started as an intern right out of ryder university so i became a little bit more of a hand in this event every year now for the past two years this is my event that i put on every year when you actually start hard planning for this  i would say early as may i start to think about what this will look like we try to do something new every year and i always like doing a really exciting community component and this year's the paint by number mural so i started thinking about that a while ago because i like something a little different and fun every year to tell the audience what's in your job that they wouldn't expect as part of your job description sure well as program coordinator it's really just across the board so along with the open house i'm in charge of the evening with bollywood event that's also coming up in september over at the prince and shopping center so all are free community events but i also lend a large support in the gallery as well and just i like twenty eighteen open house for the princeton art council and we have a celebrity a long time princeton resident baseball coach everything jim levine jim how do you feel right now taking over the reins temporarily we don't know here princeton arts council yeah thanks adam on i am serving as interim director while we look for a permanent executive director it's great the staff here is great the programming is great the community support of this organization is fantastic so i'm really looking forward to digging in helping out the arts council any way i can you give me the big picture what are you looking about twenty eight hundred in terms of programs events membership sure so i'm  people are aware that membership has certain advantages in the arts council you get the arts card which gives you discounts and various places you get discounts on educational programs that we do here so we really want to see if we can build our membership up to lots of people in the community and you're approachable any time they see you in the street at the arts council they can come talk to you learn what's going on absolutely feel free my door is open just stop by the robeson center and i'm happy to meet anybody or talk with anybody good luck and i'm sure things are going to go even better at the arts council and twenty eight team where with john abbott before we get into what you do now you were working for n p r i was a contributing reporter of music and i teach ukulele and beginning guitar here and my going to my second year what are the pros and frustrations of teaching music well it's like any other discipline it depends partially on the students sometimes they're really charged up about it sometimes they're trying it out just to see how they like it and sometimes they just go crazy most of the students i get to work with here especially at the arts council are very enthusiastic and very passionate about learning music and sometimes too they bring a previous experience either on the same instrument or say at the piano or something like that so it's always it's always great fun someone wants to tinkle the ivory or whatever whatever you want to play check out john abbott at the princeton arts coun arts council opening today i love being here i'm here for their fall open house today and you know they just want everyone to be aware of what's happening here there it come see what they're all about they're scots they've got so many great things going on here today there's local artists there's local illustrators there's ceramics demonstrations going on there's dancing happening today just the whole community is coming together it's a great event families kids membership a hands on activities and chris can i ask how's the station doing you guys have surviving everything you like and just indestructible that's right we are here in the community and we're here to stay so yeah you're right we are indestructible so be on the lookout for the person or council become a member and also listen to w p s you like that and good luck to jim levine interim director at the arts council i enjoyed it good conversation music we got free t shirts and now we're going to move maybe less than a quarter of a mile i think ne of my directions right the first annual princeton music fest get your dancing shoes going we talked to one of the organizers jamie volker and members of the band the big valley bluegrass also get to see me dance with the jazz aficionados a lot of fun good food musical fest i can sing you want to hear my song i wrote for my daughter the monkey versus donkey dung gay versus monkey anyway if you can probably get they want me thing even though it's a catchy song so we're going to talk to people musicians producers directors and everyday folks come join us at the what are we what are we at i mean things happen so fast here this is the palmers where music best music they secretly we all have this walter mitty fantasy about playing music what do you guys play we play bluegrass music and we're all out of the lehigh valley this is allison for practices and making sure everything's always dialed in and finally tune in you know these guys are professional musicians been around for years happy to enjoy them not too long ago and that chemistry that we have off the stage that gives us the ability to do what we do on the stage excellent well we're going to see what's the name of your band we are big valley bluegrass hi i'm jamie volker palmer square i'm a square yes what are we going to see today at the first annual palmer square music fest we're really excited we've brought a bunch of different bands to come in and perform today we're starting with big valley bluegrass on the side stage we're going to open the main stage with a swing at alex a jazz band out in new york city they are a tribute to the jazz fist which we've had for twenty six years with just kind of molded a new event today after some analysis side stage we have victoria watts she's an acoustic player out of new york i'm sorry out of new jersey down the jersey shore followed by the shanties an irish band out of philadelphia and then we're going to be back on the side stage with some assembly required are one of our house bands i've played a couple of events here people seem to love them and then our main acts tonight for forty five to six thirty we have the nerds out of the jersey shore i can i can go on and on with the north west shelf when the way you know