September 29, 2025 • 15 mins
The Find Your Light Foundation is dedicated to ensuring every student has the chance to experience a quality arts education. To date, the organization founded Tony®, EMMY®, and five-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated singer, songwriter, actor, and philanthropist Josh Groban has funded nearly 200 programs, in 33 states. With support for the arts needed more than ever, Josh Groban hosts the 2nd Annual Find Your Light Benefit Concert for Arts Education, October 8th at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to get connected with Nina Del Rio, a weekly
conversation about fitness, health and happenings in our community on
ONEHO six point seven Light FM.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thanks for listening to get connected. The Find Your Light
Foundation is dedicated to ensuring every student has the chance
to experience equality arts education. Their work involves funding arts
programs across the country. To date, supporting nearly two hundred
programs in thirty three states, and at a time when
support for the arts is needed more than ever, The Foundation,
(00:32):
led by Tony Emmy and five time Grammy Award nominated singer, songwriter,
actor and philanthropist Josh Grobin, will host the second annual
Find Your Light Benefit Concert for Arts Education October eighth
at Jazz at Lincoln Center. An amazing evening to help
support arts education and have a fantastic time. That's the
(00:53):
short version. We will get into the details with the
very charming and talented Josh Grobin. Josh, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Thank you so much for having me, really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You can find out more at f y l F
dot org. And Josh, you were a busy guy. We
know you for music and I'm acting. We'll talk about
your current work in a few minutes. I know you've
got some music on the way, but this organization is
something you've been growing for quite a while. Now, Why
is it such a priority for you, this project.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, I mean it's it was a priority for me,
you know, early on, but I didn't realize that there
was an outlet for me to do something about it.
I mean, I was just the recipient of having an
amazing arts education. I was somebody who you know, benefited
from having wonderful arts teachers who literally unlocked doors for me,
kept the music room open and allowed for for me
(01:43):
to express myself at a time in my life when
I was feeling the most inward and really was struggling
in a lot of ways. And and so I was
able to feel firsthand what that felt like. And I
and I came from a from a you know, from
a from a great family, and you know, I had,
you know, a wonderful, wonderful upbringing. When I started to
(02:05):
realize in this later in the business, you know, that
really there were more organizations in need of help than
I had ever possibly realized, we decided to do something
about it. We decided to be a place where people
could reach out and get grants to make sure that
programs like the ones that I grew up with could
(02:25):
stay afloat, because there are so many young students who
are feeling lost and the arts are a tool for them,
for them to find themselves.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And to be clear, you are funding more than just
music related programs.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Correct, Yes, we are funding all all arts education programs, dance, theater, music,
visual art, creative writing. We have some wonderful poetry organizations
that we work with, all forms of artistic expression.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You have said a little bit about it, but I
wonder if you could talk a little bit more about
how arts education is connected to more than just the arts.
For students who never go on to become artists or
work in the arts, what are the what is that
tied to? What's the long term benefit?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Right? Well, the wonderful thing about the studies that are
that are that are coming out and have been coming
out in the last many years, is that it's it's
proving that having an arts enriched academic program it sparks
more involvement in the students, It gets them off their
phones and eyes to the front, It gets them more
engaged and more confident. They start to become more excited
(03:30):
about raising their hand and being involved in their in
their friend groups and in their classrooms, and then that
involvement makes them more interested in, you know, doing that
in other classes and other types of academics. It's been
proven now that programs with arts education, those students graduate
at the higher rate. Those students go to college at
a much higher rate. And my favorite conversations that I
(03:52):
have are with people that are in non artistic professions
that say to me, because they know that I'm an
arts ed, hey, you know, it was that I could
tell you by name, that saxophone teacher, that theater teacher
that unlocked me, and now I'm a lawyer, now I'm
a doctor, whatever it is, But it was it was
that teacher, and it was that program that picked them
(04:14):
up when they felt like they were falling at a
time when they needed that confidence most.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
The second Daniel Find Your Light Benefit Concert for Arts
Education is October eighth at Jazz at Lincoln Center. You
can find out more at the Lincoln Center website, but
also at fylf dot org. Josh Grobin and his family
are are the force behind the Find Your Light Foundation.
