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E49: The VIP Café Show with Jeff Green - Jazz in the Park: A Melodious Expedition through Youngstown's Vibrant Music Scene

• Debbie Larson and Greg Smith • Season 3 • Episode 49

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Feel the pulse of Youngstown's jazz heartbeat as Jeff Green, president of Jazz in the Park, takes us on a melodious journey through the event's 31-year history. Wick Park comes alive in our conversation, echoing the soulful notes of generations of musicians and the laughter of families that have transformed this local celebration into a unifying force. We pay tribute to the seasoned artists whose legacies reverberate through the community and explore how this jazz fest has become a symphony of unity, joy, and artistic expression.

Imagine an event where the smooth allure of jazz meets the rich bouquet of fine wine. That's the vibrant scene we paint as we discuss the upcoming Jazz and Wine Fest at the Youngstown Foundation Amphitheater. We go behind the scenes, giving a nod to the musicians who pour their heart into every performance, and the unsung heroes like Cheryl who make these events possible. Dive into the eclectic blend of tunes and tastes awaiting at the amphitheater, and hear about the innovative ideas, like a barbecue battle, that add a flavorful twist to the experience.

As our episode winds down, we highlight the importance of community support and engagement with Jazz in the Park. Discover how you can get in tune with these cultural events through our website and social media, and join us in fostering young talent within the arts. We tease the possibility of an extended evening of jazz and wine on July 3rd, ensuring an experience that resonates beyond the final note. And, while we express our gratitude to Havana House for being a gracious host, remember that the true spirit of jazz lies in the connections we make and the support we show for the arts in Youngstown.

Speaker 1:

hey, hey, hey. Welcome to the vip cafe show. I'm here today with my excellent co-host, debbie larson hello debbie, hello, hello I am greg smith and we are ready to kick this one off. We have a great show today we do.

Speaker 2:

we have an. It's going to be an exciting show and one that I'm excited to introduce to a lot of people because this guy, our guest, is. First of all, I have to say it's a beautiful day today and you can't help but be in a good mood and a beautiful day, but our guest has made waves for years now in Youngstown, but there's still so many people who have never heard of him or his company that we are about to introduce to you guys. So make sure you listen up and stay posted, and definitely for you businesses and business owners out there, there's a sponsorship opportunity for A great sponsorship opportunity.

Speaker 1:

Great sponsorship. Let me go ahead and kick the music so you can introduce our guest. I'm totally jumping ahead of myself. Yes, go ahead.

Speaker 2:

Today we have Jeff Green, who is the president of the Jazz in the Park, youngstown. This year is the 31st year that they have been putting together free jazz concerts in the summer. And I remember seeing it when I first came back to town. I remember seeing it. They were just small little gatherings like in downtown Youngstown and now they fill like a whole section of Wick Park.

Speaker 1:

People bring tents out there and they cook out and it's just a thing it is a thing, and it's something we need as a country right now, as a community, to come together in music and just celebrate life.

Speaker 2:

I never appreciated jazz until Jazz in the Park. I have to be honest. So welcome, jeff, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 3:

Glad to be here.

Speaker 2:

Tell us a little bit at first of all. Sorry, go ahead, greg.

Speaker 3:

No, go ahead and tell us, tell us the history of it, tell us the history of putting this together 31 years ago the city of Youngstown contracted my sister-in-law, karen Clark Green, and to do a program for those city parks for the youth and an arts program. She has a degree in several different areas of arts and she put together this program where she did arts and crafts, blah, blah, blah with the kids for about six, eight weeks during the summer. When she was coming to the last week she asked my brother and I my dearly departed brother, by the way and to put together a band of the older musicians to allow the kids to see the older musicians play and so that they could get interested in the musical side of the arts. We did that and the last day of Jasmine of her summer arts series, on a Sunday, we were down in the traditional Lincoln Park. We were down in the traditional Lincoln Park and Lincoln Park is a smaller park but they wanted us to go down there and do it there.

Speaker 3:

That's where she did her arts program and we set up a tent stage. We did everything we needed to do. I brought in the sound system, of course, because I owned all of that stuff we needed to do. I brought in the sound system, of course, because I owned all of that stuff. And boom, we did this concert with the older guys, even older than my brother and I, many of them Mr Shedrick Hobbs, many of the other great musicians that played with bands around the world. They played in the 40s and 50s and they were from here. They are from here.

