MITZIE: People are kind, and people support each other.

That's why we chose Newberry.

FOSTER: I'm Foster Senn, Mayor of the city of Newberry, South Carolina, and we have just officially welcomed Bay Bulls.

GUIDE: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages.

Welcome to beautiful Bay Bulls, Newfoundland.

LORI: The idea that you can just go and pick anywhere, it's, like, so exciting to be like, "Taste this because you won't taste anything like this ever anywhere else."

JESSICA: This is unbelievable.

And they're all up on the rocks over there, too.

JEFF: Everything I've seen so far since the boat feels like I'm watching a documentary.

CON: Everybody here would've worked in the fish plant or gone down in their father's and their uncle's boat to go fishing, and that's a tradition that went down here for 400 years.

RICHARD: Regular types of grape you just eat it, whereas a muscadine, it's politically correct to get the juice in it and then just kind of spit everything else out.

(spitting).

AMY: 50 years for Willingham and Sons.

AUSTIN: Yeah.

AMY: Well, we're gonna celebrate.

♪ DAVE: Get me back where I belong.

♪ NARRATOR: Major funding for "Towns in Tune" is provided by Picture NL, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Tax Credit.

Additional funding for "Towns in Tune" is brought to you by the ETV Endowment of South Carolina, the proud partner of South Carolina ETV and South Carolina Public Radio.

With the generosity of individuals, corporations, and foundations, the ETV Endowment is committed to sharing stories that connect communities, like "Towns in Tune."

The Government of Canada Film or Video Production Federal Tax Credit.

Celebrate NL.

The Town of Bay Bulls.

The Newberry County Chamber of Commerce and NTV.

AMY: As promised, we're back, and let me tell you, we're so happy to be here.

We were here in September.

We had done a lot of filming.

We were all set up to do a show at Willingham and Sons Building Supply, and then Hurricane Helene decided to pay us a visit.

She uprooted trees.

She took out the power.

She left us all in a state of emergency.

The whole town was shut down, and we had to shut down our show.

But with every gray cloud comes a silver lining, as it did here in Newberry.

We've been hearing some wonderful stories, heartwarming stories, about how this community came together to help each other out through that state of emergency.

AUSTIN: So last time y'all were here, obviously we had Hurricane Helene come through... AMY: Yeah.

AUSTIN: ...which is a unexpected, terrible event that came through and canceled our concert, of course.

Um, so very fortunately, what we were able to do, um, with the blessing of the community, the help of the community, um, we went really randomly on our Facebook page and just put that we would accept food and clothing, um, and try to take it up to Western North Carolina to aid in the relief of, of all the residents up there.

AMY: Yeah, because they had it worse even than we did.

AUSTIN: Yeah.

AMY: Right?

AUSTIN: Ab, absolutely.

AMY: Yeah, yeah.

AUSTIN: Western North Carolina was devastated.

AMY: Wow, yeah.

AUSTIN: You know, we were hit hard here, but, a, a fraction of what they got.

On Monday, put it on our Facebook page, and then so a few things started trickling in, and then by Thursday or Friday, I think it was, we literally had 26 pallets of items ranging from clothing, men's and women's clothing, kids clothing, generators, um, propane bottles, heaters, blankets, anything you could possibly imagine.

Um, the disabilities group here downtown brought canes and crutches and wheelchairs.

AMY: Holy moly.

AUSTIN: Unreal response from the town of Newberry.

AMY: And food, too, I'm sure.

AUSTIN: Oh, tons of food.

The town of Newberry, the county of Newberry, responded in droves.

It was unreal.

And you know, amazingly enough, the town of Newberry still had more people, more groups, more businesses that went... Actually, the day we went, um, another business, we were kinda like in a train going up there.

AMY: Oh.

AUSTIN: They, they kinda went right behind us.

AMY: Oh, wow.

AUSTIN: They went to a different town.

Very fortunately, my uncle and I were able to take the items up there in our box trucks, and, um, the National Guard was there where we were distributing it out.

And so we were unloading the pallets, and literally as we were unloading the pallets, there was an elderly lady came over and said, "Y'all don't have a heater, do you?"

And the National Guard stepped in and said, "Yeah, there's one right here on this pallet that just got delivered."

And so it was handed to her immediately, and, um, and that's exactly what you wanted to see.

That's exactly what the, the relief and all the effort that we of getting everything ready and... AMY: I know, yeah.

AUSTIN: ...and us spending our entire Friday driving up there.

That, that's what it was about.

AMY: I mean, it's amazing when disaster hits, but the wonderful, amazing things... AUSTIN: Yes.

AMY: ...that people do and what comes out of that.

AUSTIN: Um, so it was, it was truly remarkable to see, and, you know, you hope that if something ever happens again, that outpouring comes again.

The way the community stepped up was nothing like I'd ever seen.

♪ ♪ AMY: In Newfoundland, food comes from the land and the sea.

On Mobile Beach, Lori McCarthy shows us how the beach still feeds us if we know where to look.

LORI: I own a company called Food Culture Place, and, uh, I get to introduce people to the flavors that grow here and the, the culture here.

WESLEY: My name is Wesley Fulmer.

I'm from Columbia, South Carolina, and I'm executive chef, and I'm here in Newfoundland, Mobile Beach.

Heard foraging, so I thought we were gonna, like, hike into the woods somewhere.