You're listening to get connected on one O six point
seven light FM. I'm Mina del Rio. I did look
(04:40):
up the board. It's helmed by a bunch of people
named Grobin.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So why is your family so tied to it too?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Sure? Well, our goal in the next and next year
or so is to is to expand our board. At
the moment, our board has just been family because we've
been a family run organization where grass fruits. We have
very little overhead. You know, almost all the dollars that
we raise go straight to the programs that need them,
and we like it that way. That being said, we're
(05:10):
growing at a rate that is even surprising for us,
and that's an amazing thing. And as we meet more
more like minded you know, philanthropic, incredible, brilliant creative minds,
we love joining forces with them. We're all on the
super highway to to enriching more students and so, you know,
we've kept it tight knit because we can. But we're
(05:34):
continuing to grow and these concerts have been a real
sign of that. The number of people who have signed
on to be a part of these concerts, to be
a part of this program that all share. I mean,
the people that I reach out to that say, oh
my gosh, well, I think of this program and I
want to support that. It's a very special thing to
feel like you're after you know, twelve, thirteen, fourteen years
of rolling your sleeves up in this kind of work,
(05:57):
that the bat signal has been seen and people are
noticing and they're reaching out, and that just means there's
more people we can help.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, let's talk about the event. So you've got a
huge list of performers and people who will be on stage.
I'll name a couple you can talk about some as well.
Ben Folds will be there, Norah Jones. We've got a
couple of Broadway stars, Jordan Fisher who's been seen in
Hadestown and Hamilton Malaya, Joy Moon who just won the
Tony Award for Hell's Kitchen. Who else? Who else?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We've got the great Terrence Blanchard is going to be there,
wonderful musician Emma Cohen. My friend Tyler Peck, who's one
of the great dancers in the entire world, is going
to be there to talk about her time and dance
and introduce some amazing young dancers. That's the thing, too,
is we're also going to have some great young performers
that are there that are going to be kind of
sharing what they do in their programs. And you know,
(06:45):
as incredible as all the pros are and the stars
are up there, it's always the young students who who
really blow the roof off. And then on top of that,
we're honoring not only a wonderful organization called Your Brain
on our Art led by Susan Maximin and Ivy Ross,
but also we're on our a Sesame Street. So there's
(07:06):
going to be a special appearance by Elmo and maybe
one or two others, and uh, it's going to be
a lot of fun. There might there might be a
sing along, so you're not gonna We're not gonna want
to miss that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well, that's fantastic, you were saying. It's it's getting to
a point where you know, you're finding people that are
like minded. But just as a sidebar, you know, you
probably didn't expect at this point in your career you'd
be raising money for things. How's that going? How is
that when you have something to talk about you really
believe in, it's probably easier. But how's that going?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
It's going great? I mean it's going great. I'm very shy.
You know. It's like it's which has always been not
a not a strong suit of mind being a being
a performer, you know, But when it's me on stage,
I've learned to get around the shyness and just you know,
put on the hat of a performer. Guy. I'm really
bad at asking. I'm really really bad at like calling
(07:55):
people and saying, hey, you want to know more about
my thing, Hey, you want to be part of my
concert I've got in philanthropy, you have to be really
kind of bold and brazen about saying like, hey, it's
for the kids, let's do this, you know. And so
I'm getting better at that part of my duties here.
But it's ultimately been just so wonderful in a business
(08:16):
that can often feel very lonely to see so many
friends and colleagues joining forces on this. And then to
your point, this is something that I've you know, been
raised with. My mom was an arts teacher too, and
you know, I testified to Congress many many, many years
ago about the importance of arts and I said to
myself when I did that, oh my gosh, I actually
(08:38):
this is something I have a lot of experience with.
And so that's why we we shifted gears to arts ED.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I will plug this a little bit by saying, you know,
tickets to the benefit concerts start at two fifty and
these days that's a that's a meal in Manhattan for two.
They're available, Oh my gosh. They're available through the Jazz
at Lincoln Center box office, and you can also donate
what you can to the Fines Your Light Foundation at
f y l F dot org. Speaking of the organizations
(09:06):
that you support, what is the criteria for the programs
you support?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well, we are for the most part, we are k
through twelve. When we get grant applications, we want to
know that the programs are you know, uh A, they're
they're doing they're doing good work, and they've proven that
they are doing great work, but they just they need help.
