WEBVTT 00:00:13.154 --> 00:00:23.527 - Good afternoon, everyone. So nice to see you here in the Busker Chimlee Theater in what is our closing 00:00:23.527 --> 00:00:33.597 - concert of Lotus Festival, what is it, 32, 2025? I know, aw. But, you know, it was so good. And now 00:00:33.597 --> 00:00:37.726 - we have hope for next year, right? Yeah. 00:00:39.938 --> 00:00:46.773 - So my name is Tamara Lowenthal. I am the artistic director for the Lotus Education Arts Foundation. 00:00:46.773 --> 00:00:53.607 - Yeah, woo. And before we get started, I just wanna begin this afternoon by gratefully acknowledging 00:00:53.607 --> 00:01:00.510 - the native peoples on whose ancestral homelands we gather, as well as the diverse and vibrant native 00:01:00.510 --> 00:01:06.046 - communities who make their home here today. So it's been quite a weekend, right? 00:01:06.530 --> 00:01:12.533 - I hope you felt the joy and ecstasy of the artist's performance as the last two evenings. It's just 00:01:12.533 --> 00:01:18.776 - been amazing. The music that we've been hearing, it's such an incredible reminder of the beauty in this 00:01:18.776 --> 00:01:25.139 - world, and it's a real antidote to some of the ugliness we have seen directed to those who are not native 00:01:25.139 --> 00:01:30.782 - born. So we should really be celebrating what Lotus does for our world and for our community. 00:01:35.394 --> 00:01:42.202 - So our hope is that you are going to leave this weekend inspired and also hopeful that music can indeed 00:01:42.202 --> 00:01:48.748 - change hearts and minds because that is our goal at Lotus. Now I have a bunch of thank yous to give 00:01:48.748 --> 00:01:55.687 - today, so bear with me and maybe even join in celebrating some of those people. We want to thank everyone 00:01:55.687 --> 00:02:02.364 - who made the festival possible this year. Our staff, volunteers, our board, interns, student fellows, 00:02:02.364 --> 00:02:05.310 - our donors, sponsors, and grantors, and also 00:02:05.794 --> 00:02:12.945 - this big undertaking, it just isn't possible without all these different people coming together to make 00:02:12.945 --> 00:02:20.440 - it happen. So let's give all of those people a round of applause. We also want to send out some appreciation 00:02:20.440 --> 00:02:27.386 - to an incredible group of people, the Lotus Scene Savers, who raised nearly $30,000 to invest in the 00:02:27.386 --> 00:02:33.918 - festival and bring back the Sixth Street Tent. Who visited the Sixth Street Tent this weekend? 00:02:34.146 --> 00:02:42.130 - It was so awesome to have it. So you can see their names on the back of the program if you have a program, 00:02:42.130 --> 00:02:49.592 - but thank them if you know them because they all love Lotus. So of course, we're so grateful to see 00:02:49.592 --> 00:02:56.830 - you here this afternoon. Did you know that Lotus is a charitable organization? Probably you did. 00:02:57.378 --> 00:03:03.987 - For 32 years, we have been able to celebrate the world's diversity through music and the arts because 00:03:03.987 --> 00:03:10.725 - of the support of our local community. The ticket you bought to enjoy the exceptional music today, what 00:03:10.725 --> 00:03:17.205 - percentage of the festival do you think it covers? 30%. You must have been hearing this before. You 00:03:17.205 --> 00:03:23.684 - know the answer to that. Okay, so it's right. That's only 30%. So that means we have to raise money 00:03:23.684 --> 00:03:25.822 - so we can do all the work we do. 00:03:25.954 --> 00:03:31.907 - And I should tell you that Lotus still needs your support because we are trying to raise $100,000 before 00:03:31.907 --> 00:03:37.690 - the end of the year. So please consider, if you enjoyed the festival this weekend, and if you want to 00:03:37.690 --> 00:03:42.963 - see us do more of this kind of work, please consider supporting the