Speaker 2:

Shedrick is still living.

Speaker 3:

He's right now Big Daddy and some of the other artists. They've gone on now, but there's some famous people from here. So, anyway, the people, the parents that came and people that just heard the music playing in the park we had a crowd of about 50, 60 people, like that Boom, and they came down in that park and the next thing it wasn't a month later. Mr Joe McCrae was the park director. He said, green, are you guys going to do that again next year? I said, of course we will. Why don't you do it more than one week? Why don't you give me a couple weeks? Wow, and the next year we did it for two Sundays. And so now the park is completely covering this for us.

Speaker 3:

And it's not that much to cover back then because, first of all, I owned a lot of things. My brother knew everybody at that time. All I owned a lot of things. My brother knew everybody at that time. And now I've taken on that mantle and we put together Jazz in the Park. The people kept asking and asking they find you in the grocery store in the middle of December. When does Jazz in the Park start? Oh my God, at that time it didn't start until August and we went a couple of weeks in August and three years, four years, we were doing a whole month in August of Jazz in the Park. As it grew, people would come home from where they lived at to visit Youngstown again. They made sure that they were there for Jazz in the Park. When somebody would pass away, you'd see in the paper such and such passed away. They loved the Browns, they loved this, that and the other and they loved Jazz in the Park.

Speaker 3:

As honest to God you can still see that today. People say that One lady here lately told my wife said you know what? I have high blood pressure, but since I've been coming down jazz in the park my blood pressure has regulated. Now that's crazy, because you think that's what you should get while you go to church or something like that she had to give up the Browns too. Oh, come on, Debbie, you brought me into the lion's den, I'm surprised.

Speaker 1:

Maybe that's what they need. Maybe the Browns need a little more jazz. I'm surprised. Well, maybe that's what they need.

Speaker 3:

Maybe the Browns need a little more jazz. But yeah, so we started organizing and we had to move out of Lincoln Park. It was too small and older people had a hard time getting down in that park. You can only get so many cars down there, so if you had older people they can't walk that walkway down. So we got removed to the B&O Station Park, right down to B&O Restaurant, and we were there for a long time. I think we were there about 10 years or so, if not more 10 or 12 years. We were down at the B&O Station Park and packed that place out, nowhere to sit. People would come and go all day long. So we figured we had about 800 people at that time, which is a lot of people on a Sunday. Oh yeah, we brought a lot of business into downtown. Now I don't want to say this and not be right. I have to check again but I was told that we now, in our 31st year, are the number one attended event in the city of Youngstown. Come on, because we get people every week. Yeah, okay, we get a couple thousand people every week, uh-huh.

Speaker 3:

Our original goal was to make sure that we got young people interested in art, because Jazz in the Park is a family-friendly affair and we put out feelers to everybody we can. We tried. We even hired a young group one time out of Pittsburgh called the Funky Fly Project Okay, little young guy playing the sax and all his friends and they were very good, they were excellent. To this day, that young man is playing major jazz concerts around the world with his father. His name is puji bill and um puji played with a lot. He's the drummer. He played with a lot of people in business. This man is traveling four months, five months out of the year, playing major concerts throughout the world.

Speaker 3:

And so they did come to Jazz in the Park. Can't say we started because they were over in Pittsburgh doing all the things that they did over there, but they were good the early days, yeah. So people, when they came to play, we hired them for three years in a row. People would bring their kids up and just stand in front of the band so that they could see this, to get interested in the arts. That's what we wanted, but we need to go further and that's what we're working on now. It's nice to give free concerts because everybody comes. It's very diverse to give free concerts because everybody comes. It's very diverse. You have from poppers to politicians, to millionaires, to to notes, to no heirs period. Come to jazz in the park and everybody gets along yeah, it's a great melting pot.

