(bright music) ♪ He says he's staying true ♪ ♪ And so blindly I believe ♪ ♪ Hope these loving eyes don't get the best of me ♪ - Welcome to "Expressions on the Road."

Over the next half hour, we will enjoy a concert from singer-songwriter Amber Rubarth performing in the scenic beauty of Origins Greenhouse Cafe in Cooperstown.

We'll also learn about the Origins Growing Leaders Program and how it's helping connect the area's youth with music and nature.

All next on "Expressions on the Road."

- [Announcer] Support for Expressions is made possible with viewers like you.

Thank you.

- Welcome to this special episode of Expressions where we are showcasing one of our favorite musicians in a truly unique concert setting.

Singer-songwriter Amber Rubarth continues to carve out a career in the independent music industry with her beautifully crafted folk songs.

We have captured Amber performing twice right here in the WSKG studios, but for this concert, we wanted a location just as gorgeous as her tunes.

Origins Greenhouse Cafe has become a staple of the Cooperstown community, with not only their amazing selection of flowers and vegetables, but also for their Harmony Garden Summer Concert Series.

Featuring performances from across all genres, these concerts showcase musical diversity from across the world.

For this show, we will hear Amber's unique folk arrangements combined with homespun lyrics that are relatable to everyone.

We open the show with her original song "Something Good."

("Something Good") ♪ Sometimes the clouds cover up the sun ♪ ♪ Sometimes the truth makes you want to run ♪ ♪ Sometimes it's hard to understand why ♪ ♪ Everything changes on the turn of the dime ♪ ♪ Yeah, everything changes ♪ ♪ So if you're feeling bad ♪ ♪ Do something good for somebody else ♪ ♪ You know that it would be a welcome change ♪ ♪ A break in the rain, a star in the night ♪ ♪ I think that it could ♪ ♪ Brighten up the sky ♪ ♪ Enlighten the load you hold inside ♪ ♪ If you're feeling bad, do something good ♪ ♪ Sometimes a win ain't worth the fight ♪ ♪ And just cause they're wrong, it don't mean you're right ♪ ♪ The highs and the lows, the ups and the downs ♪ ♪ Yeah, everything changes and comes back around ♪ ♪ So if you're feeling bad ♪ ♪ Do something good for somebody else ♪ ♪ You know that it would be a welcome change ♪ ♪ A break in the rain, a star in the night ♪ ♪ I think that it could ♪ ♪ Brighten up the sky ♪ ♪ Enlighten the load that you hold inside ♪ ♪ If you're feeling bad, do something good ♪ ♪ I watch a leaf float down the river ♪ ♪ Tracing lines over stone and clay ♪ ♪ In the last light how it glitters ♪ ♪ She's going away ♪ ♪ If you're feeling bad ♪ ♪ Do something good for somebody else ♪ ♪ You know that it would be a welcome change ♪ ♪ A break in the rain, a star in the night ♪ ♪ I think that it could ♪ ♪ Brighten up the sky ♪ ♪ Enlighten the load that you hold inside ♪ ♪ If you're feeling bad ♪ ♪ If you're feeling bad ♪ ♪ Do something good ♪ (birds chirping) (water babbling) ("Mercy Me") ♪ Oh mercy, mercy me ♪ ♪ Things ain't what they used to be, no ♪ ♪ Where did all the blue skies go ♪ ♪ Poison is the wind that blows ♪ ♪ From the north and south and east ♪ ♪ Oh mercy, mercy me ♪ ♪ Things ain't what they used to be, no ♪ ♪ Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas ♪ ♪ Fish full of mercury ♪ ♪ Oh mercy, mercy me ♪ ♪ Things ain't what they used to be, no ♪ ♪ Radiation underground and in the sky ♪ ♪ Animals and birds who live nearby are dying ♪ ♪ Oh mercy, mercy me ♪ ♪ Things ain't what they used to be ♪ ♪ What about this overcrowded land ♪ ♪ How much more abuse from man can she stand ♪ ♪ Oh mercy mercy me ♪ ♪ Oh mercy mercy me ♪ ♪ Oh mercy mercy me ♪ ♪ Oh mercy mercy me ♪ ♪ Things ain't what they used to be, no ♪ ♪ Oh mercy mercy me ♪ ♪ Things ain't what they used to be, no ♪ (water babbling) ("Lover and Beloved") ♪ The lover and the beloved ♪ ♪ Tangling together ♪ ♪ As the candle flame ♪ ♪ Dances like a feather ♪ ♪ Throwing shadows on the wall ♪ ♪ They rise and they fall ♪ ♪ They flicker and call out a love that has no name ♪ ♪ I ain't in no hurry ♪ ♪ Just taking my time ♪ ♪ Moving at the speed of water ♪ ♪ Never knowing what I'll find ♪ ♪ While this world's turning ♪ ♪ The stars dance in your eyes ♪ ♪ Telling secrets beneath the surface ♪ ♪ Of how the moon pulls the tide ♪ ♪ Pulls the tide ♪ ♪ Ooh Ooh ♪ ♪ And in a moment they begin ♪ ♪ To cease to know a start or end ♪ ♪ It all just blurs and bends ♪ ♪ Into the forever ♪ ♪ They wake up in a dream ♪ ♪ Mesmerized and crystalline ♪ ♪ And the cardinal flies free ♪ ♪ In a red streak across the sky ♪ ♪ I ain't in no hurry ♪ ♪ Just taking my time ♪ ♪ Moving at the speed of water ♪ ♪ Never knowing what I'll find ♪ ♪ While this world's turning ♪ ♪ The stars dance in your eyes ♪ ♪ Telling secrets beneath the surface ♪ ♪ Of how the moon pulls tide ♪ ♪ Pulls the tide ♪ ♪ Ooh Ooh ♪ We'll be back with more from Amber Rubarth performing at Origins Greenhouse Cafe shortly.

