“Eric’s mom and Jesus have both told me that they’re putting their faith in God — that He will figure this out, that He has a plan and will do the right thing,” Tramonte says. She says she knows the family’s church community will help the family however it can, though the church itself doesn’t have the financial resources to give the family the support they would need should Jesus’s deportation go through. For me, I try to embody that in the truest sense of the word. I'm trying to think of the performances as a laboratory to try things out. I played a lot of shows under fake names, just so I could play by myself and figure things out without the pressure of having people around. Literally just experimenting in public. I feel like I'm still kind of doing that with the band. So that's been a little grounding.TV: Was it important for you to have bandmates of color performing this project? I know you ended up meeting Buzz and Devin through Ben, so it probably wasn’t intentional.L: States like New York are changing long-standing statutes, however. On June 20 of this year, Governor Andrew Cuomo signedlegislation