on the guitar and sounded great yeah jeremy so when you were a kid did someone in your family play music or sing or how were you introduced to music well yeah i mean you know my grandfather when he was growing up he grew up in a little town in kansas and well it was the swing around those days and he and his buddies got together and he played bass in a swing band and on top of that he traveled around with his family's thing in a little bit you know music kind of got away with them and the only thing he really started playing was records and tapes but he was doing that for me basically from day one i was listening to glen miller is bad and already and oh yeah all the good ones out there it sure rubbed off on you sure yeah why we're lucky we have those influences in our life and how did you come to meet these cats and have this band come together well matt and i went to high school together where'd you go to school we went to boulder high oh ok you've been pla couple different groups since then and plan on the street a lot busking and sure that's how i came up you know and getting bands together getting gigs and i guess met chris through a mutual played a lot of gigs with him he also does great video work flat nine design if anybody needs that he really does yeah i use that clip of of your band that they produce to put on the event you know you can put a little video or a picture really nice stuff what was that something rolling on blues yeah yeah we might as well do that one and i you know yeah that's great man so you know when you were when you were young  your grandfather was your biggest musical influence did you start on the alto i actually my first instrument was the clarinet the tune and well no it was the trumpet and then  i got braces and then switched went to reeds went to clarinet i had to teach myself in the back of the clarinet section in middle school but then you know i learned about more about jazz and that sort of thing and learned i should pick up the sax and then i got a real teacher who was your first teacher greg liberte of the boulder he's actually a neighbor of mine could walk to his house for lessons after school and he really drilled into me you know learn your skills learn your chords learn when it's a melody when it's in harmony and you're really in also man you sound like somebody from another time you know i don't mean to be too esoteric or crazy but i am and i love that old music you know and i believe that kind of thing you know maybe you played it before or something or i don't know we do well in that realm of spirits being musicians but yeah it's really it's really i'm really glad to have you guys and if i could maybe talk to brianna a little bit about swing in denver let me get a microphone for you  that side perfect all right brianna you told us just briefly about swing in denver we have some great dancers here from swing in denver tonight we're so glad to have you guys bring so much fun and enthusiasm in dancing is so much a part of the music you know especially in this kind of music and if you would maybe tell us again about swing in denver and if you want to go a little more in depth about things too and if you would introduce the dancers to us oh sure so the big thing we have coming up i was going to talk about one of our events we are going to do what we call the speakeasy soiree it's a big event coming up january twentieth and you get more information out swinging number dot com but it's going to be at the hangar at the stanley marketplace and staple definitely come out of that it's going to be great fun and i think there's a lesson as well if you don't dance no problem just bring a friend and take them and you'll be good to go dancers come up here so you can see their faces and again going together we really enjoy like making rhythms and dancing and kind of playing along with the band as we're dancing creating something together i think it makes it a lot more fun shirts awesome it's awesome so swing in denver i know kenny nelson is he the key figure definitely is and so swing in denver you do events around talk about maybe some of the events you do around and people can come i know you already said this with your the soiree but so people can come to regular events and take lessons that kind of thing ye s we do weekly classes we do wednesday nights and thursday nights the venue information is available on our website but we also do a dance typically it's twice a month the first and third wednesday of every month we call it the wednesday night hop and often we have bands about every six weeks or so jeremy money comes sometimes we have also a lot of local bands that come britney is also a singer her band sometimes plays for us so you know hey it's great fun what your band brittany awesome but i got to check ya'll out no i'm serious really good hey we got a tough crew over here so those events where are those happening at so we have a new venue i'm not exactly sure on all the details i'm not sure if it's been announced publicly yet also i am not sure what they are my thought can you make the leap when she says the name of the place you know i am i don't know enough information to tell you that right now so go to c n n dot com all the information is available there we're also television show we feature local live music and interviews with musicians and also dancing we do some events in the field at different venues but mostly we do them here it studio here at denver open media dinner open media is a great resource for people to grow and become producers or get into video editing take classes that kind of thing and i also want to thank our video production manager for blue routes denver television mr ed ed dean the third and second scuse me and he you know without his help and our crews help none of this would be possible and it really seems to be growing quickly into something and i just hope that we can really take the music to the people