scary right now but you know i one thing i have learned is everything passes for feelings or emotions through crazy things happening in the world and from earth the song because i think everything will be ok don't want to benfold meets norah jones if they had a love child in brazil he has shared the stage with maroon five and the roots and given bozza no infused ted talks and performed with the moth storytellers his most recent single back at cafe improv here in princeton you know i was born here not literally here that would be strange but at princeton hospital down the street in fact i probably saw many of you at temple past couple days ago at synagogue so shana tova to those of you celebrating or as we like to say happy jew year you know in every culture at the turn of the new year it's a time for celebration and reflection and this song that i'm going to play for you i wrote for some friends of mine who are going through a particularly rough time and when you think about the new year and making resolutions think about what you did wrong that maybe you could do right next time fixing your mistakes doing things differently improving your life making resolutions to change you know we have january first is the turn of our new year but there really is no reason that any day can't be the start of your new year it's just an arbitrary day this is called new year and i think you're wrong  so i run a songwriter circle in philadelphia where i now live out of my living room actually which is a nice commute for me personally so i'm trying some new songs out on you tonight so i hope you like them this is  thank you so much for for inviting me back and then working on some some new music lately over the summer and so i'll be kind of going into a little bit of hibernation mode for fall but i have another show coming up in bethlehem pennsylvania in november and you can send my mailing list out in the lobby vestibule area over there and find out where i'll be i also have c d s and kazoos of course because everybody needs a kazoo at all times so i make sure yet another project i've been working on recently is i have been traveling around and performing with my grandfather who is ninety one years young and it's been an amazing project and an amazing journey and as much as i've grown up he's always been a singer he was a cantor since i was born in trenton new jersey and when i started playing the piano as i got older i started performing with him more and more but a couple of years ago i had the chance to travel to poland with him which is where my family is from generations back and there is something really profound about tracing the roots of your family and actually being on that ground standing in that physical space where your family once lived generations and generations back and my grandfather is a holocaust survivor so going back to poland had a lot of different layers of meanings for him and for me but it was amazing because i actually felt like i got to know the family that i never met because he was the only surviving member of his family to make it out of the holocaust and to make it to the united states and when i came back there was a lot of things running around in my head and a lot of music and sometimes you're not sure why music will strike you the way it does but i heard this song by a british band called keane and i was thinking about what it meant to be in that physical space with my grandfather and to feel the roots and to feel the earth beneath my feet tommy said even if it is not yet done because we have bare cave to our coming to you and again awesome featuring the haunting vocals of loretta allen and the soothing classical guitar melodies the funniest part of that interruption was that that is actually my daughter didn't believe it went