 Hello everyone I'm Alicia Woodruff and welcome to the Port Report. So this week I'm here with Jay Downey and he is the producer of the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival and Jay for those of us who have never been a part of the event or actually have no information about it can you please tell us about it and why it's so awesome. You know if I had an elevator speech that could encapsulate the festival in less than 30 seconds I'd love to do it but there's so much to offer the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival is a four-day event starts on April the 19th goes all the way through the 22nd. We have 225 of the nation's finest artists who will be here on the streets and each artist represents their finest work so consider it just one large shopping experience if you will. The other component of the arts festival that makes it so unique is the music component with Steve Warner performing Railroad Earth is performing we've got the Texas tornadoes so a real name live entertainment experience as well over the course of the four days in addition to all the work that the artists sell we do about 30 million dollars worth of economic impact for the community so the artists themselves they want to be here so there's 1500 to apply and only 225 are selected. So I hear there's an app for the Main Street Art Festival what is that about? We have an iPhone app and the current edition has a couple of neat things in it one of them is a complete schedule it's real interactive but then the other is the ability to actually scan the artist look at the artists and then assign a favorite right there on your phone so that you can guide yourself all the way through the event. Can you tell us anything that's new that's different from last year? We've got a paint your own canvas program you'll be able to join an artist in a session and be able to paint your own canvas and share a glass of wine times 10 sellers is wine so you'll be able to sit down and kind of enjoy that. We've got a lot of great street performers this year that are just fantastic and then the Main Street Creates area which is our kids area we've expanded that dramatically we've got a number of great new activities up there one other thing we've got a art contest that the Trinity River Vision Authority is doing these sculptures are made of styrofoam by three different colleges and then ultimately they're going into the Trinity River so it all will be judged here. Jay thank you so much for giving us this inside look of the Main Street Art Festival there's so much to do so I encourage anyone who wants to know more about it or what fun things your families can do please go to the city's website or the website that's on the screen.