>>Welcome, everybody!

(audience cheering) (indistinct) Oh my God!

How cool is this?

>>We were just talking out there, I said, 25 years it feels like we're renewing our vows.

(audience laughing) We started out I had hair and John was six feet tall.

(audience laughing) (acoustic country music playing) ♪ Love took a train to Georgia ♪ ♪ It was a dark September day ♪ ♪ She waved back from the window ♪ ♪ When that engine pulled away ♪ We called it the first quarter century show because it was... We want to keep doing this and we wanted to celebrate the fact that we've been doing this for a good long while and we've got a lot of great followers and great places to play and it's just been a blast.

>>There's so many factors that make it work for us.

We've become just the best friends in life and just love each other, honestly.

The winery culture around here has just been so kind to regional musicians.

>>They're fun people, they're in a business of creating these amazing places and we have become part of that experience in a lot of these wineries.

>>What I love about Scuffletown is they're just such a great vibe, so very engaging and fun and the crowd really always reacts to 'em.

(acoustic country music playing) When you have a place like this you wanna make sure it's warm and friendly and everything and they just exude that.

Plus the songs are great.

>>We also have lots of other fun places up here, the Tobacco Barn, which has been a great concert venue that we've seen grow since we first played it.

>>Some of the words that come to mind, when I think about a Scuffletown show is I'm gonna have a packed crowd.

I'm gonna have a big house full of very happy people.

>>I think the reason Marc and John have been together so long is that they just really compliment each other.

They're great friends and they are both such good musicians and they always have a great time.

(everyone singing together) >>Well, John Whitlow.

Well, John... (laughing) John is a complicated... >>A lot of material there.

>>That is a complicated question.

There is a lot of material there but you know, I mean, first and foremost, he is probably one of the most passionate people about music and about community that I know and those things have joined together really well for us, with Scuffletown.

Johnny just, he learns multiple instruments as our Scufflehead followers know, he plays lots of different things and he just loves bringing an emotional voice to the music and that's what he does really, really well.

>>He's so talented in so many ways and a lot of people don't know of him.

We've played it under the radar a little bit in Charlottesville and as soon as they seem, they go, who is that guy?

And where did he come from?

A phenomenal songwriter.

(Marc singing country music) >>A Scufflehead is someone who loves to get into the energy of the music, whether they're sitting down or not.

Being able to just feel your body moving and listening to the music that they're playing and understanding that they're part of a family and we're all a big group together.

>>So pretty much everywhere you go and see them play there is this notion of, the Scuffleheads are there, the loyal fans are there, and some rise to the top by the way.

Some become super fans and they actually recognize you for that.

>>We have a Scufflehead Hall of Fame that a number of people are in.

>>Scuffleheads of the Year.

>>Yeah.

>>It just feels like we are part of a big family there.

Everyone seems to know each other.

Everyone's got so much enthusiasm for the group.

They always make you feel like they're singing just for you.

That's one of the reasons we love them so much, is because it feels so personal.

>>So we can't talk about scuffle history without talking about Vaughn Mayers.

(audience cheering) I mean, we played with Vaughn a few times, just kind of pick up stuff.

We hadn't really formalized it.

Then we had a 4th of July gig at the marina where Johnny and I had our boats and Johnny's like, that's gonna be a big show.

We need something else.

Why don't we ask Vaughn?

I said, sure.

And Vaughn Von looked at that boat, they looked around and said, this is pretty cool.

Let's see, you sail all day, play music all night, sit and drink whiskey on the dock at the end of the night, yeah, we're in.

And they sold their campers immediately and bought sailboats and came down to Georgia.

So that was... And then, you know, we're down there in the marina and every time we had a gig Vaughn would show up an it was like, is Vaughn in the band?

Guess he is.

(audience laughing) And he never had lines right.

>>He was a great fit and played with us for 10 years.

>>He just jumped right in and just changed everything for the better in terms of our sound.

He was such a great, great bass player and he put a rock hard rhythm behind everything we did.

>>We're all over the board with the genres we play.

Jazz, blues, bluegrass, Americana, world music and Vaughn came in, he was able to blend in with us.

It just was kind of a natural transition for us.

>>So, John and I and Lisa and Jim and Barbara, we were all in Spain when Vaughn passed away.

We weren't expecting him to go quite as quickly as he did and so John and Jim and I were sitting out on the terrace one night in this amazing shooting star went by and the next morning we found out that Vaughn had passed away.

So this song just brings us back to him, and there's a line in there in Spanish, it's (speaking in foreign language), which is, I am lost because you aren't here.

(acoustic music) ♪ The morning comes in slowly here ♪ ♪ When the mist is on the sea ♪ ♪ And the street rise, cold and empty from the dark ♪ ♪ Here's a cup of Spanish coffee on the table beside me ♪ ♪ And a letter that just tore my world apart ♪ (continues singing) Good things have come out of our musical relationships.

We did "Fridays After Five" with another band, Hard Swimming Fish, who are good friends and so it's great to have those kind of relationships as well with other musicians.

I like our origin story a little bit, which is, I had seen John actually teaching at school where I was working during the summer and then met him later that afternoon and turned out he had seen me playing music and he said, "Do you want come play in my basement?"

Which I thought was a little odd, and... (both chuckles) Turned out that he had this great basement concert series and I went to a show and saw it and it was one of the best house concerts I'd ever seen.

And I said, I'm definitely in.

We started with the music and we connected so well musically then as we started spending more time together, then we brought our wives together and they hit it off.

>>In 2009, Marty was diagnosed with advanced stages of ovarian cancer.

She went through her initial treatment and went into remission and we immediately knew we wanted to give back to the community.

>>One of the best things about Scuffletown is that as a member of Team Teal, which helps support ovarian cancer research in our community, they have done so much to help us fundraise for that.

They're always willing to play.

The work we've done, in conjunction with them, is just remarkable.

>>We lost Marty in 2014.

Our music and our friends have now raised more than $700,000 for the UVA Women's Cancer Center that have directly gone to support critical research there.

She was in treatment at the time but she was having a really good day and somewhat at starting remission.

So she woke up and said, come on, let's go.

And so we spent the day and we went to our favorite winery and drank some wine, bought a couple of bottles of wine to bring back to the house.

It was just one of those magical days, and especially given that you had to grab those moments when she was in treatment.

So it inspired what is now known as The Wine Song which just always sung at Scuffletown shows and we always toast her.

♪ Don't you know that life is fine ♪ ♪ When we're sharing our love and drinking our wine ♪ (talking indistinctly) >>It really is such a beautiful thing, to have Marty still alive in hearts and to enjoy these times that we get together to remember her and to support this cause in her memory.

>>Marc and I have gone through a lot of joy and a lot of heartbreak, but we've done it with this musical and friendship connection.

So that's really what we're celebrating.

(audience cheering) ♪ I know that life is fine ♪ ♪ When we're sharing our love ♪ (talking indistinctly) (audience cheering) >>Live in the moment, you never know!

That's what Marty would say.

♪ And drinking our wine ♪ (audience cheering) (blues music playing)