 So welcome. Good afternoon. I'd like to thank you for being here. Our rockers have worked very hard this week composing their own tunes, starting on instruments they've never played before, and we'll just get started. If we can give a big hand for the Capital City Rock Camp rockers! Okay, we can introduce everyone individually. We have Zager on all kinds of instruments, percussion, drums. It actually has a very special treat for us this afternoon as well. And can we give a big hand to Rowan on the guitar. Big hand to Esme. Maze got there on the drum set. Simon on the guitar. And hold it down and then low end of the bass is Carter. And before we even begin, I just want to give extra special thanks to Kevin at our local music shop at Guitar Sam's. It's always on the Friday when anything technical glitch could happen to happen. So we carried a new amplifier here today and a microphone cable. You know, that's how it works. It takes a village. Enjoy! This is up to the facts. I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax. I can't sleep because my bed's on fire. Don't touch me, I'm a real life liar. A psycho killer. But you're not saying anything. What are you having to say? My lips are sealed. Say something once. Why say it again? A psycho obsessed swar. My ass is brought. A psycho killer. We all decided that the talking heads and David Byrne are a style unto themselves. So this next tune is a trio. And this is an original that just these three campers came up with. It's also, it's basically an improvisation. Just creating their own sounds and melodies. And some of us are doing things for the very first time. So it's improvised but it has a form to it. And it all was on their shoulders of what they would do with it. With colors and timbres and just a bunch of soundscapes. So this song is called Dreams. What we're singing about. I'm a visitor of my own universe. I'm an alien in my own consciousness. I borrow this body because I like to party. I come down to say hello because I like the people. I wear my human so because I think I look cute. I have my own spaceship. I like when it goes places, deep places, far away places. Oh all the lovely spaces. I borrow this body because I like to party. I am an alien. I am Australian. I am a female. I am an alien. I borrow this body because I like to party. I'm alien. Where did he go? Well there he is. Sure. We have to give extra kudos to Esme who learned. That's a really challenging bass part. So really amazing. Patience. So when we're rehearsing for hours on end each day there's so many components and pieces that go to these puzzles. It's not as easy as it looks. Especially when you're visiting an instrument for the very first time. So everyone learns how to actually truly work together to wait while one person is learning how to play an instrument and then piece it together. So I'm just really proud. New Wave 80s representation. And Simon brought this to us. Esme brought us an idea that you know there's lots of other artists that do renditions of songs. We're not doing a cover tune. But we've sort of morphed it together with more of an unplugged introduction and then we go into a harder sort of rock thing. Who is the hardest thing that you play for us? We produce. So it's sort of an acoustic intro where you hop into a more sort of powerful thing. So let's give it a shot. Music plays A former student of mine from Northern Vermont University, Timothy Pinkney came in and did a master class on electric bass as well. Just a few things just to put a seed in your head. Next summer we're hopeful to do a full-on overnight rock camp. So counselors live in chef like everything. Probably at the Goddard College campus who have our own dorm and then we utilize the Hay Barn Theater with full lighting and sound and all that kind of noise. Concurrent with that we're actually applying for our 501c3 so everybody can donate gracious and write it off. And actually I have an anonymous donor that has put in a very large sum of money to help buy gear, PA equipment, instruments, sardines for penguins. And I just want to thank you all. It's been a really great week. Have a great rest of your summer and we do have a little reception here. I'm going to go get some ice cream. So thank you so much. There's two more people I must actually thank. Sorry. Well, you have guitar standards always. And please patronize them. They're great. They're local. They're independent. And they'll take care of you when you come back. So like for instance Carter, his aunt, who stopped working today. So he let us borrow a new app and he'll fix his old app. Also we have Jess is in the audience who works for the Center for Arts and Learning. Thank you for helping me stay. And my biggest gratitude this week goes to Xavier's father who without him I wouldn't maybe have gotten here safely. He put a new CV joint. Excellent. My car. Back here. Josh is from Orca Media. All right.