The members of Tornado Alley play a set of songs at the Books and Ladders Band Jam fundraiser Sunday, March 12, at the Prospect Fire Hall. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle

PROSPECT — Janet Leise and her band, the North Country Session Players, had their last public performance before the COVID-19 pandemic almost exactly three years ago, when they played the first Books and Ladders Band Jam at the Prospect Fire Hall.

At the time she wasn’t sure if the fundraiser event for the Prospect Community Library and the Prospect Volunteer Fire Department would return, so getting to play with her Irish music band Sunday, March 12, was a happy day for the Prospect native.

“I’m glad it came back because here you’re supporting the library, the fire department and local music,” Leise said. “We enjoy it, we love it, especially because it’s a community event.”