LORI: So this is lovage here.

In Newfoundland, we're so used to all the herbs being shipped in, that by the time they get here, it's like weeks, right?

WESLEY: Mm-hmm.

LORI: I use it like cilantro.

I'll use it like celery.

It freezes really well.

WESLEY: Like celery leaf, yeah.

LORI: I like to freeze it.

MAN: Almost like a flat-leaf parsley with a little bit of citrus flavor at the end, isn't it?

I'd put this in falafel.

WESLEY: Yeah.

Lori's great.

She, she's very knowledgeable about what she does.

She's very knowledgeable about the environment here, and it, it's just great to hear somebody that's passionate about that.

LORI: Ah, the lovely oyster plant.

WESLEY: Oh, man.

LORI: And this one only grows on the beach.

WESLEY: It's very coarse on top.

LORI: Very succulent.

WESLEY: Yeah.

LORI: Yeah, and you know what?

That is wild yeast.

WESLEY: I just wanna get immersed into the culture and see all the must-sees here.

LORI: It's often their first thought is they're still waiting to get to the beach.

So the rocks here in Newfoundland are, um, very different in terms of a beach.

We ha, we have sandy beaches, but so first is that, and then it's the idea that you can just go and pick anywhere.

To have, again, like a flavor profile that you can't grow it, you can't buy it, and so that's, that often comes across as, like, super special to people.

And it's, like, so exciting to be like, "Taste this because you won't taste anything like this ever anywhere else."

This plant was actually one of the ones that we that has been recorded as, like, the first settlers that came here from Europe.

Um, and you're on the Irish shore here, so this is, this is where they have found lots of remains and settlements and, uh, from like the early 14-1500s.

What makes up the Irish Loop is, is, you know, more than a eight-hour drive, but the, this Irish shore on this side is Bay Bulls, Witless Bay, Torrs Cove, Mobile, of course all settled along the sea for fishing.

You guys might know this one, I'm sure, but just give it a, just give it a rub.

It is, like, ugh, it's so beautiful.

It's like my sage, my rosemary.

WESLEY: Oh, yeah.

LORI: It's really, and it makes a great, like... MAN: What's this one?

LORI: Sweet gale.

All right.

Well, uh, that should get you guys going.

Hopefully, you got some new flavors, definitely new for you.

WESLEY: Oh, man, yeah.

I can... I feel like I'm at a lab right now.

Yeah.

LORI: Like Mortar says, "That's long enough.

Now time to go."

(laughing).

STEVEN: My name is Steven Knapp, and I'm the executive director here at the Newberry Museum.

I've been here it's about to be three years.

I've been a history buff since I was six years old.

Got my bachelor's degree in history up in North Carolina, then got my master's in history, and just about to wrap up the PhD dissertation.

The community here is brilliant, very supportive of the museum.

It is a wonderful museum, and with it being such a young museum, uh, it opened in 2019, we as the staff and the board and the volunteers have been able to build a really good relationship, and we've been really thinking out of the box as far as exhibits and events go.

We do two special exhibits a year.

That's one of our, our big events at the museum, and we try to theme these exhibits around different aspects of Newberry County history.

When I first started here, it was an exhibit on wedding dresses, so imagine this whole space full of hundreds of wedding dresses telling the story of the evolution of weddings from the 18th century to the modern day.

And then we're planning for an exhibit on the American Revolution in Newberry County, the mills, death and mourning, all sorts of thing, anything you can imagine, we're working on exhibits about.

LAURA: My name is Laura Labarre, and I'm the winemaker here at Enoree River Winery.

AMY: On this side, we have green grapes, and on this side, we have black grapes.

LAURA: Yes.

AMY: So tell us a little bit about all that.

LAURA: Well, pretty much, uh, on the left side of the vineyard, we have a Carlos Muscadine.

It's like a golden bronze color when it matures.

And then on this side of the vineyard, we have a Noble Muscadine, and it turns into a real deep purple, almost black grape.

RICHARD: One thing about the Muscadine, you know, it's like the regular, it, it, types of grape, you know, you just eat it.

You can, the skins, you can eat everything, you, you know, the seeds or whatever, whereas the Muscadine, it's politically correct to get the juice in it and then just kind of spit everything else out.

LAURA: When you lift up that canopy... AMY: Oh, yeah, look.

LAURA: ...and see... AMY: Oh, my.

LAURA: ...they're just loaded.

AMY: Gorgeous.

Okay, you're gonna... I'm gonna get us each one.

LAURA: Okay.

AMY: And we're gonna have a spitting party.

Okay, these are much more soft than the Noble.

LAURA: Yeah.

AMY: Right?

LAURA: Yeah.

AMY: Tender.

LAURA: Mm-hmm.

AMY: Cheers.

RICHARD: Cheers.

LAURA: Cheers.

(laughing).

AMY: Mm.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

(spitting).

They're delicious.

So, uh, uh, what's your favorite wine?

RICHARD: Actually, I'm a beer drinker.

(laughing).

WESLEY: You know, what I'm feeling right now about Newfoundland is just the amazing culture.

You know?

It's, you can't really put your finger on it.

It's not really European.

It's not, it's not what... it's not Canadian, as how I think of Canadian culture would be.

And, um, you know, it's got a little bit of Irish in there, I can tell.

LORI: There's been a lot documented about the first Europeans that settled this shore, steeped in Irish history.

