Hello and welcome to NewsClick. The National Green Tribunal passed a judgement yesterday which bans all forms of protests around the Jantar Mantar area. The primary reason given for this ban is the inconvenience caused to the citizens in the Jantar Mantar area because of these regular protests. So today we have with us Mr. Gautam Navlaka and Mr. Rishabh Bailey to discuss the implications of this judgement. Welcome to NewsClick. So, protests are a democratic, fundamental right. Then how constitutional is it to restrict all forms of protests in Dharnaas to just one area in Deni? Well, that is actually the first question. How is it, how come that our entire right to protest is confined within half a kilometer of Jantar Mantar?  And now if the National Green Tribunal believes that Jantar Mantar is causing noise pollution and it's inconveniencing the residents of Jantar Mantar and that it must be moved to Ramleela ground, then it only means that we will be going to be, I mean all protests and demonstrations would be pushed away to as far away from government ministries and central offices as possible. And there is nothing that says that we won't be thrown out from Ramleela ground on the same basis of noise pollution to somewhere else, to an isolated spot. So it raises the question, I mean does our right to protest against repressive laws or struggles, raise a voice against, in protest against a number of things that keep on happening around us. What does it mean that we can't hold any protests anymore inside Delhi? I actually agree with what Gautam is saying and what that raises is possibly a slightly more philosophical issues. Is a protest a protest if no one witnesses the protest? And we've seen these kind of issues take place in the more, in the hinterland if I could use that word in India. That's Kuran Kulam, this, that and the other where we are actually using our legal system to try and nullify any sort of debate on these issues. So what we're seeing is more and more of these sort of communal or social activities which do not necessarily fit within the paradigm that the government wishes to put forward being moved to the fringes of our settlements, of our towns, which is a disturbing thought in some ways. Though of course it must be said that the government does also have a duty to preserve law and order and ensure that while people are exercising their right to free speech under 19 one, that it's done in a reasonable way so on and so forth. So it's that balancing exercise which the government I think has failed to actually participate in in any way and it takes as is usually the case in our country, it takes rather draconian measures rather than trying to find nuanced answers. I recall that in 1980s after Bharti-Kisan Union's agitation, they gathered near Botlub for several days. It was post that agitation that they decided to ban all protest and demonstrations near Botlub which is isolated and cut off from all commercial, residential and industrial zones. So it was a spot actually going by NGT's own order. It was perfect place to hold demonstrations and protests close to north and south block, not very far from parliament, perfect spot for that. So it was Tikhats, the Bharti-Kisan Union led agitation by Tikhats which first brought in this ban at Botlub and forced people to hold the demonstrations and the police decided that Jantar Mantar is a good enough place to hold it. Now we are being told that Jantar Mantar itself is no longer suitable. Exactly. So on that point it's actually an interesting little technicality in terms of what the court has looked at, that the police clearly has not followed proper procedure in moving protest sites as per their whims. So they have moved it to Botlub, no one knows quite exactly why. From Botlub again they moved it to Jantar Mantar, no one knows why and they were in fact unable to produce the order stating that Jantar Mantar is the designated place of protest. So in that circumstance the NGT I'm not sure had much of a choice in this case because the only place in law which is designated to protest still is the Ramleela grounds. And so that's a sort of basic issue that the government and the police need to grapple with here. But the same it would seem Ramleela ground is also not very far from Old Delhi and the Wall City area. So if the inconvenience caused or the harm caused to the residents of Jantar Mantar is to be an issue, what about thousands? I mean here we are talking about as the NGT order said 60 residents. What about thousands who reside in the Wall Street, Wall City area? By using the same argument they can very well ban demonstrations and protest in Ramleela. It's actually a bigger issue than just protest. I mean what about the people living near the metro lines? What about people living near temples and masjids and I mean we in India love making noise.  In fact I noticed the judgement specifically mentions that 9 out of the 10 monitoring stations in Delhi actually indicate that there is excessive noise in India. So it's clearly a problem everywhere. It's not localized to Jantar Mantar. And so this case is finding a very small solution to a possibly non-existent problem when you're looking at the bigger issue. Also it should be seen that Jantar Mantar itself holds very strategic importance as it is close to the parliament as you said. Now if we shift the area, if we shift the protests when you're to an area which is so far from all these government offices and so far from the parliament, will smaller protests continue to have any impact? The whole idea of holding protests is not just being close to the central offices but also to reach out to the public. This is also the idea behind protests that you're not being heard. You reach out to the public to create an awareness and at the same time you're close to the central offices so that you can reach out there and hand in your memorandum, try and persuade them to hold talks with you because otherwise that seems to be the only way in which the government response or the administration response. So this would, it's an indirect way of killing protests and demonstrations. Although I must at the same time point to two things which are there in the NGT and which links up with what Rishab said earlier. NGT is right, the noise pollution, prolonged noise pollution is harmful but precisely picking up from where Rishab said, entire Delhi suffers from noise pollution.  