Blue Mist Band

She acknowledged that there was much hard work to be done during the week, but before getting down to it, we would celebrate.

To that end, she introduced the Blue Mist Band, which met the festive mood with the Kool & the Gang classic, Celebrate.

This versatile ensemble, complete with an outstanding saxophone player, continued its set by covering several songs appropriate to the theme of working together and making positive change, including John Lennon's Imagine, Bill Withers' Lean On Me, and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come.

The set also included Stevie Wonder's Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours, which would have resonance the very next day.