STEAM Fund Spotlight: Expanding Arts, Education & Community Impact

Music education, arts programs, and community impact are at the heart of this Season 2 premiere of Full STEAM Ahead. Guest host Paul Ciliberto interviews Gary Siegel and Judy Siegel to introduce viewers and listeners to the mission of the STEAM Fund, review highlights from Season 1, and preview the exciting programs coming this season.

Gary and Judy share insights into STEAM Fund programs—including Arts in Education, songwriting initiatives, visiting artist outreach, youth programs, Social Emotional Learning, the Healthy Habits Initiative, Professional Development, and Mission One Gig At A Time (MOGAAT)—highlighting how these initiatives engage and enrich communities throughout the Sullivan Catskills, Hudson Valley, Southern Tier and beyond.

Listeners will also hear about STEAM Fund’s collaborations with Catskill Art Space, the Shandelee Music FestivalWeekend of Chamber Music, and performances at SUNY Sullivan, illustrating how partnerships, grants, and community support help expand access to music and the arts.

Tune in to discover how STEAM Fund is transforming music education, supporting musicians, artists, and venues, and building stronger communities—and learn how you can support these efforts.

Learn More:

STEAM Fund Homepage: https://steamfund.org
STEAM Fund Educational Opportunities: https://steamfund.org/#education
STEAM Fund MOGAAT (Mission One Gig At A Time): https://steamfund.org/#mogaat
STEAM Fund News: https://steamfund.org/#new

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Welcome to Full Steam Ahead. I'm your host for this edition, Paul Siliberto, host of Silaberto and Friends on Catskills News Talk, and a longtime friend and cheerleader for the Steam Fund. Steam Fund's mission is to support the musicians, artists, and the venues where they share their gift. This area, the Hudson Valley, has been a magical place for incredible musicians, artists, and uh through the Steam Fund, we get to share the stories behind those who really inspire us. And uh today, joined by the co-founders of the Steam Fund, uh Judy and Gary Siegel. Great to be with you today to which one is Judy and I think so. I think we figured it's we figured that part out. I love the history of the Steam Fund. I know we've spoken about that before. Um I love the fact that during a tough time during the pandemic, it was really the steam fund that kind of shifted gears a little bit and was really supporting artists and musicians with um online performances, performances with the the online tip jars, really helping those who couldn't get out and and perform their craft, perform and uh you know make a little bit of a living performing. Let's talk a little bit about some of the functions of the Steam Fund, some of the programs of the Steam Fund. Um let's talk about the uh mission in action. Um the uh mission one gig at a time. How did that get started and talk about what that's all about?

SPEAKER_00 1:42

So I'd like to just start that our our actual mission is to support musicians and artists and the venues where they perform. So Mogat, Mission One Gig at a Time, is part of that. And as you said, it it started in the pandemic when musicians, they're they're gig workers. They didn't make any money if they didn't play out. And they started to just in their living rooms and wherever they could just go on Zoom and and play music, because that's what they do the best. And so it was they did that and asked for tips, and it was a great opportunity for us to to say, wait, we have a foundation here that could help you. And it was the beginning of us supporting individual artists when and where they performed. And it's something that's continued since the pandemic, but and for many people was vital during their their performances on a Friday evening, they would just hang out in their living room and start playing music, and we all had the pleasure of listening, and uh the Steam Fund had the opportunity to say, here's some extra cash, some substantial cash to make your gig tonight worthwhile.

SPEAKER_02 2:48

And and I would add to that that we got amazing support.

SPEAKER_00 2:53

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 2:53

Amazing support. We we received grants, uh uh we received uh donations from individual donors, uh specifically for for Mogat. We call it Mogat. Right. M-O-G-A-A-T one mission one gig at a time. Um and uh and you know, just to be able to support the musicians when they weren't able to perform live uh was was and you know, some of them were even having trouble uh, you know, paying their bills, uh uh paying their rent, uh buying food, et cetera, and and this was really uh a great help for them. And then Mogat, after after the pandemic, sort of evolved into uh our steam fund uh supporting music festivals too.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

Trevor Burrus, Jr. Radio Gold Music Festival, one that's part of the uh the Bagel Festival in the Aaron. And that was one of the first ones, one of the first ones.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

And there are many steam fund avenues, but with Mo through Mogat, when people donate, they should know that that's what that money is going towards to support that is one of the things the money goes towards is to support those musicians, artists, those venues.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