what you're doing you're going t mile a minute we should let you go but you're doing a great job today you haven't stopped once today so far you know want to one of the additions we have instead of just coming here and hearing music and food you're also getting some of the great retail stores from palmer square so if you were to walk down the main strip you're going to find princeton t shirts you're going to find paintings of from princeton you can get your hair done you could get a fairy braid from salon p r there are some really really great stands a lot of fun things that you can purchase you can participate and th now the only shell that serves princeton t v talking about princeton people places and things where the palmerston square first annual music fast i'm talking to dave post post and you're with the band with the band swing at the like what kind of employ absolutely you've got to give them what they want right now so you know we've been doing it for twenty years our twentieth anniversary this year we're happy to be here in princeton where and to get on the other band going on here and everybody will have a great time today a website or do with jazz we are in the business of promoting and preserving and presenting jazz so our mission is to make sure that this uniquely and credible american art form stays around for the ages from the dawn up until the new music up until what's going to come next educate promote you know more people to enjoy just all type of correct yes we have a concert series that's happens ten times a year we hold it on a sunday afternoon at shanghai jazz it's typically the third sunday of every month is that one of the located shanghai jazz in madison new jersey and it's free to our concert to our members it's ten dollars to the general public that ten dollars is applicable to membership if you choose to join that day it's always a wonderful wonderful stable of top notch jazz musicians and we also have a generations of jazz program which is a curriculum based program we take into schools and libraries thank you w w w n j j s dot org all kinds of information on that and then every spring we have an amazing student concert of those five scholarship awardees so it's really been very impressive all quickly all what was to i dig the music but now we leave palmer square and go about two miles to the dyke farm home of the a star the saudi of princeton with another one of their shall i say outrageous the fun events edible princeton you learn about how people a past we're going to honey picnic i'll call maybe not anyway forget about the present we can't look towards the future let's get on with the past and i'm very hungry let's go historical society of princeton i would love a job like that book's time discovery had everything what do you want here today what is part of here we have part of our open archive series where we pull out and in the collection related to a specific topic and it's a tie in with the event here at updike today we have i had m's relating to a variety of restaurants in princeton that we have in our archives so anyone interested in princeton or me or i guess you'd call me a to  i love the fact that in an open archive setting like this we kind of get a chance to really pull materials out and allow people to interact with them without the items being behind glass and it's really great people who are visiting getting to drive the narrative and the questions and i think it's great to help people understand that these are items with the past behind and that they have stories to tell come to the  hudak the peacock in the new new new new peacock and old place but new decorum i heard it's a trendy eatery bar place to meet and greet people in town right now what do you have here right now we have a sampling of our heigh better place to go yes our website the peacock and dot com has the full history of the varied history well i can't wait to have some tea it looks delicious i'm getting hungry and thirsty as i speak my name is stacy roth well today i'm going to be discussing the rise and fall of tea in the eighteenth century because you know he became very popular in the american colonies but because of taxes and other policies by the british government there was a rebellion where he was dumped and no one wanted to drink it and so i'll be discussing kind of you know the story behind that and the colonists because they really didn't want to give up their he went into their gardens and came up with a lot of substitutes to use in their tea pots in place of the tea that came from china so we get a historical lesson a background and we get to taste some lovely tea or interesting tea homegrown indigenous native american tea for lack of a better word not serving any talking so just scratch and sniff to scratch and sniff i can live with that environmental sustainable stuff is on the west side of town so in princeton we're on the side and here in town woods and it's the friends of her town which which is f o h w dot org that's our website and so we're we're working to save the also a house that they donated later and that's a really neat house and we're hoping to you know renovated and have events out there and really nature walks all kinds of good stuff it's like going away says it's like getting we're here for history fast we have a number of activities going on including a hands on family cooking class and we have a revolutionary t v program we're trying to do something for all ages and have opened up the site for picnicking and there's music in mind games walking tours coming up for the fall we have another historical fiction book group that will be october we have some teacher workshops so many things you can visit princeton history dot org and see the full calendar of events  and what a great time for everybody i think i had a great time we were in the arts council got a free t shirt went to the music fest in palmer square i got to dance with  interesting people in some great food and hear some great music then we went to the historical society of princeton learned about the lot of indians how people ate back in the day how tea was this and that and we played an old fashioned game i forget what had fun and then heard my shoulder so i'm very happy princetonian now against the only show for and about princeton on princeton t v it's coming another chapter an interesting history that is princeton so please check out