Everything from the Irish basket weaving to, you know, how they cooked off cod stew in the boats.

WAYNE: They went to the Grand Banks.

They caught the codfish.

AMY: Yeah.

WAYNE: They brought it to land.

We cured it and dried it.

The schooner took it away, and they brought back more, uh, products for us to live with.

CON: Everybody here would've worked in the fish plant or, or gone down on their father's and, and, and their uncle's boat to go to go, go fishing, and that's a tradition that went down here for 400 years.

JASON: The whole loving of the sea and the nature of the sea is kind of stuck with a lot of people, so people kind of diversed from the fishery and got into other things around the ocean more, such as whale watching, which has been world-renowned.

We have three different whale tours in the community, and it's just, people love it.

And they like to market it, and we have people from all over the world.

WAYNE: There they are.

AMY: There's a whale you can see.

WAYNE: We have the largest population of humpback whales in the world... AMY: Yeah.

WAYNE: ...right now, feeding around our coast.

AMY: I know, hey.

WAYNE: 10,000 humpbacks.

JESSICA: My name is Jessica Sims.

Um, I'm in the duo Prettier Than Matt.

I play the ukulele and sing, and we're going on a boat tour.

Never been on a boat tour before, and definitely never seen whales or... I think I've seen puffins at the zoo, but not, not out in the wild.

♪ ♪ GUIDE: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages.

Welcome to beautiful Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, and thank you for sailing with O'Brien's Boat Tours.

It's a pleasure to have you all on board this morning.

JESSICA: First time here to New, Newfoundland.

Learned the correct way to say it.

See, I keep thinking I see, like, a whale spout or something out there.

JEFF: Well, if you do, let me know.

JESSICA: What?

Look at those things.

No way.

Whoa.

GUIDE: All right, everybody, wave goodbye to our whales now.

Wave goodbye.

Thank you, whales.

JEFF: Everything I've seen so far since the boat feels like I'm watching a documentary.

GUIDE: All these Atlantic puffins just sunning themselves out on the rock there now.

TOURIST: Oh, my.

JESSICA: This is unbelievable, and they're all up on the rocks over there, too.

GUIDE: Like I said, this is the largest puffin colony in North America, and the second largest puffin colony in the world.

JEFF: So happy this is the... JESSICA: Totally recommend... JEFF: ...first experience.

JESSICA: ...if you're gonna come to Newfoundland, you have to, you have to do this.

INSTRUCTOR: Three, five, six, seven.

Three, two, three, five, six, seven.

Four, two, three, five, six, seven.

LIZ: We did our first annual Hispanic Heritage Festival at, with the help of Newberry College.

I was one of the team, but, uh, there were several of us.

We've worked really hard.

It's been a few months, but we got, kicked it off.

I'm Liz Rivera.

I'm a Hispanic member of the community here in Newberry County, and we had mariachi.

We had Aztec dancers, all in their costumes.

We had some salsa instruction, salsa dancing.

Uh, we had the art center who came out, and the children had face painting.

They did a lot of little different projects.

We also had a banner who, which will be brought out at our football game on Saturday.

AMY: Oh, okay.

LIZ: Uh, the Newberry College is having their football game, and they're gonna, uh, dedicate it to Hispanic Heritage Month.

We also had some, uh, tables where there were vendors.

Some sold jewelry, um, clothing, different types of typical Hispanic clothing.

We had some who sold, um, pastries, desserts, all different kinds of desserts, and we had four food trucks who each sold something different.

And the good thing is that everybody sold out.

We weren't expecting such a large crowd.

AMY: Right.

LIZ: We had approximately 2,000 people who showed up.

That's the biggest crowd ever in Newberry that we've had something like that.

Well, in Newberry County, our Hispanic community is diverse.

We have Mexicans, we have Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, um, people from Honduras, all over Latin America.

AMY: Uh-huh.

LIZ: So we're very, a very diverse community.

We make up almost 10% of Newberry County.

It was just, just a, a festival, a lot of families, children running around, people laughing.

Um, it, it was great.

♪ ♪ MITZIE: I used to be a potter, and I taught classes and led retreats for pottery, and I developed a rare neurological disorder that I could no longer lift the clay and, like, lean down into the kiln.

AMY: Yeah.

MITZIE: ...and do those kinds of things.

And so I floundered for about two years trying to find my art creative outlet that I needed, and quilting gave me that same sort of flow feeling that throwing a pot on the wheel gave me.

And so I fell in love with it, and by accident, became a designer.

There's art quilting, traditional quilting, and modern quilting are kind of the three primary categories, and I fall into the mostly the modern quilting category.

I use a process that I call controlled improv.

I have a retreat twice a year where I bring people here, and they, they get to pick their colors.

There are 24 colors, and I help them, so they feel good and secure.

In September, that retreat's actually sold out in 24 hours, and I have, um, folks coming from Canada and, um, California and Arizona right here to little old South Carolina.

My husband and I have moved around quite a bit, and we decided about two years ago that we wanted to make Newberry our home.

You don't walk down the street and not know someone.

People are kind, and people support each other.

And, um, you know, I had a friend, um, someone from California who came in January who was a little worried what he might find when he came to South Carolina, and he found welcome, and he found acceptance.

And, um, and that's what I want everybody to feel when they come here.

But we are an art town.