A reminder that you can visit amberrubarth.com for details about her latest records and touring information.

In addition to their concert series, Origins owners Kristen and Dana Leonard also run a program whose aim is to get kids off their tablets and into the gardens.

(bright music) - Here we are at Origins Cafe where we have started Origins Community Foundation.

It's a 501c3 nonprofit and we run three major programs here.

A summer music festival, the Harmony Garden Concert Series.

We have Growing Leaders, which is a garden program that we run here in our garden and kitchen classroom and also a community kitchen space.

The whole purpose of this program is to explore the world through food and music.

And through the music and the food programs, we get to expose the youth of our community to different food cultures that they may not get to experience otherwise.

So today, we had a big harvesting day.

- [Interviewer] What were you guys harvesting today?

- Summer squash and zucchini.

- [Adara] The cool thing about Growing Leaders is that the students are able to bake or cook with the ingredients they just plucked from the garden.

- We're making a zucchini chocolate cake.

(uplifting music) - Now we're gonna have different kinds of beans.

We have, they're all pole beans, but we have this kinds, Northeaster... Whoops, catch 'em all.

And we have these ones, rattlesnake pole beans.

So after school, every Thursday, we have a group.

It's open to drop in, so it ranges.

Sometimes we have up to 30 students.

A wide age range, 7 to 14 years old.

It's an exciting group of students.

We like to create a safe place to connect and exploring here through the greenhouses and the gardens and the kitchen.

We always have an element of gardening, of cooking, and some kind of artistic expression so that there is optionality to explore in different ways depending on the student's interests.

- I've learned how to work with other people and how to have fun.

This is where I learned how to cook.

This is where I learned how to bake.

This is where I learned how to plant and work in the gardens.

- It's beautiful to see them at home in this space and have a place that can be a safe and adventurous way to connect with their peers in a way that's off screens and technology and just be able to connect with the earth and learn from each other.

- If you live in the Otsego County area and would like more information about Origins Growing Leaders Program, please visit originscafe.com.

Let's move back from the garden to the greenhouse and another performance from Amber Rubarth.

("Sometimes") ♪ Sometimes you know ♪ ♪ Before the evidence has caught up with the show ♪ ♪ Before the wires touch and spark into a glow ♪ ♪ Before it's told sometimes ♪ ♪ You know it's in the cold ♪ ♪ The way the acorn wakes remembering the oak ♪ ♪ The way the fireflies turn summer nights to gold ♪ ♪ And wings unfold ♪ ♪ It's in the cold ♪ ♪ So I'll let life take the lead ♪ ♪ Close my eyes so I can see ♪ ♪ All the beauty in the sea ♪ ♪ Sometimes you know ♪ ♪ And how the candlelight turns your face young and old ♪ ♪ And no words can say what all the silence holds ♪ ♪ The story grows ♪ ♪ Sometimes you know ♪ ♪ And the breath that lets your heartbeat start to slow ♪ ♪ And the song that touches deep down in your soul ♪ ♪ The ties that hold after we go ♪ ♪ Sometimes you know ♪ ♪ It's in the cold ♪ (birds chirping) - So this song is one called "Love and Eyes," and it's all about those beautiful moments when you first start meeting somebody and you just think that everything that they do is the most delicious, wonderful, perfect thing that you've ever seen in your entire life.

