 Hey folks, thanks for your patience. We're pretty much dialed in. We're getting ready to go here to close out the Worcester Arts Fest The very first annual I see some potential twirlers in the field. Yeah, I see you. I see you and I just get ready to twirl We're gonna freak out Freak out like a bunch of Worcester freaks and beyond so excited. I finally get to play music I've been yapping all day long But watching amazing artists and poets and authors and So it's great roll on in and just within a couple minutes. We're gonna get going. Hi, Patty It's my great friend Patty She's amazing. Okay. We love you a lot And I can't wait to make music for you Hey folks, we had a lost necklace out there that somebody brought to me does this look familiar on the back It says ask Ask the raven Elena This is a personal. It's I'm actually about to put it on But this is a really beautiful necklace that was On the front, of course, it's not just a clever thing on the back. There is a raven ceramic Hey, we want to thank Orca for being here today They're captured the whole day. What's your what's your name? This is Simon Sean was here earlier. They passed it off So thanks to Orca for capturing the very first Worcester arts fest Anybody anybody a raven necklace Jad's gonna put it on Josh said it won't fit my fat neck. Is that really nice him? Oh shoot, he's right All right Schwarzenegger Schwarzenegger Did I just call myself Schwarzenegger? Muscular neck. Thank you. Sure Ladies and gentlemen close out this Worcester arts fest. I'd like to introduce My myself but really the amazing band that rocks my socks off I've been looking forward to all day to get to actually play some music as well And this is primo on guitar, that's JJ on the bass. It's Tommy drove all the way from Connecticut on the drums And this is Peterman Chris Peterman on the sacks together. We are Five-ninths of the Chad Hollister band So to close it out, we feel very honored to do so. Thanks for being here today This is a brand new song. I'm gonna ease you into our Said this is called inner sovereignty being released in a couple of weeks song I wrote with my sister and it goes just like this See It's called inner sovereignty I wrote that one with my sister kip Hollister and it's our first venture together and This is my beautiful wife Katie O'Rourke says kip operates on a different plane of just I Don't really know how to explain it other than I feel in a great way that I'm here and that she's kind of up here So if we can meet somewhere in the middle That's where we did on inner sovereignty. So it's so beautiful. We had the Principal cellist of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra John I'm spacing on John's last name. Sorry John but Play a brilliant cello part and I will just say that my favorite instrument in the world Michael Close is cello It's like can you get any better? I don't know. I don't know if you can get any better than cello But man Michael Close is a dear friend. How about a hand for all the musicians playing today Michael Close is one of them And his daughter Rosie Insane man, it's just so fun. I can't believe I get to play more songs So one of the monikers of my life and of I'll say of my whole band's life as we travel around and get to play for people is About Kindness it's not hard. It's actually really easy, but as I As we've seen Out there for the piecemeal it's so There's so much people there. There's so much out there. That's not kind And so with the simplest little thing in your life, you can just Emote kindness right grocery store my kids laugh at me Riley Bodie, they're like here he goes They're like in the grocery store when you see the grocery store person in line there Checking you out. Do you really think that that person wants to be there? No, it's a job and they're making they're making some money to pay some bills but if you do my little trick and you see their name tag you see Dylan on their name tag you say hey Dylan and they like Like do I know you like am I supposed to know you and then you kind of just point at their name tag? They're like oh now here's the thing when you use somebody's name Do you know what happens? I learned this and maybe everybody knows this because people are like Oh, they will have talked about that for years Chad. I'm like, okay. Well, I didn't know it when you use somebody's name It releases endorphins in yourself And in the person. I think that's really cool so This song is the tip of the iceberg about being kind and It's called be kind That's called be kind so I have to say this gentleman has been to so many of our shows and Exudes the just we talk about him wherever we go in those beautiful of ways. Yeah, so does that dog and This is mark the turtle man and you know because he's our he's local You know who cares more about turtles than mark who who puts up signs stop for turtles mark Who tells you who brings turtles to your house and shows them to your kids mark? Anyway, we love him so much and I just As we were coming somebody we're today somebody was like man I hope mark's gonna be and I'm like, oh, he's gonna be there because he loves to dance But I just I love the energy of you mark and I just want to put that out to the whole beautiful community that Like you bring beauty to this community But you also bring it elsewhere and and I don't mind mark when you go and dance to other bands It was he went to like dance the cat right now. I was like, dude, you were totally cheating on me To say that because I was divorced for 25 years and didn't dance at all And then when