We have the, um, the, the opera house, and we have artists all over the place, but there's really not a place that feels more like home.

There is this space where life is slow enough here that you can build relationships.

AMY: From quilts in South Carolina to keepsakes in Newfoundland, small shops do more than sell.

They stitch together the identity of a town.

You never know what you're gonna find on the Southern Shore Highway in Newfoundland, Labrador.

Look at this place.

We saw it on the highway when we passed by yesterday and said, "Okay, we gotta go in there and see what that place is all about."

Come on, let's have a look at her stuff.

(gasps).

Rainbow eggs.

Farm fresh eggs.

Oh, yeah, I'll be getting some.

Blueberries are very plentiful in Newfoundland and Labrador, as a matter of fact, as are bake apples, which in Europe they call cloudberries.

Oh, wow, look at this.

Wow, isn't that gorgeous?

All kinds of colors.

Crocheted.

Beautiful wool.

That is something.

(laughs).

Let's go see what she's got inside.

LINDA: Hello, my lovely.

AMY: Hello.

LINDA: Hello.

AMY: Are you, Linda?

LINDA: I am.

AMY: What's your last name?

LINDA: Warden.

AMY: Okay, so Linda, you don't have a Bay Bulls accent.

LINDA: Oh, do I not?

(laughs).

AMY: Where are you from?

LINDA: North in England.

AMY: North.

LINDA: Lancashire.

AMY: And what brought you to Newfoundland, Labrador?

LINDA: I came on holiday with some friends.

They went home, and I stayed.

AMY: Did you find something here that you want?

LINDA: I did, I found a gentleman.

(laughs).

AMY: So Linda, all the stuff here, I mean, obviously, there's some things that you do purchase wholesale or whatever.

LINDA: Yeah.

AMY: But a lot of things look like they're locally made.

Is that correct?

LINDA: Yep, people will send me a message and say, "Oh, you..." You know, "Would you sell this for me?"

Or... AMY: Right.

LINDA: ...or, "I'm making so and so."

And if it fits with what we're doing here, I do.

AMY: Yeah, yeah.

LINDA: But I don't sell a lot of tourist things.

If I sold all the tourist things here, then the next shop down... AMY: Yeah.

LINDA: ...the touristy shop down would suffer, and then the one after that.

AMY: Yeah, yeah.

LINDA: So we all have to look after each other.

AMY: I'm just so impressed with your business, Linda.

LINDA: Thank you.

AMY: And thanks for coming to live in Newfoundland and Labrador.

We love having you here and bringing such color and... LINDA: Thanks for having me.

AMY: Yeah, yeah.

Thank you, Linda.

LINDA: Bye, love.

PAUL: All right, first time.

Beginner's luck, hopefully.

Let's see.

MICHAEL: Mad Max Tap House, which is a great, uh, hangout spot for families and college students, and anybody who just wants to have a good time.

I'm Michael Albert Davis, which is the M-A-D in Mad Max.

We actually, we worked in foster care at Boys Farm for over 20 years.

And once we decided to retire from that, uh, we had some kids who were in college at the time, and we wanted to sort of have a magnet for them to come back and, and hang out and still be a part of Newberry.

So we actually purchased some of the properties here, built an Airbnb, some apartments, and, and this unit here to create this space, uh, right in front of the Opera House.

So Newberry is a very unusual small southern town, in my opinion.

You know, you have the college, which most small towns don't.

You have the Opera House, which, you know, you have great shows from all over the world come in here.

And so we thought, "You know what?

Why not also bring something unique like axe-throwing?"

And sure enough, it, it fits well.

Everybody loves it.

Um, a lot of the locals are just like, "Can you believe it?"

They're proud that they have an axe-throwing place right here.

It's just like a bowling alley or anything else.

Uh, you're kicking back, having fun.

Uh, we also have cornhole in the yard, and food trucks and things like that.

It's just a natural fit.

We're very family-friendly, so often there's kids running outside, or they're in here with their families, and it just gives a place where they can go have a drink and hang out, do some adult stuff, where the kids can have fun as well.

(cheering).

AMY: We're here at Caldwell and Maine, and we're gonna go in and have a little poke around Figaro Market.

Figaro's a thriving business here in Newberry.

They have a fine dining restaurant and a really popular bar, but the market is something intriguing.

Let's go have a look.

♪ ♪ JOHN: Figaro got started, our owner, you know, wanted to give back to the community that he grew up in, kind of a, a pride of doing things the right way.

Quality ingredients, quality groceries, quality beverage, quality entertainment, and that's what we strive for at Figaro, is to bring all that into Newberry.

AMY: The name Figaro, is that a, a, a name, or is it something the owner came up with?

JOHN: Mozart's failed opera.

AMY: Okay.

JOHN: And we're right next door to the Opera House, so... AMY: Cool.

JOHN: It kind of... AMY: Very good.

JOHN: ...it kind of just tied us all in to the downtown feel.

AMY: Yeah.

JOHN: Being that the Opera House is a, is a part of Newberry and has been for quite a while.

♪ ♪ KAREN: Hello, I'm Karen Livingston.

I'm the town administrator in Prosperity, South Carolina.

Welcome.

We're welcoming Bay Bulls here today for a meet and greet and to see and showcase our beautiful town.

We have a huge recreation program.

Uh, we have a drugstore.

We say our little town, you can do whatever you wanna do.

We have a doctor, Dr.