I gotta say, we did a trip to uh to Nashville a couple years back, and it was so cool. We arranged for some upcoming country music artists to perform for our group, and just to see the looks on their face when Gary and Judy went up to them and and handed them a check and said, This is from our Steam Fund, and this is what we do for artists and musicians, started during the pandemic, and this is just a little something for you for your performance tonight. And it was just amazing how how how respected and appreciated it made them feel. And that's kind of like the foundation of of what the um mission one gig at a time really is all about. Well, we sort of do it quietly.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

We try.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

Um and uh wherever we go, uh Judy and I travel a lot. And um and wherever we go, if we see musicians, we usually find some way to add a little bit to their tip jar through this through this initiative.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

And it's very definitely very much appreciated. And also the flip side of that is during the pand uh pandemic, not only do you did you give those musicians a chance to make a couple bucks when they really couldn't get out and do that, but you gave people who were so just strapped by staying inside during the pandemic. You gave us that little bit of entertainment, and it had a doublefold purpose, and it really was something special. That's the foundation when you talk about um helping the artists and you know, supporting them, supporting the venues of, like you had said, where they where they they share their craft. But there's so much more to the Steam Fund, and one other component is uh education, in particular arts in education. Talk a little bit about that.

SPEAKER_02 5:47

Well, y you know, as as we say, uh re reiterate that the mission is to support musicians, artists, and the venues where they share their gift. And and we have a number of vehicles uh where we do that. MOGAT, the Mogat initiative is one of them. And uh the arts and education programs that we bring into the public schools is another one. And uh we we've been bringing arts and education programs into the schools since probably 2021. Uh we originally were gonna start uh back uh when the pandemic first just before the pandemic started, but it got delayed, obviously. Um and uh since we we came in, the first the first uh arts and education program we did was that we launched uh with Theater Within, Theater Within's uh John Lennon Real Love project in Livingston Manor, New York, at the Livingston Manor Central School District, which now doesn't exist anymore. It's the Rockland Central School District because you've all listed a school district. Exactly. Um but it all started there, and and I can tell you that it's evolved. Uh our teaching artists, uh Beth and Scott Bierco, who who teach uh and uh who are the teaching artists for the the John Lennon Real Love Project uh have become one of our our main teaching artists in that they they've been in the schools for over 30 years, and they have uh in their repertoire a number of assembly programs, uh songwriting programs, um residency programs that we that we sort of uh uh collaborate with them uh to bring those those programs uh to to the schools. And and these programs, they they deal with all different topics, social, emotional learning, nutrition, mindfulness, uh the so self-care. Um there's so many different uh different topics uh that are that are uh you know uh so uh vital to today to today.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

And through music, to me the beauty of it is that through music there are opportunities to help people learn mindfulness, to learn about nutrition, to learn tools to be songwriters or to just calm their energy down. So for us to have to have an opportunity to provide tools to students through, in this case Beth and Scott, it's a it's a gift that we feel like the the world gets to learn how to for children and in many cases adults to learn how to access tools through music is a beautiful thing.

SPEAKER_02 8:30

Well, and I yeah, I think that that's that's it really in a nutshell is that we use music, we use movement uh to to pro help to provide tools for for students to be a help to help them make healthy choices.

SPEAKER_01 8:43

Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 8:44

Um and that's that's really really what it's about. And that sort of relates now back to our healthy habits initiative.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

Yeah, and I go by oh by the way, I just want to let you know at any time you can go to the steamfund.org. That's the steamfund.org. Check out what we're speaking of. You can also find out ways that you can get involved. Maybe you can make a donation, maybe you can spread the word um to a school or an organization that can use the tools that are available through the steam fund. Check it out. It's the steamfund.org.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

It's actually steamfund.org, not know the steamfund.org.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Right, just steamfort. So it's steamfund.org, no the. Steamfund.org. They would be the, but they couldn't afford it. Anyway. They didn't have a sale on buzz that day. Exactly. Hey, you talked about the healthy initiative, and again, um you're you're teaching the these students at a young age um what's part of the healthy initiative. They're then taking what they learned home, and it's multi-generational because they're helping their their their older siblings, their parents, their caregivers, whatever the case may be. And that's part of the of the big picture. So talk a little bit about the healthy initiatives.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

So one of the things we do, my favorite thing we do is that Beth and Scott, with an organization called A Single Bru Bite, which exists to uh help the those that are food insecure in Sullivan County, New York.

