Civil Rights Concert Performance AT White House

John Mellencamp and a host of additional musicians (Blind Boys of Alabama, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, etc etc) will be performing at The White House tonight at 8:00 pm EST via webcam, airing on PBS on Thursday, according to an email blast issued today from mellencamp.com. I’m copying and pasting information (I’m short on time) in case anyone is interested in watching.

Looks like instead of being taped on Wendesday due to the snow storm the
concert might be taped tonight. Everyone was there for pretaping and
rehearsal tonight.

It will air live on the web for those who want to watch.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/civil-rights-music which we have linked at
http://www.mellencamp.com/?module=news&news_item_id=540&tag=Home

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/2010/02/attn_snowbound_shutins_major_c.html

Attn. Snowbound Shut-ins–Major online concert tonite: Bob Dylan, Jennifer
Hudson, Natalie Cole and more

At 8 p.m. tonight, the White House website will
live-stream a concert from the East Room, featuring major musical performers
and top-drawer celebs. The Black History Month concert, a tribute to
America’s civil rights movement, was scheduled for later this week but moved
up to this evening because of the impending snow storm.

Here’s the lineup, according to the White House (it wouldn’t be a shock if
some performers don’t appear, since they weren’t originally supposed to be
in Washington today).

They are, in alphabetical order: Yolanda Adams, Joan Baez, Natalie Cole, Bob
Dylan, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, John Mellencamp, Smokey Robinson, Seal,
the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Howard University Choir, and The Freedom
Singers, featuring Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Rutha Harris, Charles Neblett
and Toshi Reagon.

Guest speakers include Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Queen Latifah.
President Barack Obama is the emcee.

The show will feature songs from the Civil Rights Movement and readings from
Civil Rights speeches and writings.

Those who aren’t in-the-know online here at Maryland Politics will be forced
to wait until Thursday, when the program is televised at 8:00 p.m. on public
broadcasting stations as part of the “In Performance at the White House”
series.

In addition, NPR will produce a one-hour concert special from the event for
broadcast nationwide on NPR Member stations throughout the month of
February, beginning February 12th. The special will be available on
http://www.npr.org/music