Loveless's office.

We have a pharmacy, uh, one of the best in Newberry County.

We also have, uh, a, chain grocery store, which is unheard of for a small town.

We don't have but 1,282 citizens.

We have a lot of small businesses.

Almost all of our storefronts are full.

We used to be known as Restaurant Row here, uh, because we have Mexican, German, uh, we have but all kind of food here, just your, the Blend Cafe, who catered our breakfast this morning, uh, they are right across the street.

They do breakfast and lunch.

They close at 2:00.

And then we have our library.

We have GG's Library here.

Just so many things to offer in our small town.

GINA: My name is Gina Mays.

I'm the owner of GG's Library Children's Bookstore and More here in Prosperity, South Carolina.

I'm a retired educator, principal, and teacher, so this is a second career, fun, fun career for me.

I'm also the president of the Prosperity Business Association.

It's really exciting to have folks from another country, um, a nearby country, um, to come and visit our small town, but also to find out that their town is very much like our town.

So that, that's a fun little piece of trivia for us, too.

ASHLEY: I'm Ashley Wakem.

I'm the town manager with the town of Bay Bulls, uh, Newfoundland, Labrador, Canada, and we are in Prosperity.

We're in GG's Library, which is filled with children's books.

While my daughter is a bit too old for children's books, I do have a Halloween-loving nephew.

So I've picked up a, a book for him to bring home.

KEITH: Prosperity's a lot like Bay Bulls, actually.

Um, their population is pretty similar to us, uh, around 1,500 range.

Um, they have a, a lot of little, uh, small stores, a few restaurants, that kind of thing, kind of similar to us.

But no main industry, uh, same as Bay Bulls.

Um, industries for those that live here, I guess, they travel outside for work, and it's kind of the same back home.

GINA: So this building was built in 1905, the first two floors were 1905, and the third floor was added in 1930.

The upper floors, they house the Masonic Lodge.

That's where they have their meetings and their, um, banquet space.

This space has been a laundromat, um, a hamburger joint, evidently, a long time ago.

I love old buildings anyway, so I just treasure every moment that we're here.

The ceilings are the original tin ceilings from 1905.

It's amazing they've lasted this long.

But just the, the feel of the old building and the town and what it was, but what it's going to be, is just really, really exciting.

♪ ♪ FOSTER: Hey, I'm Foster Senn, Mayor of the city of Newberry, South Carolina.

We're at Pork in the Park on a Friday night in Newberry, and we have just officially welcomed Bay Bulls to Newberry, and we presented them the key to the city.

We're honored you're here and delighted to be your sister city.

Ashley and to our friends from Newfoundland, on behalf of the City Council of Newberry and the Newberry community, to show our appreciation, we are proud to present to you the key to the city of Newberry.

(applause).

ASHLEY: It's a very big deal in America to get a key to a city.

We don't really do that in Canada a whole lot.

It's a very big honor.

I understand the mayor hasn't done this in his term at all as mayor, so it's a very big, uh, responsibility to bring it back to Bay Bulls and make sure we, uh, use it accordingly.

AMY: Austin, when we were here, it was gonna be your 50th anniversary.

AUSTIN: Yeah.

Correct, yeah.

AMY: 50 years for Willingham and Sons.

AUSTIN: Yeah.

AMY: And we were gonna have the big party.

AUSTIN: Yeah.

AMY: And I understand with all the work that you ended up doing, and then carrying on trying to keep... AUSTIN: Yeah.

AMY: ...the business going, you forgot to have a party.

AUSTIN: We, we did.

You know, like you mentioned, it was late September, early October when, um, the previous concert was supposed to happen.

AMY: Yeah.

AUSTIN: And then the storm came through.

And then, uh, I think I mentioned to you, we, we kinda just got involved in the, the business of day to day, and then we looked up, and it was Christmas.

AMY: Well, we're gonna celebrate.

AUSTIN: I hope so.

AMY: With "Towns In Tune" this year.

AUSTIN: Look, looking forward to it, absolutely.

AMY: Yeah, it'll be fantastic.

AUSTIN: Absolutely.

♪ ♪ CHRIS: Uh, my name is Chris Reid.

The first song I'm gonna sing for you is based on a book from an author, he's from Newberry.

And the, the book's title is "The Whispers of Newberry Grove."

The main character, Sarah, she falls in love with a guy named Tom, who's a toy maker.

The name of this song is "Toy Soldiers."

I hope you enjoy it.

♪ ♪ ♪ Summertime, it breaks my little heart in two.

♪ ♪ All because of you.

♪ ♪ Sarah's on his shoulders.

♪ ♪ Tom makes toy soldiers in blue.

♪ ♪ To fight for me and you.

♪ ♪ Tom is in his wooden shop.

♪ ♪ Carving up a man to stop, the blues.

♪ ♪ But the summer breaks.

♪ ♪ It's summertime.

♪ ♪ Rotting in Newberry.

♪ ♪ Oh, whoa.

♪ ♪ In Newberry.

♪ ♪ Oh, whoa.

♪ ♪ In Newberry.

♪ ♪ Oh, whoa.

♪ ♪ I wonder where she's going to.

♪ ♪ The wind blows through her eyes.

♪ ♪ And I see all that I fantasize.

♪ ♪ Tom makes toy soldiers.

♪ ♪ Everybody told her to try, sweet Loretta pies.