SPEAKER_02 10:06

Um do food education programs.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

And they do food education programs as well. And with them, they collaborated to make that this incredible song called Real Food Rules. And Scott and Beth go into the schools, they teach the kids and talk to the kids about what's real, what's ultra-processed, what's not real, why that matters to you, what makes you feel good at the end of the day, what makes you sleep better, and they do a whole program of education, and then the kids take that song that the that group collaborated on, Real Food Rules, and the kids write their own verses to that song. And uh it's it's a catchy tune, it's played often on their um their announcements because the kids get a recording, the student the school gets a recording of the students singing that song. And it's so much fun.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

Tell me, tell me, tell me what does food mean to you? Exactly. Where does it come from? What does it do? What are your favorites? Are they real? Tell me, tell me, tell me. How does food make you feel when you pay attention? Real food rules.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

There you go. We've we've had the uh the privilege of playing snippets from many of these songs from many of uh the school groups on our bold gold New York radio stations. And what's so cool is you can hear the passion um from the students that are performing the songs. The passion because of the fact, like you said, they sat down, they collaborated, they they they wrote the lyrics, they got to perform the lyrics that they wrote, and again, bringing these ideas home, affecting uh uh health in a positive way on a multi-generational level. Trevor Burrus, Jr.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

So we've expanded that now uh to have sort of a hybrid version of the real food songwriting program where rather than using the song that that we wrote the refrain with a single bite and collaborated with them, uh we have Beth and Scott go in and each class uh in in a certain grade level will write their own song, pick a topic uh based on real food versus processed food and making good healthy choices. And they'll write their own song and record it and and and usually it's a short maybe one minute to one minute and twenty seconds somewhere in there. And and then what what the schools do is they uh every one of those songs has a message of some sort. It could be check the labels, right, you know, or or check the ingredients, or uh m my heart, my heart is important, you know, things like that. And um and each one has a message, and then the schools they play these as like PSAs, public service announcements, on the on the morning announcements so that everybody in the school can hear them and get the messages too. And I also want to reiterate, Paul, that that we always say that we are not the food police when we go there. Exact we're not the food police, we're only pr presenting information and educating kids so that they can take that information and decide what choices they want to make or they can make, because you know, some of them may be limited in in being able to make those choices.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

And I don't people realize how important that empowerment is, giving the the freedom of choice and the empowerment that comes with the freedom of choice. So you're not just doing what you're told, you're doing what was explained to you and what you feel is the right thing to do, and that in itself is huge. Uh I've got to step aside for a second. You talk about the uh healthy choices and healthy initiatives, and of course the steam fund, one of the beneficiaries of of the longest-running fundraiser uh throughout uh Sullivan County, of course, I'm talking about the uh 98.3 WSUL Hardathon, uh not only a beneficiary of uh the Hardathon, because when you look at how much the healthy initiatives of the Steam Fund have to do with promoting healthy habits and a healthy heart, but you also have uh performances that are part of the Hardathon with Scott and Beth Pierco and others from the Steam Fund, and a lot have taken advantage of those and really gotten a lot of healthy habits out of those.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

Yes. I mean, uh so so we uh at first of all, we're very grateful uh to the Hardathon and the Hardathon Committee, the 98.3 WSUL Hardathon. Um, you know, these funds uh go to help prevent and educate. That's two of the three. Right. Not treat, but but prevent and educate cardiopulmonary and heart disease here right here in Sullivan County, New York, in the Sullivan Catskills. Um so part of what we've done at the health fairs at the at the uh uh the Hardathon is that we this year we actually did a uh drum a drum circle, and it was really to uh illustrate that the beat goes on. The beat going on. Exactly. And uh uh last year uh we did we did a session that was uh sort of a mindfulness in motion session that provided uh different exercises, movement, music, uh to to help uh those participants to uh work together, coordinate, collaborate, and uh do these exercises uh so that so that when they get in real life situations, it helps them to have those tools to be able to deal with their everyday challenges.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

This might be a good moment to insert the fact that um we call me the mission police. Yeah. So you know, there are a lot of different ways that we receive money, individual donations and grants that we get, and opportunities like the some of the proceeds from the annual Hardathon. And it's really important to us that we stay true to our mission and true to what any given donation was geared towards. So those that that donation into the STEAM fund for healthy habits initiatives and healthy heart habit initiatives goes directly to things that are heart-related. And the MOGAP money is from money that's donated to the general fund. And we we're very careful that the money fits in the mission and that people that donate money should know that we we care about why they donated that and that it gets uh funneled into the right area.