Speaker 1:

It's a great and a value added for the mahoning valley, and you know no, I just was going to ask what is it about jazz for those that don't? That allows people just to enjoy. What is it about the rhythms, about the music itself that is uh really good about? It's a community feel, it's a, it's an experience, it's uh it's alive.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, now, when you speak of jazz, jazz comes in several different delineations. One is straight-ahead jazz, like you would say that the orchestras of old used to play, and the quartets and things like that Sonny Rollins Quartet or something like that. Then you have contemporary jazz and then you have jazz R&B, and so that is taking popular R&B songs and playing methods. We present all that jazz in the park. We present every genre of jazz because we want people to be introduced to that type of music and, sure enough, it gets people's interest. The fact is, other than that, they're sitting in this park side by side with all types of different people. They're cooking, their kids are playing, their dogs are tied up and going crazy.

Speaker 2:

It's literally like 100 family barbecues going on at the same time. One time, One entertainment, that same entertainment. And they come in groups, they come in church groups. They have this little place in front of the stage. Little kids will be dancing. People from the buildings around the park come and they start dancing and then in the middle they do line dancing. Like sometimes there will be like 20 or 30 people up there line dancing. It's like literally like multiple family reunions getting together and everybody's just having a good time.

Speaker 3:

The event itself is entertainment gather and everybody's just having a good time. The event itself is entertainment. Even the group homes come with their people and their people have a great time and they relax. We made it. It was my brother's vision to make this that type of a gathering so that when people got together they would all just enjoy, because we're not putting pressure on anybody. We're not asking really not asking them to get up and do anything, because usually by the time we do that, we always raise money. We're raising money 24 hours a day from April 1st on to make sure we can put these concerts on. We have sometimes national people that will walk through and they don't always perform because they can't contractually. But I want to change that this year. I intend to get two at least national acts. We use some of the national people we have here, like Billy Beck and Rick Ward and them from the from Beck Ward project who are also Ohio players.

Speaker 2:

They are the players and they're Grammy nominated, right? Oh yeah, I don't?

Speaker 3:

Billy's won Grammys.

Speaker 2:

Okay, but the Rick won. Yeah, he won a.

Speaker 3:

Grammy with playing with the rest of development. So we have some guys here that they can enough work. But then you have what's? Our trumpet player from here, real famous. Oh, I can't think of his name. He'll call me Uncle Jeff if he sees me. Period, all the musicians that do respect me call me Uncle Jeff.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I see I've had the opportunity, specifically this past year, to be there. I go through the crowd, I take pictures, I take video for the Jazz in the Park.

Speaker 2:

So for those of you who are listening, who this sounds interesting, you want to check it out, go to the YouTube channel Jazz in the Park, youngstown and you're able to see some of the shows and acts from the last two years a little bit more from last year, but yeah, and acts from the last two years a little bit more from last year, but yeah, you see such a diverse range of musicians and none of them are exactly alike. It's not like you're like, oh, this sounds like, oh, we, it's. They're so diverse but they all have so much respect for you. And then sometimes I've seen you jump in there and play sax a couple times. How long have you been a musician Since I was born? Oh, yeah. So the Green family is known for the arts and music and stuff.

Speaker 1:

Right, it seems like it runs in the blood. Right, let's plug the event this year. Why don't you do that?

Speaker 3:

Okay, this year we start on July 7th. We go every Sunday from 3 to 7 pm and, like I said, we feature different artists. 7 pm and, like I said, we feature different artists, it'll go nine weeks this year again. Last year we went nine. Depends on what day we start whether it's going to be eight or nine. So Jazz in the Park will convene on the 7th of July at Wick Park, youngstown, ohio, and you can come. Bring your lawn chair, bring your picnic baskets and bears. Please no bears, I don't want those.

Speaker 2:

And no steeler chairs that are allowed there.

Speaker 3:

That's one thing I had to say. There's no steeler chairs allowed. A couple of you all did came out anyway.

Speaker 1:

Youngstown State and Ohio State's.

Speaker 3:

okay, right, oh, absolutely All day, you can even slip a Penn State in there, if you want to Now are you guys?

Speaker 1:

going to have food, but they sit in the back. They sit in the back.

Speaker 2:

Are you going to have food trucks again?

Speaker 3:

Oh, yes, we're definitely going to have food trucks and vendors. We have all types of vendors there. Some are. We have jerk chicken people, jamaican people. We have barbecue. We have people that have wings, slushies and all types of different things that they have out there. Fish there's a couple of people that do fried fish on that on a, and oh, it's phenomenal.

Speaker 1:

What about a business? If they want to get involved in sponsorship, Tell us about that.

