 Stay around, find your ground, but it will keep on going down Now to care, no one's there, there is nothing to be found Blank space without a face, and no color Flowers they don't smell, and no water's in the well Nothing seems to grow, all you hear are crows Just crowing I ain't who goes to dream, but I can't seem to see Your pulse so limp as through the clouds and the trees And I try to find a space as I fall to my knees and plead I wish this all could change, but I don't see a way Lord, you need to be able to follow your dreams But my world's out of place, and I'm blocking your way to peace Find your ground, but it will keep on going down But out of care, no one's there, there is nothing to be found Blank space without a face, and no color Are you guys sure you're ready for this? Are you guys sure you're ready? I don't know, I'm gonna try it one more time. Are you ready? This young gentleman has listened to songs Let's just say that I've listened to songs for a man, a young man that moves, that shakes He says he's the best dancer in the family For the first time in the history as we know it, ever being played This is a song about Bodhi, otherwise known as Started recording it, and surprise buddy Always funny with kids and just immersed in telling him the news He was so cool about it, he was so cool about it Now we really have to do it There is back in the house Joan Hollister, he's my beautiful mom She's here, cheers mama Here's a little bar hill for you Remember mama's having one of these moments that she does not want to forget? What does she say? Oh yours too So whenever she's having one of these moments Many of you know my mother, for those of you who don't She says, oh, stop the world, I want to get off And she's having that moment right now Actually I can tell you, she's gonna say Oh my gosh Chad, you once again have outdone yourself But, so my brother is here tonight, Mark Marky in the house, is he somewhere out there? Hi Mark My sister's there, I don't know She's probably off in Europe somewhere Some galavanting But we would grow up making fun of mama Like here she goes, stop the world But now with kids of my own I'm having these stop the world moments of my own This is definitely one of them And our family just hanging out is another one of them Mama? Joan Hollister? This is for you This is called stop the world I know we got some fans out there Of wonderful Adam Ezra, we got some Adam Ezra Well there should be because he's awesome Adam has become a friend of ours Actually I met Jason Spooner at the Ramble In Salisbury Beach As soon as I met Jason I walked up And I said we were just like immediate friends I said hey man, he's like hey man That's kind of what musicians do Like David Bowie, you're always talking about that Hey man, and that's what happens Like you just say hey man to somebody And then that means you're friends I don't know why, I can't really explain it Maybe I should write my version of hey man But as soon as I met Jason Spooner I said hey man He said hey man, and yeah I heard about you I heard about you and hey you want a jam? So I went up and played his set with him And as soon as I finished went and did our set On the other stage and he joined me of course And we became fast friends But Adam Ezra is one of these guys That makes a difference out there Kind of I think what we try and do With our music is just make a difference Make people realize that music is a gift It's a blessing, it's a positive thing For the third friggin year in a row We sold out the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center People, but it's all thanks to you guys It's all thanks to these amazing sponsors Just so you know, it's incredible I feel so blessed So thank you to everybody for being here tonight But I wrote this song With Adam Ezra And he still hasn't heard it yet So he's kind of like man I don't hear that song I'm like no I'm sorry And we got together We did a gig, he did a gig over at Craig Peck's house Went up there and the thing there And then we went down to the Nectars and hung out And then we wrote this song together The next day Didn't have that bad note in it though I promise This is called Here and Now And it's a song that's going to be on our new record Written by myself and Mr. Adam Ezra Goes just like this Manic records, we used to follow them around San Francisco, California Anybody know Bevan Donheist on Curtis Pond There? You have a skate out there It's royalty man It's royalty Did you see these horns? Did you see four horns? It's so exciting Of course you know Tom, you know Lloyd He's like the sexy of the whole band He's so beautiful Been on paternity leave How sexy is that Of course you know Chris Peterman But we're welcoming to our stage Mr. Luke LePlan On the baritone sax right there So we're going to feature some horns now Just when you thought I had one song about my mom No, I got more than that right now This one's called Mama Note So don't you mess yet Mama's got every single chat Nectars gig about 20 years ago And Nectar says chat chat Come here, come here, sits in the booth with me It was a big moment He still had his apron on, he had just