So if NGT is really concerned about the harmful impact of noise pollution, why is it that they have never concerned themselves even so much? The plight of those who live in busties and exposed to prolonged noise pollution. If they had done it, they would have carried greater credibility, which they don't today. Gautam, I actually wanted to ask you something, as someone who's been part of people's social movements for far longer than I've even been around, there's a global movement now to look at the criminalization of protests in public spaces, whether you look at England for example, where you have the increasing use of ASPOS, you look at the US where just recently I think a few months ago they were talking about introducing laws regarding commercial terrorism, protesting in commercial spaces would now be outlawed. Is this a general movement we're seeing around the world and how can you combat that if that's what's happening everywhere? Because this is essentially another version of the development versus social equality paradigm. Very interesting what you say, Rishabh, because if you recall when Occupy Wall Street campaign was going on, one of the ways in which they killed that movement was by invoking public order and public health scare. So public order has become an all-encompassing, you can bring in any part, public health issues can be brought in as they've done it in this particular case of Jantar Mantar, they talk about unhygienic conditions and unsanitary conditions etc, etc which prevail. Yeah, exactly. So yes, you're right, this is a way of killing protests or throttling expression, collective expressions of people. So another interesting thing to note is that even if we just look at the judgment itself, the NGT calls the NGT sites the master plan, Delhi master plan to call that area a residential area. While for all means and purposes it is essentially not a residential area, there are also commercial buildings, banks, government offices, everything. Basically just 60 residents living there. Then why even call it a residential area? What is it that makes Jantar Mantar a residential area when you rightly put there are in fact just 60 residents and everything around it, all the buildings around it are either commercial, guest houses, banks. So I mean what makes it, Delhi metro has its headquarters also I believe there. So what makes it a residential area under the Delhi master plan and how can you invoke that? If you're so concerned about it then then a large parts of Delhi which are not following the Delhi master plan and the zoning plan as part of it. So why are they not concerned about that? One last question. Again the problems faced by the residents of the Jantar Mantar area are still legitimate problems which should not be ignored. But then how do we come to a more reasonable compromise? I would think that there has to be some measure of composure shown by the police and they cannot look to just hide these protests away. The point is that's why protestors flock from all parts of India to come to Jantar Mantar because they've been told that that's where you should go. So clearly the onus is on them to find a place that meets these various criteria. That's true but there is one part of it I mean which is also which flows from the NGT judgment which I think needs to be taken into account. They say the right freedom of expression also incorporates the right to decline to listen. So it's a question for instance on a television you can say hey you have the right to change the channel. But then in a protest or in a person to person you don't necessarily have that facility. So now where does your right to not be annoyed by someone stop?  But does it mean that I cannot express myself in his presence. Do I have to go out of the room or does he have to go out of the room. That is the sort of interesting question that we were talking about and the Supreme Court has addressed this in a roundabout way without giving a proper answer really to this question. And this links up to the question that you raise where what do we do I mean if Jantar Mantar has to be we have to move protest on Jantar Mantar where should we move. I would like to point out that you know there was a time we could hold our we could gather near Sardar Patel Chowk near Jantar Mantar. We could reach close to the parliament also there was a time we could do it now by confining ourselves to Jantar Mantar just half a kilometer. And turning it into also it's also part of the tourist junk it by the way and tourists are also brought to come to visit Delhi apart from visiting other places. They're also brought to Jantar Mantar to look at the protests you know like the speakers corner in Hyde Park. So we have they're also brought here. I think a better thing would be to return to Botlub to also think in terms of that if it's a large gathering. Yes, you can move it to Ramlila ground. But if there are smaller that they should be permitted to put up the tents somewhere close to Botlub where all these mobile toilets and sanitary facilities could be provided exactly as they've been provided.  