For today. Mr. Shawn william. We are not doing that. Some of yall is acting like you dont have hot burns on the back of your neck right now. Acting real upty, this is our celebration and you guys are acting real real real upty right now. Happy juneteenth. [applause] stop playing with me. This mic moves, i can go everywhere. I see you. We are going to be celebrating us, black music. Really just music because music is black music. We create when we have nothingwe create everything, not something, everything. So, we are going to be celebrating ourselves, our music, our culture, our heritage and there are two rules. Rules on a celebration . Yes. Rules on a celebration. Rule number one, there are a lot of influential people, inspirational people and young people who are inspirational in here. Look to your, front, back, right. We are family in here. Get all this golf clap out of your system now. We are not doing that today. Introduce yourselves. Get to know each other. Yes. Alright. I like that. I like that. We will be passing around the offerings in a minute, because we still have Building Fund to make sure we get that building. Rule number two, and this is very important, i am mc for the evening. That means my job is to move this crowd. I receive my check early. It cleared. I would like to be the mc this year and year after that. You guys, rule two, enjoy yourselves. There will be a lot of great music up here. We are not people of trouble, we are people of bass and drum so when the music hits your soul you better not give me that piedmont golf clap stuff. I know some have good iras and credit scores, but leave the 9 to 5 on the shelf and enjoy yourselves. We are going to enjoy ourselves. We are going to act like there is a wood en spoon and fork on the wall. We are going to act like there is a freezer behind me with a crisco can and chicken grease and you cannot mix those. We will be black like you got to go to the kitchen, go out to the garage, to the third freezer and get that meat. Get the neck bones and ham hocs and thaw it in the sink. We are going to enjoy our blackness. I like to come back next year. There are a lot coming up and move you. A lot of great speakers coming up. This is Second Annual. Enjoy your is lf. Celebrate yourself, embrace your blackness and learn how far our music has come. With that being said, i will bring up the first speaker, coming up. It is a honor and pleasure to bring up this woman. Please make sure your respect every personnot yet . We are go toog ing to get in the African Dance. Hold on. We are going to get in the African Dance. indiscernible they are not asking me to come back just for that. Shoot. Amira. I got help. My family helped me out because i like to come back. Give it up for the African Dance act. No, no. That is golf clap. I messed it up. Lets make the noise and start clapping. Lets start clapping. Thank you very much. [music in the background] [unable to hear speaker] [singing] [singing and clapping] [singing and clapping] we are free [singing] [applause] [singing] give it up one more time. Give it up one more time [singing and drums] everyone please give it up one more time clap it. Clap it up. Clap it up for them. Also, we are asking if you are in the back to please minimize your conversation, because we can hear it up here in the front. I want to make sure we give the performers the respect they deserve. Sarah can you hear me . I can hear you can you hear me clear . Loud and clear. That means if you can hear me back here you can hear me talking back here so we want to respect everyone who comes up to the microphone. I know you are talking about the show is so great and look at the costumes, but if we can keep it to a Church Whisper we greatly appreciate it for all the artists who comes up here and speakers. It is very important we listen to everyone as they come up. Also, you dont have to stand. You guys do to protect us. You dont have to be on the wall. There are all kinds of seats where you can sit. There are seats over there, so please, you will be here a little while, so please, keep it going. So, with that being said, im going to bring up the next speaker, the correct speaker, thank you very much for the assistance. We are going to bring up an very important person, start clapping now, not the golf clap for ms. Felicia jones. Keep it going. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you so much. What i want you to do is everybody stand up. Put your hands up in the air and wave them flags like you just dont care. It is juneteenth. Freedom day, jubilee day, emancipation day. Wave them line you just dont care like you are enjoying what we are doing for you. Thank you so much. I see you in the back. Thank you so much. We are happy to have you. Thank you and look you guys are in here honey. Our Second Annual mayor london breed juneteenth kickoff. Yes. And we want to say thank you to our mayor and often times i call her my mayor, my boo, and anyone who knows me knows how much i love me some mayor breed, so we want to say thank you for all that you do. I understand that you have been on the news a lot, but everybody want to look at what shes not doing, but honey, you need to start reading those press releases so you can learn about what she is doing. [applause] alright. Clap it up. What she is doing clap it up. Come on people. Clap it up. All you dki recipients up in here, getting money because of mayor breed and shamann walton, show your appreciation for these two on juneteenth day. Aint nobody else did anything for black folks in San Francisco like the dki initiative. And so we say thank you. We say thank you. I want to say hello to all our esteemed guests. Chief. Hi chief nicholson, hi deputy chief, hi okay. Hi kimberley, hi shamann, hi i i dont know you. Im new. Im engardio. Thank you. Da brooks. And then too from my other employer, chief adams. Assistant chief carter. Chief fisher in the back. Anybody else from San FranciscoSheriff Department . Anyone else . Did i miss any other electeds . Who . You are pointing, i dont know who you are pointing to. Oh, preston. Hi, dean