In this episode of Lay of the Land, Trent R. Nelson talks with:

• Nancy Sage - Jewish Federation of Springfield
• Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology Yona Stamatis - UIS

For this discussion, Trent had the pleasure of chatting with Nancy and Yona about the history and forethought required to put on such a bevy of programs as the Violins of Hope encompasses - and we learned a bit about Professor Stamatis as well.

Yet we also discussed the reasons why learning about the holocaust and the suffering of others is so vital, the origins of so many of our most touching types of music, as well as about all of the different shows available for the public to observe and learn from.