 This year the theme is like an Americana looking for America type theme and so you're gonna hear a lot of songs about America of course and and just the fabric of what makes America great and songs like that so we're excited to be presenting such a show this summer. 26 years of long-running success of the Kentucky Opera here at the Mountain Art Center can only be attributed to one thing. One of the biggest reasons is because we have local people doing wonderful things. I mean Eastern Kentucky is so full of talent and we pride ourselves through the Kentucky Opera of having local artists perform and so we don't bring people from out of town in that sort of thing because everyone's right here locally, Pot Floyd Johnson, McGuffin, Martin Counties and surrounding areas and they just do such an excellent job. I think that's a part of what makes the Kentucky Opera so great for this region. Although there have been a few minor changes to the Kentucky Opera it's good to see that some things never change. Well I see Monroe might get to sing a song this year I hope. I've been working on Clayton and everybody else on Jody and James and the crew and the cast and if I can talk Clayton into it I'd like to sing at least one song you know I've got several that I write songs for country music stars like Loretta Lynn and Travis Tritt and Patty Loveless. I've written them for them now they haven't sung them but I've written them for them and and sent them to them. I got their addresses.