Online concert tonite from White House: Bob Dylan, Jennifer Hudson, Natalie Cole and more

February 9, 2010

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.


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

White House live stream: http://www.whitehouse.gov/live

The program will be televised Thursday at 8:00 p.m. on public broadcasting stations as part of the "In Performance at the White House" series.

Won't be able to watch due to data restrictions but it sounds great!

pay a little tribute to Wesley Willis while they are at it.

Natalie Cole would sound great singing "Rock and Roll McDonalds".

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