Speaker 2:

Okay, they need to go to jazzintheparkyoungstowncom and there's a form there that you could say contact us or reach out, or you could email jazzintheparkyo at gmailcom. Absolutely an email. Jazz in the park, yo at gmailcom.

Speaker 3:

Absolutely, and let us know that you want to get to bring your truck there or your table set up. It has you have to have a vendor's license. Of course you have to be cleared by the health department.

Speaker 1:

We don't want anybody getting sick and let me say this yeah, this is the only we sponsor a lot of things with compco right a lot of things. This is one of the only events we sponsor a lot of things with Compco right A lot of things. This is one of the only events we sponsor where actually people come up and thank me.

Speaker 3:

Oh, wow.

Speaker 1:

Hey, weren't you one of the sponsors? For that, I'll be wearing my Compco shirt and they'll say you were one of the sponsors. It's the only time that ever happens.

Speaker 2:

That is incredible.

Speaker 1:

That's truth.

Speaker 3:

Several restaurant people are, you know, support us. Several restaurant people are, you know, support us. One in particular says I've got more people that say that they heard about me from Jazz in the Park or doing the Jazz and Wine Fest, which we also do. We'll talk about it in a second no-transcript we get about 2,000 people each week, unless it rains, of course, and then sometimes there's other things that take one or two people. I'll say it like that, but we always are over 1,000. Excellent, we're always over 1,000.

Speaker 2:

And, jeff, not only do you get your name on the signage, but halftime Jeff always gives a heartfelt shout-out to each of the sponsors, and he does it very well. It's not just like your name, he actually he'll say it in every single time, so it's repetitive every week and I've had the opportunity and the pleasure of getting to be a part. And let me just take a moment real quick because I know she's going to listen to this. We have to shout out his lovely wife, cheryl, who does a lot behind the scenes to make this happen, and so you're welcome, cheryl, for giving all the specifics that Jeff didn't. She's a very competent wife.

Speaker 3:

She would be the one to get the website in the email if she were here. How much of a stickler for being perfect is she. Oh, yes, oh absolutely yes, she doesn't miss.

Speaker 1:

That's awesome.

Speaker 3:

So with that, greg, thank you again for your help last year. We really appreciated that and we look forward to working with you guys in the future. But we want to bring that type of music back to this area. We want to bring jazz acceptable to all audiences and we've been asked to do some shows and and things like that other than what you were telling me about earlier because they've seen what we do. Many of the businesses now can you get a couple of your guys? Yeah, but they cost money right, you know but people don't want to pay.

Speaker 3:

Listen musicians, whether they went to school for years or they just practiced at home for years. They disciplined so that they could bring pleasure to your ear and that's what it is. That's why I think it has been such. The crowd has been so laid back, so ready to have fun, that we don't have violence, we don't have arguments and anything like that.

Speaker 2:

It's funny. There was one day that it downpoured, it rained, it started out beautifully and then all of a sudden it moved in fast and people stuck around. That's how committed this crowd is, and I love it so much. Can you talk to us about the Jazz and Wine Fest that's down at the Amphitheater?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I had the pleasure. So many years ago, whenever YSU's centennial was, I did the first Jazz and Wine Fest. We did it at the B&O. We used all alumni from ysu, including myself, and got it to be, you know, and phil kidd was the director downtown at that time and he got me I don't even know how much money. It was enough to pay the people to come play and to set up a sound system, because the sound system you gotta. We have a superb sound system every week. We must have a good sound system and I did the first jazz and wine fest and it was a huge success.

Speaker 3:

Politics started playing a part in somebody saying this person has a, has an album out, so maybe we ought to let them produce it. I said you don't want to do that, but they did it anyway and they didn't have a lot of success. They had a few good concerts though, very good concerts, a national act. All the time I was bringing a national, but when the amphitheater was built, the time I was bringing a national, but when the amphitheater was built, they employed me to do produce the Jazz and Wine Fest down at the amphitheater and we've been doing it for about four years or maybe five now Five I think because we did one local when COVID was going on.

