Boston Scenes 03-24-2016

1st Suffolk District State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry, host of the annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast, addresses the crowd at the Boston Convention Center as City Councilor Bill Linehan and Mayor Martin Walsh look on.

Gov. Charlie Baker, City Councilor Michael Flaherty and Mayor Martin Walsh march in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston.

Terri Lyne Carrington, three-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist and Berklee Global Jazz Institute Zildjian Chair in Performance, was recently recognized as this year’s Honorary Member at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Society for American Music during a public ceremony at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge. Left to right: Charles Garrett, President of the Society for American Music; Terri Lyne Carrington; Roger Brown, President of Berklee College of Music; and Larry Simpson, Provost of Berklee College of Music.

Governor Charlie Baker joined the Great Schools Massachusetts coalition, gathering leaders from across Massachusetts at Excel Academy in East Boston to urge immediate legislative action to lift the cap on public charter schools in the Commonwealth.