shows have grown and and the audience has grown and and so it's right time i mean this yeah membership is hit all time high yeah we're folks we're actually a one million dollars ahead of where we were last year which is kind of blows you away when you think last year we had lion king i know you know it's like what's going to become a lion king groupie because i went to see the movie last night you know it was it was good you know i had heard it got not so great reviews but i loved it you know and i've been to africa twice and love the animal yeah and we're you know there's something so special about animals so you know it was great to have become a language you know but one of the things i love about the van wa we've tried to have a really diverse programming and one year i know i had been told you know someone wrote me a letter and said there's not enough you know latin programming or hispanic programming and you know i could rattle off the number of shows we've had but this year one of the great stars from broadway and movies john leguizamo this right is taking a show his show out on the road and so we grabbed it so i really hope people turn out do you want to explain to let history for morons which is kind of a weird title but i think it has to do with the fact that his son came home with history books where there were no latin in there and he's saying what what's going on here yeah i think what did they so thrilled that we're having this show in sarasota it and it's it's gone gone on going on sale and it's november th and i really would urge everybody to see it you're going to have a laugh riot up and yeah  premiere and i'm really thrilled because you know he is such a diverse actor and the projects one minute he's in a zombie movie and then the next minute you know he's doing high art and he can do it all he can do it ok he can do it all he's you know he's he's a great character actor and so i'm thrilled with that but anyway we also put on putting on sale cirque dreams holidays this is a show that's been here three times i think and it is a delightful show have you ever seen i've  lives on the other coast brings all this amazing talent to to the project and all sorts of different acts and of course this one is in the holiday theme that's right he's got like john ridley it goes around the world looking for the best actors and singers and everything fits so well in sarasota and i've seen it and it's a delight for everybody and it really will put you in the holiday mood and the costumes and the sets are spectacular there they say here it's over three hundred spectacular costumes and they're there right amazing you know i think about i became friends with neal and he invited me over to his workshop over on the other coast and the costume shop where i mean all the fabrics it's really definitely my and people talk about you know sometimes that you know stars are singers you know lose a little when they're older you know god knows i limp along you know but johnny mathis i've seen him so many times  hits every note i know that cool charm so sweet almost shy you know very shy you're right it's interesting but such a presence on stage and he plays he's a legend and i'm so i mean  sure younger people may not know but you know misty they've heard chances are it's not for me to say correct and johnny is here and he hasn't been here for a couple of years and he's here in april on april th and we're really oh this is crazy and then somehow i got hooked back on it and you know i have such a stressful job and a busy life and i go home and it's just like oh i don't see it because last night my wife had it on yes and i'm sitting there why do you have this thing on i went over to sit next to yes and i got glued to the say i want to believe little big guy this time with some sort of crazy but but they decided to expand their brand because of course they have the bachelor the paradise and so this is a live stage show and they announced last night on television that ben he didn't one of the bachelors of old is going to be the host and there's going to be i think a few other of the famous faces from the bachelor and it's going to involve local men and women and i know i wonder who they're going to choose but i wish i would get the final say and it's in may i made the seven and the sad thing for tickets will go on sale or probably as this airs have already been on sale rect and i would suggest getting them now because we're getting tons of phone calls because i'm watching the television last night they announced the tour and that's right oh my god i've been away to bring artists in for the show which i think is so nice you know we often talk to sponsors and things but we have yeah and reverend barry white who are our next friday fest guests and other delights i'm going to really look forward to talking to them because i've seen them and of course they have had i can't tell you how many reiterations of their names they have the one thing they have it's quality and dance ability and they're just going to make for a great evening in august so we will be back in a minute at the van wa 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 welcome back to out the band way as well as i've said in our last section we're so delighted to have artists with us again this is been wonderful to summer because we often only talk you know to local businesses but we have artists this year and with me today is isn't a credible band and i think last time we played it must've been four thousand people yeah yeah yeah and you know sometimes it turns over because some people come at five o'clock and then people come after work and you know it really is a cool evening my favorite nights are when the agree my grandmother's didn't look like you i must just look like traditional grandma you know what you look great thank you but you both thing in the band you both are vocal lead vocalists correct i play bass and saying and then vocal plus we also have j r mack on keyboards he sings lead yeah but we are we're blessed to have a lot of vocal talent and the band has been around for six years and you had a bunch of different names if you know i remember the st time i with babies and grandparents was and every i mean i thought i saw like five year old kids dancing as well as parents and families i mean it was just it's a free event and i we have some new food vendors this year a lot of great food trucks and you know i've to caution everybody please check with us or don't just not come because it's raining in your area where the one is a lie the friday fest i actually was on a plane circling trying to land to get here but it was my birthday too so it was terrible i stuck up in the air and i wanted to get to friday but the problem was it rained all around us and so there weren't a lot of people here because i think when you see rain out your window oh my god i don't want to logon t hrough that but down here at the band wait till it was gorgeous that night so many course i guess the opposite could be the truth but you know please check out you know with a b c seven who's one of our sponsors are with us you know and  on down you know just because it's raining in your little piece of the world doesn't mean it's raining here you know and it's such it's you know many times we've moved them inside but it's not the same as you know it's just not the energy that you feel outside right right were you been you know at the st time because a lot of people don't know because we play a lot of late nights a lot of bars and stuff like that and a lot of people don't do that and how do people find out where you're playing if you have a website or something absolutely if you