SPEAKER_02 16:40

Aaron Ross Powell And I also want to add that uh within the the real food songwriting program, uh we have a slide, we show a PowerPoint presentation to the kids, and we have a slide that is designated fully to uh the the heart healthy uh habits, heart heart healthy um initiatives, I guess you would say, um, you know, through the 98.3 WSUL Hardathon and and the Heart Association. And talk about uh, you know, what the recommendations of the Heart Association are about having a healthy heart. Uh so that's all part of that that real food songwriting program. And it's also meant to be an introduction to a single bites uh uh food education programs that they do here in Sullivan County. And I I'm not sure if they're ta talking about expanding that to other to other places, but we are actually uh taking our real food songwriting program into other other areas. So if there's anybody, you know, anybody that's listening or watching uh that wants to bring any of these programs to their to their schools, uh, you know, you can just go to steamfund.org and and contact us.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

Yeah. So we're saying we're talking about you know funding, and we're gonna talk more about funding in a little bit. We're talking about funding and donations and you know being part of uh one of the beneficiaries of the 983 WSUL Hardathon. But also on the other end, when you talk about the SEAM fund, you're also talking about scholarships as well. So let's get into that a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 18:14

So my family has always uh given awards uh in the local schools here in the Sullivan Catskills, mostly in Livingston Manor, New York, where Judy and I both grew up. And then I I taught in Liberty uh for almost thirty years uh in Liberty, New York, and uh so so the STEAM fund provides uh some scholarships. Uh they're not large scholarships, but they're they're to support annually uh students that are are going into music or the arts.

SPEAKER_00 18:49

Margin Lee Siegel, who are Gary's parents, were always supporters of the arts, and that that's that was the the original reason to create the Steam Fund. We weren't sure what direction it was going to go in, but we wanted to help the keep that initiative alive that they had always supported. And and the way we carry it on is is there are a lot of different ways that that happens, but the passion that they have, and for me the passion of what music does for an individual and how music helps in so many different ways and helps heart health and helps Parkinson's helps and helps anxiety help, all those things, it's so important to for a student to have an opportunity to go to school to learn music or to go to a camp to learn to play better when they're younger so that they can find a way to utilize the tool that music provides and either help themselves or help someone else someday or just grow uh strength in the beauty that music provides.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

Yeah, again, that whole big picture. Let's talk a little bit about support and funding when it comes to the STEAM fund.

SPEAKER_02 19:56

Well, we've we've received uh just amazing support. Uh just to mention some of some of the uh organizations that that uh help us to bring our programs into the public schools and and support us is is the uh Raleigh Foundation uh at the community foundation of Orange Sullivan in Rockland. Also the uh uh Bonisek Foundation, Family Foundation. John Bonisek, I worked with him as a when he was senator for many, many years. I served on the New York State School Music Association Government Relations Committee. So every year we would we would I would take uh our my band, my middle school band, up to Albany during music in our schools month, and we would play a concert in in the the the uh Empire State Plaza and uh in the concourse there. And and we would always invite uh our senator and our assembly person. And John Bonisek was was uh uh the senator for many, many years here and and always uh came down and and watched watched the kids play and heard them play and always uh provided a resolution from the Senate for our for our in in honor of our performances. And uh it it it just uh uh really kind of coming full circle that the Bonisec Foundation, uh you know, John and and Melissa's the daughter, uh supporting our STEAM fund uh programs. Uh we we received funds from the Sullivan County uh discretionary funds and uh just we're so grateful to to Louis Alvarez and and all of the legislators uh there uh which that funding helps us to bring the uh real food songwriting program to every school annually uh in in here in the Sullivan Catskills. Um so that and the Hardathon money that that we get. Um and then, you know, we have we have uh we've we received um funding through SALT uh to write s a song. And if you listen to uh Bold Gold Radio uh stations, there's now uh uh a c campaign uh to talk about help us here. Right. Um uh through Sullivan United and other organizations. And at the end of each one of those commercials is the jingle to take one step. Just take one step. Just take one step, help us here.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

Well, with that being the case, l let me ask you. When you when you think back to the beginning, you think back to your to your mom and dad, their love for music, you wanted to help musicians and artists and the venues, as as as the as the mission says, uh did you think it would grow to where it is now and expand to the different aspects of life that it has expanded to?