Just on that point there's an interesting part of the judgment which is that they never actually concentrate on the fact that the people who are protesting have no facilities whatsoever. They don't want to go and defecate in the public presumably they don't want to you know live the way they are. So equally there's a burden on the NDMC and the various authorities to ensure that sanitation facilities are provided that's why you have people going out and you know using the bathroom in the public. And it's it's actually it goes goes back to your earlier question also small protesters you know the large political parties or social organizations. They have the capacity and the wherewithal to to to push their way into the city and hold it to hold you know hold the rally wherever they want to and we have seen it happen. We have seen it happen in defiance of law and all all all judgments Supreme Court judgments and orders. What happens to the small protesters? I mean Jantar Mantar for all its shortcomings at least provided them people knew coming from far far corners of this country that there is one place where they could come to hold the protest. And the broader problem also is in some ways whether it's you call it a cynical perspective or not Jantar Mantar is not just symbolic but it's actually a steam valve of some sort. You have groups who can come there actually look to make some change or look to put their cause forward. Does this mean then you're saying just violence this that mean you're going to have if there's no space for discussion what do people do. And so that's also going to create a problem in the future I would think. Which means that probably carry on with Jantar Mantar but also a lot of Botla Ramleela ground and other spots to also be accessible to protesters so that it eases the pressure on Jantar Mantar. Thank you for your time Gautam and Rishabh. Thank you for watching News Square.


Hello everyone, this is Amit Don of AmitDon.com. Today I will have another episode of unboxing and review video and I'll be presenting the Sony PCM-A10 high resolution audio player which I have it right here. Now if you're looking at this audio player which is my old audio player, this is Sony UX560 and this still works. The reason I'm upgrading to a high resolution audio player because I'm doing some or I'm trying out some ambient noise videos and I wanted to upgrade my audio quality so I wanted to you know give it a try. I had options to purchase Zoom H5 or Tascam DR100 MK3 which are also high resolution audio players but the reason I went with Sony because you know this is very lightweight and this is also very travel friendly because if you're looking at Tascam or Zoom then they're about one pound or even close to two pound comparing that this is very lightweight and small and handy so this makes more sense to travel with this one. Now this audio recorder UX560 still works and it produces a very good sound quality but this is not high resolution so you're getting a 44 1 kHz at 16 bits which is you know city quality sound or you know lower than city quality which would be mp3 quality but this one produces much higher quality so for example you're looking at 96 kHz at 24 bits which is much higher than 44.1 at 16 so for that reason I decided to you know upgrade my audio quality to the Sony PCM-A10 and definitely is going to make a difference for the ambient videos I'm doing which is a very recent you know addition to my channel so today I'm going to take a look at it and then you know I'll do some testing once I you know go through the unboxing and after that I'll attach a few sample clips to the audio so you can know that you know how good or bad is the audio quality so let's start with the unboxing first but before that let me just give you some specs which is right here so 96 kHz at 24 bits and built-in memory 16 gig but you can attach more memory with the micro SD card and then it has USB port or USB direct which you can use to you know plug it into your computer to change or to transfer the files so you don't have to like you know go through removing a micro SD or anything and then you can charge through USB and then I stereo noise and high resolution audio and then on this side I see there's rehearsal function seen select clear voice battery live for recording approximately 24 hours battery so another disadvantage with that task cam or zoom is that you have to keep buying battery and batteries but with this one you don't need that because it has a built-in you know a battery and you can just charge it so on this side of the box we see that the fine-tuned recordings with adjustable microphone so you can actually change the position of the microphones which is x y right here and then you can move it to kind of angular directions which would be better for ambient recording and then it has actually even an app where you can connect your device to the app and then you can you know maintain or see how the recording is going so now let's just you know quickly open the box so the box is empty right here and I will just you know put it inside so this comes inside the box and let me just move this here and looks like they added a nice you know case to hold it which is a very good addition I didn't have anything with my other audio recorder and there's a brochure and then we have some manuals right here so it looks like you know they added one in I'm not sure this is Chinese or Japanese but they added some you know instruction manuals which would be very good to take a look at and then we have here let's take a look so this looks like something I'm not sure which language but it looks like like you know what you cut or something but unfortunately this is in in Japanese or Chinese so I'll just you know leave it here and then here we have the actual audio recorder so just put it here and this box is empty and looks like they attached a only screen but this is made of foam so this is not like you know made of a dead cat I would rather use a separate windscreen something like this one which I bought so but you know still this is a nice addition that they included this with the audio player and now here we have the actual audio player so I'm going to just you know remove this from the wrapper and so here is Sony PCM 810 audio recorder so here how it looks so the first thing you're going to notice that you know this looks a very high quality it cost about two to three hundred dollars depending on where or when you buy but you know when you take it in your hand you can see right where that this is a quality product and although it's made of plastic but definitely this is a