festival, supporting the 00:03:42.963 --> 00:03:49.030 - Lotus Foundation, because every gift counts, whether it's $5 or $500. We appreciate every gift. So talking 00:03:49.030 --> 00:03:55.550 - about gifts, we actually want to thank the people who have helped us this year. So this year, presenting sponsors, 00:03:55.650 --> 00:04:01.907 - our Indiana University Bloomington with many, many partners, and I wanna read those partners to you 00:04:01.907 --> 00:04:08.414 - because there are a lot of our cultural programs at IU that support the festival. So IU African Studies 00:04:08.414 --> 00:04:14.733 - Program, Department of French and Italian, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Department of 00:04:14.733 --> 00:04:21.115 - Spanish and Portuguese, the Hutton Honors College, Indiana Moral Union, Jacobs School of Music, Kelly 00:04:21.115 --> 00:04:22.366 - School of Business, 00:04:22.594 --> 00:04:30.945 - Department of Business Ethics and the Office of the Provost, the Robert F. Burns Russian and East European 00:04:30.945 --> 00:04:38.750 - Institute, the Student Union Board, and the Vincent and Eleanor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory 00:04:38.750 --> 00:04:46.634 - and Political Analysis. Please give all of these folks a round of applause. So we would also like to 00:04:46.634 --> 00:04:50.302 - thank our producer sponsors, Old National Bank 00:04:50.402 --> 00:04:57.798 - and the Right Design Group, as well as our benefactor sponsors, Farr Center for Contemporary Arts, Bloom 00:04:57.798 --> 00:05:04.913 - Magazine, Free Think Apparel, Holiday Inn, Rumpke Waste and Recycling. So give those guys a round of 00:05:04.913 --> 00:05:12.239 - applause too. See, you didn't know that'd be that much applause, so you are actually participating with 00:05:12.239 --> 00:05:16.606 - percussion today. Thank you. So we also wanna thank... Give a 00:05:16.770 --> 00:05:23.026 - Big thank you to the staff board and supporters of the historic Buskirk Chumlee Theater, because we 00:05:23.026 --> 00:05:29.344 - love this theater, and it is really our home, so we're grateful for that. It's just a favorite venue 00:05:29.344 --> 00:05:35.725 - for me, and I'm so glad we've been partners all these years. One more time, we wanna send an enormous 00:05:35.725 --> 00:05:42.107 - gratitude to all our individual donors who contribute to the festival, to Lotus Blossoms, to Outreach 00:05:42.107 --> 00:05:44.734 - Programming, and to our General Operating 00:05:44.834 --> 00:05:51.320 - operating support, because all of you, all of you are essential to the mission of Lotus, supporting 00:05:51.320 --> 00:05:57.870 - both global artists and our thriving local communities. So thank you. I want to now just talk about, 00:05:57.870 --> 00:06:04.550 - let's see, logistics. You see the exit signs? If you wanna leave this building for any reason, use the 00:06:04.550 --> 00:06:11.425 - exit signs going back first, and if those aren't available, side doors are good too. So I wanna introduce 00:06:11.425 --> 00:06:13.630 - today's performing artist to you. 00:06:14.434 --> 00:06:21.759 - Grammy award winning American roots artist, Cathy Fink, Marcy Markser, and our Chinese classical hammered 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:29.153 - dulcimer player, Chow Tian, formed this trio of folk infused world music exploration. Chinese and American 00:06:29.153 --> 00:06:36.409 - songs are accompanied on, this is the word I didn't look up, Yang Jin, Yang Kin, you'll tell me, Chinese 00:06:36.409 --> 00:06:42.974 - hammered dulcimer, the gourd banjo, five string banjo, ukulele, guitars, dumbeck, cello banjo, 00:06:43.074 --> 00:06:48.606 - and mandolin. Will you please help me welcome Cathy, Marcy, and Chow. 00:11:01.410 --> 00:11:09.126 - So during one of our recording sessions, we decided to, I decided actually, yeah, right? I said, I don't 