Member maple ridge- thank you honorable speaker uh for so many. This pandemic has meant canceling events. However, some groups managed to adapt their events to our new reality with virtual programming. Today I wanted to highlight some of these great events that are continuing in my community. I want to first give a special shout out to michelle demers and the entire board of the mission music, folk festival, society and volunteers for producing this coming weekend's virtual folk at home. Thanks to their dedication mission, homes will be filled for yet another year with amazing music.

The folk fest is deeply committed to highlighting new voices and of nine performers. Five this weekend will be led or include female artists, and every artist on saturday is indigenous.

I'm also thrilled on friday to be introducing the night's headliner, the amazing funk soul, group rain city, whose drummer happens to be my eldest son sheldon streaming live music will also be heard in maple ridge with the community. Sorry country, fest country fest, has been going strong since 1901, and this is the first occasion during peace time when country fest won't be an in-person concert, and it's worthy of note that country fest continues to give back.

In fact, a select artist will be given two days of free studio time at the amazing studio down under, and so even now country fest is giving back to the community. I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention the fraser river indigenous society for hosting their virtual national indigenous peoples day.

They put together an incredible video production, featuring digi, indigenous dance song and art, and also earlier this month, I had the honor to participate in virtual canada day celebrations with the city of maple ridge and the district commission, and on that day I also was honored to be able to play the piano, even though it was virtually uh played amazing, grace and leonard cohen's hallelujah on the piano for the reverend and worshipers of the holy spirit, anglican church, in wanik during the canada day, services and these organizations have shown an awe-inspiring amount of resiliency, and so I want to thank all of them for continuing virtually during this very difficult time.

Thank you, honourable speaker.