high quality plastic and looks like you know it it shows that you know this is a quality or high-end product and then mics are on here and you can actually you know move them and depending on what you're looking for and then here is the power button and then here's the micro SD slot and then we have the USB right here so you have to just slide it out to connect it to your computer and then here we have a rehearse rehearsal switch and here is the volume button and then here is the microphone output and here is the mic input so it has a lot of similarities with you know the old audio player which is right here but definitely it's like this one is like a big brother of the old one so what I'm going to do I'll just you know go through some of the settings and test it and get some audio samples and then attach I'll attach it to this video and I'll even compare audio coming out of this one and the old one UX560 that will be the next part of the video. Hello everyone so I have had a few weeks to use the Sony PCM-A10 audio recorder and I'm just going to give you some insight let me just show you the audio recording app this is a good addition because it just you know makes things much easier so you can actually download on your Play Store and then it just shows you that you know the recording level and you can set everything from the app instead of going to the audio recorder directly so for example let me just take a look here so here you can see that you have access to all recording settings for example the scene mode or scene select and then here we have the built-in mic sensitivity so everything you can do from the phone instead of going here and then you can also adjust the gain let's say you're recording right now and you can see that you know it started to record and then you can actually up the gain or recording level so for example is right now at 27 and I can push it to 28 which you can see right now and then you can even increase it to higher for example 28 and you can also make it lower so you can have access to everything and if you know it's going over the required level or if you know the recording is getting ruined then you're going to see here that you know over so for example from time to time you're going to see here over hello for example right now you can see that you know it shows over you know that means that you know we have to lower the level so I'm going to push it to 27 and now you can see that you know it's not going over anymore so that means that you know your recording or your audio level is not getting ruined and you can do the same thing from the audio recorder itself which is from here so here you have to just like you know increase or decrease the level from here so a few things I'd like to show you let me just you know go back here so this is the main screen and you can hear go to record and then you can go to Bluetooth and you can go to settings and if you go to settings then there are different you know settings and you can access those from the mobile app as well so just one setting I'd like to show that you know I just set it up to set limiter on and what it does that if you're recording ambient noise or outdoor noise or any kind of you know sound and if there's a sound level up then it just limits you know your sound and it does ruin the whole recording so that's a very good feature and then there's the mic you know our recording filter you can set up which I didn't so for example you can see that here there's a low noise cut NCF and low cut these are to reduce wind noise or other ambient noise but I don't use them and then let's see if I can show you the synth select so this option synth select it's not letting me show you now because I'm just in recording which is you can see right here the recording mode here you can choose the quality of the you know audio you want so I have it at highest you know 96 by 24 but you can go lower if you'd like and then here we have the built-in mic sensitivity and which is right now manual and you can also go to auto control gain or auto gain control so if you go to auto then here's the option to choose of either voice or music but when you have manual then you have more access to you know control the gain manually so and there are a few other options you can have like you know based on your own preferences so that's why I like manual and then that's all I can show you from here and then let's take a look here and then in order to connect to the Bluetooth device you have to just go to Bluetooth and then you have to just go to audio device and then here you have to just go to connect and add device pairing if you're you know connecting it for the first time so that way it will connect and then once you have set up then you have to just like you know go to connect for next time okay let's go back and then here they recorded files and there's music I have inserted an SD card in here although you know this comes with 16 gigabyte of memory but I already insert another separate card which is right here due to the fact that you know I record ambient noise and sometimes it just gets you know overloaded and I don't have enough space in the built-in built-in memory card so for that reason I'm I added a separate SD card and you have to just change the preference to remove your recording from phone phone from audio recorders built-in card to the SD card once you know it's full otherwise it's not going to record and it's just going to stop so I'm going to show you some sample sounds from both of these two so keep in mind that this is almost $300 Canadian audio recorder and this is a $100 audio recorder however I'm gonna have to say that this also you know produces very good quality audio so what I do I only use this audio recorder when I need to put it on the quarter mount because it has the mount on the back which this one doesn't and then when I need to you know record ambient noise I do have some ambient noise or white noise videos on my channel which are like you know one hour to four hours and I use that use this recorder 810 for