Speaker 3:

We did one local when COVID was going on and so everything was going along well and we haven't had the best of crowds. But this year I'm looking forward to this concert and because we're not doing it in conjunction with the Summer Festival of the Arts, we're going to do it on the 13th of June July, oh God, july 13th down at the amphitheater it's a Saturday and we're going to have Jazz and Wine Fest and we're in the process of putting together a couple guys, maybe about two or three restaurants, to come down there and do barbecue battle During that time that's a great idea.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, we're putting that together. Oh, how fun. So we're going to see how that works. The artist will be a young lady named Althea Renee who is a flautist jazz flautist and she's climbing. You hear her on watercolors, okay, and also Mr Jeff Cashua, saxophone player, who will also be here for that concert, and they will be performing from 7 to 10 that Saturday at the Amphitheater, youngstown Foundation Amphitheater, downtown Youngstown. Awesome, it's going to be. It's always awesome. We had 480 East one year. Oh, they were great. They were great. People didn't know who they were and when they heard it, they said I know that band because they played this, that and that. I said you need to come out. We can't do big ticket prices. It's a $10, $20 ticket $20 to sit in the seats on cement, $10 to be in the lawn yeah you can't beat that.

Speaker 1:

No, not in today's world.

Speaker 2:

No, no, and let me and if I'm not mistaken, 480 east are from canada, canada, and they were great, but they, even with the not huge crowd that that came that year, they still. It was a nice crowd though, but they still want they. Didn't they reach out to you to want to come back?

Speaker 2:

oh, they want to come back and I love that when I hear stuff like that, because you know how greg and I always talk about youngstown and how special this area is and the people, so when somebody from the outside sees that and recognizes that always means a lot. But yeah, they loved it.

Speaker 3:

That amphitheater is a great tool for this area and they're doing great with. Jac is doing great with what they're bringing. As far as it goes with the R&B and the other things. There's not that much that they're doing in the schedule. That may be because maybe those things don't sell as much as the others. But if we pick the right type of things and we make this event a destination for that night, I think we'll do a really good service for the city of Youngstown.

Speaker 1:

I think it's time for Rapid Fire.

Speaker 3:

Yes, it is.

Speaker 1:

So we need to know what is your favorite Jazz song of all time.

Speaker 2:

Oh man, that's a good question.

Speaker 3:

Butterfly by Herbie Hancock.

Speaker 1:

What's your favorite Jazz instrument or jazz solo?

Speaker 3:

Solo.

Speaker 1:

Solo instrument when they're riffing.

Speaker 3:

I could say saxophone, because I play saxophone, but that's not always my favorite Keyboards, keyboards, and I play keyboards too.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 3:

I like to hear the keys, let's say synthesizers.

Speaker 1:

Synthesizers.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

All right, go ahead If you got to meet any jazz musician who is alive or passed on. Who would it be? Or spend? I should say spend a day with. There's too many.

Speaker 3:

And there's some that I've already spent days with.

Speaker 1:

Oh man, that's beautiful.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, or maybe a memory, a good memory of one.

Speaker 3:

I wish he was alive today because just before he passed away he was going to come do a fundraiser for us. That's Mr Grover Washington Jr. Okay, yeah, saxophonist. He was a great friend and we did spend time with him. My brother worked for an agency that produced concerts across the nation and they brought Grover home to our house one day. And I'm about to say Grover Washington's in my house, yeah, oh, wow, and I loved him then. But I really loved him after because he was such a great guy, wow, and he was really ready to come in because of his friendship with my brother and another gentleman, mr Tony Goines, to do a concert here in Youngstown. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1:

That's amazing. So, yeah, yeah, just, I have to ask this we're getting out of rapid fire here, but this is important the difference between a jazz musician and other musicians. What is important when you start to play that you have to what? Where do you have to be as far as mentally, as far as a person, to really allow you? Have to be as far as mentally, as far as a person to really allow.

Speaker 3:

You have to run deep to be a jazz musician, because what you're playing is not what you learned in theory class or even in your lessons. It's coming out of your soul. Now, regular music comes out of your soul too. I'm not saying that, I'm just saying, but in jazz, because of improvisation, it really requires you to connect on a deeper level.

Speaker 1:

And you never play the same song twice, even though it's the same song.