preston. Supervisor preston, welcome. Yes. Of course. Where is dr. Davis . Director dr. Cheryl davis. Yes, we love her. We love her. And so with that, you know, im going to let you sit down while we bring up shamann. Throw the flags in the air and wave them like you just dont care it is juneteenth. It is juneteenth and heres shamann walton, board of superriser. Thank you so much felicia. Real quick before i say a few words. I you want to stand up if you black. Stand up if you black. So, i did that because i just wanted to see who claim us. So, i know when i walk outside. Thank you everybody. You can sit down. So, first of all, as you know, juneteenth is a celebration, and it is celebration of a time period where slaves in texas did not realize and understand they were free and this was in 1865. And it took us all the way till 2022 to be recognized as a national holiday, but i want to thank everyone in this room. I want to thank all the leaders in the city. I want to thank everyone across the state and country to come together to make sure juneteenth is recognized as a national holiday. You did that. Give yourselves a hand. [applause] and we should not just be celebrating juneteenth and celebrating freedom when we get to this certain time period in june. We should be celebrating freedom, juneteenth, the accomplishments of black people, 24 7. Not just in june and not just in february. [applause] now, there is another thing that happened in 1865, which makes the work we have been doing here in San Francisco so prevalent today. We were promised 40 acres and a mule in 1865. Raise your hand if your ancestors got that 40 acres and a mule. Okay, just checking. Just seeing who is here with me. So, as we continue to make sure that we do everything we can in black leadership here in San Francisco with the dream keeper initiative, with the folks who are working down at community making sure our people are connected to services, connected to resources, receiving or just doing San Francisco, it is also very prevalent that we remember the reparations we were promised that we never received. So well keep fighting here in the city to make sure that black people receive their just due. We will make sure we right the wrongs of the past and we will make sure that we achieve equity here as a black community. I just want to say, thank you all for coming to celebrate with us on this Second AnnualJuneteenth Celebration right here in city hall. As you know, we have a black mayor. As you know, we have a lot of black leadership here in San Francisco and we cannot let this be the end of black leadership as we go into the future. [applause] so, with that said, remember we have a gala tonight, remember we have a celebration in fillmore tomorrow, celebration in bayview sunday. Celebrate juneteenth, enjoy yourself, have a good time and make sure you understand the meaning and why we celebrate this now, national holiday. Thank you. [applause] give give it up one more time for shamann walton. About to get into the music portion. You ready for some music . That was weak. You ready for some music . Alright. We are about to get into right now. It is a spiritual with director cheryl evan davis. Father daughter dance. Our Journey Continues with jazz with sara and blues are teri. Make noise now for the artists who are about to rock the stage right now. Lets go. I often blame the mayor for people thinking i can sing. I will ask you all to do me a favor. First and foremost is recognize and understand the role of spiritual in the black experience and so i would say it is a dual purpose in the song and in the singing so ill ask you to do your best as im singing to listen to the words, and think about them with that dual message. On one front, it is about hope, and the belief that things will get better. That it is about whether it happens on this earth or in heaven or in the by and by, and on the other hand it is hidden message. It is call to freedom, it is call to the underground railroad, it is call to escape, so im just going to ask you to be thinking about that as we go through that. Ill ask you all that do believe to be praying. [piano playing and singing] give it up one more time, one more time for your director cheryl evan davis, lord [music and singing] [applause] please give it up one more time for rico and mazia. [applause] [piano playing] [singing] [applause] thank you. So, i think a lot of you might know this, so go ahead and sing it with me. [piano and singing] [singing summertime and the living is easy] please give it up for marcus, dante and george. [singing] give it one more time for sanging. That wasnt singing, that was sanging. Everybody alright . We good . Alright. You good in the back . I know you are, because we hear you. Take a moment to shake that off. That was good. Sara. Sit in it for a minute. Im a blues singer. All this music you hear today, it came from the blues. We are the root. Im going to do a song by one of my favorite blues singers, gospel singer ms. indiscernible can you put your hands together . This is message i think Everyone Needs to hear. [guitar and singing] [applause] im going to do a song i wrote. You see, we have seen a lot of changes happen around here in the bay area, and this song was inspired when was on facebook, and the police were called on the church for worship ing too loud and there was a drum circle on the lake and they were calling the police on the drummers. This song is entitled, gentrification blues. [drums, guitar, singing] give it up one more time it is beautiful how we can take pain and make it into just pleasure. I see people using fans now like it is church. It is getting hot, yeah with that being said, we are about to take it to 1959. Take it to a place called detroit, aka the motor city, where there was this brother named berry gordy who started a company with only 800 and decided to call it motown, home of iconi was about to say legends but icon like stevie wonder, jackson 5, michael jackson, the supremes and my mamas favorite, marvin. Start clapping now for the San Francisco theater company. Nate the soul singer and ryan. How