00:11:09.126 --> 00:11:16.548 - like what we play. Let's play something crazy. And we tried and we kind of like it. Now it's another 00:11:16.548 --> 00:11:24.264 - Chinese tune, right? I don't know if I should have called it Chinese still. But yeah, the song is called 00:11:24.264 --> 00:11:30.878 - Yong Jun Yan Kou. Yan Kou is a type of traditional Chinese dance, like square dance here. 00:11:31.394 --> 00:11:40.558 - So people after dinner, they went to the square or the open place and danced together in a group. It's 00:11:40.558 --> 00:11:49.634 - very delightful. And the next tune, surprising, this is another Chinese tune. It's called Snake Song, 00:11:49.634 --> 00:11:58.620 - a quite popular melody of the famous Chinese legendary story, The White Snake. The story actually is 00:11:58.620 --> 00:12:00.222 - a tragedy, but we 00:12:01.186 --> 00:12:09.497 - selected the most delightful part of the whole tune. We're going to sing the snake song. I'm going to 00:12:09.497 --> 00:12:17.646 - play the lady who is called Lady Bai. So she says in that story, she's a snake spirit and she eager 00:12:17.646 --> 00:12:26.039 - to find true love. So she practice those magic Taoism and transform her body into a human body and try 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:29.950 - to find love. And snakes, white snakes, she has 00:12:30.242 --> 00:12:38.074 - animal friends. Ta-da, Cathy and Marcy here. So they're going to be my animal companion friends and 00:12:38.074 --> 00:12:46.297 - you guys are also can be my animal friends. There's a sing-along part. It's very simple. Yeah, you won't 00:12:46.297 --> 00:12:54.207 - be able to sing Chinese with me. I know, I know that. So very simple. Once you hear that, Cathy will 00:12:54.207 --> 00:12:56.478 - lead you to join them, okay? 00:12:59.266 --> 00:13:07.083 - Why don't you tell them what the words are going to be? It sounds like, I hi, I hi yo. I hi, I hi yo. 00:13:07.083 --> 00:13:10.302 - Does it make sense to you? You will know. 00:16:48.194 --> 00:16:55.269 - to meet a lot of our heroines in old-time music and early country music. We toured with Patsy Montana 00:16:55.269 --> 00:17:02.413 - for many years, the first woman in country music to sell a million records. We hung out with old Belle 00:17:02.413 --> 00:17:09.419 - Reed and Lily Mae Ledford. One of the people that we never got to meet was a terrific character from 00:17:09.419 --> 00:17:16.632 - Harlan, Kentucky, Cousin Emmy, whose real name was Cynthia Mae Carver. And there's a funny little story 00:17:16.632 --> 00:17:17.950 - about Cousin Emmy. 00:17:20.290 --> 00:17:26.068 - This is in tune. Good enough. Cousin Emmy was a very famous performer for a long time, and then she 00:17:26.068 --> 00:17:32.250 - kind of dropped out of the scene for a while. Well, our friend Mike Seeger with his New Lost City Ramblers 00:17:32.250 --> 00:17:38.086 - went looking for so many of the people whose 78s and early recordings that he loved of early country 00:17:38.086 --> 00:17:44.210 - music, and they were all over Kentucky, and Cousin Emmy was on the list. Where would we find this person? 00:17:44.210 --> 00:17:50.046 - Couldn't find her, couldn't find her, couldn't find her. One day, the New Lost City Ramblers are out 00:17:50.210 --> 00:17:58.768 - in California, and on a day off, this is a hard thing to imagine, but on a day off, they went to Disneyland. 00:17:58.768 --> 00:18:06.933 - And there's Mike Seeger at Frontierland. Right there is a picture I can barely deal with. However, from 00:18:06.933 --> 00:18:15.412 - far away in the distance, they heard a banjo. And lo and behold, walking towards that banjo at the opposite 00:18:15.412 --> 00:18:19.102 - end of Disneyland, Cousin Emmy was performing. 