♪ ♪ Welcome home and gather round.

♪ ♪ Ooh, it's such a lovely town.

♪ ♪ 'Cause it tries.

♪ ♪ And the summer brings.

♪ ♪ It's summertime.

♪ ♪ Rotting in Newberry.

♪ ♪ Oh, whoa.

♪ ♪ Oh, in Newberry.

♪ ♪ Oh, rotting in Newberry.

♪ ♪ Oh, whoa.

♪ ♪ I wonder where she's going to.

♪ ♪ Oh, wake up the alarms.

♪ ♪ Oh, wake up, see her charming Tom ♪ ♪ is working.

♪ ♪ Tom makes toy soldiers.

♪ ♪ Tom makes toy soldiers.

♪ ♪ Tom makes toy soldiers.

♪ ♪ Tom makes toy soldiers.

♪ ♪ Tom makes toy soldiers, ♪ ♪ for Sarah.

♪ ♪ Tom makes toy soldiers, ♪ ♪ for Sarah.

♪ ♪ Tom makes toy soldiers, ♪ ♪ for Sarah.

♪ ♪ Tom makes toy soldiers, ♪ ♪ for Sarah.

♪ (audience applause).

Thank you.

SADIEBELLE: So, this song that I'm playing, uh, I wrote this about a year ago, I guess now, if it's even been that long.

Um, it's called "Kid on the Pew," and it's about kinda realizing at a young age, you have like a safe space, and then as you get older, feeling and being safe are two very different things, but they can seem the same.

And no matter how old you get, I feel like you're always are kinda sen, searching for that like sense of security.

So yeah, it's called "Kid on the Pew."

♪ ♪ ♪ Oh, I remember being five, sitting on a pew.

♪ ♪ The preacher was talking, ♪ ♪ but not saying nothing new.

♪ ♪ Oh, and to my young mind, ♪ ♪ I had a lot to realize, ♪ ♪ but I didn't feel safe there.

♪ ♪ And so I closed my eyes, and I held my mom tight, ♪ ♪ and I pictured a big flower bed.

♪ ♪ But now there's you in the back of my mind.

♪ ♪ I miss my flower bed, ♪ ♪ and being that kid on the pew.

♪ ♪ Oh, I hate to say it, but still, ♪ ♪ it felt safer than with you.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Oh, and though now I'm a little older, ♪ ♪ I know I still have a lot to do.

♪ ♪ Although my back is aching, ♪ ♪ and I find myself missing you.

♪ ♪ Oh, but I know it's not right.

♪ ♪ I try to stay on the track, ♪ ♪ though I lost my place long ago.

♪ ♪ Oh, and I think on back, try to realize just how ♪ ♪ much everything's grown.

♪ ♪ 'Cause now there's you, oh, in the back of my mind.

♪ ♪ I miss my flower bed, ♪ ♪ and being that kid on the pew.

♪ ♪ Oh, I hate to say it, but still, ♪ ♪ it felt safer than with you.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Oh, and I'm stuck in my own mind, ♪ ♪ I'm coming to realize there isn't anywhere to go.

♪ ♪ All the plane tickets and train tickets and ♪ ♪ taxi rides, no, it's just a long, winding road.

♪ ♪ So call me when it's over, 'cause I don't know how ♪ ♪ much I can just stand and watch this go.

♪ ♪ 'Cause now there's you.

♪ ♪ Oh, in the back of my mind.

♪ ♪ I miss my flower bed, ♪ ♪ and being that kid on the pew.

♪ ♪ Oh, I hate to say it, but still, ♪ ♪ it felt safer than with you.

♪ ♪ Oh, I felt safe with you.

♪ ♪ I wish I felt safe with you.

♪ (audience applause).

Thank you.

DAVE: A real popular theme of mine is, is writing songs that, um, are about my home and, and, and the, the beauty and all the things that come along with that.

But I wrote this one kind of thinking about my grandparents, uh, and more specifically, my grandfather.

I remember him telling me just how much he really, really just wanted to be back home in Kilbride, Newfoundland, with his family and with all of his friends.

And, and, and as much as he liked being, uh, away and doing the jobs that he, he did do, it, there was nowhere, you know, quite like being home, and I think that kind of is for anybody, right?

Is that home is always home.

So yeah, this is a song called, uh, "Where I Belong."

♪ ♪ ♪ I'm headed off to solid ground again, ♪ ♪ where it all began.

♪ ♪ I find it hard to stand.

♪ ♪ 'Cause I was sailing on through Montreal, ♪ ♪ and I got the call.

♪ ♪ I'm leaving in the fall.

♪ ♪ But I can't wait to get back to you, ♪ ♪ and do the things we said we'd do.

♪ ♪ Soon enough, and I'm going east.

♪ ♪ Set the sails and leave these streets.

♪ ♪ Get me back to where I belong.

♪ ♪ My bags are packed, and it's time to go.

♪ ♪ Steer this ship and get us home.

♪ ♪ I've been gone too long, ♪ ♪ so get me back where I belong.

♪ ♪ Get me back where I belong.

♪ ♪ I'm holding on to every word you wrote.

♪ ♪ I read them on the boat.

♪ ♪ It's keeping me afloat.

♪ ♪ Every night, a little after nine, ♪ ♪ we're drinking rum and wine.

♪ ♪ It helps to remind.