Speaker 3:

Sean trumpet player Jones. Oh, okay, that's who I was trying to remember, sean Jones. Sean Jones, right out of here, out of Trumbull County, here I watched him grow up. I used to go to another musician's place. Can I tell this story? I don't know. Yeah, go right ahead. Okay, sean and Eddie Howard's young brother I can't remember his name right now. They used to go and play together. Sean played trumpet and he played sax. I would be playing around on the sax with Eddie putting some stuff down, because I used to work over that way and I'd just stop by and we'd just hang out for a while.

Speaker 3:

Eddie Howard is a master musician, keyboard player, who won his grammy for soulful messiah. He wrote. He wrote pieces of years ago and sean and his little brother were in the side room on their instruments trying to play what we did at that time, yeah, but then this guy comes up and he is. It just goes off. He's so talented when he was doing a concert in Columbus playing with somebody jazz band and picked him up for that week before he got famous. What's the trumpet player? Why can't I think of his name? Today I'm getting younger man. What's the trumpet player? Oh, can't I think of his name to date. I'm getting younger man. What's the trumpet player? Oh my God. Anyway, what's the major trumpet player that they were playing all of? I think his brother is better than him.

Speaker 1:

Branford, marcellus.

Speaker 3:

Branford no, his brother.

Speaker 1:

Okay, branford is Wynton. I couldn't think of Wynton. Yeah, I know Wynton. I couldn't think of Wynton.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I know Wynton, wynton, wynton, marcellus, his bass player, mm-hmm, called Wynton and Said you gotta listen to this and he held his phone up While this man Played for a half hour, mm-hmm His cell phone and then, he said, man, find this, get this guy to me please.

Speaker 3:

Wow, that's a movie. That young man deserves everything he got. Not only did he pay the cost, he was a good person. Uh, he was a. He wasn't a thug, he wasn't anything. And not to say, some thugs are great musicians. It has nothing to do with it.

Speaker 1:

It has to do with what I said earlier connecting with that soul and connecting with you expressing, like I say, every human being suffers, every human being, when you can reach in the depths and be a connective tissue of humanity and play your pain, play your happiness, play your everything.

Speaker 3:

It's there, it's always there and you can always see it. Sometimes you don't have to be that great a musician, cause some musicians play four or five notes.

Speaker 1:

Just always remember Pavarotti couldn't read music. I did not know.

Speaker 3:

Really he could not read the child of Pavarotti couldn't read music.

Speaker 1:

I did not know, really he could not read music. He could not read the music.

Speaker 3:

I have a signed paper from him, program from him when he was over in Pittsburgh that my sister got when she went to see him. My sister sang opera and sang around the world and did a lot of things. She was classically trained Sang at the Met, sang at Graz, austria, all over, along with Karen. Wow, karen did too.

Speaker 1:

So let's recap this I'm sorry, tell us. No, don't be sorry, it's great, it's great. Let's recap when all these different events are and how people can get involved.

Speaker 3:

Okay, give us a look out on the web. Check our website out Jazzintheparkyoungstowncom. Okay, then Jazz in the Park on Facebook and then you can email us at jazzintheparkinc. Jazz in the Park Yo, y-o, y-o. I created that. You think I would remember that's the first thing I created. That was any good, but please give a look out.

Speaker 3:

Look what we're doing. There's some programs coming up that we're going to be trying to help some young children get into the arts and get instruments to get into the arts. Beautiful, by next summer I know it'll be in place and if you want to be part of something like that, come on, check us out. If you just want to listen, come on, check us out. If you'd like to be a sponsor it doesn't matter how small or how large Come on, check us out. If you'd like to be a sponsor it doesn't matter how small or how large come on, check us out. Jazzintheparkyo at gmailcom. Jazzintheparkyoungstowncom. We're creating an atmosphere for people to have fun in no pressure. We're not requiring anything of you, but you to bring your afternoon and spend it with us.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, bring your soul and let them reprogram it for harmony and happiness.

Speaker 3:

Why didn't Junkstown? Jazz and wine at the amphitheater, july 3rd, 7 o'clock, and keep your eyes open because we might do some special things and start an hour or two early, just so we can get the barbecue and the wineries in to have some fun.

Speaker 1:

Awesome. Thank you, everybody, and thank you to Havana House for letting us host it here. If you want some great coffee, some great smokes, come down to Havana House. They also have some nice wines too.

Speaker 2:

Do they really? Oh, yeah, look at that.