We really like to make sure that we're helping organizations
what we call arts education deserts that they're in communities
(09:32):
where they're having even a harder time getting the funds
that they need there oftentimes in very underserved communities. And
then three, we really like to make sure that that
the programs that we support have a plan to continue
growing and continue using the money that is given to
(09:53):
to invest in their own enrichment. We want to make
sure that these are places that have a future plan
these kids. And uh and so you know, but we've we've,
we've we've like to say yes as often as we
possibly can. And my goodness, and the times that we're
living right now, art is the antidote to all of
the division and the divisiveness. And just to see to
(10:16):
see that light go on in these young people at
a time when they're more confused than ever is feels
like a call to action.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I know you have funded many many organizations to date,
but are there a couple of grant recipients that you
could call out that are particularly notable to you or
something where the foundation support has made a real impact.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
There there are a few, and some that I've been
lucky enough to visit. One is the Academy of Music
for the Blind, which is an incredible organization where where
they've they've they've just done, done, done wonders teaching music
to to young, young, young kids who who are blind.
And and uh, and there's another one called Buffalo Stringworks,
which is a great organization up in New York State
(10:57):
that that works with immigrants and refugee young people. There's
there's a oh, we just had a wonderful poet from
a great, a great organization called get Lit, which is
all about self expression. And this poet came out and
read a poem for us and talked about her time
growing up Mexican American and growing up as an immigrant
(11:19):
and read an amazing poem and is now going off
and doing that professionally. Turn Around Arts in the South
side of Chicago, which is a really rough area, seeing
a young girl who was having behavioral problems and who
was you know, almost kicked out of the class, and
all of a sudden she auditioned for Annie, she got
the lead role, and now she's like hand up front
(11:39):
of the class. All that precociousness had a place to go,
you know, and and you know, we're seeing that. Not
only is this an awakening for the young people that
are part of this, they feel like their stories are
told for the first time. They feel like their voices
are heard for the first time, not only to their
own fellow classmates, but to their own families. It's something
for their parents to see them do, something for their
(12:00):
parents to see their creativity for the first time. And
it just trickles on from there. They go from the
wrong side to the right side of the fence, and
it's a brilliant thing to see.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Just for a couple of minutes here, I want to
detour and talk about you, if you don't mind. So
in May, Josh Grobin released Gems, a career spanning collection
of fan favorites and chart toppers. You did a sold
out five night run at the Colisseum at Caesar's Palace.
In the summer, you hosted the sixteenth annual Jimmy Award
ceremony for the second time, and you have a new
album this fall. You have a lot going on, But
(12:32):
tell us about about Hidden Gems briefly, please.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Oh sure. Well, you know, when you're when you're coming
out with kind of a best of in Gems, there's like,
you know, there's a lot of songs that go missing,
and so I was kind of talking with my manager about, like, man,
there are so many songs that I've released on Weird
side project, things that really have never gotten a chance
to go on streaming, that I love that I sing
sometimes all the time that just have never had a
(12:56):
chance to kind of see the light of day. And
so he had this idea. They're like, why don't we
do like why do we do hidden gems and just
play out some of the songs that are the deepest cuts,
that are some of your favorites that fans have been
asking for for a while, but there's nowhere to get them.
And so this is going to be a compilation of
some incredible collaborations, songs that have been on bonus tracks
that have never been released before, songs that have been
released maybe in just one country, really really awesome things
(13:20):
that I'm super proud of that have never had a
chance to kind of be exposed on a grander scale,
and so we're excited to release those.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Anything from the track list you particularly, you want to
point out for us to really listen to.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Ooh, there is a duet, I will say, there is
a duet with one of my favorite, one of my
favorite musicians of all time, Arturo Sandoval, that I can't
wait for people to hear.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
That's on this album.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Excellent, excellent. So in the meantime, to find your light.
Benefit Concert for Arts Education is October eighth at Jazz
at Lincoln Center. You can find out more at f
y LF dot org and any organization that wants to
perhaps reach out to you. How do they do that?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
They can do it through the grant page on our website.