♪ ♪ That I can't wait to get back to you, ♪ ♪ and do the things we said we'd do.

♪ ♪ Soon enough, and I'm going east.

♪ ♪ Set the sails and leave these streets.

♪ ♪ Get me back to where I belong.

♪ ♪ My bags are packed; it's time to go.

♪ ♪ Steer this ship and get us home.

♪ ♪ I've been gone too long, ♪ ♪ so get me back where I belong.

♪ ♪ Get me back where I belong.

♪ ♪ 'Cause even after all these years, ♪ ♪ all the pages that we've shed, ♪ ♪ there's nowhere else I would rather be.

♪ ♪ When the times are hard and the waves are high, ♪ ♪ we see the same moon in the sky.

♪ ♪ Soon enough, I'm coming home to you.

♪ ♪ And I can't wait to get back to you ♪ ♪ and do the things we said we'd do.

♪ ♪ Soon enough, and I'm going east.

♪ ♪ Set the sails and leave these streets.

♪ ♪ Get me back to where I belong.

♪ ♪ My bags are packed, and it's time to go.

♪ ♪ Steer this ship and get us home.

♪ ♪ I've been gone too long, ♪ ♪ so get me back where I belong.

♪ ♪ Get me back where I belong.

♪ ♪ Get me back where I belong.

♪ ♪ Get me back where I belong.

♪ ♪ Get me back where I belong.

♪ (audience applause).

Thank you very much.

Thank you, thank you so much.

Thank you, thank you.

ANDREW: Yeah, so I came from a real small town in Newfoundland.

I feel like people throw around small towns.

They don't really understand what a small town is.

Anyway, I moved to the big, uh, the big city of, uh, of St.

John's, which is a small city by most standards, of course, but, uh, still a big jump.

Uh, you know, ended up living downtown and, uh, I kind of had the chance to observe some people who are living, uh, lives and situations that, uh, that, uh, you know... It's just, uh, it's kinda wild to exist side by side by, you know, I'm just grateful for my own life.

I see what some of these people, uh, go through on a daily basis and, uh... It's called "Downtown."

I'm real creative with my titles, you know.

(audience laughter).

♪ ♪ ♪ Somebody's screaming "Bloody Mary" in the street.

♪ ♪ Somebody else shoots the gun.

♪ ♪ There's a drummer in the distance ♪ ♪ swaying off the beat.

♪ ♪ Yeah, and the feral dogs sing along.

♪ ♪ Somebody's screeching their tires again.

♪ ♪ In some...car made lighter than a jet.

♪ ♪ Going all out, trying to impress.

♪ ♪ All show but no finesse.

♪ ♪ It's just the sounds around here.

♪ ♪ You never really know what you're gonna hear.

♪ ♪ It ain't always nice.

♪ ♪ It ain't always pretty.

♪ ♪ It ain't Tina Turner.

♪ ♪ It ain't Tom Petty.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown.

♪ ♪ There's a woman on the corner, ♪ ♪ well out of her prime.

♪ ♪ A little worse for wear and robbed of pride.

♪ ♪ Well, there ain't a lot of ways these ♪ ♪ days to make a dime, ♪ ♪ and the good old boys keep coming back.

♪ ♪ There's an old man, granddad, ♪ ♪ reaching down for sidewalk cigarettes ♪ ♪ somebody chucked on the ground.

♪ ♪ He's in his golden days.

♪ ♪ No, he ain't got long now, but they've been saying ♪ ♪ that for years.

♪ ♪ It's just the sounds around here.

♪ ♪ You never really know what you're gonna hear.

♪ ♪ It ain't always nice.

♪ ♪ It ain't always pretty.

♪ ♪ It ain't James Brown.

♪ ♪ It ain't Elvis Presley.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ It's just the sounds around here.

♪ ♪ You never really know what you're gonna hear.

♪ ♪ It ain't always nice.

♪ ♪ It ain't always pretty.

♪ ♪ It ain't George Jones.

♪ ♪ It ain't Liza Minnelli.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, yeah.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown, oh.

♪ ♪ It's Downtown.

♪ DAVE: Andrew Rogers, everybody.

(audience applause).

ANDREW: Thank you, folks.

Thank you, thank you.

PAUL: I wrote this song.

It's called "Live," and it was the first song that my band Crush, which is a, a band that was, like, 20 years ago.

Uh, this is the first song that we released off our record that was on the radio up there, so... ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ People say I'm crazy.

♪ ♪ I'm starting to believe them.

♪ ♪ I throw it all away for something I don't know.

♪ ♪ But I haven't lived my life yet.

♪ ♪ I'm gonna start living my life right now.

♪ ♪ But I need a way to achieve it.

♪ ♪ I got a way to achieve it now.

♪ ♪ I don't wanna fight.

♪ ♪ I don't wanna beg.

♪ ♪ I just wanna live.

♪ ♪ And who gave you the right to come down on me?

♪ ♪ I just wanna live.

♪ ♪ People wanna know all the stories, ♪ ♪ and I wish I could help them.

♪ ♪ So I will break the chain of rumors that rule all.

♪ ♪ I ain't ever known what love is.

♪ ♪ How can I know what love is now?

♪ ♪ But I needed something to believe in.

♪ ♪ I've got something to believe in now.

♪ ♪ And I don't wanna fight.

♪ ♪ I don't wanna beg.

♪ ♪ I just wanna live.

