 Hey, well as we're getting settled. We just want to thank you all. How you guys feeling waterbury? You look amazing out there. Thanks for being here. We just we just took a jaunt through town and it was pretty wild We did one of these in Morrisville And it just went so well Waterbury was like what we think we want to do it, but we're not sure we want to see how one goes first Which is really smart. It's like when you're jumping on a cliff Jumping off a cliff you want to make sure that you check your check your You know your your base where you're jumping into and then you always also want to make sure that you go second So this is the second one we've ever done and it's pretty sweet Huge thanks out to a to our driver James. We're still alive Which means he did a great job and borns energy for this truck how about a hand for borns Peter and James We appreciate you guys We also want to thank Aaron at the community bank of waterbury here. How about a hand for the community bank they? Helped sponsor this show As well as our dear friends Shawn Karen TJ and the whole crew at Lawson's finest liquids were huge fans They do amazing things Giving back to the community And and we're just a a fan of their beer and be just a fan of their whole process In their business and giving back to community because we as a band are also feel real similar and real blessed To do what we do and and it's so amazing to be making music for people Like this isn't this isn't a zoom show or ready. You know, right? I'm not in my home playing live Facebook stuff, you know So we we appreciate it And then of course the waterbury rotary have a hand for the rotary for helping make this happen appreciate you and Then last but certainly not least the show the reason that this show happened is my good friend hope Sullivan who is the executive director at the Spruce Peak performing Arts Center and Hope called me and she said Chad I'm wondering if you would like to and I said yes before we got anywhere and We did the first one and this is the second one. So cheers everybody. It's great to be here My name is Chad Hollister. This is Jeff Primo-Paremski and this is Chris Peterman We are three-ninths of the Chad Hollister band has anybody seen our large show at Spruce Peak or anywhere else Okay, all right, we did grooves and brews actually with Tammy Bass Down down the road, but it's nice to be here. We're gonna get going I gotta learn to breathe Song off our latest record called stop the world that's called here and now written by my good buddy Adam Ezra and myself those of you are not Adam Ezra fans. You should be our dear friend Marjorie Ward who's here somewhere Where is where is that beautiful woman? Oh, she left. All right. Well, she she walked the whole route with us, but she introduced us to Adam and she's amazing Been playing for Marjorie for I'm not gonna even tell you how long you didn't know that we're gonna be fireworks. Did you? Yeah, this is Chris Peterman on the fireworks You know folks just for three seconds turn around and look at those clouds How sick is that? And then you have five time minutes gonna go from the yellow to the magenta pink It's ridiculous This is our dear friend Patty putting money in our tip jar. Thank you darling Patty runs our merchandise every year It's spruce peak and except for this past year and it was a little rough. Sorry Patty and we missed you but we've sold out the spruce peak performing our center for the past seven years and I Think we're gonna do it again. That's sure, but we're we're here for you right now So my beautiful mother, I have not seen my beautiful mama Since the beginning Jeff and I were on tour in Colorado When everything hit we had a two-week tour plan of Colorado a weekend bolder of Ale and Aspen got canceled and we're like, all right, let's get out of dodge. So we headed home and I haven't seen mom since and she is 88 years young and she's coming to town on Monday And we're gonna hang out safely, but this is a song that I wrote for her It is the title track of our latest recording, which is called stop the world and when my beautiful mama is having one of those moments That she does not want to forget. She says oh Stop the world. I want to get off. So for you beautiful mama Can't wait to see on Monday Have a vodka tonic with you This is called stop the world Go crazy once So this this past week has been really difficult for for I'll say Many of us in this land in that we've lost a couple of really really great people and great friends to to myself and to many members in In the Vermont's actually in the global community. The first is Gordon Stone Who was really a dear friend of mine and a hero of mine Gordon played Banjo and pedal steel with his own band also played on fishes rift record on the Fast enough for you. That's him on pedal steel and that it's also him on the you don't steal my poor heart again on cavern but anyway, he would just he embodied of Vermont and was an amazing performer and In player and so we we lost him this past week We'd like to just dedicate this our little drive-in show to Gordon Stone And and sadly enough we have another one that we yes Gordon Stone. Sorry, and I'm just gonna tell you one brief little story about Gordon Stone he was a really he was a good friend of mine and We had this wedding in Montpelier and For those of you who know us is a band You know that we really don't play many cover songs. It's just not our thing you know we we I write my own tunes and we bring them to life and This wedding we did this wedding and they asked us to play friends in low places by Garth Brooks and I was like