There's a there's a pretty easy to follow link and
website link on our website and you can follow there
if you go to that. If you go to that website,
it'll tell you all there. If you're somebody just seeking
a grant, you can click on.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
That great and you can find out more ways to
support the foundation at the website as well. Again, f
y LF dot org. Josh Grobin, thank you for being
on Get Connected.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
It's really a pleasure. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
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Welcome to get connected with Nina Del Rio, a weekly
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ONEHO six point seven Light FM.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thanks for listening to get connected. The Find Your Light
Foundation is dedicated to ensuring every student has the chance
to experience equality arts education. Their work involves funding arts
programs across the country. To date, supporting nearly two hundred
programs in thirty three states, and at a time when
support for the arts is needed more than ever, The Foundation,
(00:32):
led by Tony Emmy and five time Grammy Award nominated singer, songwriter,
actor and philanthropist Josh Grobin, will host the second annual
Find Your Light Benefit Concert for Arts Education October eighth
at Jazz at Lincoln Center. An amazing evening to help
support arts education and have a fantastic time. That's the
(00:53):
short version. We will get into the details with the
very charming and talented Josh Grobin. Josh, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Thank you so much for having me, really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You can find out more at f y l F
dot org. And Josh, you were a busy guy. We
know you for music and I'm acting. We'll talk about
your current work in a few minutes. I know you've
got some music on the way, but this organization is
something you've been growing for quite a while. Now, Why
is it such a priority for you, this project.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, I mean it's it was a priority for me,
you know, early on, but I didn't realize that there
was an outlet for me to do something about it.
I mean, I was just the recipient of having an
amazing arts education. I was somebody who you know, benefited
from having wonderful arts teachers who literally unlocked doors for me,
kept the music room open and allowed for for me
(01:43):
to express myself at a time in my life when
I was feeling the most inward and really was struggling
in a lot of ways. And and so I was
able to feel firsthand what that felt like. And I
and I came from a from a you know, from
a from a great family, and you know, I had,
you know, a wonderful, wonderful upbringing. When I started to
(02:05):
realize in this later in the business, you know, that
really there were more organizations in need of help than
I had ever possibly realized, we decided to do something
about it. We decided to be a place where people
could reach out and get grants to make sure that
programs like the ones that I grew up with could
(02:25):
stay afloat, because there are so many young students who
are feeling lost and the arts are a tool for them,
for them to find themselves.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And to be clear, you are funding more than just
music related programs.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Correct, Yes, we are funding all all arts education programs, dance, theater, music,
visual art, creative writing. We have some wonderful poetry organizations
that we work with, all forms of artistic expression.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You have said a little bit about it, but I
wonder if you could talk a little bit more about
how arts education is connected to more than just the arts.
For students who never go on to become artists or
work in the arts, what are the what is that
tied to? What's the long term benefit?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Right? Well, the wonderful thing about the studies that are
that are that are coming out and have been coming
out in the last many years, is that it's it's
proving that having an arts enriched academic program it sparks
more involvement in the students, It gets them off their
phones and eyes to the front, It gets them more
engaged and more confident. They start to become more excited
(03:30):
about raising their hand and being involved in their in
their friend groups and in their classrooms, and then that
involvement makes them more interested in, you know, doing that
in other classes and other types of academics. It's been
proven now that programs with arts education, those students graduate
at the higher rate. Those students go to college at
a much higher rate. And my favorite conversations that I
(03:52):
have are with people that are in non artistic professions
that say to me, because they know that I'm an
arts ed, hey, you know, it was that I could
tell you by name, that saxophone teacher, that theater teacher
that unlocked me, and now I'm a lawyer, now I'm
a doctor, whatever it is, But it was it was
that teacher, and it was that program that picked them
(04:14):
up when they felt like they were falling at a
time when they needed that confidence most.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
The second Daniel Find Your Light Benefit Concert for Arts
Education is October eighth at Jazz at Lincoln Center. You
can find out more at the Lincoln Center website, but
also at fylf dot org. Josh Grobin and his family
are are the force behind the Find Your Light Foundation.
