guitar many good songs what couple of tickets that you can gain we're going to be given them a weight since now because we have a phone number eight zero two four three four to five zero zero zero we also have at the church of our channel if you want to wear it maybe in summer you can wear it now but that's going to be a gift they are going to have and the first year we'll be in march so we have time to continue promoting the festival but today we're going to you know show with one of the beautiful songs and that's a great song and i have really enjoyed his how one is a lot and today we're going to be speaking about music and also most seventeen years on the green mountain film festival that's right so why are you going to be these year well every year it has a similar theme and then it's positioned in late march so it's you know the tired end of winter in vermont month season and people are ready for something fresh they're ready to wake up and it's also  hard to get out of for mom at that time of year so we try to choose films that are a bit of a travelogue and get people sort of visually and an audio only if that's if that's a word out of a month so  we go places like this year will visit mongolia and rwanda and canada and oh boy other places i can think of all of them will take you around the world you have an entirely mine about the something that is well you know for we're you know i have to hold my cards close a little bit right now in the midst of choosing the final films and you know putting together the grand list and there's a whole process of licensing the films and and just making those arrangements so i'm a little hesitant to start throwing out titles not being one hundred percent sure that those will actually be the ones but we do have a really good array of films and i'm sure that we're going to be do one a vent at the money pillar high school auditorium so that's something that i'm hesitating to announce as well until everything is rock solid very motive for the students also yeah i think it will if all goes well it will be an exciting show it's a combination of a film and a musical performance i am going to seem bad to know i will be singing no it will be somebody quite a bit more famous than i why why well this is somebody who's traveled the world and made a name for himself as you know just a world class musician and although i'd love to consider myself amongst the ranks and not quite that far along ok you have one son beautiful forgery yeah thank you the to do overlap nicely in the recent couple of years have had occasion to work in the elementary school system in the pillar and it made sense to bring my guitar and just begin using it with kids and i was going to say slowly but actually pretty quickly songwriting curriculum evolved and it's got to the point where i can write a song about anything with kids i mean the kids write the lyrics we usually choose the context the theme and whether it's fresh from a story that that we've read together or maybe the context of something the they're studying it gives them material to work with so that they can more easily write a song we talk about rhyme and we talk about the difference between a chorus and verses and how they go together so when i approach the students and we take maybe forty five minutes to an hour to write a song and in that amount of time it's done and they're ready to rehearse it they are there just ready to go and we come up with lyrics a lot quicker than i ever would have expected and there's always a song that comes out of it sometimes the process is a little different there was a school was a project that we did last year about peace and volved an a rt project that the whole school did and a writing project where the students submitted writing to prompts about piece looks like and smells like and feels like and tastes like and  poetry i read them all and i think that is very important and in ramon we have great singers songwriters who really write very good portray either jar or rock jazz or whatever then this l dig sound the new england sow which also have a different kind of they say of whether in the songs they bring a lot of new message just about where we are living in what you have and all that kind of have us well and i guess i need to include students you know the young kids in their songwriting and poetry ability because they're they're full of stuff they come up with great ideas they're well you know what i probably just have to do one of those songs yeah squire i just started singing with the mum puter community gospel choir and it's a great group it's a huge group there are about sixty voices in the choir and  we do and i'm just finding out i mean we do this range of traditional gospel and then we do some really kind of funky upbeat contemporary stuff from viewers might be familiar  with what's called the well gospel tradition is just more contemporary rhythmic gospel and when the performance actually happens and we'll do some stuff in may there's an electric band that supports the vocal so it's  it's really live leads a very moving and it sounds beautiful i was captivated by a performance i saw in december and i have to say i was moved to just join the group so  need your voice do i get you go break one of these songs through the ripper two out of the group of the gospel music yeah no i don't i don't know any of it on the guitar yet i mean the songs are are new to me i've really just been with them for a couple of weeks and you know i want  song with them oh actually i did write a gospel song and i have shared a recording with a director i know from seeing him last night that he hasn't a chance to review yet so the best i can say is that there's a possibility that we might sing a recent song that i wrote that that is a gospel call these i'm upbeat will be wonderful well it's not the song about peace it's it's a different one but i mean th idea i had thought of it thank you sure all right so maybe i have to go if we proposed and then the people grabbing yeah all right so throw it out there and i could be a song for the gospel choir there actually a couple of other verses that i didn't include them just because it's a long song when you solicit writing from hundreds of kids you end up with hundreds of lyrics and so even with a lot of editing i still ended up with five verses for the think about peace on shows last week the radio bean and the very next night we were in randolph at a place called the black room which is a wonderful tavern there and then boom she's she's back in new york so l a vermont new york you were playing guitar night you were free in a keyboard you with a beautiful song that night and that was a full ghetto for me good well that's i guess that's how you get familiar with me sing some of those shows how the audience who also i remembered that the weather was n t they say the no permits cause had to be outside oh i remember the night going to the base got rained out and we had a good day everybody came to hell yeah i did lose the crowd that was good and i was a great show yeah you never know playing outside is always dicey even if there's a many of them yeah well a few i remember a night at red square playing with with myra and a bigger electric band and we were out in the alley and while there was an awning over the bandstand the rain came down and it was raining hard and we just sat by the power was off and we just thought we'd wait out the down poor because you know often that  passes and maybe fifteen minutes or so all the sudden this rogue wind comes blasting up the alley and the on thing just flew up against the building and the rain came down in buckets on our equipment and with some help we scramble to get everything inside of the rain and that was the end of the night i mean our gear was so fortunately nothing was damaged i don't know how but because the power was off nothing here and i want to go see it well nothing nothing got  style of music yeah yeah so i leave that to her and the family supporter with guitar and harmonies and it's you know her compositions that they're working on those occasions so now i'm here tonight to do saying i've come here strictly with my own music it's not percent true i took an old r and b tune love train which you might remember from a lot of years ago and i always liked the tune and i thought about the lyrics and there are the original lyrics are very dated they're about the cold war the bout china and russia and and that whole political temperament back in the sixty's in the sevent and it just came to me that around the time of the arab spring which was already a few years ago and things have shifted there so i was aspired to write some different lyrics about the arab spring and i think around the same time the tsunami hit you pan so i folded all of that into these newer lyrics and now that i sing it occasionally and i listen back to those lyrics they're already in the years that have passed just in the last two or three years so some of it's relevant and some of them be clear that it's already changed so the tra sure as a kid listening to that song i really didn't pay attention to the political lyrics that the verses were and it was only want to kind of rediscover the song and you know look at it from that cold war perspective  and just realize well it's a great song but it's very it's very much a period piece so we're going to do with it so you know the arab spring in the tsunami became an easy way to kind of bring it forward into the present and just make use of it all over again so twenty first and i hope somebody calls and two tickets and the film of your choice i'd also had to show for all channel that is here short from oh ok so you can have it took maybe you can go to the the first film without the church maybe you