I did like Dude, I love that That See look at that make it make a grown man cry Seriously, though, that's the beauty like this is what this is what's her freakin Vermont you guys scowls people This is amazing. It's been an amazing day. No, no, I'm not accepting that that wasn't enough. This has been an amazing day Thank you. I just can't thank a whole team enough And David book you are an inspiration Julia Hewitt good Lord. You are just Julia on the harp Like, you know when you don't know what people really do and then you see him do like their thing that you never dreamed that they could do Well, I saw Julia do that thing today when she played Julia. How many strings on the harp? Yeah, who's counting Julia does 36 strings like who can do that? No, no, not me I'm lucky to pluck six of them. Anyway, Julia and just our whole team Caitlyn and Julia you're gonna have to help me, but so Caitlyn Katie O'Rourke We have Michael close Alan Gilbert amazing author Yes, Rick Agrin joined us towards the end. Thank you, Rick And Neha Shukla was was help an immense help and when we Can you all believe me? I talked about my wife. I get in big trouble if I didn't trust me Yeah Anyway, there were an Amy. Amy was Amy helped us design our logo Amy's here today dancing her face off and helped us set up these tents and just was that that logo that was right out There was a it was an Amy design. So thank you. I'm just it takes I mean Taking a village it sounds funny, but it does take a village to put on a festival for a village And beyond but we just appreciate y'all so much Let's play some more music Hey, is Alex here Alex are you back from doing so? I don't think Alex is back yet So we can't know he know. Yeah, he is come up. Come up here, buddy So there is life. There's life moments when you you realize you're doing the right thing you one of those today So he said hey man You know, I first saw you play at the Chandler musical with Brady Crane And somebody who else was there Alex? Okay, it was the two of us Rainey was open in the show and he said man. I was an awesome show cool Thank you. Thank you very much. And he said, you know, and we thought we chatted a little bit more in his lovely partner What is your name was an artist here today? How about a hand for all the artists on it right here? And he said he said the highlight for me That day he's you were you're 13 It was 13. Look at look. He's like a grown man now How could that be possible because I was I was only 20 Dude, you were 13 That's ridiculous because there's no way that's possible. I don't know how that and it all right ladies and gentlemen I am 55 years young And and so that's that's how that's possible. He's putting it out there man and So he said my favorite song that day was Jesus Bon Jovi in Tarzan and I was like Like 13 how many years ago was it? What are you like 55 now? 20 years ago. So you are 33 years young buddy. You look good But that's like that's what it's all about like Like you're remembered in one of my songs and not only that but this song Was written My beautiful wife Katie O'Rourke was one of our artists today. How about a hand for Katie O'Rourke? She's amazing We were living in Rutland, Vermont at the time and she woke up one morning and she said do you know Who my top three men are It's just at the beginning of our relationship folks. So I was thinking This guy, you know, I'm totally totally in the top three Uh-uh. She said my top three men are Jesus hard to argue with that dude Bon Jovi Could maybe put up an argument, but I really like him in Tarzan He argued with Tarzan, not really and if you do you're gonna lose Kid grew up in the job, you know the whole thing. I'm not gonna go into it. So I remembered those words And I wrote this song for her And I don't really I never win anything like competitions I have entered stuff, but I won in this one I won first place in the Billboard songwriting contest for this song and we were on tour in Colorado and my manager Said pull over and told me the news and I was like I couldn't believe I like I actually won something I want a guitar and I don't know pro tools or something like that That's out of date because it was 75 years ago But Alex this is for you dude, and this is the beauty of music and playing your original music I want to just thank all the artists today for just playing their own music and play whatever music they chose This is a really long-winded story Alex, but it is it is inspired by you But this is called Jesus Bon Jovi and Tarzan for Alex and Anna Thanks for buying art today to the first one usually doesn't go this well. That was the first one. You remember that one Thank you, Julia Now he's counting on Julia to laugh at my jokes and David books jokes Yeah, I know Dave Dave sometimes David's are not quite that is that funny. No, I'm kidding. Where is he DB crush DB has this he wore this shirt to a meeting one night that said crush orange crush, you know So his nickname now is crush Much to his dismay. Yeah, but I think he kind of likes it. So when you see DB say what's up crush See look Julia thinks that's funny. I want to thank Willie for hooking us up with some power today That's when you all go crazy a little bit little meaning I can't I came in I came down and Josh is setting up And he's like, hey, what are we doing for power? I'm like You know, there's so many things and I'm not really great at details But my team's always so amazing Well, my team's Katie pretty much Katie's amazing, but so I was like, oh, so I I drove down to Willie's house Like what do you do in