that purposes but for general purposes for recording like in a voice or anything I would just use this one because surprisingly this one has very good quality as well and even I noticed that you know whenever I'm recording voice I prefer this one rather than this one because it just like sometimes give me some like you know similar qualities voice recording so I just want to go through all these and this is just like you know I set it up to auto so I just you know press and record so for that reason you know I use this one for general purposes and this one only for like you know ambient sound noise or when I'm you know using my camera or anything and where I need an additional audio recorder then I use this one because it has the mount which this one doesn't so listen to both sounds from both of these devices and you may not even you know hear the differences if you're just like you know listening through your cell phone or regular TV but in order to hear the quality or the difference you need to you know hear through a microphone or headphone then I'm sorry through a headphone then you will definitely see the high in a resolution audio quality which comes out of this one and if you'd like to sample even more audio then you can just you know listen to the ambient noise videos which I'm going to have a few links in the description box below the question you may be asking whether you should upgrade from this or a general purpose audio recorder like Sony which are usually like you know 100 120 to this which is about close to $300 or not so here's my take if you're doing general like you know YouTube recording or just general purpose blogging then I think this is good enough because even myself I'm using this one a lot more than this one because of the like you know ease of use and this is very easy to use in auto mode and this one you know I have to set it up manually and watch for audio level if I'm doing it manual setting but this one you cannot it doesn't have the option to set up you know manually everything is auto but that's what I like so you don't have to actually you know upgrade it to this one the for general purpose you can still use this one and I get like you know a very good quality out of this one but I only use this one when I'm doing ambient noise recording or white noise recording which are very important for you know the audio quality and I would like to have the best audio quality possible for ambient noise recording and for that for those recordings or for those videos I use the more expensive one which is the Sony PCMA 10 but for everything else I use this one so I'm happy with the product the build quality is very good and I have a feeling that you know this is going to last a long time just like this one I don't actually remember how many years I've been using it but I would say like three four years and I took this to many countries many places and still it's working and I have a feeling that this is going to last like the same way like this one and the another benefit this one is that it's a very small and portable so you can do like you know you can have a high-resolution audio recorder in such a small package or such a compact size that I doubt that you're going to get this small size anywhere else which is you know a high-resolution audio recorder and even this like you know not too expensive close to $300 although you can say that this is expensive but you know if you compare other high resolution audio recorder then you're going to be paying like more than 300 for a high-resolution audio recorder if you're buying from other manufacturers so overall definitely I'm happy with this purchase and if you listen to the recording of this especially for the ambient noise videos then you can tell the difference in quality right away and definitely you know high resolution audio is better for from just general resolution audio when you need to have that type of you know higher quality audio for example white noise video or audio for our other purpose where audio is very important but for general like you know YouTube video or tutorial video or everything else I think this is just fine so this is not an affiliated or paid review I didn't take money from anyone I do not provide any affiliated link so that way you'll always guess get honest and unbest opinion so thank you for watching leave a comment and tell me how you like you know either one of these or if you are going to you know if you have been using this then what is your experience or if you like or don't like and there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you are you testing one two three this is a test this is a test hello Sony audio recorder testing one two three this is a test this is a test hello hello audio testing one two three one two three thank you hello 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An explosion at a hotel in Fort Worth, Texas on Monday littered downtown streets with large section of building and debris and injured multiple people, authorities said investigators believe the blast was caused by natural gas, said bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives spokesperson Sarah Abel, who was briefed by local police aerial footage in Fort Worth, Texas, showed debris from the hotel scattered across downtown streets as authorities said they were responding to a major incident and urged people to avoid the area. The Sandman Signature Hotel is in a busy area of downtown about one block from the Fort Worth Convention Center, Fort Worth City Councilman Carlos Flores posted on Facebook that there had been a gas leak and an explosion, the city's emergency medical service has sent nine ambulances to the scene and found multiple people injured, although a spokesperson could not immediately say how many. Desiree Partain of MedStar said there are not any fatalities reported so far but stressed that they were still assessing the situation, Partain said she could not characterize the types of injuries that medical staff were finding and said she did not know their cause.


