welcome to at the van ways all i married dental executive director and i hope everyone enjoyed a great holiday season hello how are you great to be here good to see you stephen so i survived the holidays like the first holiday in sarasota i love it i love the weather here when i feel great that's great well we have added a show since we were last on the air we have the gorgeous the fantastically talented sarah mclachlan coming have you ever worked with her i have not but i of course listen to her recordings and she's a great artist she's amazing and i had the pleasure of meeting her when she was our gal artist a few years ago but she just sings the most haunting beautiful melodies and she's going to  special very intimate evening and you know building a mystery and all of her hits that i just adore and so that it's going to be in in february on the twenty sixth and i really think you should get a ticket to see sarah mcla she is so nice and you know she has a beautiful christmas album that i loved when her song and right and so i enjoyed her and she's during another huge star we have seal right that's right he's going to be there just a few days later s programs and so everybody if you want to super evening come to see both of these spectacular stars first will have the seal show on the sixteenth and then sarah on the twenty sixth right it's right  vienna i was lucky enough to travel to vienna a few years ago and see the great new year's holiday shows and it's a fantastic thing to see the beautiful waltz although i have never understood ever since i've been to vienna you know they talk about the blue danube but anyway this is the twenty third year we're doing salute to vienna and then probably one of the greatest comedians of all times jay leno is going to be with us on the third  jay is a super nice guy he was here for a gal it's like that the head of the band ways yeah january third i unfortunately i'm going to be in new york and i'm going to miss that show and i'm really i tried to make my flight the next day at the conference starts and i'm really excited because jay is just one of these fantastic people and he does a new act and so people are going to be thrilled with that you know and then i will be back in time for something rotten oh good which is one of our big broadway almost selling out it's going very well yes still got a couple of tickets to it and that's on january seventh and eight and of course this is the show about two brothers back in the renaissance and they're trying to get one up on william shakespeare who rock star of the day and so they go to a soothsayer and they asked the soothsayer what is the next big thing so we can beat shakespeare and he says musicals how about musical about singing cats and it's like you know it's really are a lot of fun so i hope you enjoy it and then we totally change the three redneck tenors or you get some comedy with your music that's right and mike albert and they they really pro trade the young and the old elvis the older stage of his career when you know he was wearing all those white dress suit this isn't a las vegas thing yeah yeah and women just go crazy because  chuck used to say things like that mix it up yeah but he's with bucky herd and bill medley i was here one year with dave cause he's really tall you know and of course they have some of the greatest songs probably that's been played more than any other you've lost that loving feeling and unchained melody and then from dirty dancing the time of my life oh my god you know and that show should be fantastic and i really want to see if we can well they were great so what is that show january fifteenth fantastic and then we go to one of my artists that i all time love linda eder and i still say linda eder has the voice of barbra streisand she does say she is a beautiful girl she starred in she's a woman she starred in jacqueline hide her one and only big right runway show she was and immediately a smash she said you know she's done for p b s the video the diva broadway  divas said to me i don't know why they include me i only did one broadway show and i said well he kind of blew over and she is a favorite in sarasota and she's here on january seventeenth and she'll sing some spectacular broadway music as well as some of her own hits right i really love really like that so i think it's really important that we talk about the fact that you can get tickets through our box office come down and visit us or you can call us at nine five three three three six eight or you know you can go to the website in the middle of the night in your pajamas or so and that's always the best way to do it because you don't have to brush your teeth make it easy but anyway sarasota city commission has amended its rules of procedure to change the start of city commission meetings from two thirty pm to one thirty pm the evening session that the meeting will continue to start at six pm this time change will be effective starting monday nov fifth two thousand eighteen the time change will also apply to any special community redevelopment agency meeting which is held as part of a regular city commission meeting all city commission meetings will continue to air live on access to our soda t v as well as being available to  every day forty four people in the u s die from drug overdose but they don't have to do in florida if you're trying to save the life of another person you're protected from prosecution by the good samaritan all and today my guest to sydney would link from from the fine art society welcome thank you so much so you must spend almost as much time as i do here at the van ways i think that would be impossible but i do love coming to  why am i saying that about you know the fine art society and the band ways of being so in twined sure sure of all the fine arts of fighting the families were both founded about the same time and we've had an fifty year partnership now the fine arts society has a don't even know it's here but our entire collection it's of a little over fifty painting of our has been housed at family or they all paintings or sculptures or there are sculptures as well as a matter of fact a huge sculpture that had a sculpture if you will that was down below on the hill and one of our patrons on kindly took it out with their car at one point oh my goodness yeah that well about that was yeah that was quite the day but the car and our patron survived sadly the artwork to know so well so i did something else but you're celebrating your fiftieth anniversary our we are it's been a wonderful fifty years for the fine art society we also are celebrating just having  that is related to the arts and how appropriate again to be at the van ways that with all of the performances here now you know if i had one sliver of artistic talent this is in painting which i do not other than stick figures so i say from my drawings  how would as a florida artist i get you to recognize me and maybe hang one of my paintings on the van ways a wall we do have a website it's fine art sarasota dot org and there's also a phone number on there as well just contact someone in the fine art society we generally have members who are our collectors as well as artists as well as educators so we're pretty tied into the community most of the artists here know i know you  it or do you purchase it how does that work both but we generally purchase there's a collection process that has to be evaluated by the committee and voted on by the entire membership before we can bring that before we can purchase art and we are fund raising is to make enough money to purchase the art as well as gold as dollars ships and grants