Tonight we are treated to a fusion of sounds: jazz, reggae, Roots&Blues, funk, soul, pure country, rock, and folk, creating a healing spirit of music with a special band of musicians, Lebo, Mookie Siegel, Elliott Peck, Steve Adams, and Ezra Lipp, Dave Ellis, DJ Logic, Jamie Clark, Grant Harrington and Paul Beaubrun, who unite us with a stirring "No Woman, No Cry". The Haitian singer reminds us of the of the distress and desolation in his homeland this past year and we hold hands in unity of the spirit of hope and healing. Tonight´s show is attended by an audience who pass the strongest Covid requirements to enter this performance. Everyone is vaccinated and had to produce a negative Covid test within 24 hours of the show´s start.

In the midst of the show´s first set, the power goes out and battery-powered lights come on in the audience. Though the stage is dark, the musicians decide to carry on acoustically and beg the audience for quiet so they can be heard. We are reminded of Haiti, and our hope in the spirit presses for the show to go on. We are informed the power outage is city-wide and the show would continue as long as the battery lights lasted. Jamie Clark did a good job here to hold the audience attentive and respectfully quiet. There is a short auction in the dark. Then, a solo performance by Lukas Nelson and his bandmate Tato Melgar, sharing some of their Promise Of The Real songs. Lukas is amazing! His confidence and ability to play an acoustic instrument and carry a song unplugged in a dark auditorium with an audience focused on their songs is a difficult task to carry out, but his performance is appreciated by all. They did about four songs and suddenly, the darkness gives way and power returns to the stage. Lukas finds the electric guitar and breaks into a spontaneous "I Saw The Light" a Hank Williams gem, "Christmas song" Lukas, a Christmas child, shares.