Ladies and gentlemen the bell has rung. It is 12 noon and welcome to the hunger mountain co-op sponsored brown bag concert series It's every Thursday at 12 noon weather permitting unfortunately last week it got rained out and We missed out on a Nashville duo called the twang town paramours So they have a website if you want to check them out because unfortunately, we didn't have them here last week This week we are here in this beautiful sunshine. We want to thank Christ Church For allowing us to use this fantastic courtyard Next week is Green Mountain swing right here in the courtyard 12 noon on Thursday, but you're here right now, so Enjoy an hour of Dana and Susan Robinson Thank You Fred Happy to be here. Glad you're all here too in this beautiful beautiful day So yeah, let's just start off for the song. It's called the Asheville blues Asheville blues. I got the blues those Asheville blues Ain't got no got no shoot. Well the mountain's high to steep It's no place to park My SUV I got the blues Those Asheville blues those Asheville blues in Asheville for about 15 years and Just as it was getting just a little too gentrified. We thought you know, we're gonna move to Vermont back to Vermont where it is not So we're gonna do next for you song I wrote along the Ohio River one beautiful Sunday day much like this when The trees were putting carbon back onto their branches and trunks and roots This is kind of a song about our Inevitable shift to alternate energies Little kneel the grass Tyson inspired Song calls the is called the river flows on Coming around the band of the lazy blue Ohio Big long bar just making its way down Savvy with coal Sinks in it to the current Gonna keep the lights on this time Last night I saw the smoke dissolve into the moonlight Like the petals of a flower this reflected on Surface of the water and the cold kept coming steady as the hour River flows on changes come it goes on the greening leaves The way is a massive engine Building muscle in its branches Every breath of carbon that it takes There is so noses the sunlight flowing freely from waiting by our choices Head out to the conditions Changes come it is yesterday's abundance Possess a certain think above this river In the bosom of this place Lest we forget keeping the instruments in tune with this So we're good to sing a song In honor of the fabulous farmers market that happens here free Saturday The song was written by our friend Louie Collins Who grew up in Barry Barry? Louie was Working on a music curriculum for children and she was after an alphabet song and this one Came to her after visiting her local farmers market. So in the song we go through the alphabet. We go around the alphabet two times Two strolls around the farmers market. You kind of have to pay attention You never know when your favorite vegetable is gonna jump right out. That's a very singable chorus See how many you can find it's called farmers market a to z So nice to see you downtown here the last weekend the summit school put on their first annual Old-time on the onion fiddlers gathering up in at the onion river campground in the playing field There was lots of people there was fantastic time kids adults Everybody camping playing music all day long all day long and all night long, too And it wasn't just old-time music. It was all sorts all genres of traditional music Heard a lot of this there this weekend tunes like this one here That was a tune called Roscoe change keys. Oh unless you want to do a next song. We're going to Play as an old old traditional song They first brought to life to American consciousness in 1920s with the AP Carter and the Carter family singing this and then we've gotten to know it from In a more contemporary context thanks to the Cohen brothers and over where old brother where art now, but Dan Tominsky Really jazzed it up, which is kind of fun, but we found a 1947 recording of this Recorded a little radio station in Mount Erie, North Carolina by a gum by the name of Juanita Moore very obscure and We liked it a lot so we Kind of copied it and in the process of copying it it didn't sound like that anymore. So we're doing our own version here now We have our own version here of a man of constant sorrow. Hey, just curious. Do any of you kids play any musical instruments?  Do you play ukulele? You play violin.  What do you play piano? cello Do you take lessons at the Monteverde school? Uh-huh school program. That's great. It's really nice schools have programs that can teach things like cello Just curious Here we go, man of constant sorrow. The sun is so hot Witten instruments. Thank you. Let's play an older old another old-time tune here This is a very southern kind of a southeast Virginia short tune Cuckoo tune I Could try to line you all up for a dance, but but the student is so crooked you might The students called five miles from town is not a traditional song very ukulele's and cellos knees, Virginia North Carolina was dark in kerchiefs The rosy rain beside her the song Fantasy the green back down. Don't you watching change? Well, sometimes you take it for granted beautiful Clean water and clean air we have here in this State of ours. I took a little just a couple weeks ago in a small