 Hello everyone and welcome. My name is Tim Goldsard. I'm the executive producer of the Sound Post Sessions which is the monthly listening room concert series that we host here at Longmont Public Media and it is my true pleasure and delight to welcome all of you to the 2022 spring walkabout music showcase. I'm super excited to have this event back happening again this year as I'm sure all of you are as well and so welcome to all of you. This event would not be possible without the support and all the work that goes on behind the scenes by the LDDA, the Longmont Downtown Development Authority and the Longmont Creative District and also our title sponsor for the show today which is TBK Bank. So a round of applause. So we host a concert series here as I mentioned once a month called the Sound Post Sessions and if you'd like to learn more about what that is all about and the kinds of things we have coming up. We've got some really great acts coming up in May and June. You can learn more about that on our website or if you follow us on Instagram you can find it there as well or you can also sign up for our newsletter that we send out once a month called the Sound Post and today if you sign up with your email address just out here in the entry area you can get a free sticker. We just printed up some new stickers for the Sound Post Sessions and so sign up and then that's your little prize. So hope you can come back and see us again for one of those shows but before then she really needs no introduction but please join me in welcoming Liz Barnes. Thank you. Good to see all of you. Thank you. This is a song inspired by my dog Ruthie. There's a bunch of really crazy dog lovers up here we like don't talk music we talk about our dogs. She's running free when she's here. Especially these humans so that's her character. There's Sims on the guitar I can only think of one thing because you can't see their mouth. Was it just musicians? I wrote this was just honored at the Grammy Foundation Music Cares. David Wilcox wrote something eventually into my 50s and 60s. These words are going to still be in my wife's name. Jared File. It's so good to see you my dear friend. Quick story about Jared. I'm not going to do that song but Jared sent me these words a long time ago and said can you write music to this for my at the time wife's birthday. I'm pretty sure I caused the divorce because every wedding I've ever played at they've been divorced so I don't play weddings anymore but so Jared sent me these words I wrote the song kind of quickly and it's a cool little song I'm still trying to figure out how to make it right on my end but thank you for that. Good to see you. It's new we did record it though. My favorite songwriter is in the world as well so it's so it's so it was so nice to get the call and of course I said absolutely and thank y'all so much for uh for selling out the winter spring music showcase Swapabout. This big Richard band I'm happy for in everything. Oh me too but I'm happier world combination. I love to say the name of that band say big Richard and then people go the second and then I got a song inspired by a place in my home state Louisiana although I've been in Colorado for so long how would you combine Louisiana and Colorado all of it sounds like a venereal disease it's a pleasure to play with these wonderful people Eric Turin Christian Teal Taylor Sims every person I reached out to and he said yes I just like this is a song about my escape from Nashville do that at least once I recommend it come with escape having us and Christian's gonna be on trying to get along with strongly strongly strongly I was starting to sing with an accent there too my my accent was coming back on that song so thanks except New Orleans is all all messed up accent there anyway thanks again sing along with this at the end you'll it will be familiar because I stole it from Van Morrison