that's fantastic so now do you hold these meetings once a year to pick a new piece of art or i would say i abstract expressionist and it's fabulous to sit down in the in the reception room the area that looks out on the bay from one of those walls down there we also have pieces by many of the folks who are founders of rolling ringling college of art design oh great hilton leach was our first purchase for a painting and he was one of the founders of the college and our twenty fifth anniversary piece sits in the main lobby and it's by dorothy gillespie  and she's just coming she's she passed away but her son's getting ready to celebrate her hundredth anniversary over that school year about the same time we're doing our fifth and i'm sure a lot of people that don't have don't come to the van ways all as a patron and shame on you if you don't but how can they see some of this artwork that you have you have all the collection is open for public tours on the first tuesday of every month in season so basically october through may we're running a special right now because we're only doing the art tours and they are free to the public on the first tuesday of the wonderful right now we sort of sometimes are get in your way because our main focus is doing shows and so when we're loading in scenery because the tour normally goes back  stage right and on the stage and it's a little hard to do that when you're loading on the lion king or you have a star in the building so that's why this time of the year it's much easier just to see the artwork yeah and we're celebrating our fiftieth by doing it free this year only ok so folks can just come on the first tuesday if they have a group they want to schedule a tour with they can schedule to have that one we would we would and they would contact janet arena here at the they always call to set up a private tour and sometimes those can actually go backstage depending on when they when they are them yeah ok well thank you again you have been a wonderful sponsor of ours for the eleven years i've been here and we are hoping that will have the art hanging here all up so to it's been a wonderful partnership really i love having you here all right and we will be back in a minute saw the participation of residents and their 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 serious so to has over twenty five advisory boards and committees with numerous opportunities for our citizens to volunteer their time and expertise from parks and recreation to public art to the historic preservation board just to name a few many advisory boards require some experience in particular fields or professions and some only require residency in the city of sirius ota for more information on the city of sirius so this advisory boards visit sarasota f l dot gov and click on the government tab there you can find a list of all city advisory boards and vacancies and you can even download it now application own welcome back to at the band ways all isn't it wonderful having all this beautiful art all over the walls and up and ways from the fine art society who is a wonderful sponsor of ours we have now our next show that we're talking about how we mendel is one of the zany crazies of the world the and he's everywhere on television right he just brought back his game show and then of course america's got talent and that's on january the twenty third and he you know he also has this whole thing about germ he's a german you know and so i've heard couple times tried to shake hands and that is no no do that but he's here and it's a busy day because we have a school time performance for our children in the in the morning that's the nice thing about comedians they don't need a whole lot of cetera in states of you know or high school and then another show that i really like is midtown men and they've been here a few times and these are four guys that were in the original cast of jersey boys and one of them won the tony and another one was tony nominated right and they do all of the four season songs as well as they do beach boy hits and beatles and they just have fabulous harmonies have you worked with them before and they have great chemistry on stage a little bit we have a little video to show  they're here on january the twenty fifth and i can't wait to see them again and i'm really looking forward to it and then you know this this woman is far as i'm concerned is the national treasure when you think about the passing of a wreath of franklin and then sometimes one of the picks come along you know i think is or not it's there or something but you know trained to georgia and of course i love the way we were sung by barbra streisand but gladys knight puts a whole spin on it that is just  over the it's fantastic she is really really a beautiful woman a great talent and i'm so glad to have her back in the band ways on january twenty sixth i will be there helping to celebrate your birthday good with you and and they made a great broadway musical about it but i've never seen jerry lee in person and this should be i think this is going to yeah on january the twenty seventh and he's won awards galore you know so and then we go to another icon of a different kind of music tony orlando right i mean tie a yellow ribbon around the old growth trees yeah the old the oak tree i'm putting around the knot kind of but not three times he's a really iconic star and that's january twenty eighth that i wouldn't want to miss any of these shows get your tickets and do it now and then dick fox is golden boys i have a tie to a couple of these guys because you know used to hang out in philadelphia from you know my old stomping grounds and we have frankie valli who excuse me frankie frankie avalon and but we often have frankie valli frankie avalon you know he did all those great movies with with annet fabian always shows these movies what it was like when he was younger because he has he has a film of girls ripping the clothes off and these three guys have a great time together they're the called the dick foxes golden boys there on january twenty ninth and that concert is always sold out so i would recommend getting your tickets right now then neil burger we go to a different kind of music yeah broadway and we've been doing this for over a decade yes correct one hundred ten years of broadway and it's become so popular we do two shows and i will tell you the better tickets that are left are for the matinee and i really think it's become a great popular favorite now let's talk about the  would say the elephant and maybe the life in the road as rural right and king is coming have you been to the lion king a number of times of course three times with my kids yeah i look forward to bringing them back and i know just to have the lion king in our own hometown and their fantastic songs are still still tickets available because it's here for three weeks but i really would not want to miss the lion king when it's here in sarasota and it begins march fourteenth that runs through at the end of march correct twenty three performances and the best suited for your time that's right but i'm just curious how they put the genie in the bottle how do they get seventeen trailer trucks of stuff in this  if you've never seen line king they are so artistic with the way they you know do do the animals and the puppets audio and all that my god so we have a really full lineup for you i think i can't recommend enough to come out to the van ways and have a great time like we told you before nine five three three three six eight come to the box office visit our website and we will be back next month to tell you about a whole nother bu