vegas and now we're getting ready to go out in january to play in los angeles for an event called for the patient safety movement foundation and we'll be playing with allison  when we play we're fortunate to have a very good high level production company do videos as well as audio and when we were in los angeles a group called stun gun productions did the work and they went from a big full band that we had then to a old school just with a microphone or a podium with alison krauss and dan timidity and they were able to do it both  successfully but we started out usually start out our shows with this song crossroads because we were at the crossroads of moving from all our different bands that we're all in to a band with a player extraordinary and we were playing in atlanta last year and he actually sent me a message on facebook and asked if he could join our band and i said of course i broke a rule but when you have somebody of that national caliber  play that wants to play with you we brought a man and he was a game changer with our with our sound and he's our second vocalist if you will playing the saxophone just a wonderful musician and a great guy so we already yeah that's fun so crossroads is a song that robert johnson wrote when he was down in clarksdale where he made the deal with the devil to become a super guitar player and then i kind of became a slide player but right cooter actually played the guitar and it was phenomenal is a great it's a great battle and it's like a four minute thirty second lesson in how to shred either in a blues fashion playin yes yes so but yeah great great song and we usually start with that and then we move into the eva cassidy songbook and we do throw in some  yeah we do streets have no name by you two we throw in a bunch of just songs to feature her voice and it works out pretty good ok  we were on the charlie ernie and lisa show and we were doing promotions for the big change around because it was just standing and they've always been a friend of the big change round up for my children's hospital supporting our us and just wonderful people and so we were scheduled to play and then something came up with a kind of could make it so mike social who's another guitarist and i ended up there and charlie had the idea  watch you guys just play songs and people guess what they are so we know probably five or six hundred songs because we were playing for a long time so we started a show called name the riff and we've been doing it the second thursday of every month  d we have papa franks as our sponsor in they have prizes if you when and so to mix it up a little bit i had tommy graves from from my guitar works tom he's a phenomenal guitar player as well as a good and jones now he runs west street digital and master guitar player i was bring i always play with guys that are ten times better than me that makes that makes me and then makes me go up go up in my  y repertoire which is good and that was a cool week because we did the show we played at the higher ground and that was the first time chris played with us after locally he had played with us out in l who's one of the top guitarists around here and tracey lord who's another guitar player and then we did our show and then we did the charlie or any lisas show and then we went and saw gary clark jr this is all in one week so it's burlington there for mine is just gold which she does beautiful we do that and christen the kind of just they go back and forth with the vocal in the saxophone and it sounds beautiful but that you know we pretty much hit everything she plays and we came out of the blocks playing wayfair and stranger and then we and he was a guitar guy too which i didn't know and then we played started up by robben ford and so we won him over very quickly which is  the pharmacy he's a pharmacy technologist technician and he's a bass player he also plays in a band jeff the writer which is very and invisible homes mike social plays and smoking gun they're singers very good too cynthia sullivan charlie plays in a band called locum which plays turkish eastern music which is wonderful they play every one of every second tuesday of the month that the radio being they have a standing our  everything and so she applied for and got a position at fletcher allen and she works with us an information systems on our electronic health record and chris as i said before we're playing in atlanta and he contacted me on face asked if he could join the band last october and i said yes he played some local shows with us some private events we play the fletcher allen christmas party every year and get to play for a couple thousand people  and we have kids play with us kids orchestra from rice and south burlington junior high so works out really nice and we just a community of music while in different band i'm we dedicated the studio to tell him and he gave us his alum pick badge and that hangs in our studio he'll we also support haiti tim is one of the founders of the vermont haiti project so we've done several benefits for them aggregate we've waste you know north of twenty thousand dollars for either vermont children's hospital in the vermont haiti project and we're also work with eight o two for northern friends of haiti  one of the things that we're doing and it hasn't come to fruition yet but jerome wants to do a musical benefit to benefit for my children's hospital so we're in the beginning stages of doing that and  in jerome brought that forward and gosh you know i'm going to do everything i can in my power to make that happen support that so that's going to be exciting so we have no do things more to accomplish you're going to comes when you have time he goes i know to a breakfast the next morning and they were playing the soundtrack from the night before and it sounded great so hopefully we'll be get that released to us and we also ran into and hung out with the sky you should check him out his name's eric w eric won a grammy for the virtual choir and he's over in cambridge right now we went to juilliard school of music and he was a choir master and he wrote music and he collected videos from around the world several thousand people and then singing his music and it's beautiful i mean you almost start crying when you hear it and he hung out with us he listened to one of our recordings and he said this is a professional recording on now we recorded with a two hundred dollars tape recorder my basement that's how good our bad is and so hopefully we're going to we're working on playing in london in may fifty fifty right now and he said he joined us if we make the choker that's real lives and so i got my fingers crossed but l a is next and we'll see what and then the big change round up while we do that and our goal this year is to raise twenty five thousand dollars and out of my group and at the hospital we're at seventeen thousand right now last year i did a mohawk haircut and to get us past seven thousand we're already ten thousand dollars more and we get presents for the kids and then that so their parents can just bring the presents up stairs to the hospital and give to the kid so we