SPEAKER_00 22:56

We had no idea what to do. We knew we could give scholarships and and you know, life works funny. It's that opportunities present themselves and then things learn organically grow. And uh it uh I don't I don't think we ever thought that it could expand beyond the reach that uh of of Little Liberty in Mon and Livingston Man in New York, but uh but it has. And and you know, we're always looking for more opportunities to grow more and grow farther, and we uh we say regularly, the more money we have, the more money we can give. All the the money goes to giving it to these programs. And so we love that opportunity.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

Yeah, so I think w what what I would say is we've created a monster.

SPEAKER_00 23:41

Yeah, it's and he's the monster leader.

SPEAKER_02 23:44

I mean, we've we've done over a hundred, uh probably over a hundred programs in the schools over the last year. Um it's it's uh uh unbelievable. And and and and and you know, I guess I guess when you look at success breeds success, and that's that's uh where word gets out, and and we're just really proud to bring these programs in and to to have an impact on on kids.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

And so this morning.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

So so this morning uh we did a uh we we actually launched uh it's called the Youth and Visiting Artist Outreach Program. Uh we launched that back in Febru uh back in the fall um i at Fallsburg Central School District. And but this morning we extended that and we actually had uh a jazz trio uh where we collaborated with the Chandelier Music Festival, which is here in Chandely, New York, that huge metropolis up on the top of the hill in Siberia.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

A dot in Siberia. Then we start with the just because it's cold in the winter, that's why we said that's the thing. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

Daniel Stroop and uh and he's the executive director, and brought the Mike Fehey jazz trio uh to the Rockland Central School District uh as part of our uh visiting artist outreach program. And this program uh was just outstanding. The the the trio basically uh introduced themselves, they they performed uh a couple of original tunes and then and then played an old standard. Nice and then did a QA with the kids. And the kids there were probably 1205 kids there, and they were so uh um attentive, engaged.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

Engaged, exactly as well.

SPEAKER_02 25:31

They performed with them a little bit and that was So afterwards after the Q ⁇ A we they did a group photo and then and then they performed uh Oye Komova for the artists, and the artists it was sort of like a master class type of thing where they worked with the kids and helped them to to make some improvements and and you know just gave them some great great constructive uh positive comments.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

For kids from Livingston Manor in Roscoe, New York to see these world-class musicians and get to interact with them and afterwards ask them individual questions and even get some private um tips on how to play themselves. And you know, some of these kids never leave Sullivan County. Some of these kids uh I will never in their lives see professional live musicians. So to have an opportunity for 120 kids to to see where they could go. And and in in the question and answer sessions, one of the questions was, how did you get started? And it's like, oh, I was in the jazz band in high school. And you know, that could be any one of those kids one day.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

Exactly. And you know, this is another example of experiences that these kids are having that they would not have the opportunity to have if it wasn't for the steam farm.

SPEAKER_02 26:45

Then these these are world-class musicians. Uh um uh recently we had uh Melena Diane, who's a mezzo soprano from the Metropolitan Opera, as well as her husband, David Rosenmeyer, who's who's a pianist and conductor, and and uh many of these uh artists work at the United Nations uh s uh international school uh where Daniel Stroop had had worked and he's retired from the U.S. Chandelier Music Festival, he's a lot of so so Melena came and and introduced opera to the kids. And then we had the weekend of chamber music with An Andy Wagner and uh and Carrie Stinson, and they introduced uh improvisation for everyone. Yeah. And you know, they're a violinist and cellist. That's incredible. Su Suzanne Gil Gilcrest and Karen Lerner, a flautist and a pianist who who performed uh uh I forget the the piece that they performed, but it was it's a Nisma level six piece. The people in schools in music departments will will know what that is. Um and uh and performed it for the kids in Fallsburg, New York. And uh and and it was just uh uh just an amazing uh environment and atmosphere for for the kids to have that exposure to these world-class musicians.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

Trevor Burrus, Jr. It is incredible. All right, I'm gonna ask you this next question, but I'm gonna tell you point blank, I know that your answer should be I don't have a clue. Because the road with the steam fund, it goes this way, it turns left, it turns right, it comes back, it goes up, it goes down. And that's the way it's been happening. But the question is, what's ahead for the steam fund? More. Okay. That's probably the best way to put it.