00:18:19.874 --> 00:18:27.670 - She had a big bouffant blonde hairdo, super high heels, her great big country smile, her five-string 00:18:27.670 --> 00:18:35.388 - banjo, her harmonica, and she loved entertaining an audience. She also had a hit song. She took the 00:18:35.388 --> 00:18:43.338 - fiddle tune, Ruben's Train. Oh, Ruben had a train and he put it on the track. You can hear the whistle 00:18:43.338 --> 00:18:49.822 - blow a hundred miles. And she wrote new words to it. Ruby, are you mad at your man? 00:18:50.338 --> 00:18:57.694 - And the Osborne brothers took that song and turned it into a great big hit. Well, we never got to meet 00:18:57.694 --> 00:19:04.978 - Cousin Emmy, but when we first met Patsy Montana and I walked into her front door and we sat down and 00:19:04.978 --> 00:19:12.548 - started visiting, I'm looking around her little apartment and I see this doll of a bouffant blonde hairdo 00:19:12.548 --> 00:19:15.262 - with a banjo and a red gingham dress. 00:19:15.426 --> 00:19:22.053 - And I said, what is that? And she said, oh, that's a Cousin Emmy doll. We did a benefit concert for 00:19:22.053 --> 00:19:29.011 - Cousin Emmy because she needed some money for some health things. And those were the table centerpieces. 00:19:29.011 --> 00:19:33.054 - And I got the table centerpiece. And I coveted it for years. 00:19:33.346 --> 00:19:39.335 - And after we produced Patsy Montana's last album, she sent me the Cousin Emmy doll. She said, I think 00:19:39.335 --> 00:19:45.206 - I've caused you enough trouble. You deserve this. And we still have it. It's as close as we've ever 00:19:45.206 --> 00:19:51.077 - come to meeting Cousin Emmy. But I want to urge you all to go to the internet and watch Cousin Emmy 00:19:51.077 --> 00:19:57.242 - on Pete Seeger's RainbowQuest television show. You will see exactly the image that I've given you. Plus, 00:19:57.242 --> 00:20:02.526 - you'll see something else that you'll never see anywhere else. Cousin Emmy playing music. 00:20:02.722 --> 00:20:09.823 - on a rubber glove. So this is her song, Ruby, Honey, Are You Mad At Your Man, along with the Chinese 00:20:09.823 --> 00:20:15.166 - dulcimer and the doombeck, exactly how she imagined it in Harlan, Kentucky. 00:25:23.778 --> 00:25:33.542 - Chinese percussion instrument which is called si bao. The translation can be four pieces of treasures. 00:25:33.542 --> 00:25:43.211 - Actually there are four pieces of bamboo sticks. So it's very important percussion instrument for nan 00:25:43.211 --> 00:25:51.742 - yin music popular in southern China, southeastern China, Fujian province. We adapted this 00:25:52.002 --> 00:26:00.656 - instrument for our trio. The next tune is going to be a combination among this and Marcy Marksor's beautiful 00:26:00.656 --> 00:26:08.596 - vocal for the gospel sound actually we're going to improvise based on the the tune it's called Mary 00:26:08.596 --> 00:26:13.598 - Don't You Weep. So the instrument is actually sounds like this 00:26:18.050 --> 00:26:27.272 - People says, oh, it just sounds like a rhythmic bone, but actually the playing technique is quite different 00:26:27.272 --> 00:26:35.896 - because I don't play, I don't put a finger in between, so I hold it like parallel, two for each hand 00:26:35.896 --> 00:26:44.434 - and use all fingers to play it. Not shaking, not shaking. Come and see me after the show, I'll show 00:26:44.434 --> 00:26:45.886 - you. It's magic. 00:26:46.818 --> 00:26:48.766 - I can't even tell from looking up close. 