a local town when you don't have power while you drive to the fire chief's house? And really wasn't there as soon as he Q was there and she's like, oh, no, he's on a call Sorry, but it's two doors down from the firehouse. So just go over there, you know So that's what I did. So I got my van my minivan and I drove to the firehouse I parked and I realized there was something, you know Somebody got sick today and need to be taken away in an ambulance so power can pretty much come second, right? So that comes first and literally he had been on how many calls before that to calls before that And how many calls did you have today total three? That's still a lot on a Saturday, you know When you want to just chill and relax, but anyway point being that This community is always just rises to the occasion. So he comes out. He goes, I don't I don't really have any Extension cord. Well, I got a couple and so they worked and he gave us power. So thank you for the power Thank you One of my dearest friends a fling on the sound tonight Josh needling and I saw But when you tie yourselves up, so I met the beautiful Katie O'Rark when I was she was a waitress in Killington, Vermont And now she was working at this bar called the outback and people are like, oh, oh gosh You're so you're so lucky like lucky to be with me, you know, just because of music like oh, does he sing to you every night? She's like, oh, yeah People just think about what you say before you say and you you aren't the people that say it But let me tell you then people say some really crazy things that always seems to you every night And oh my gosh, you're so lucky. No, I I am the lucky one Let me tell you and so I cornered her into a brought her flowers It was it was not a weekend. It was not a holiday. Looked at me. She said, oh, what are these for? And I was in my eloquent musician way. I was like Seriously, I because I didn't know because I just wanted to bring her flowers, which was apparently really smart Because she said to me oh They're flowers for no reason And I was like, uh-huh Exactly. So it took me 21 years to write the song but uh This is called flowers for no reason for that gorgeous Redhead of mine, Katie O'Rourke. It just was that's Katie's whole things all the time She's like, I know I'm so like there's never like on the 4th of july It once over there. We oh was it over at the later? I did a solo thing. I think right here It was not good this one. I feel really good. I'm waiting for the apology. Oh, sorry. Primo's gotta fix my shirt Sorry, that's for four songs I just want to put a huge thanks out to kyle and his crew And uh to woodbelly pizza and also to celia Johnson's really for the amazing food today, right? So good kyle was like, dude, how many people are gonna come and I'm like, I don't And he was like, I can't lose my shirt. I like neither can we I mean, I I don't know Well, not that we lose our shirt, but we just appreciate that so much. So Eating that food is great. And also, I just want to put a huge thanks out to kyle for Bringing music to the landing down the road. So anything that's happened locally here. Go there. Okay We're shifting the set list. Everybody's there. Are you okay with that? Are you okay with that? Do you like your pasta? Did you get something did you get any pasta for me? No, that's good thing because you know, I don't totally don't even like pasta What's your name? You forgot? Alice the song's for Alice It's about dr. Bethesda. It's for you Alice and that amazing costume And all these amazing families here in Worcester, Vermont Moved here 18 years ago when Riley was six months old and she's graduating high school this year Bethesda for you Features tommy deal on the drums drove all the way up from Connecticut for one show I see their chairs are still here But uh, okay. Also, we'll be tight set list here. You know what I mean? That was in flows. You gotta do you gotta do what's called for, right? Some self-proclaimed mama's boy. This is called mama knows She passed. Yeah, I'm gonna pack up. But guess what? Two slices for the sax player They're gonna sell their slices for two dollars a piece That's a really great deal So get them while they're hot. No, seriously while they're hot slices are two bucks. Thanks woodbelly And her sweet boyfriend Maddox. How you guys I love you much to graduates from Montpelier High School and U32 So folks, I have to tell you about a very very special show And it's right here on this Sign playing the trap family lodge concert meadow. It is pretty much with this same band Although JJ Jared was one of our original bass players. This is Jared Johnson on the bass this evening all the way from Rutland, Vermont He filled in because Rudy our bass player had a party to do down the road and uh And uh, we love Rudy, but Rudy will be on the gig and it is it will be this Tommy will be kind of on a scale down hybrid kid But we are playing in the trap family lodge concert meadow if you've never been there, please come Um tickets are on sale this you can just scan this qr code And take you to tickets and here's the beauty about is you can just bring whatever you want in No glass no dogs, please But you can bring your food and your drink and your whole picnic your chairs Or blanket and sit in and then take it all with you and that's all you got to do So just just grab tickets to the show We'd love to have you sunday june 25 at the trap family lodge concert meadow And I will say if there's somebody that doesn't have that much money right now And I will guest you to the show If you've got