A steady stream of A-list names has signed on, headlined by Lady Gaga singing the national anthem on the West Front of the Capitol, with Jennifer Lopez and Garth Brooks contributing musical performances. Other top-tier performers will be part of Celebrating America, a 90-minute, multi-network evening broadcast hosted by Tom Hanks that officially takes the place of the usual multiple inaugural balls.
Northeast High School band members participating in Presidential Inauguration celebration Two current students and one former student from Northeast High School in Pride, La. will be participating in President-elect Joe Biden s We Are One event on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. (Source: Submitted Photo) By WAFB Staff | January 19, 2021 at 3:59 PM CST - Updated January 19 at 3:59 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Two Northeast High School band members and one former member are participating in the 2021 Biden-Harris Presidential Inauguration âWe Are Oneâ celebration Tuesday night.
LaâNya Bailey, JaâKiyas Bailey and Mason Johnson will be participating in the celebration.
âWe are proud of our students and amazing Band Director, Mr. Stephen Gregory,â said Shawona Ross, principal of Northeast High School.
Inauguration Week: Things to Do in Washington, January 19-20
Plus: Take some deep breaths.
Here’s what you should check out this week:
Exhale: It’s been a tense month…year…era. Take some deep breaths and join the National Museum of Asian Art’s free virtual meditation sessions. DC teachers Aparna Sadananda and Philip Bender will walk you through a guided meditation (and if you like this one, you can join them three times a week for the next couple weeks). Wednesday 1/20 at noon; Free, register here.
You might’ve seen him on TV news: Frank Figliuzzi, who formerly led counterintelligence at the FBI, is releasing
Like so much this past year, the inaugural celebration will be like no other: pared down, distanced, much of it virtual. But for actor Christopher Jackson the original George Washington in Broadway’s ‘Hamilton’ performing in a virtual ball is a way of participating in an essential rite of American democracy.
“I’m glad to play a part in it,” says Jackson, who will perform at the quadrennial ball for the Creative Coalition, a fundraiser for arts education and one of the more prominent unofficial events surrounding Joe Biden’s inauguration. “It’s a great honour, and I’m very grateful that we have allowed our system to continue to work in the way it was intended.”
Like so much this past year, the inaugural celebration will be like no other: pared down, distanced, much of it virtual. But for actor Christopher Jackson the original George Washington in Broadway’s “Hamilton” performing in a virtual “ball” is a way of participating in an essential rite of American democracy.