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» Hi everyone. Good afternoon. How's it
going?
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My name's Briana Ross. I'm a reporter
with WBAL-TV 11 News. Welcome and thank
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you so much for joining us for the
official announcement of the fifth
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annual Charm City Live Music Festival.
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This year's festival will take place on
Saturday, September 5th from noon until
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9:00 p.m. at War Memorial Plaza. And
WBAL-TV, we are the proud media partner
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for this annual event which will
celebrate the very best of Baltimore's
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music, arts, culture, and community
while drawing thousands of people right
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to the heart of our city. So, we're so
excited to have you here today as we
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talk about the specific details of this
year's event. It's now my pleasure to
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welcome the visionary leader of
Baltimore and a proud champion of the
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arts, the 52nd mayor of the city of
Baltimore, the honorable Bri- honorable,
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excuse me, Brandon M. Scott.
>> [cheering]
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» Thank you. Thank you, Briana, and good
afternoon everyone. Thank you all for
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being here. In addition to Briana and
our our media sponsor from WBAL, I'm
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also so so happy to have here with us
today Dr. Director Moore from Recreation
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and Parks, uh Lindsey Jackson, the
director of my office of arts, culture,
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and entertainment, the fabulous Shelonda
Stokes, the president and CEO of
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Downtown of Baltimore as well as we
celebrate five years of Charm City Live.
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Uh Charm City is also known as the the
celebrations of the fifth-year
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anniversary of the festival that the
mayor did not want to have that he is so
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glad that he actually had.
Uh cuz this is where I went and met my
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wife 5 years ago. Uh It is a reminder
that when we create spaces for people to
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come together, you never know what
connections or memories may come about.
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This festival is about celebrating
Baltimore and bringing our city together
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as we close out festival season for the
city. It's also about our incredible
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vendors and artists. This year we're
really excited to showcase businesses
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participating in BDC's Baltimore May
program. Vice President Kevin C. Rector
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will be talking about that. Local
entrepreneurs and small businesses that
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are bringing new energy into downtown.
We will again also have a job fair for
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anyone interested in working for the
city of Baltimore. So, for everyone that
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is direct messaging the mayor on
threads, Instagram, and Twitter, and
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Facebook about city jobs, come to Charm
City Live and go to the job fair.
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Families can also enjoy our expanded
kids zones with activities and
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experiences all day thanks to Director
Moore and the great team at Rec and
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Parks. And we have a few surprises in
store for you that you don't want to
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miss. So, we want to see everyone there
Labor Day Saturday from noon to 9:00
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p.m. right here at City Hall on the War
Memorial Plaza. We have an incredible
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group of DJs performing Portishead from
92Q.
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I hope that we put in his contract that
he has to keep his shirt on this time.
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Can't wait for him to see this later on.
DJ Tonnes, DJ Keevy, and Uncle E. And if
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that is not all that you need to
convince you to come, here are the
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featured artists that we are welcoming
to downtown Baltimore for Charm City
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Live.
So,
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as we know this is the end of the road
for festival season for the year. Boys
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to Men will be gracing the stage
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» for Charm City Live, and we hope that no
one takes pictures in they fade. As Case
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will also be gracing the stage at Charm
City Live 5 this year, and we know there
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may be some more surprises later to
come. So, we want to thank everybody. We
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can't wait to see you at Charm City
Live, and with that, I will turn it back
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over to Briana.
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» Thank you so much, Mayor Scott. And
next, please welcome the director of the
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Baltimore City Department of Recreation
and Parks, Dr. Reginald Moore.
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» Baltimore, I'm so excited to be here
today with the mayor and the
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distinguished guests.
What an exciting way to continue the
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close out our summers. I cannot believe
it was only 5 years ago that me, Lenny,
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and the mayor sitting on the Gator. Can
you imagine sometime when we just sit on
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the Gator and we're talking about what
we can do to close out our summer.
