hafler is a singer pianist and songwriter whose voice has been described as a delight of mellow control and expression unique for its distinctive melodies her style is influenced by laura nero carole king with some jazz and over in the mix her new cd of original songs i could see peace is beautiful meditative music with a spiritual message sung in an engaging style and she has a website of course carol dot com and she also has a place on facebook as well so as we're getting set up here for carol i have to say that on a personal note there was a a i forget what it was it was a fundraiser tommy do remember which fundraiser was which one a radio and they had all these different things that you kind of put your little ticket in and be able to win something and i was like oh i saw that there was a ability to have a songwriting lesson with carol and i'm like ok i took like almost all my tickets and i put them into the thing and i won i was absolutely so thrilled and so it was just such an honor to be able to get a songwriting lesson from carol because she was truly tremendous and as you talk about it someone who is a singer and a songwriter her whole style of how she approaches her music and is able to i think help inspire other people to be able to write music and sing music was just tremendous and then she also then was able to inspire me by one of the songs that she had sung and  it live for me as we were at our house and it was just so wonderful and it sounded just like i'm sure is it would be on her record too so so carol come on down i'm right so happy to mind my telling you that story so i was so honored thank you so much you're i'd like to start out with a song that i wrote for my husband and we're still together thirty seven years later i call this is the reason i brought my own piano so i could get the electric piano sound on this next song it was a beautiful acoustic instrument here and my husband was complaining why did you have to bring this why did i have to carry this when there's this beautiful acoustic but this is why as it gives the mood that i want it's it's called i am spirit and it's on my new cd which is called i could see peace and i could see pieces inspired by something called a course in miracles a spiritual teaching that is about inner transformation forgiveness is a spiritual way of life and if you've ever heard the expression i feel more like a spiritual being having a human and no i feel more like a spiritual being being having a human experience man and this next one is the title song to my cd i could see piece and the full phrases i could see peace instead of this and this phrase just has taught me so much  it applies to everything relationships families life in general and you can also dance to it so you know that's another good thing and it has a chorus that is really easy to learn this every time that comes around you can sing it that would be awesome before my last song i just want to mention i am selling c d s i also sell them on their own i tunes and amazon and cd baby and i have a facebook page called carole have learned using the website listed on the program is not operating right now unfortunately i'm looking for someone to do a website for me if anybody's going to let me know after song and it can i think of it as you could sing it to your husband your wife your partner the divine but it actually comes from the movie musical dr doolittle in which it's some to seal and it's called when i look in your  day on video camera and downstairs you probably saw when you came in linda irving and her husband she is mia john irving and john also was the one who helps us out with all the snacks but there's john that's right john the man with the hat in the back there awesome awesome evening that we've been going through so far here and the other thing that i need to mention is oh actually my little question to the audience is how many people have been out to our cafe improv web site hands up just just one two three four  all right more people need to go out to our cafe improv web site cafe improv dot com we have the lineup supposed to go ahead we have the lineups posted at least a week in advance and so you can get a chance to see all the different acts that will be a you get to go through and also see the best we have the best of two thousand and sixteen and twenty fifteen up on the website as well  who's in the third row here always jokes because no matter where i go it seems like meet somebody that i went to high school with tuning up in the back room  comes up to me who is the drummer in the band that's coming up after me william hill who i graduated high school with can't get away from it minnesota so up in northern minnesota there's not much to do on the lake except fish ride on a boat and and hike perhaps so we're staying with relatives awesome time up there and i was looking forward to hiking i'm not much of a fisherman and halfway through halfway through our week up there i broke my toe so now i can't walk right so i'm like what i'm going to do so so i went down the dock and i and i played guitar for a long time but this song is called  it just came to me i don't know where it came from one of those things and mystical sort of thing it just comes to you but i used to be an assistant minister and one of the most serious stories but i found sort of comical in a way and bear with me here is when jesus goes out to the garden to pray and it's after the last supper where they had wine and i always thought if it weren't a religious sort of story it becomes a funny in the way because he goes off to pray and he comes back and his disciples  that they've fallen asleep and here's this like nassib lee important event that's supposed to take place and he wakes them up and he goes off to pray again it comes back and they're sleeping on so i sort of put that into today context and i'm thinking there is so much so much going on in the world today so i was just thinking about that but the story  is written about a character named saint agnes who runs a coffee shop and i was trying to think of ways to create a net metaphor lotsa kisses that we get in our life there's these kisses that god willing are you know happen over and over again husband or wife goes off to work you kiss them every morning you kiss and every night when they get home you have kisses for your children you have kisses for your dog you know they happen over and over again but there are some where you only get one shot at that kiss and this song is somewhat autobiographical the first vers for all the women out there written from a woman's perspective the second verse any fathers out there may have married off a daughter anybody out there and the third vers stuff about to happen around and is happening and there are so many people walking around out there with blinders on essentially sleeping sleepwalking so this is my song to ask them please to wake up a lot of people think that they can't do anything or that their individual efforts aren't worth anything so they don't bother and that's it no matter much well here we go that was gordon thomas ward gordon thomas moore brought some c d s with him tonight yes and they are what ten dollars year this local band featuring dave echo on guitar and voice william hill on drums and rich thomas on bass they've just finished their first full length album d b m fifty will have to tell me what that stands for sound is a more musical approach and the group started experimenting with a mixture of yet dark songs with a very green line keeping the sound consistent and they are t the state with their new songs so as they come getting set up here kathy improv i'm always likes to remind us that we are here for saturday of every month that for you know what else happens to be careful about that there