friends who have done this too and it's a great way to come out here and practice being in front of the people and it's always good to practice your playing of the people and it's a good opportunity to get yourself out there yes it looks like a great experience what got you started in playing violin and well i started in fourth grade when you start really early and then you get in with a school extra gram and then it got a little easy for me so i took private lessons and now here i am very cool who do you take private lessons there i take it through sherry dryer and she actually lives right around here so she's a local here what is your favorite part about playing the violin i do really like the ability that the musical lets you to express yourself it's really easy to you know you feel and that's when the great scrapes part of playing an and again it's a good way to practice for recitals and concerts it's just something fun that i can do when i'm performing so it's something i really love to do well very fun do you have a favorite song or a few songs that are your favorites said you were playing sense fourth grade how old are you right now i'm fifteen sabia sophomores here and that is how many years that you've been playing violin five five wow so that's a long time have you ever tried any other instrument other than the violent well i actually have a mandolin and that is like a violin but it's double string and it's a guitar and i have played the piano so well very cool have you ever thought about bringing that down here for the street performer serious oh my i'm not exactly the primo brianna's i used to play but then i switch the violence i've been played in a while very caught anything you would like to share with the audience about yourself well i have gone to find a camp so that's cool and i would really like to go to the international program with them as they go to europe and play that was so good i was so impressed by your playing already well i guess that's all we have for you it's we're going to go see if we can find a few more performers today but thank you for joining us we'll be right back well there you have it that was pretty simple all right well thank you so much for joining us we're going to go see if we can find a few more performers thank you so much for letting me interview today public heaven thank you i hope you have a fantastic time performing for your audience and thank you so much  are back and i'm here with laney who is a guitarist here at the street performer series thank you so much for being here with me today would you like to tell the audience what you do down here each thursday well not every thursday but the ones that i'm scheduled i sing and i play guitar it's a lot of fun alright well how old are you and where to go to school i am seventeen and i go to hong christian a very cool what got you started in performing i like to play guitar i like to sing i actually started out playing bass at first but transitioned to guitar more and it's just a lot of fun i enjoy doing they are very cool i know it's going to all right what did you start playing instruments in high school or when did you start playing all these instruments and singing i started playing bass around eighth grade and shortly after i picked up a guitar and i guess i've kind of been singing my whole life but i really started to really weird but i've kind of gotten used to it well that's good to hear what your say is your favorite thing about performing for the down town hall an audience i get to do something i love and i get to be paid for it and i get to meet all sorts of different people when they come and watch me and we talk and everything else is there certain person that inspires you with their music i really like just the whole group coldplay everything they do i sing a lot of their stuff so cool i love them anything else you would like to tell your audience today anything about you entrusting fact what you love most about life i really it's everybody should come and visit me downtown tip well yes they enjoy your tips because you probably use those for gas money and other things you know your seventeen year old you need money for it will come check him out i can't wait to hear him later on play guitar thank you so much  we make our way down the streets i have now got the opportunity to interview eli who plays piano and sings while he does it which is completely awesome thank you so much for letting me interview you today would you like to tell us a little bit about yourself well outstanding you have an amazing array amortized how to play this on the piano how many times a week do you think you practice oh man i've heard is a lie like five to seven definitely paid off that was so good you are amazing i was like blown away like holy cow all right well what do you think is the favorite thing for you performing for this audience on thursday nights i really like all the little kids that come by it is just so cute when they just caught it's really fun to have a look up to your like wow i really want to do it someday you know you could change somebody's life when they hear you saying and play you know you could inspire them to perform so that's so awesome anything else you would like to tell your audience tommy i'm fifteen ok i'm luke i'm almost sixty and you fifteen very cool and what's your name nick nick all right well when did you guys form this band we did this a little while ago or specifically for this and then you know we started doing this and now we're starting to play a couple other places in our local town we were from grand haven so if you come down here and yeah how did you guys hear about the down town hall and street performer serious i a couple of years i've been i've been going down here a lot about four years ago i went down here with a couple of my friends we played violin down here like fiddle music and then we came down to do a couple solo piano things here and i decided not good at this well we're basically we just kind of try to play as much in the in the jazz kind of era which we think is kind of different because you know most kids our age are listening to a good music in my opinion you know i'd just like to do as much jazz as we can keep it keep it alive that's awesome they are trying to keep that alive what is your favorite thing about performing for your audience i really like just to just i've i've been performing a long time and i just love playing to people and especially when there are people come and ask me you know what's this or what's that how do you do this i just love answering questions and talking to people very cool maybe you should take my job o people what do you have a favorite thing about performing i think it's so much fun it is so much more fun than practicing the play for people this is how many times a week do you guys think that you practice together we do a couple times a week maybe one of every time  high school and just practice for a couple hours is it hard while you're in high school to get the time to practice does it seem overwhelming we've never done during a school year but during the summer we both we all have fairly open schedules very c anything else you'd like to add any favorite songs anything you want to share with us today i know my first real favorite song on our list is in the mood the glenn miller song that's personally