go to  new website where we've got a lot of compliments on it really excited about it it's beautiful river berry on the phone dot com it's the best way to not work because you know i really go out to fest you know seafood festivals and i find some of these fantastic bands such as yours are playing and if i knew that you were there you know i might be more apt to come out you know all by myself but i just think the music is fabulous but i mean i have a note that says your latest single is love shine and tell us tell us about what's happening with that  it and we just added like four more right like yesterday for more stations were added yesterday which makes it twenty it's just it's a bullet basically we're going to pass the main thing and i think it's really interesting for radio programmers or how does that work very well that has everything to do with our new manager or were we just cut a kind of a random phone call a few months ago by a guy name already fletcher who's a famous actor and comedian and he retirement on the music side and i love the manager band and he has done an amazing job and he actually had a contact with a guy that owned a lot of kiss f m stations around the country and you know it's it's pretty i mean the music world is very different it's hard for a band brand to really get record deals anymore that but they get distribution deals so he actually is working with an attorney that's being stock one of the most famous music attorneys in the country and he's now our attorney and  things are really taking off that is so fantastic and i really urge everybody to come out and see reverend barry and see and the most gorgeous grandmother i've ever met and the next and we will see you back at the  myth the participation of residents in local government is very important to the well being of any community volunteer advisory boards and committees are a great opportunity for local governments to engage their citizens in the process of crafting policies and tackling issues the city of sarasota has over twenty five advisory boards and committees with numerous opportunities for our citizens to volunteer their time and expertise from parks and public art to the historic preservation board many advisory boards require some experience in particular fields or professions and some only require residency in the city of sarasota for more fest in september right we do we have already in l a by september th who will be here and there he was on the show remember that's right that's right and they're from tampa bay area i guess and their music confuses funk j blues soul and rock in other words every day going to be a great time to have a fun time that's on september th but we've we've had we've just mentioned at the beginning of the show some of the shows that we just put on sale but currently on sale  we have a few more because we've been talking about all the broadway season you know and now it's great as we're starting to release the shows and come right after labor day all of the shows are correct on sale now course as you will be what  your nd year i just went through its st year so i've gone through a whole cycle so as you learn you know the brochure happens you have these deadlines you push me on and then we book some fed test it shows after the deadline so when our season announced there still will be a few more to come right always but right now we have on sale one of my favorite broadway musicals it's called once and this is a late late minute addition to the lineup and it's october the th and i think it has some of the most haunting music and it starts out well because you're allowed to come up on stage to have a beer in the beginning and so get you know and it won the tony award for best musical and a bunch of other tony w so i think you're going to be making sure that you're there i only want this looking forward to it and then we switch to rock n roll tell me about a little bird fifty years of rock n roll stuff from the forty's through the eighty's so a lot of different rock n roll well they have the artists that are given tribute to his truck berry elvis presley buddy holly bob dylan the beatles motown simon and garfunkel elton john stevie wonder you name it and of course if all those people were actually the ticket price would be brought some fantastic rock singers and some broadway singers and they really do gorgeous covers of all of these famous artists show it so i'm looking forward to that and then  have a show that i'm looking forward to because i'm always looking at new technology and you know you go to some of the arenas and i've seen the hologram shows so i think this is the st one that we've had at the band ways and this one is roy orbison and buddy holly i don't think they ever performed together so this is an opportunity to see two legends on stage to hologram and yeah and backup and so forth and that the on november th and so i think that should be a great time and so i'm i'm really about that we've had since i've been here we've had willie nelson and dolly parton but dwight yoakam is in that vein you know country stardom right and he's had all my gosh twenty five million albums i know twenty you that many times this is in my top five shows of the year dave cause and his friends christmas tour every year he brings some passion testing as he does and you know and then he brings some favorites and i think one that everybody cherishes is jonathan butler from south africa who does such a haunting rendition yeah christmas song and of course the big joke is dave cause is jewish you know i heard he put some hanukkah song oh yes you know  i love the fact that you know we can all you know experience each other's right choice you know and this year the guests he has melissa manchester who write so many great or full songs you know gosh midnight blue don't cry out loud you know michael hope i get this name right michael lincoln and it's what's great is he is from copenhagen and he plays the sax and so when dave has i've seen him with candy doppler it's other people so when he has multiple people playing the sax with him on stay it is really as i who has other they do that's a very rarely do and that show is on over twenty nine for the whole family it's right after thanksgiving and we always open the days cause tours and we're really thrilled to have him back is a great way to open the christmas season for the holidays and then of course in november we have the sort of king of comedy right now sebastian man of skalkaho is here right and we have two shows tickets are going fast oh my god and it's called you bother me tour it's on november th we had to add a nd show because the st show almost sold out and then to wrap up some of the new shows that have gone on sale is another old favorite frankie valli in the four seasons right we used to have them every year but it's been harder and harder to get them booked and so we're thrilled that frankie is coming back february th of course you know frankie's life is what jersey boys is based right on and right and and you know every time you hear every see sells out and it's one of the most fun things right and then we still have our broadway subscription on sale which has you know we have a full i mean a few of the shows we only have one or two performances but we have three that have full week so beautiful has five performances as well  wonderful wonderful story heartwarming and i know you had it finally had a chance i know i loved it yeah i think so anyway we have all these shows going on at the van ways will we have the free summer concerts and we're so grateful to be with you every month and please coming back please keep coming back to the band way