You're listening to get connected on one O six point
seven light FM. I'm Mina del Rio. I did look
(04:40):
up the board. It's helmed by a bunch of people
named Grobin.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So why is your family so tied to it too?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Sure? Well, our goal in the next and next year
or so is to is to expand our board. At
the moment, our board has just been family because we've
been a family run organization where grass fruits. We have
very little overhead. You know, almost all the dollars that
we raise go straight to the programs that need them,
and we like it that way. That being said, we're
(05:10):
growing at a rate that is even surprising for us,
and that's an amazing thing. And as we meet more
more like minded you know, philanthropic, incredible, brilliant creative minds,
we love joining forces with them. We're all on the
super highway to to enriching more students and so, you know,
we've kept it tight knit because we can. But we're
(05:34):
continuing to grow and these concerts have been a real
sign of that. The number of people who have signed
on to be a part of these concerts, to be
a part of this program that all share. I mean,
the people that I reach out to that say, oh
my gosh, well, I think of this program and I
want to support that. It's a very special thing to
feel like you're after you know, twelve, thirteen, fourteen years
of rolling your sleeves up in this kind of work,
(05:57):
that the bat signal has been seen and people are
noticing and they're reaching out, and that just means there's
more people we can help.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, let's talk about the event. So you've got a
huge list of performers and people who will be on stage.
I'll name a couple you can talk about some as well.
Ben Folds will be there, Norah Jones. We've got a
couple of Broadway stars, Jordan Fisher who's been seen in
Hadestown and Hamilton Malaya, Joy Moon who just won the
Tony Award for Hell's Kitchen. Who else? Who else?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We've got the great Terrence Blanchard is going to be there,
wonderful musician Emma Cohen. My friend Tyler Peck, who's one
of the great dancers in the entire world, is going
to be there to talk about her time and dance
and introduce some amazing young dancers. That's the thing, too,
is we're also going to have some great young performers
that are there that are going to be kind of
sharing what they do in their programs. And you know,
(06:45):
as incredible as all the pros are and the stars
are up there, it's always the young students who who
really blow the roof off. And then on top of that,
we're honoring not only a wonderful organization called Your Brain
on our Art led by Susan Maximin and Ivy Ross,
but also we're on our a Sesame Street. So there's
(07:06):
going to be a special appearance by Elmo and maybe
one or two others, and uh, it's going to be
a lot of fun. There might there might be a
sing along, so you're not gonna We're not gonna want
to miss that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well, that's fantastic, you were saying. It's it's getting to
a point where you know, you're finding people that are
like minded. But just as a sidebar, you know, you
probably didn't expect at this point in your career you'd
be raising money for things. How's that going? How is
that when you have something to talk about you really
believe in, it's probably easier. But how's that going?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
It's going great? I mean it's going great. I'm very shy.
You know. It's like it's which has always been not
a not a strong suit of mind being a being
a performer, you know, But when it's me on stage,
I've learned to get around the shyness and just you know,
put on the hat of a performer. Guy. I'm really
bad at asking. I'm really really bad at like calling
(07:55):
people and saying, hey, you want to know more about
my thing, Hey, you want to be part of my
concert I've got in philanthropy, you have to be really
kind of bold and brazen about saying like, hey, it's
for the kids, let's do this, you know. And so
I'm getting better at that part of my duties here.
But it's ultimately been just so wonderful in a business
(08:16):
that can often feel very lonely to see so many
friends and colleagues joining forces on this. And then to
your point, this is something that I've you know, been
raised with. My mom was an arts teacher too, and
you know, I testified to Congress many many, many years
ago about the importance of arts and I said to
myself when I did that, oh my gosh, I actually
(08:38):
this is something I have a lot of experience with.
And so that's why we we shifted gears to arts ED.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I will plug this a little bit by saying, you know,
tickets to the benefit concerts start at two fifty and
these days that's a that's a meal in Manhattan for two.
They're available, Oh my gosh. They're available through the Jazz
at Lincoln Center box office, and you can also donate
what you can to the Fines Your Light Foundation at
f y l F dot org. Speaking of the organizations
(09:06):
that you support, what is the criteria for the programs
you support?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well, we are for the most part, we are k
through twelve. When we get grant applications, we want to
know that the programs are you know, uh A, they're
they're doing they're doing good work, and they've proven that
they are doing great work, but they just they need help.