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Remember those, Mr. Mayor? Those
conversations? Yeah, we have some of the
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best conversations, but it's so exciting
to be here that we're announcing our 5th
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year celebration of of our Charm City
Live. Cannot say enough about how it's
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extremely important for us to continue
to find ways to activate our green
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spaces throughout Baltimore, and what
better way at War Memorial Plaza Plaza
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than to close it out with an amazing
lineup as the mayor stated, Boys II Men,
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Case, and others to come. But, more
importantly, we're so excited about
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bringing back for the second year our
Speak Easy event was an opportunity for
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some of our adults to go and and really
just enjoy themselves and and just talk
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and have fun. Um as the mayor stated,
our kids zone will be extremely
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important and exciting. And all of this
is not possible without just the the
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collaboration of all of our city
agencies. And I think that's the piece
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that I'm so always excited about is the
collaboration as we go into AFRAM, as as
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Lindsay kicks it off with Artscape, and
then we close out with Charm City Live.
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So,
as the mayor said that we want everybody
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to come out Labor Day weekend, come out,
celebrate, enjoy downtown Baltimore.
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Please support our vendors, and we are
hiring. We are always looking for good
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talent in Baltimore. So, when people
say, "I need a job." There's no reason.
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You can come, you can enjoy, you can get
entertained, and also you may even come
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away with a job. So, look forward to you
Labor Day weekend, and so excited to see
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Charm City Live this year. Thank you.
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» Thank you, Dr. Moore. Our next speaker
is the Executive Vice President and
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Chief Financial and Operating Officer of
the Baltimore Development Corporation,
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Mr. Kevin Seawright.
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» Good afternoon. Thanks so much to Mayor
Scott and Director Jackson for having us
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here at the table. I think I want to
kind of touch on what Dr. Moore just
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said, which is is about partnership. BDC
appreciates truly being at the table and
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being a part of this event and being one
of the sponsors of it. We continue to
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want to do these events. Our Made in
Baltimore brand which supports local
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entrepreneurs are at all the events that
the city sponsors at this point or the
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city has, and we're extremely excited to
just be at the table with them. Events
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like this impact small businesses,
impact restaurants,
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and it's just great. I guess it's really
great to be a part of it and see the
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entertainment. And it's about the
entertainment, but us being BDC and our
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president is actually here also,
and being able to support these small
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businesses is amazing. So, we are
extremely grateful partners and just
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happy to be at the table. Thank you.
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» Thank you. And our final speaker is the
President of the Downtown Partnership of
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Baltimore, Miss Shelonda Stokes.
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» Thank you so much. I thank to everybody
for coming out. Mr. Mayor,
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Director Moore, and
Police Director Jackson, when when we
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talk about Charm City Live, we're
talking about the heart of our city. And
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the fact that you're making Baltimore a
destination city is important. From
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Memorial Day to Labor Day weekend,
Baltimore is where you want to be. And I
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profess that is in downtown Baltimore.
You're talking about a festival that for
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the last 5 years draws 8 to 12,000
people just outside enjoying the
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weather, meeting their spouses, and all
of that other good stuff that happens at
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Charm City Live. As Kevin talked about,
this is about the music and the
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excitement, but it's also about the
economics of our downtown, and that
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happens through partnership. It's not
only in our name, and as Director Moore
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said, you see the city agencies step up
in a way that that is amazing. And what
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layers on top of that is public private
partnerships. We're at a place now where
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downtown is rising.
Our city is rising, and it's happening
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because of all of us. And so, we're just
excited to be a part of this. We welcome
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additional partnerships and sponsorships
on this. We can always do more and get
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more engaged. So, please come out,
enjoy, bring your wallets, your pockets,
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your money, all of this stuff. But, if
you want to continue invest in a city
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that is thriving, Baltimore is it. Thank
you so much.
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» [applause]
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» All right. And to conclude today's
program, we'd like to invite Mayor Scott
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back up to the podium to take questions
from members of the media, if anyone has
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any. Thank you all for joining us, and
we look forward to seeing everybody at
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Charm City Live.
>> Beautiful.
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» [applause]
>> Questions? Sir?
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All right. There we go. Thank you very
much. We'll see everybody at Charm City
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Live.
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I I did forget something. We Shalonda,
thank you for reminding me. I have to
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remind everybody of two things. That
Charm City Live is open to lolly-dolly
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and everybody. And most importantly,
that it's for the price of free 99.
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There you go.
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