♪ ♪ And who gave you the right to come down on me?

♪ ♪ I just wanna live.

♪ ♪ Wanna live, live, live, live.

♪ ♪ Ooh.

♪ ♪ Live.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I ain't never known what love is.

♪ ♪ How can I know what love is now?

♪ ♪ But I needed something to believe in.

♪ ♪ I've got something to believe in now.

♪ ♪ I ain't never known what love is.

♪ ♪ How can I know what love is now?

♪ ♪ Now.

♪ ♪ No, I don't wanna fight.

♪ ♪ I don't wanna beg.

♪ ♪ I just wanna live.

♪ ♪ And who gave you the right to come down on me?

♪ ♪ I just wanna live.

♪ ♪ No, I don't wanna fight.

♪ ♪ I don't wanna beg.

♪ ♪ I just wanna live.

♪ ♪ And who gave you the right to come down on me?

♪ ♪ I just wanna live.

♪ ♪ Wanna live, yeah.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Ooh, live.

♪ ♪ ♪ Song called "Live."

Thank you.

(audience applause).

GREG: What's going on, guys?

Everybody having a good time so far?

But we're gonna, um, we're gonna start you with one of ours right here.

This is the title track off of our sixth CD, which is called "Keep the Fame," therefore logically, this song is called "Keep the Fame."

♪ ♪ ♪ I don't need my face on a magazine.

♪ ♪ Don't need my name on a movie screen.

♪ ♪ Don't need my voice on the radio.

♪ ♪ Nobody want me for a TV show.

♪ ♪ 'Cause I don't wanna be a big star, honey.

♪ ♪ But I'd love to have the money.

♪ ♪ BOTH: I don't need anybody to remember my name.

♪ ♪ Just give me the fortune, you can keep the fame.

♪ ♪ GREG: Some people love the spotlight; ♪ ♪ to me, it's all the same.

♪ ♪ BOTH: Just give me the fortune, ♪ ♪ you can keep the fame.

♪ ♪ GREG: Play guitar.

♪ (guitar solo).

♪ I don't need my name all up in lights.

♪ ♪ I'd rather be with my friends on those ♪ ♪ crazy Friday nights.

♪ ♪ Don't want those cameras all up in my face.

♪ ♪ While I'm trying to eat dinner or ♪ ♪ just get back to my place.

♪ ♪ You might think I'm trying to be funny, ♪ ♪ but I really just want the money.

♪ ♪ BOTH: I don't need anybody to remember my name.

♪ ♪ Just give me the fortune, you can keep the fame.

♪ ♪ GREG: Some people love the spotlight; ♪ ♪ to me, it's all the same.

♪ ♪ BOTH: Just give me the fortune, ♪ ♪ you can keep the fame.

♪ ♪ GREG: Whoa, yeah, some will surely doubt me.

♪ ♪ Whoa, no, they don't know much about me.

♪ ♪ Whoa, yeah, a simple life is finer.

♪ ♪ For a boy from South Carolina.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I don't need to sign any autographs.

♪ ♪ Every time I think about it, ♪ ♪ it all just makes me laugh.

♪ ♪ 'Cause I don't wanna be a big star, honey.

♪ ♪ But I'd love to have the money.

♪ ♪ Come on, let me see your hands.

♪ ♪ BOTH: I don't need anybody to remember my name.

♪ ♪ Just give me the fortune, you can keep the fame.

♪ ♪ GREG: Some people love the spotlight; ♪ ♪ to me, it's all the same.

♪ ♪ BOTH: Just give me the fortune, ♪ ♪ you can keep the fame.

♪ ♪ I don't need anybody to remember my name.

♪ ♪ Just give me the fortune, you can keep the fame.

♪ ♪ GREG: Some people love the spotlight; ♪ ♪ to me, it's all the same.

♪ ♪ BOTH: Just give me the fortune, ♪ ♪ you can keep the fame.

♪ ♪ GREG: Just give me the fortune, ♪ ♪ you can keep the fame.

♪ ♪ Take it home.

♪ ♪ (audience applause).

GREG: Thank you so much.

♪ ♪ WOMAN: I have been in Willingham's, but I've not been in this part.

CUSTOMER: I didn't know that they had this wonderful space.

I've been coming here for 28 years, buying gravel and lumber and coming and driving in here to get insulation, so I had no idea what to expect.

So this has been completely transformed, and I didn't realize how good the acoustics were in here.

WOMAN: Oh, it has been absolutely incredible.

It was just the neatest thing to bring so much art into such a small town.

Um, it brings so much more, uh, life to everything, and a lot of artists in the town, um, they don't get the credit they should deserve.

Um, and I'm really excited that you guys brought in the food.

I might be a little biased, but, um, I do enjoy the fact that you brought food into it because our, food is art.

Uh, cuisines can really make a thing and, and being tied into this group has just been so beautiful.

WOMAN: I'm a girl that loves live music, so I felt the best part was just all of the local talent coming from the two small towns and bringing it all together.

I just thought it was a lot of fun, and I love hearing all of the different styles and different mixes they had.

MAN: The openers, they were very good, and the main act, they were just incredible.

KID: I thought it was gonna be not as much stuff as it was here.

Uh, the production truck, I went in there, and it's cool, like, what y'all do in there?

And all the camera crews and everything, it really exceeded what I thought it was gonna be.

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