Really? I was like, all right. Well as soon as they requested that song I like I got to have Gordon play with us So Gordon played the pedal steel and I never if ever felt more like a rock star or a country star I'll say then that evening when we played friends in low places We're not gonna play that song right now. So I'm sorry if you were getting excited for that But when Gordon played it, thanks John, I Figured you out by your red pants, by the way And I was like, oh my gosh So we like we kept coming to the chorus and I was like just kept doing it over and over again Because I was like I was Garth Brooks except I didn't have the headset microphone I had a real microphone. I was like I'm Garth Brooks amazing, so That's my Gordon stone story my other story my other story is not a Story, it's just about the life of a wonderful music fan and DJ and her name was Amy McGovern And we lost her a couple days ago in a motorcycle accident and Amy was a huge strange folk fan I grew up with the boys from strange folk When Reed and John used to play at a club in Winooski called Middle-Earth Cafe I used to go and hang out with them and Reed used to sit in with us at a pizza place in Burlington called Sebastians, but Amy McGovern was at every single strange folk show She would scream your name from across the crowd and you would look and be like oh, of course It's Amy. She was a DJ on WDEV just down the road. She was a DJ at WIZN in her beginning. She was a DJ at WOKO She was a DJ at WNCS. She was just an amazing human that embodied music so for our First time ever we're going to embark on a strange folk song For Amy McGovern and for Gordon Stone Thanks, sorry for that lengthy intro In Archer Studios in Winooski, Vermont, this is called Lines and Circles by Strange Folk Sing it if you feel it, come on Trimo, give me a little bit of John Traffton Actually, give me some Trimo Yeah, the answers in the front row right here. I love you girls Yeah, oh yeah, sing it girls, come on will now there be a diamond, diamond, diamond, diamond, diamond, diamond, diamond, diamond Circles round the brand of you. It's really cool, man. We grew up with those guys and we love what they created and Traffton's out in California, Reed's in California, Luke's living up in in Maine and Actually, Eric's up in Maine and Luke's down south, but we love those guys appreciate him so much but really that was for the life of Amy McGovern and a real ray of sunshine and another musical ray of sunshine Gordon Stone, so Live on brother and sister and we love you. We love you and we miss you already. So there you have it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Hail to Community Bank of Waterbury. Thank you, Erin. She's out of town, but she's a huge music fan as soon as I called her She said like love to help out. So thank you Thanks to Lawson's Finest Liquids. We love you more than more than bread more than bread and beef and that's saying a lot if you know me and Huge thanks out to the Waterbury Rotary and Spurspeak Arts Performing Arts Center. We love you guys. So there you go When when COVID happened I decided that I was gonna try something new and it was pick up a harmonica So here you go. This is called I is off our latest I Seated in the cities Hippie chicks go just because it's not a strange folk song doesn't mean you can't dance. Come on, man This is our dance floor right here. Like, you know people come and people go. No, come on We love dancers. So here's the port in the show where we turn it over to our four-piece one section but tonight We got one horn and the beautiful thing is he's our horn leader. So we're gonna turn it over to this beautiful human right here Take us on home Chris Peterman take us on home brother. Won't you? Come on. We go That's right 15 Appreciate you so much This is an amazing thing. It really is like you guys have no idea what it's like to be a musician Or maybe you do maybe your musicians and be cooped up for four months and like I mean I've felt so blessed for my time with my family but And that that really is first and foremost To be able to get that time and to not travel and to be you know, we travel so much But I've really missed these guys once again the best guitarist in the world Jeff Primo-Parempsky That's when the crowd goes insane Like much more insane than you're going right now. This isn't a freaking golf tournament waterbury Yeah, it's not like you don't like oh, yes It was a part five in the ninth hole. No, no, it's not I'm gonna try it again Jeff Primo-Parempsky on guitar Thank you That's all I was asking for in the beginning So in the future when we hang out don't give me the golf BS in the beginning go crazy for the The late night Blackback slash res insanity. Okay, right here the doctor of love When you hear him play you want to just Go for a swim Chris Peter and on the saxophone We'll have to this show because we're sweaty and soaking This is called Riley Odea. We love you This the show is pretty much over actually we've gone way over but we don't care because we're gonna play till 430 Not really in the morning, but I just wanted to tell you that Next time my name is Chad Hollister Jeff Primo-Parempsky Chris Peterman. Thank you Huge thanks out to the amazing born energy Community Bank of Waterbury Lawson's finest liquids for our incredible libations Waterbury Rotary and of course the spruce peak performing arts center Come say hello And we love you guys. We'll see you very very soon peace be good to each other and be kind and for God's sakes wear your mask Listen to dr. Fauci and not the other person. Good night. We love you. Peace