And sometimes those same things you share with your friends and they are like, that might be a red flag.

(chuckles) ("Loving Eyes") ♪ We ducked into the bar room ♪ ♪ To sneak out of the rain ♪ ♪ He recognized every girl around ♪ ♪ Drank whiskey with Maria ♪ ♪ Then he danced the night away ♪ ♪ With some country girl he knew from out of town ♪ ♪ Loving eyes, loving eyes ♪ ♪ These loving eyes only see one thing ♪ ♪ He says he's staying true ♪ ♪ And so blindly I believe ♪ ♪ Hope these loving eyes don't get the best of me ♪ ♪ We walked back to my house ♪ ♪ He stumbled in, grabbed a beer and laid down next to me ♪ ♪ His hair was in a mess and his shirt was inside out ♪ ♪ Oh my man, he ain't never looked so sweet ♪ ♪ Loving eyes, oh, loving eyes ♪ ♪ These loving eyes only see one thing ♪ ♪ I'm turning down the lights ♪ ♪ And he's turning up the heat ♪ ♪ Hope these loving eyes don't get the best of me ♪ ♪ Loving eyes, oh, loving eyes ♪ ♪ These loving eyes only see one thing ♪ ♪ He says he's staying true ♪ ♪ And so blindly I believe ♪ ♪ Hope these loving eyes don't get the best of me ♪ ♪ I hope these loving eyes don't get the best of me ♪ ♪ I hope these loving eyes don't get the best of me ♪ (birds chirping) (people chattering) ("Here We Are") ♪ Here we are ♪ ♪ Another circle around the sun ♪ ♪ New revelations and old constellations ♪ ♪ With forgotten names we learned when we were young ♪ ♪ Here we are ♪ ♪ Dancing around the fire ♪ ♪ Telling our stories as shadows we cast ♪ ♪ Across stones from the quarry ♪ ♪ And memories have passed ♪ ♪ And we laugh till the last ♪ ♪ Dying ember floats up to the sky ♪ ♪ Whispering goodnight ♪ ♪ In a blanket of darkness ♪ ♪ So thick we don't know if we closed our eyes ♪ ♪ In the rising of tensions and unseen dimensions ♪ ♪ Here we are ♪ ♪ In the cosmic denials and Milky Way spiral ♪ ♪ Here we are ♪ ♪ In the earth it is shaking and dreamers awakening ♪ ♪ A mother healing her scars ♪ ♪ Here we are ♪ ♪ Another circle around the sun ♪ ♪ And the hearts breaking open and words still unspoken ♪ ♪ Here we are ♪ ♪ In the changing of guards and houses of cards ♪ ♪ Here we are ♪ ♪ In the olive trees growing and tapestries woven ♪ ♪ And in wishes wished upon a star ♪ ♪ Here we are ♪ - What a performance from Amber Rubarth here on "Expressions on the Road."

You can revisit Amber's Origins concert and all of her past performances by going to wskg.org/expressions.

For more information about the greenhouse, please visit originscafe.com.

And we thank them for their help in putting together this episode.

Until next time, this is Adara Alston.

Thanks for watching and good night.

(Amber vocalizing) (guitar beating) ♪ I fell in love with a wild bird ♪ ♪ Wild bird ♪ ♪ Comes to my window, sings in the night ♪ ♪ Whistles with the wind and dances with the sky ♪ ♪ Just till the moon sinks near the pines ♪ ♪ And my wild bird disappears into the night ♪ ♪ I fell in love with a wild bird ♪ ♪ Wild bird ♪ ♪ I fell in love with a wild bird ♪ ♪ Wild bird ♪ ♪ I hear stories around the world ♪ ♪ People getting a glimpse ♪ ♪ Little visitations as the nighttime ends ♪ ♪ And some try to catch those feathers so bright ♪ ♪ Forgetting that the beauty is when she's in flight ♪ ♪ I fell in love with a white bird ♪ ♪ Wild bird ♪ ♪ I fell in love with a wild bird ♪ ♪ Wild bird ♪ ♪ I fell in love with a wild bird ♪ ♪ Wild bird ♪ ♪ I fell in love with a wild bird ♪ ♪ Wild bird ♪ (audience applauding) - Thank you.