plane these little like a antique Cessna or whatever it was and and it was really it flew from Cabot down to Rutland and it was amazing to see You know you think down here at ground level that there's houses and people everywhere and roads and cars and buildings But no, it's like Vermont seems like 97% just green and trees and Montpelier looks so small from the air So we do take it for granted how how good we have it here Sue and I were in touring and out west a couple years ago And we say Kata cool Must be getting hot We're in California and it was when the drought was still happening and Now they say that the drought is over in California right now, but they don't take it for granted They're this far from emergency all the time. So I wrote this during the drought and Though I can't really sing about a drought happening in out west right now. I can dedicate this song to the EPA Which I think could use our our support actually not for the kind of agenda they have now But for what the EPA really stands for So this is the song here. This is called John Muir's walking blues What you gonna do when the well runs dry? What you gonna do when the well runs dry? Commence to cry Hit the road and say Goodbye at the John at John Muir's walking blue What you gonna do when the rains don't come what you gonna do when the rains don't come Remember the year the old keys fled now. You've made the very same You got the John you were at John Muir's walking blue There was water in the ground and in the mountains high Now the valley sunk down and the snowpack is dry Cag is playing like Chinatown if you want your pastor's green You got to lay your money down You got the John I've got John Muir's walking mountains and valleys forever stay You can damn Hetch Hetchy. It'll do no good Still be thirsty and hungry at John Muir's walking blue You'll have the John know who John Muir is look him up Help found our national parks. You have somebody at least. Oh, we're gonna go to lead belly here the wellspring of HUD buddy I say HUD buddy HUD he led better You don't get too many Hutties these days. Do you? Not too many lead betters either Say that three times fast Little song here called poor Howard So we're gonna play a Couple tunes the first tune is called old greasy coat we learned from the playing of jimmy triplet and the second tune is called ways of the world You first I'll go first Free here this afternoon at least let's see Gonna do a road a song we wrote this on years ago It's about kind of finding home and in a sense of place Plies to how we feel about beating back here in the The bosom of Washington County. Did you chuckle the bosom of I make no qualifications when I say that quote me if you want Ashley is free to quote me on that It says it's kind of a love song to play this is called loose the ties It goes will you loose the ties that keep you from me now? Will you show me how to walk that way? It's the only song I get to play my harmonica on so by gum We're gonna do it you got to get some of those carbon fiber instruments that don't mind the sun All right loose the ties one two Will you loose the tie you show me how to walk that this rope has been kind Sights focused on the star and sister Ringing your to walk that before we uh end with this one last song here I I think we should give a little plug for our recordings if you if you have Enjoyed what you've heard this afternoon You can pick up cd I've even got a download card somewhere in there if you just want to be strictly digital, but cd sound pretty good there people have been forgetting how nice cds are this tactile thing with all those liner notes and information and song credits and all that good stuff to all the art The good stuff to look at and I want to thank my pillier alive I want to thank hunger mountain co-op for sponsoring this. I want to thank fred wilbur here and Yeah, thank you very much and ashley absolutely ashley. Thank you ashley from the bottom of our hearts It's really it's a really great thing all these thursday afternoons with music in the pocket park This is what this little park was made for him Beautiful little amphitheater sort of space shade underneath the tree. This is our this is our town. This is Shade for the musicians. I'll be working on shade for the musicians, too The song is very old maybe 500 years old and we we learned this from singing over in england But you may know this as well from maybe a children's book or just the song is called who killed cock robin I think the traditional interpretation or the At least maybe within the last couple hundred years is that this tells the story of Robin Hood's funeral and how robin hood was so well loved it took his entire community to bury him when he died So you hear all the different community members the fish and the crow All stepping up and saying it was I and taking part We also like to think of the song as basically all the community members participating and and for instance if you whether you vote or whether you don't don't vote It carries the same weight. So We'd like to think of it in those terms as well. So vote dammit Thanks again. Thanks for hanging out. Thanks everybody.  We got a mailing list too. We play out and about see you again. I hope