Hi everyone, we’re only several days away from Kreyolfest and I simply can’t believe how fast this year has gone by. Again, we’re expecting a great show and I’m personally happy that you have chosen to be part of the festival. The promotion this year, exceeded past ones. We started at Labor Day with some flyers and we resumed our distribution in January during Kaliko’s festival and we haven’t abated. We revved up promotion in Boston , Montreal and somewhat in South Florida . In Haiti , we took over with the help of our colleagues who have been pushing the festival almost nonstop. We have 8 billboards in Brooklyn and Queens and the list goes on and on.

But the most exciting part is that we’ve partnered with 3A Telesud which gives us a global audience of more than 70 million viewers across Europe, Africa, Caribbean and of course, Haiti. People in the States who have Dish Network can see the show live on Telesud. As such, we’re expecting a great performance from each of you. I know that Myrna has gotten in touch with you regarding the logistics of the festival so please cooperate closely with her to assure as smooth as a show as possible. She is 6 months pregnant, but her energy has not slowed down. One thing I would like to reiterate is that we want the stage clear of nothing but musicians because we’re filming.

I’m also asking manager to refrain from giving their friends musician passes to get on stage. If we find non musicians on stage during performance, we’d have to have the person remove and I would rather not to reach that level. So please, again let’s cooperate. The other issue is doing commercials for non sponsors. I know that some of you are official spokesmen for companies, please refrain from putting up banners and wearing their outfits. We’ve had some heated discussions with our sponsors about that. Just a reminder, here’s the list of our sponsors and so far none of them have bought stage presence as part of the package.