00:31:32.642 --> 00:31:42.865 - her and her beautiful angelic voice. It sounds like my family's here tonight. Thank you. So this next 00:31:42.865 --> 00:31:52.887 - piece is a really good example of where the center of our band from China to Appalachia really sort 00:31:52.887 --> 00:31:57.598 - of formed. Chow was an artist in residence and 00:31:57.698 --> 00:32:05.994 - at the Music Center at Strathmore, a major performing arts center in North Bethesda, Maryland. And I've 00:32:05.994 --> 00:32:13.971 - worked as a mentor and an advisor in that program now for 20 years. This is my 21st year. And Marcy 00:32:13.971 --> 00:32:21.948 - has also worked some in that program. And along comes a Chinese hammered dulcimer player. We didn't 00:32:21.948 --> 00:32:26.974 - have a clue what that meant. We were thinking Malcolm Douglish 00:32:27.106 --> 00:32:34.951 - in a female body. That's what we were thinking. And along comes Chao with this Chinese dulcimer with 00:32:34.951 --> 00:32:42.952 - 147 strings tuned completely differently than an American dulcimer. And she was thoroughly classically 00:32:42.952 --> 00:32:51.108 - trained in China since the age of five. Classically trained in both Chinese and Western classical music, 00:32:51.108 --> 00:32:55.070 - but she had never played music off of the written. 00:32:56.578 --> 00:33:03.931 - So we invite Chow over to our house for a jam session with all different kinds of musicians. And poor 00:33:03.931 --> 00:33:11.357 - girl thought it was about food because of the word jam. And we got together and we said, OK, your turn 00:33:11.357 --> 00:33:18.638 - to play something. She goes, what? Where's the music? We said, we don't have any music. We just know 00:33:18.638 --> 00:33:24.478 - these things. We know these tunes. And it took her about five minutes to join in 00:33:25.122 --> 00:33:35.041 - and make this gigantic jump out of the classical world into this improvisational folk music world from 00:33:35.041 --> 00:33:44.864 - which she has never turned back. No, I'm Chow Bob. That's another story. That's right. Yeah, so we're 00:33:44.864 --> 00:33:54.494 - driving around Virginia. Chow quizzes Kathy and Marcy about our middle names. We have middle names. 00:33:56.258 --> 00:34:02.996 - Cathy Amphink, this is. Marcie Marie Markser. And Chow says, Chinese people don't have middle names, 00:34:02.996 --> 00:34:09.801 - I want one. And I immediately, I mean it took two seconds, I said, how about Bob? She said, okay. And 00:34:09.801 --> 00:34:16.672 - I explained that there were connotations to that, but she was all right with it. And now Chow is a PhD 00:34:16.672 --> 00:34:23.477 - student in ethnomusicology at Boston University, and when she gives her papers, they introduce her as 00:34:23.477 --> 00:34:24.478 - Chow Bob Tian. 00:34:32.674 --> 00:34:39.796 - Our centerpiece of this unusual combination of instruments is Marcy playing the four-string cello banjo. 00:34:39.796 --> 00:34:46.647 - It is tuned like a cello exactly. It's got a 15-inch pot, big fat heavy strings. Again, an influence 00:34:46.647 --> 00:34:53.566 - from Mike Seeger who came over to our home studio for the purpose of making some recordings together. 00:34:53.762 --> 00:35:00.010 - When Marcy picked up the cello banjo and started flipping out fiddle tunes on it, he kind of looked 00:35:00.010 --> 00:35:06.258 - at her and said, well, that's pretty interesting. I think I'm going to leave that here for a little 00:35:06.258 --> 00:35:12.569 - bit. And it didn't take long before we posted something on YouTube, and the gold tone company called 00:35:12.569 --> 00:35:19.067 - Marcy and said, we need to make those. And they started making them. Marcy is playing the Marcy Markser 00:35:19.067 --> 00:35:22.878 - model cello banjo, Every Girl's Dream. Yep. But it's really, 00:35:23.650 --> 00:35:30.530 - It's sort of the secret ingredient to the tonalities of bringing these instruments together. And so 00:35:30.530 --> 00:35:37.892 - we're going to do a tune that we learned from Mike. It's a hybrid version of a very well-known Appalachian 00:35:37.892 --> 00:35:44.772 - tune. Shady Grove, my true love. Shady Grove, I say. Shady Grove, my true love. Now I'm going away. 00:35:44.772 --> 00:35:49.726 - And this one is called Little Betty Anne. It's in a crazy banjo tuning. 