 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. With 40 years of being in the hearing care industry, you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 North Lake Drive in Prestonsburg. Pikeville native Gabriel Evans took the stage at the Carnegie Hall in New York on Monday, February 11th. And what it was was these individuals came to New York to sing at Carnegie Hall and have a whole weekend of clinic experience with him. But I was the sole accompanist for the entire event. So I played piano and played organ for it. So I got to work side by side with Mac the entire time. So that was a pretty neat experience to do. Composer, arranger, and conductor Dr. Mac Wilberg developed the program Simple Gifts around early American hymns. You know, being from, you know, Kentucky, it was always my dream to always, you know, play at Carnegie Hall. I'm a classical musician. I've wanted to play at the big venues ever since I was a little kid. My dream was to always move to New York and do that. So it's just kind of like one of my biggest dreams to be come true. So yeah. Evans stated that he had previously watched many performances at the Carnegie Hall and formerly worked there behind the scenes for a production company. It was very surreal just being able to walk in there and be a performer. So, you know, I had the experience of one having this giant concert hall that holds thousands and thousands of people. It was just empty and to myself and just to, you know, take that moment in. But it was, honestly, it was just breathtaking to walk out and see, you know, thousands of people just watching you and, you know, just being able to experience music in a big grand scale that I've never got to experience before. Evans began piano lessons at the age of five and graduated from Pikeville High School in 2009. He then completed college and has since then developed a musical career culminating in his performance at the Carnegie Hall. I decided that I wanted to try bigger and better things. And so I was your typical New York musician story. I had very steady jobs in Kentucky. I quit all of them and just decided I was moving to New York and tried to give it a shot. And here I am now. Reporting from Mountain Tom News, I'm Ethan Miller.