SPEAKER_02 28:33

More than the greatest love of the world has known.

SPEAKER_00 28:38

You know, we we started with just scholarships and and we through the Theater Within, which is an organization that Gary's on the board of in New York City, um, we were introduced to Beth and Scott Bierko, who now live in Sullivan County. And through that we grew into the schools, and from that we grew this program where we're bringing all these other artists in. And things just happen. You know, you meet these artists and and who knows where they will take us. I'd love the opportunity to expand beyond New York State. Um right now we're we're in a number of counties in New York State. We've been in Manhattan, we've been in in Delaware, we've been in Rockland, we've been in Orange and Ulster. Ulster. So, you know, if we could go beyond what all it takes is ideas and money.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

Well, with that being the case, if if you happen to be an educator, um a leader of an organization, whatever the case may be, and you find it interesting with with what we're talking about today with the steam fund, and maybe you feel that it could it can help your group, your organization, your school, um, whatever the case may be. If that is the case, Gary, how can someone reach out, get more information, and get the Steam Fund involved, and in turn get involved with the Steam Fund?

SPEAKER_02 29:54

I would say go to steamfund.org and just uh there's a there's a area at the very top of the page that says contact us and and uh that would be the best way. You can email you can email us, uh you can uh you know uh give uh uh find us on Facebook, on social media, and and messenger us. Uh you know, there are many different ways uh to be able to get in touch with us. All right.

SPEAKER_01 30:20

Well, even when it comes to this podcast, it's growing and moving forward. This is the second season.

SPEAKER_02 30:26

Yes, this is the second season. And and you know, the first season we started uh with the first episode with Judy and me with uh Michelle Samarano, uh our very good president. I know her, yes, absolutely. And uh that was really to talk a little bit about how Steam Fund ha came about and and uh you know the past and and how we uh started. And this episode is more geared toward our programs and uh just to let everybody know about what we do and uh how they can uh participate or get involved.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

But I would encourage anybody listening to this to go not only back to that first one, because I think that it part of the goal was to maybe spur other people to do something similar, but also there are outstanding musicians uh being interviewed on that s that whole first year season and that whole first season. And I would encourage anybody to go back to that first season and listen to those stories because they're really so fascinating.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

Oh, yeah, you've had world-class artists uh uh on on that first season alone. So yeah, if you have a chance, um wherever you get your podcast, as you found this, you can check out uh Full Steam Ahead. Check out the uh the initial season and some of the amazing artists that uh really had a chance to share their stories as part of Full Steam Ahead and uh look ahead to what's coming up for this second season. Again, steamfund.org. It's steamfund.org. Uh get more information. Maybe you can get involved, maybe the steam fund can get involved with your your group, your organization, your school. You never know, but check it out, steamfund.org. I guess that's gonna wrap it up for this first show of the second season.

SPEAKER_03 32:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

You've got a lot of people that are supporting the steam fund that uh really you want to get a chance to say thank you to. You could check, uh, you could check out the supporters on steamfund.org as well, those organizations that support the Steam Fund. It's been a pleasure being with both of you. Thank you for the invitation. I do appoint you.

SPEAKER_02 32:32

We're thrilled, we're thrilled thrilled to have you. And uh I would also say that, you know, not only to go to steampund.org, but like our like our Facebook page, uh follow us on Instagram, um, you know, all the social media pages, and and uh subscribe to our YouTube page. Yes. Um and uh you know it's the best way to to keep the music going and uh full steam ahead.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

Listen to the artists that are on our previous seasons podcast, but also support your local musicians, support your local venues, because uh that's that's what keeps us all kinda going and all motivated in so many different ways.

SPEAKER_02 33:10

And support music education.

SPEAKER_01 33:12

Yes and arts education. To you I say thank you. It's been a pleasure. Steamfund.org. Check it out. Steamfund.org. Uh go to the Steam Fund YouTube channel, uh subscribe, hit that bell icon, that way you'll be notified when when new videos drop. Like, share with your social network. It would really appreciate it. I'm Paul Silaberto. It's really been a pleasure being with Gary and Judy Siegel. Full Steam ahead. Steamfund.org.