money buy tickets But if you don't hit me up it chat it chat music and I'll guest you to the show And I mean that like this community is too powerful. So I'd love to have you And and and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. So, uh, you should see it Music is not about money folks. Uh, it is about the blessing to get to play music And uh speaking of that This goes out to joe and shellony Joe is a a a testament of of power and beauty in the human spirit He's kicking cancers ass Sorry folks kids. It's okay And uh, he just uh, was it a week ago? Yesterday good god, no wonder shalom. He's freaking out. He tried to hug me really hard and she's like stop it honey Yesterday he had a tumor removed from his neck and he's here today And uh, so this song goes out to him and to his lovely wife. I got to play at their wedding celebration With one of my heroes that lives down the road. Mr. John Gale more What a what a feet what a fast that was she's never been to a Indian wedding. I I strongly encourage it because it goes on for 14 weeks No, I'm kidding. It went on for a few days, but I was there for one of them So this is breathe joe you you you are so beautiful and shellony you are as well And uh, this is breathe for you too and for everybody else. It wants to uh, remember to take a deep breath Michael, I wish I had uh, uh, is your cello close Michael close just imagine Michael close playing cello on this one because He did his fru speak and he's a brilliant man. It's called breathe Lost your crown in the clouds Seem so dark and you've lost And the stone feels cold right down to your soldiers I'll find your core In the dark seems so black just like that winter evening sky Seeing once and then it's getting so cold You're feeling oh like that winter evening sky So breathe See once again, just like that Worcester that's the part where you all go crazy not just four of you I have to tell you everything Who just breathe Station's all over the country all over the world playing that one. Hey check out our Spotify channel I used to have a real hard time with streaming And patty's and my friend Adam Ezra taught me differently He's ridiculously great and you should listen to him and follow him But follow us first and then I'm kidding follow him first seriously, but um streaming is like a Crazy thing but the more that you guys do it We make like 37 more cents No, but it's about the whole community thing and Adam has taught me so much about I mean I always came from a community place but Adam Ezra is like I can't even describe him patty Yeah, I'm gonna stop but uh Get on the chat holster and stream that and tell all your friends to do it And uh, and then we'll make four bucks and take you out for a switchback No, stop it quit. No Hey sarah's in town Hey, sarah This is nahan right here. She's she's one of our best friends and nahan jack and chris ruby hey ruby uh the uh the uh girls lacrosse From u32 our state champions State freeing champions And the boys lacrosse are also state champions for the mission three Boney holster was on that team David book said I had to play till 4 a.m. So time to pace myself for the show's over So We're gonna do another song for you. Yeah, Riley's here. Let's do that one So we're gonna do we're gonna do another song for you. Is that okay? Three of you said yes It's been a long day folks Katie was here at 8 30 in the morning. I was here at 9 30. She's like, where were you? I'm like, I was at home She she is the whole team here. I just want to thank everybody at the Worcester arts fest for rock and it would you just put some love But it's been it's been a long long day and we're we feel so honored to close it out I just want to thank all the artists all the poets all the writers all the musicians and all the people for being here today in this strong beautiful gorgeous community that we uh Live thrive and survive if you told me 18 years ago I was going to move to a town outside. I want Montpelier reminds say no, I wasn't I grew up at Burlington snob. The only reason we came to Montpelier was to come on a field trip to the state house And man, I'm so glad that I was dead wrong And that tim heaney called this place a bedroom community. It's not a bedroom community It's the most vibrant family community that we've grown up in and uh, so thanks to tim for selling us our house Here and for introducing us to Worcester, Vermont Appreciate you You introduced my band one more time on the guitar and vocals. That's jeff primo po remski On the bass guitar. That is jared jj johnson on the bass On the saxophone. This is dr. Christopher peterman And back there on the drums all the way from shelton, canada kid a new daddy of ryan james Tommy deal on the drums My name is jab holster. I live at 58 hamshire hill road And this is riley odelia. We'll see you soon This requires dancing She chills you when it's time. She chills you when it's time That's you that sits on my studio speakers Able to take it to town hall. That would be amazing if you have a cushion chair And you're able to take it to the historical society society. That would be dreamy Please if you see garbage pick it up and put it in a Bin that says garbage if you see something that's recyclable, please put it in a recyclable bin Okay, we love you all. Thank you. Good night. Be safe you guys. We appreciate you so much Have a great time. I have a ton of merch that I didn't set up So if anybody wants anything come see us. Good night. This concludes the wuster arts fest 2023 first annual Thank you. God bless y'all be safe. Be kind peace