lot of these so again thanks so much for being here thanks so much to this wonderful group who's going to be performing today who got caught up in some new england weather as some of you may have seen the emails i sent out they they didn't play friday they didn't play saturday and we were wondering if they're going to play sunday and they're all said the sun's out and everything's plowed i think we're come so just a couple pieces of business said this is a valley stage production and i just want to remind you guys it's a long ways off but august tenth will be the eighth annual valley stage up in huntington and sara get it out of the way now for those pesky and couple acts that we've got that we're excited about the stray birds i don't know if you've heard of the stray birds but you definitely want to check them out they're real hot commodity right now joy kill sorrow is another act that we're going to have and then we've got some local acts sarah grace and miriam bernardo and the modern jazz i'm sure the modern brass quintet so it should be a fun day and i know summer's a busy time it's hard to get people's attention but august tenth check it out and make sure to check out the early stage dot net for any other events that are going on similar to this one today but i hope that all of you were able to take one of the flyers downstairs and get kind of an overview of what we have assembled here today because it's very unique it's very exciting the soundcheck was fabulous looking very much forward to this and without further ado i'm just going to say sweethearts night out let's i think you guys got the general impression that we have really couples involved on this side of the room anyway i have many people came here as part of a couple yeah right how many people came here as the other show is that you know we're going to everybody will play together at the beginning and end of the show and maybe sometimes in the middle and then well each couple will get a chance to play some stuff as a two w with certain and then we get also the rule is that we get to draft any other man any couple for anything that we might want to do for just a couple of tents and so on out of that set of rules singers try to and we were thinking well should we do the show all and weekend after valentine's day or should we should we do it as sort of a night apology show you know oh honey i'm sorry africa but let's go to see this that you know but i turned out better you know planning ahead you know it's sort of a bad you know better but i put in general i think that oh yeah and so then it's in everybody's so there's all kinds of great better you know more accurate maybe trenchant even observation about what might be the best pickup line i don't know i think it's there's no verbal there's no verbal the very best pickup line is a simple hi fi so you have to figure out how you're going to deliver that high and this is the interesting part this works one hundred percent of the time for i know who did this study in a  lab ok well we're going to do one of the one of the great love songs of all time written during how we got different generations represented here tonight in emmys and my generation but we're going to bring hanukkah and my country to help us with our next election again right from the previous i love q and a time tenor guitar like a regular guitar since it only has four strings and it's tuned differently set a good explanation perfect listen i hope the dubious distinction of being the only married couple not the only married couple in the world that the only married on stage anyway that doesn't that doesn't make us any better just means that in our promo photo we weren't smiling any english and you can't he doesn't have a telephone so the only way to get in touch with him is just show up at his door and and then hopefully learn some tunes which our friend greg boardman did of course he doesn't speak french so he had to speak through his through translator which was simon's wife who does speak english so that's how we got that tune and the second tune was is called the sank which directly player named liz carroll and it's called out on the road and the third one is another tune that i wrote that doesn't have any name but right now i'm going to call it the sweet hearts we're being joined by all the couples have we actually officially introduced all of us yet some of us you may know and some of us you may wish you didn't know some of us you may get to know better as the afternoon progresses but we're sick to be here either way this on my right is hanukkah castle all the way over from boston corey mario in the back on the bas so we're going to do one last song and then take a little break for intermission and this is actually a song that's going to be on a coming album and doing a new cd or i rather i've been working very very slowly on a new cd for a very long time and it's think it's finally going to maybe actually came out and be available for sale perhaps this spring maybe this song is one that i hope you know and i'll sing along called crimson and clover and we'll leave you after that for the intermission and you can browse the cd c d s in the back hallway or browse books i think since we're here and then we'll be back for more music after the break so this is actually in the category of we have a not only our current i'm the only married couple but we're the only couple currently on stay with a toddler and we have a lot of discussions at home about which songs are appropriate for our toddler and this is one that is one of his favorite inappropriate songs i think i should just keep talking because everybody's looking at me and so my name is mike block and my sweetheart is hanukkah castle at least for this cake and it's funny because we've played together for years and this is the first time that we've overtly made the fact that we're a company the selling point rather  there are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here is to love each other and to each other learn how to write a jig and i got close really close it's in sixty eight that was pretty much all i was basing it on and it's called the important thing is if they happened to be the same size like yeah right you're supposed to be highly compatible if your forearms are about the same  think no matter what country are living in and and the wonderful opportunity to live in china a couple years ago for about three months and this is a beautiful love song that i would sing at karaoke about once a week and i made up the words then except for this one sentence which you will hear later understand why i don't make up part up but now we're going to sing the real word that's a little too close to home for that guy this last first of these last two numbers are also going to be a medley was written by dr thomas who was one of the great pop music songwriters and apparently he  had he wrote some great you know bunch of songs none of which i can actually name for you right now but you if you would recognize all of them i give you a list you're busy making lists about forums and things like that so