good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to a beautiful beautiful day here in belmont to pay twenty eighth season of the pace and park music festival very impressive festival and i look forward to this every single year what an amazing  we have playing for you tonight the you just surrounded by amazing talents who've been doing this for for so long and passing their skills and their know all the joy to the younger generation in the blues is alive and well my favorite my favorite artist buddy guy just released an album by that name and he's right on tag and listening to these folks is it spiral to me had wanted to take a chance to just introduce a couple of the sponsors how we have built on against racism here tonight and they are they have a table over there wonderful folks so we'll give them a chance in a little while to come up and say hello they do great work in town here also the east boston savings bank the carpetbaggers who are trying to fit in with but we have a lot of great things to hand out we have a lot of wonderful people and we sponsor a lot of great things in town like this in the powers of music school so it's touching we have i'm going to try to keep this short but we have so much talent up here you can't even wrap your head around it i think we have somebody stepping in for us on  keyboards here mr neil miller and he's the director of the newton youth players performing with national artists including the band boston lesley gore tiny tim boat diddley and the boston symphony orchestra just amazing talent for us playing the tenor saxophone for us you know and we don't have him i just but but but he would love to have been here because he's missing out on a heck of a show and i frequently supported elvis costello when not touring he is in demand using demand as a studio musician recording with specialist legendary artists excuse me is dr john robbie robertson and the neville brothers returning with us mr leader lundy lee is a inspiration have been observing him last couple of years and always always impresses me educated the new england conservatory of music  boston in the miami dade community college he has performed extensively throughout our area for nearly thirty years his work includes performances with groups such as percy sledge harold melvin in the blue notes the drifters luther guitar johnson little chill cook james montgomery a local band and surely lewis i promise we're getting there folks this is this band initially was given the name herding cats because we were pulling a nightmare of people together but the person who was pulling them together under the direction of tommy also was this gentleman on trump's service cecil he has been on the boston music scene for forty two years believable talent he moved to the states in great britain in seventy six after received after achieving some great success in london during the sixty's he was the lead singer of the original  i'm sorry the other saxophone that's inspiring impressing us is billy t and i don't have a bio for him but i'm sure it would be a lot like what i've been reading this amazing so please enjoy oh my god things without the leadership tommy olson taught we thank you so much for what you do for all of us and for the opportunity to hear this amazing music and for the sponsors obviously that step up and again from his boston savings bank and i'm not going to lament that  we do have help on against racism here with us as well and they are a co sponsor tonight and they have a great message and a lot to a lot to do constructively in the town and so like to introduce this gentleman to say a few words and i'll community we've been working in this community for over twenty five years we work really really closely with the schools with the police department it's a very simple way if you want to join us to be able to stand up against a reason is right here in our own community don't want to give stories ism we support every year with the sole funders for the martin luther king breakfast we do lots of fun things too we head off hundred seventy shaner in middle schools students and their parents all bowling together in boston area just a few months ago and we're right over there check out our or think about taking a stand against racism and you can do it hyper local right here in belmont thank you