00:35:52.546 --> 00:35:58.724 - It's my job to make music out of that. It's their job to make it sound good with me. And then we're 00:35:58.724 --> 00:36:05.025 - gonna medley that with a tune called Kitchen Girl, an Appalachian old time fiddle tune that I believe 00:36:05.025 --> 00:36:11.265 - Henry Reed played it and Alan Jabbour collected it from him. So we're sitting around playing Kitchen 00:36:11.265 --> 00:36:17.566 - Girl and that's when Chow Bob says, you know, there's a Chinese tune that sounds just like that. It's 00:36:17.566 --> 00:36:22.014 - called the Me Do Mountain Song. So Marcy's gonna kick off Kitchen Girl, 00:36:22.178 --> 00:36:28.266 - Chow's gonna get into the Me Do Mountain song and then we're gonna mash it all up in our little Appalachian 00:36:28.266 --> 00:36:33.790 - Chinese soup and see what happens. There's a chorus in Little Betty Anne that you can join us on. 00:37:13.794 --> 00:37:21.245 - She's a pretty little girl, neither black nor brown. Just looks like a thunder man before the rain comes 00:37:21.245 --> 00:37:28.342 - down. Step alight, my little Betty Anne. Step alight, I say. Step alight, my little Betty Anne. I'm 00:37:28.342 --> 00:37:34.942 - bound to go my way. That's your part. Step alight, my little Betty Anne. Step alight, I say. 00:38:40.066 --> 00:38:40.670 - So far. 00:42:32.578 --> 00:42:41.114 - artists of Lotus Fest. Marcy had the great pleasure of meeting Lotus for the first time in the 1970s 00:42:41.114 --> 00:42:49.820 - at the Indiana Fiddler's Gathering. What was it, the Fiddler's Gathering? Indiana Fiddler's Gathering. 00:42:49.820 --> 00:42:58.441 - It was run by Dylan Buston back then. And Lotus, I was reminded by a new friend backstage, I remember 00:42:58.441 --> 00:43:00.638 - that Lotus had a car that 00:43:00.898 --> 00:43:09.400 - needed work and the transmission was gone and or was not working, the car would only go in reverse and 00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:17.902 - he would drive around in reverse. Yep. I've never heard that story. That's a great story. It's a great 00:43:17.902 --> 00:43:26.239 - story. Well, we both got to spend quite a bit of time with him in the 80s when he was at the Augusta 00:43:26.239 --> 00:43:30.366 - Heritage workshops and got to hear his phenomenal 00:43:30.658 --> 00:43:38.029 - fiddling, and also his brilliant songwriting. When you really study his songs, his lyrics, his imagination, 00:43:38.029 --> 00:43:45.400 - his wordsmithing, that was quite a mind. And he also put to music this beautiful Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:52.294 - poem, Psalm of Life. I'm sure some of you know it, so we hope that you'll sing it with us. It is the 00:43:52.294 --> 00:43:58.846 - beginning of our adventure of getting Chao Bap into our trio style American old time harmonies. 00:44:09.922 --> 00:44:10.718 - Tune in, hang on. 00:45:24.066 --> 00:45:30.892 - earnest and the grave is not its goal, dost thou art to dust returneth was not spoken of the soul. And 00:45:30.892 --> 00:45:33.278 - if you miss a word just sing a note 00:47:19.618 --> 00:47:28.172 - So they can see really encourages me to try a lot of new things. I mean singing come on Yeah, and also 00:47:28.172 --> 00:47:36.726 - I danced a little bit the flat foot dance in a Floyd country store and that doesn't work well So don't 00:47:36.726 --> 00:47:45.197 - let don't ask me dance anymore I can dance with my two hands not the feet. I mean So the next tune is 00:47:45.197 --> 00:47:49.598 - 91 a Chinese tune. I'm going to sing as the vocal to 00:47:49.954 --> 00:47:58.520 - And Kathy Morrissey, they sound it beautifully in Chinese. They're going to sing with me. That's my 00:47:58.520 --> 00:48:07.171 - revenge to them. You know, they put me on the hard part to sing. I put them on a harder part to sing 00:48:07.171 --> 00:48:11.454 - in Chinese. What about that? It's her punishment. 