you doing . We got a couple temptation songs for you. You all ready for that . Alright, lets go. [singing] thank you thank you thank you. Im rodney earl jackson, jr. , artistic director of the theater company. Anthony jackson. Amen, amen, amen. We got one more for you because our wonderful may loves this song but dedicated to all the beautiful black ladies in here. Especially looking at dr. Cheryl davis and looking at my beautiful mother. Alright. Alright. Im going to take the glasses off for this. Get into the motown spirit. [singing i got sunshine by the temptations] you all know this next part. Come on london, i need ya. [singing continued] thank you so much. Happy juneteenth hello everyone. My name is nate the soul singer and im going to come to you about r b music. Im a r b artist myself. I had to do studying and get history. R b music was born in the 40. Lewis jordan is one of the first r b artist with is you is or is you isnt my baby. Since we had so much old school i decided to do more in my era which i think youll all enjoy. R b music has done a lot of things. Talks about love. Talks about heart break. Money. Having it, wanting it, needing it. My job is to get you all out of you seats today. So, we can party to this r b music. Come on and of course if you know any of these songs, please sing with me. [singing how will i know by whitney houston] thank yall. [applause] and there were groups by the fugees. [singing killing me softly by the fugees] thank you all. Thank you all. While you are on your feet i got one. You all ready . One, two, three one more time, you all ready . [singing outstanding by the gap band] i want to thank you all again. Happy juneteenth keep dancing. Keep loving and keep growing. [piano playing] how you all feeling out there San Francisco . Alright. Give it up for my name is ryan nicole representing hip hop for you all and before we get into it, i want to give history. Hiphop started as a protest. It didnt start as a party. We know hip hop music more blinging flashy and ratchet but that isnt how we are going to do it today. Is that okay with you all . We are going to start with the word because the word is where hip hop started. It started as spoken word first. Do you know we are the Center Black People are the center. Another word for the center is the nexus. Right . We make this whole thing go down. We make this whole thing happen, so juneteenth is about freedom and releashing the shackles but first freedom in your mind. We are the nexus, meaning the freshest, meaning the center of attention, the essence, the light source, indandescence, the shunshine, bright florescent, caept reject it. Better if you accept this. Elevating position indiscernible people stay connected, i am what i am, indiscernible [singing] lets get free. Come on. First time being free. We got to get free in the mind. [singing] [applause] thank you. So, hip hop. Protest music. Hip hop also talks about love. We going to do some things we dont normally hear on the radio. We are going to do love stuff. Ill do the last song and get out your ways because we have more performances coming up. My name is ryan nicole. This is love song. A little sweet. It aint but bumping and grinding, even though im not mad at that, but i feel youve been inundated with that. Can you two step with me now . Im grown yall. I cant be bumping and grinding and twurking and all that. My knews hurt. Got arthritis. [singing] erking and all that. My knees hurt. Got arthritis. [singing] [applause] lord have mercy. Give it one more time for ryan nicole give it up one more time for the San FranciscoBay Area Theater Company and one last time when a sister tears up a stage like that you have to get her name right, nate, the soul singer. We would like to also recognize mr. Reverend brown. Give it up. From the baptist church. You having a good time . You enjoying yourselves . Why not because it is evolution of our music so of course you having a good time. Im about to bring up a sister one more time to make sure she has announcements. Start clapping right now had, give it up for ms. Felicia jones one more time [applause] yes the evolution of our music. If you enjoyed yourself, one more time, stand up with your flags in your hand and raise them to the sky like you just dont care. I mean, im sitting over there and im just like, wow if director asked me next year to do this again, it is like wow, what am i going to do, because this has been fabulous. This has been fabulous and can im so glad you enjoyed yourselves. We are going to close out with the caribbean vibration. The caribbean vibrations are in the house. Uhhuh they going to show you what they working with. Yes i love them, because my cousin, my first cousin, my second cousin have all danced with this group for over 30 years, and so, she has been asking to come into city hall and i was like, okay. Evolution of music, i got to close this out with a bang. I got to close it out, girl. Here we are. Shawn, you going to introduce them . Thank you all so much for coming and again, im so happy you guys enjoyed yourselves and our house and our house and our house and we have to be comfortable and coming into our house by the name of city hall. [applause] give it up one more time for ms. Felicia jones. Im go to read this off the bio so wasnt like i wasnt doing my homework but we want to bring them up correct. So, caribbean vibrations launched in 2010. You can start clapping right now. By founder, designer, dance choreographer trisha bell fast williams a native ofnot only know for the vibrations and vibrant and beautiful costumes but the ultimate and authentic carnival experience in Northern California representing all caribbean islands. Steadily growing and evolving into a powerhouse mass band and focused on our masqueraders. Establish a new standard and serving becoming the first all inclusive Caribbean Carnival Group. I dont think you heard me, established as a new standard. Becoming the first all inclusive Caribbean Carnival Group in california. Caribbean vibration mission is deliver the masquerade with amazing costume, Exceptio