We really like to make sure that we're helping organizations
what we call arts education deserts that they're in communities
(09:32):
where they're having even a harder time getting the funds
that they need there oftentimes in very underserved communities. And
then three, we really like to make sure that that
the programs that we support have a plan to continue
growing and continue using the money that is given to
(09:53):
to invest in their own enrichment. We want to make
sure that these are places that have a future plan
these kids. And uh and so you know, but we've we've,
we've we've like to say yes as often as we
possibly can. And my goodness, and the times that we're
living right now, art is the antidote to all of
the division and the divisiveness. And just to see to
(10:16):
see that light go on in these young people at
a time when they're more confused than ever is feels
like a call to action.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I know you have funded many many organizations to date,
but are there a couple of grant recipients that you
could call out that are particularly notable to you or
something where the foundation support has made a real impact.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
There there are a few, and some that I've been
lucky enough to visit. One is the Academy of Music
for the Blind, which is an incredible organization where where
they've they've they've just done, done, done wonders teaching music
to to young, young, young kids who who are blind.
And and uh, and there's another one called Buffalo Stringworks,
which is a great organization up in New York State
(10:57):
that that works with immigrants and refugee young people. There's
there's a oh, we just had a wonderful poet from
a great, a great organization called get Lit, which is
all about self expression. And this poet came out and
read a poem for us and talked about her time
growing up Mexican American and growing up as an immigrant
(11:19):
and read an amazing poem and is now going off
and doing that professionally. Turn Around Arts in the South
side of Chicago, which is a really rough area, seeing
a young girl who was having behavioral problems and who
was you know, almost kicked out of the class, and
all of a sudden she auditioned for Annie, she got
the lead role, and now she's like hand up front
(11:39):
of the class. All that precociousness had a place to go,
you know, and and you know, we're seeing that. Not
only is this an awakening for the young people that
are part of this, they feel like their stories are
told for the first time. They feel like their voices
are heard for the first time, not only to their
own fellow classmates, but to their own families. It's something
for their parents to see them do, something for their
(12:00):
parents to see their creativity for the first time. And
it just trickles on from there. They go from the
wrong side to the right side of the fence, and
it's a brilliant thing to see.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Just for a couple of minutes here, I want to
detour and talk about you, if you don't mind. So
in May, Josh Grobin released Gems, a career spanning collection
of fan favorites and chart toppers. You did a sold
out five night run at the Colisseum at Caesar's Palace.
In the summer, you hosted the sixteenth annual Jimmy Award
ceremony for the second time, and you have a new
album this fall. You have a lot going on, But
(12:32):
tell us about about Hidden Gems briefly, please.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Oh sure. Well, you know, when you're when you're coming
out with kind of a best of in Gems, there's like,
you know, there's a lot of songs that go missing,
and so I was kind of talking with my manager about, like, man,
there are so many songs that I've released on Weird
side project, things that really have never gotten a chance
to go on streaming, that I love that I sing
sometimes all the time that just have never had a
(12:56):
chance to kind of see the light of day. And
so he had this idea. They're like, why don't we
do like why do we do hidden gems and just
play out some of the songs that are the deepest cuts,
that are some of your favorites that fans have been
asking for for a while, but there's nowhere to get them.
And so this is going to be a compilation of
some incredible collaborations, songs that have been on bonus tracks
that have never been released before, songs that have been
released maybe in just one country, really really awesome things
(13:20):
that I'm super proud of that have never had a
chance to kind of be exposed on a grander scale,
and so we're excited to release those.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Anything from the track list you particularly, you want to
point out for us to really listen to.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Ooh, there is a duet, I will say, there is
a duet with one of my favorite, one of my
favorite musicians of all time, Arturo Sandoval, that I can't
wait for people to hear.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
That's on this album.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Excellent, excellent. So in the meantime, to find your light.
Benefit Concert for Arts Education is October eighth at Jazz
at Lincoln Center. You can find out more at f
y LF dot org and any organization that wants to
perhaps reach out to you. How do they do that?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
They can do it through the grant page on our website.
There's a there's a pretty easy to follow link and
website link on our website and you can follow there
if you go to that. If you go to that website,
it'll tell you all there. If you're somebody just seeking
a grant, you can click on.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
That great and you can find out more ways to
support the foundation at the website as well. Again, f
y LF dot org. Josh Grobin, thank you for being
on Get Connected.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
It's really a pleasure. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
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