To best describe what we do and how we do it is best exclaimed by Peter Spring of the Steve Spring Fountain. He told me ”What you guys do is like jazz.” And Peter hit the nail on its head • serendipity. To put it another way, when we hit the ground we go where live music is needed and folks want us. This being said we try to set up ahead of time with the schools, but in Louisiana there are some areas that are isolated and with the network down there, well, word gets around. We try to keep our days open for maybe give or take 4 days So, we are on the go, kind of like firemen, if there is a strong need to cheer some folks we go, find the town and Google map it and off we go, kind of like camping. This is no big bus tour thing. If you do not like to camp out this is not you're thing to do. Folks in Louisiana always like to have you over to their homes. And we do that a lot when time permits. You will meet the kindest bunch of folks, eat some crawdads, and look out on the water, I always say it will change one's life.

The seeds of our musical instrument program were very serendipitous. Here's how it all happened. At the time Al and were living at a firehouse in Slidell, La. And one of the firemen's wives taught at a local school. They wanted to know if we can go to their school and play some music. Which we did but when we saw how badly they were wiped out we stated thinking, let's see if we can gather up some instruments? And here we are 200 instruments latter and 3 area schools.

There is another end to this story and that is the folks who have given us all those instruments. People always ask me, “Bill how do you do this?” Well it kinds of works like this, I am at a gig and announce what we are doing and someone comes up to me and tells me they have an instrument. I meet them somewhere or at their homes and pick up the instrument, it is very personal, one to one.

Now if you have gotten this far in reading in this very fast world then feel free to e-mail me, liberty-street@juno.com and say hello. -- Bill Hudson

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