00:48:11.650 --> 00:48:19.906 - It's all about punishment. But this coming tune is actually a beautiful melody talking about people 00:48:19.906 --> 00:48:28.574 - trying so hard to beautiful their hometown into a better place. It's called Nan Ni Wan. We also included 00:48:28.574 --> 00:48:37.160 - an English version that comes from Cathy Fing. Beautiful lyrics. I hope you can sing along with us once 00:48:37.160 --> 00:48:38.398 - you feel good. 00:48:38.850 --> 00:48:47.678 - I did an amazing translation of the Chinese in my sleep. So do I for the three parts harmony. 00:57:49.826 --> 00:57:58.767 - You just have to throw it to the wind and throw it down. Well, before we do our last song, a billion 00:57:58.767 --> 00:58:07.708 - thanks first and foremost to Tamara Lowenthal, who brought us here to Lotus Fest for the first time. 00:58:07.708 --> 00:58:14.878 - Thank you. To this amazing crew here at the Buskirk Theater, Wayne on the sound. 00:58:15.074 --> 00:58:22.912 - Tony on the monitors, everybody else in this theater has treated us so beautifully. It's been an incredible 00:58:22.912 --> 00:58:30.387 - experience. We are delighted to share it with you. Thank you for coming today. And, you know, one last 00:58:30.387 --> 00:58:38.878 - big thanks to the amazing Marcy Marksor on ukulele, mandolin, doomback, cello, banjo, guitar, and incredible vocals. 00:58:46.562 --> 00:58:57.193 - She's the one and only Chinese Yang Qin virtuoso and has many secrets in her back pocket. And she will 00:58:57.193 --> 00:59:07.721 - show you some of them out there in the lobby at intermission. Chow Bab Tian. And in the center of the 00:59:07.721 --> 00:59:14.430 - group, first woman to win the West Virginia State Banjo Contest. 00:59:16.834 --> 00:59:25.860 - First woman to win the Clif Top Banjo Contest. Singer, songwriter, great musician, Cathy Fink. We have 00:59:25.860 --> 00:59:34.885 - a small handful of CDs left in the lobby. Don't make us take them home. And if we run out of something 00:59:34.885 --> 00:59:43.736 - you want, we're very low on the China to Appalachia CDs, but we have more coming in any day. You can 00:59:43.736 --> 00:59:46.014 - get them off of Bandcamp. 00:59:46.210 --> 00:59:52.705 - And that comes directly to us. We also have an email list out there. And that's where Chow Pop will 00:59:52.705 --> 00:59:59.394 - be showing her secrets. Thank you all so much. We want you to join in on this last song. It's one that 00:59:59.394 --> 01:00:06.019 - we closed with yesterday as well. So if you were here, you already know it. But in case you don't, it 01:00:06.019 --> 01:00:12.773 - goes like this. We're gonna hold each other up. We're gonna lift each other high. We're gonna love each 01:00:12.773 --> 01:00:14.462 - other better than before. 01:00:16.034 --> 01:00:24.705 - And our hearts will keep on yearning for each other when the world is so unsure. We live in an unsure 01:00:24.705 --> 01:00:33.376 - world right now and events like this help us come together, join our voices, charge our batteries, go 01:00:33.376 --> 01:00:39.582 - back to our five calls app, hint, hint, hint, so we can on a daily basis 01:00:40.226 --> 01:00:49.858 - call into our representatives, tell them what we want because we run this country, we pay them. Let's 01:00:49.858 --> 01:00:59.963 - get together and do what needs to be done. And by the way, Chow is now going to do one more transformation 01:00:59.963 --> 01:01:09.406 - and turn our Chinese dulcimer into a honky tonk piano. One, two, three. We're gonna hold each other 01:01:11.810 --> 01:01:21.982 - We're gonna love each other high. We're gonna love each other better than before. This whole world will 01:01:21.982 --> 01:01:31.861 - keep on turning and our hearts will keep on yearning for each other when the world is on show. We've 01:01:31.861 --> 01:01:37.534 - seen troubles in the past, some gone by and some at last. 01:01:46.850 --> 01:01:47.166 - stop