hi everybody welcome this is our holiday edition of cafe i'm proud part of what we do here for our holiday is we celebrate the wonderful crew that helps us run cappie improv all you're going to talk about them first of all we have jean amber gado who was our wonderful director thank you and i have the privilege of working with gene on so many different projects and it is always a pleasure  have shelley who was over here who gives me these wonderful little notes that say what who's coming up next and we have these new crew members we have happening earlier we cannot ever ever ever forget our friend who is our who does our scheduling who is in from a recent parent who does our scheduling for crap and me you know who i am i know when you're sleeping i know when you're awake and and all that stuff and we started having a problem one nine hundred ninety eight and we've been doing it in this building for this wonderful amount of time and irving had her and and and and  thing we also have i mean vera who's downstairs working the door tonight and so we're now what we're going to start the show and we're going to start the show in the same name a look similar way that we normally do normally mary and i will start the show but i think it would be fun to make our strange guest from the midwest come up and do with song with me my dream that love would never i dreamed that santa would be forgiving then i was young and he crept down chimneys to my side he filled my house with endless he took my a childhood in his since overhearing all your you know one of the songs are our favorite songs w together in harmony just like the they do on the peace ricky board and now as we all know there are no racial tensions left in america yes because what america has become is a celebration of everything that is fake yes so now you me know it but this is the thirtieth anniversary centerpiece of the elves concert and as part of that we have a new cd a very adequate can all be special and so by virtue of being brave enough to come out tonight for the thirtieth anniversary you are welcome to come over here and see santa and he will give you one particularly if you've been bad for free for you is my dreams of you are moon show you thanks to joe for playing the little fire man somebody had it's not certified though so a song that doug and i wrote where we were trying to you know we think that we have these parts of us that are faults but sometimes our faults are our greatest strengths what you say do this song is called is about one of my great strengths call well we can we can be good people no matter who you know i think we should sing a song about that once i was coming home real labels i was tired and feeling down i did some horrible hideous things i hope those things are never found oh but i'm a really good person everyone i know would say it's true blue does not that i'm the least bit evolution there's just a little evil in everything i do who i sat inside upon my chair i saw man fall down the stairs i didn't stop i didn't care cool selfish is cool have a terrible fear of heights and while i was up there i was just amazed at the view and this is th each breath a brand new been writing some songs like the ones that you heard that sort of and bring you and doug have been doing some traveling and he told me that he's been travelling it's been warnings of things that you know people when they travel they're searching for the ultimate truth right and  and hear easy strange european guitar so that when i wrote it you know i was like young and good looking and there was no stigma attached to certain subject matter and then this whole thing and dusky thing came along with penn state and so it kind of i couldn't play for a while because it was just like too soon you know ok so i'm back and it's got a happy ending anyway so it's cool it's called i met santa on the internet i was every year on christmas morning i'd wake up by the fireplace i fell asleep while trying to catch a glimpse of santa just being well i just on the internet last night i thanked him for the programs when i got on line next day he said hullo and now that i've got some time to play how would you like to meet me in the playground for a while  ok here believe me that this is the promised land everyone on meet who my true way i'd go trying to start a band be the star of their own show i just had a really had a gig last friday in the entire audience yes right now we are very pleased to welcome up to the piano miss victoria  so just to remind you thirtieth anniversary of stanhope in the concert you have the new cd a very adequate christmas featuring twenty three almost all of these tracks you've heard at one point or another if you've been coming to the stand to be in the elves concerts over the years about twenty years worth of material with together every year we've been on it seven times and our very first contribution was this song that i had written with me and with his grandfather joseph genteel who  me not to play two out because i'm a really good bass player so i know we all have our own kind of personal relationship with santa and you know there comes a point in every relationship where there power balance shifts you feel like you need to take care of them in a way that perhaps you hadn't previously true we don't have to put on well now we're going to ask joe to you saw him play sax and drums previously that's if you can play guitar and drums at the same time you know we don't necessarily think about the cultural sick that he ha program anybody remember that he ha program we all of it does anyone else remember that the hee haw program was the program th well if he can play two things at once maybe i can play one so for the past seven years lambertville historical society has been putting out a cd how many of you have one of them i want to say that this song is a little bit about the tension the sexual tension that happens in christmas time it's not really like cousin hell song but it's a it's it's more more between adults will song that dogs sort of discovered and maybe manipulated a little  bit you know after you've stood in line for a long time the tension does seem to build  the audience participation song for whatever's left out there i can't see it but i know there's aliens