to honor her memory.

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] If we were having this interview eight months ago or even two months ago, I definitely wouldn't be able to stand here without crying.

We've had a lot of these memorials to help us get it out of our system, but it's it's been very, very difficult.

And so it's it's a good thing that that we're all here.

I, I know it's so cliche, but she is it is really, really, really difficult.

Lost wrote music community to Tallahassee community.

I mean, you know, for young people and friends, it's just like really it kind of makes you realize that life is fragile and it's to live every moment to the fullest because.

She was diagnosed and three months later on, so she's got to love and love what you can do for her.

[MUSIC] I was like, when you have a loss like that in your community, it means a lot.

And we have a very tight knit community here in the in the music community here in Tallahassee.

So we just want to play our best for a great cause in honor of an awesome person.

And we look forward to performing for.

I've known Catherine for quite a while as being a fellow member of the Tallahassee music scene.

I was honored to know her because she just was such a genuine kind of person that just had a great aura about her.

Takes a of happiness to others.

[MUSIC] yeah.

I know why we're here for the Memorial Scholarship fund.

And it's in Kathryn Belle Long's name.

And, But more than that, I feel a part of this energy that we're all, like, doing it, you know?

It's.

We're here in remembrance of her, but also to support something that she would totally be behind.

And, I feel honored for her.

And I know she would feel honored, with, with the scholarship, her being a.

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Really is all about.

It's it's it's Kim, Thomas and Kelley Goddard and Elizabeth Frabel.

And it's a group of people that created this band.

And it was their brainchild.

And my goal wi th what we did right passing was, hey, how can we remember her for a long period of time?

Well, for the area, we created the scholarship fund to affect students, to affect teachers in Leon County schools and organizations.

She love and being a music and drama teacher she loves.

So this gives us it gives us the ability to keep her talent, her name and her legacy in music.

Going to help students to help teachers are really just to help the overall arts program and a talented community, which she would have been very proud.

A big music and art person.

That's what brings a lot across the school and makes them like to come to school.

And, you know, it's such an important thing to love the arts.

I think, because it's all about humanities.

And, you know, Kathryn was such a beautiful human being.

And so it's so fitting coming out tonight and honoring her, with music, because she was such a talented musician and she was a theater teacher and she just wanted to be that, very few people have.

And I'm just so happy to be here to speak for her and honor her tonight.

It's wonderful that her friends have put this together, and they've already raised $2,000 for this scholarship.

And so this is going to be how she's going to just live on in everybody's hearts and minds.

For some young person who's going to get a scholarship to the arts.

So it's perfect.

All come in, baby.

All come coming.

Maybe we could all come in.

If the gates to heaven weren't so tall.

Maybe we could all come in.

If we break them down, it won't matter at all.

Then maybe we could all come in.

Oh, come in.

Maybe I'll come in.

And maybe we could all come in.

Oh, come in with your loving.

Maybe we could all come and.