i'm nathan box i'm here with windy wigger and we're here with brett ham a spread you're from g m p architects and engineers is that correct that's correct and you are the sponsor of today's parade of bands is that correct yes we are all right but tell us a little bit about what g m b does and about your involvement with the two time festival g m b is an architecture and engineering firm based in holland we've been here over forty years we're right on the street and we are very supportive of the holland community and of tulip time this is our second year sponsoring the music parade and we look to be a sponsor for several years we have several clients in holland the city of holland hope college several of the schools holland west out of zealand several of the school districts around the area our clients and so we're very connected to the community and really relish the opportunity to be a sponsor and to have time well and we're grateful for folks like yourself because this best of all would be nothing without the incredible sponsors and really being embraced by all of the volunteers and part of the whole festival for you in addition to being the proud sponsors of the music well the last couple years i've been able to work on the parade committee in this year with a trolley guide for the first time and that was really fun i didn't realize it was mainly for retired people i'm not retired and don't intend to be for a while but i had a great time being a trolley guide and just a lot of the activities working on the parade committee and seeing all the work that goes into the parades it's just an intense effort so i love it that not only are you a corporate sponsor but you're down here on your own volunteer ing as well and getting involved as a member of the community any words of encouragement that you can give to other folks who may be thinking about what is it that i can do for the two of time festival yeah if there's any interest that you have in serving in any capacity  tulip time please do there are so many activities that you can get involved in it's not a huge commitment if you don't want to be it can take a lot of your time it can take a little time but i think it's a great opportunity for the community to come together and really support the biggest festival that we have in this state no kidding and i really think that when we look at all the years that this festival has been going on and i'm trying to remember if we seventy eighty four eighty four years say seventy four i lost ten somewhere there but eighty four years people really coming together the sponsors the donors and the individuals many hands make light or work as they say are you going to be in the parade yourself today no i'm not going to be in the parade i'll be watching it either from the grandstands or parade today as great marching bands any any little hints you can give us about what we might see in today's parade there are some new bands that are going to be participating this year and there are some big surprises that we're going to have so i would encourage everybody to come out and what we've got in store you won't be disappointed that's fantastic that's fantastic i want to question you said you're on the parade committee when does the group start to me i mean is it like basically the day after we finish this festival you start planning next year it's  a year round activity that obviously intensifies through the winter but we'll meet again immediately after the parade is done and after today we'll start planning for next year and some of the things have already been put into place for next year but  continue meeting throughout the summer and just keep going getting ready for next year which will be even better than this year if you can imagine well i have to say if it's going to be the eighty fifth year i've got that one right now set of a big celebration but we you know yeah we are planning big things for next year and  more bands as one of the more big parades is as one of them and my understanding is g m b is going to be a sponsor for next year's marching band marching parade as well is that correct that is correct we are committed to do so wonderful well thank you for coming down here and joining us this morning