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So we're so excited to honor Pete Ohlin.
You know, I'm so great to,
for him to get the inspiration award
and you know, just amazing.
Pete's been a great friend and,
oh, I just remember my mother-in-Law,
you know, when she was going through
near the end of her life
and really just dealing with all the anxiety and everything.
And every time you went to her place,
that's all that was playing
was Pete Ohlin's music over and over and over.
It's such a great place, you know.
Music that really does calm the soul.
So I, Hey, I wonder if Pete's got a song,
'cause I know he is gonna be
giving us a concert here at the end.
Hey Pete, you got a song for us?
Hi, my name is Pete Ohlin,
and welcome to the Invisible Disabilities Award Ceremony
and I'll be the entertainment for tonight.
I'm gonna give you a preview for what's coming up.
The first song I'm gonna play
is actually a compilation of three songs.
The first song that I ever wrote,
along with two classics that I think you'll recognize.
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("Für Elise")
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I'll see you at the show.
Invisible Disabilities is really touching
around the world and it's about,
oh my goodness, you know,
people just have been lost in abandoned
and we're saying, "Hey, we're here for you."
Giving voice to the voiceless.
It's my privilege and my honor.
Thank you Wayne and thank you Jess for inviting me.
I wanna give a special thank you again
to all our sponsors this evening.
And you know, just to wrap this up,
I hope you're ready to enjoy Pete Ohlin once more
with some music that calms the soul.
Take it away. Pete.
Welcome to the concert.
As I said before, my name is Pete Ohlin,
I'll be playing some of the songs
that I've written here for you and get right to it.
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Now, this next song I want to talk to you about,
it's called "Majestic Rain".
And Tim Rushlow and I,
when I was down in Nashville recording this, we both
in our own minds came up with the "Majestic Rain"
as being the title for this album.
And the song I even play is titled "Majestic Rain"
and it's actually the Tears of God for His People.
And that's, this one is probably the most,
one of the most popular ones that I play, "Majestic Rain".
So here it is.
("Majestic Rain") (bright peaceful piano music)
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The next song I wanna play for you is called "Forgiveness".
And there's a neat story behind this.
I was struggling with things in my life
that I needed to forgive others for
back when I was writing this song
and in the middle of Best Buy, I met a man named Dave Reaver
and he was burned over, I think 80% of his body
with a white phosphorus hand grenade.
And he talked to me about forgiveness and it was neat,
'cause it was during this time when I was writing this song.
And so we actually sat, (laughing) I sat on the floor,
he sat on one of the shelves in Best Buy,
we sat for maybe an hour and a half and just talked.
It was one of one of the neatest things that I had-
This one's called "Forgiveness".
("Forgiveness") (bright piano music)
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Okay, thanks for being with us tonight
and I hope you enjoyed the concert.
I've got one more song and it's called "River Within".
It's one of my favorite songs that that I've written,
and it's the title track
of the last instrument album that I did.
It's called "River Within". Thank you.
("River Within") (bright piano music)
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