 it's too bad and it's too sad well my name is Tino D'Agostino and I was invited by Betsy Shramm to participate in this phenomenal concert series that she has done for many years and she asked us to do this a jazz concert and I'm both first my dear friend and colleague of many years Sergio Bellotti and he had this brilliant idea since the concert that we're going to do with this concert series is going to be on March 8 it's International Women's Day to invite women to perform in jazz and here we are we'd like to share this event with you one of the stars of that night is going to be Christy Scott shows a fantastic horn player singer and she'll be on piano as well that night now we're very grateful of course to Betsy Shramm who invited us to town hall to ACMI doing this what we would like to invite you to this event is going to have Sergio Bellotti and me Tino D'Agostino being some sort of the facilities of this event this concert and having this four stars Christy Scott show Jane Potter Terry Cote and DD Simonelli all four fantastic singers and one of them Terry Cote and Jane Potter have a duo and it's going to be a super interesting duo jam prof that they're going to play their own original music and DD Simonelli is he's been singing in the in the jazz in the Boston area for about 30 years and maybe I can have Christy talk about her repertoire for that night yeah so I'll be assisting in representing the Italian heritage in within our group so Tino D'Agostino and Sergio Bellotti are both from Italy and I have family ties way back into my family tree into Sicily and so we will be singing and playing some Italian traditional Italian music and I will be able to you know make my debut as a vocalist in Arlington as well as a little bit of a pop tune and you know some other jazz and non-jazz and all kinds of different music styles that we'll be playing for you on that day also all of the women who are performing that night are going to have such a diverse plate of repertoire to give to you to serve to you and it's going to be a really fantastic concert very entertaining there's going to be so much talent up on that stage from you know women of all backgrounds and it's going to be a really great time and in addition to that I'll be super happy to have the Arlington High School Honours Orchestra to open up for us I mean be part of this concert the Honours Orchestra is a group here from the high school that it goes by audition they're going to perform at Carnegie Hall next next month and they're also were chosen to perform at the Old State Concert which is it is a big deal for for high schoolers and they will play a couple of jazz pieces so the Arlington High School is going to be heavily represented that night as well and just to give you some info about the when and where again it's going to be on March 8th and it's going to be starting at 730 at Arlington Town Hall and we hope you can make it donations are of course very welcome and again it's going to be the Arlington High School Honours Orchestra opening up and Kristi Skaccio, Sergio Bellotti, Jane Potter, Terry Coté and Dee Dee Simonelli with a final surprise