served some gravy fries And sits me down It's always these moments in life That somehow stick with me The others that might be maybe more More important that don't Sit down chat Okay Nectar, I'm sitting down And then I said do you know what He said you know what you need to do You know these you know what You need to do speeches No Nectar, what do I need to do He said you need to do what the fish did The fish You need to start playing places And packing them, bringing all these people along I said okay Nectar That's what I'm gonna do So years later I'm gonna bring All my people into the Beautiful string quartet back out I'd like to tell you how this came to be Mr. Michael Close is a wonderful teacher For our children at the Doty Memorial School In Worcester, Vermont where we live, thrive and survive We got some kids here From that very school I've gotten to play with him And he's an amazing cellist Amazing cellist, here he is right here This is Michael Close And so I've always had this dream To play with strings And not only just strings My favorite instrument in the world is the cello And I love the cello And so I said to Michael Michael would you be interested In putting together a string quartet For this spruce peak show that is kind of I always like to do something new People come back year after year And he said I'd love to So I would like to introduce The wonderful string quartet that we have We have Patricia Fitzgerald We have Laura Markowitz And we have Elizabeth Reed I so appreciate them being here On this evening So this is a song I want to put a special Thanks out to WNCS The point I know Carrie Henry Dear friend of ours is here tonight On the point Thank you Carrie So this goes out to them Local music support means the world Especially a radio station like the point Sometimes people don't realize How influential and powerful local radio can be And when they take a chance But when they really support local music That means the world to us Another one of my favorite bands Is Kat Wright out there And Luke LaPlante plays with Kat She's so wonderful So we're going to take over the world Together with Vermont Music This song is called Breathe It goes just like this I just breathe It all seems so Just like that Vermont winter Evening sky Thankful to play music and to have friends like you guys And friends who tell friends Thank you for being here this evening I'll do another song from the new record That's Dwayne Saro's been telling me For years that I had to get done Thanks Dwayne for helping me out here One of my things Is it Oftentimes when I'm traveling Down the street and you know what happens to me You know why they bump into me Because they're doing this They can even do it without looking And so when they don't look They bump into people So you get it But my hope Is that my children And that my children's children will grow up To be able to communicate Through looking people And me Doctor Tweeting You want to call it All that stuff has got its place I get it but I want to make sure That people are still people You know the computer age I get it man I'm a part of it It's such a part of like our PR And all that jive But I want to make sure That you when you meet somebody It's so big when my kids meet you They will say nice to meet you And they will look you in the eye And they will shake your hand On the new one this is called Eyes and goes like this I've been saying Brian are you going to come to the show Yeah I don't know Brian damn it You're coming to the show here's a pair of tickets Okay I'll be there Thanks for coming Pretty good seats right You like your seats Brian is a beautiful wife I want to thank our amazing sound crew tonight Mr. Josh Kneebling and Ezra Mulherin Thank you for our sound posse And John Bauer Here at Spruce Together man pretty incredible That's great thank you Ezra This is that song that her brother's been hearing about See if she's Is Mr. Jason Spooner in the house I know I was going to do this but Spoones if you're out there Come on join us for this one Jason Spooner you here I think he's on the tour bus with a chase Alright so it's a Subaru but sorry I broke his secret Well if you see Jason tell him to get up here on stage Ladies and gentlemen Jason Spooner I'll tell you when it's time You'll see Lalia's heart Got a couple more songs for you so get ready The way that you want to be treated When you got to seize the day Like you unneeded This is Mark the Turtle Man out there Walk through the grass Just after it's been cut Made through the stream Or maybe run through the river Even though you may get Just a little bit Where Sing it out Bum bum she goes Bum bum she goes Bum bum she goes And you got to seize the day Just Like you unneeded Two times Way through that stream Or maybe just run through the river Even though you may get Just a little bit Where Bum bum she goes Bum bum she goes Bum bum she goes This is This is life This is This is life Ladies and gentlemen this past week We lost somebody That was near and dear to Rock and roll History So what a better way than this evening To pay testament My favorites I hope one of your favorites Mr. David Bowie