Make America Great Again Lineup 2017
Your Guide to Who's Performing at Trump's Inauguration
A mix of patriotic balladeers and apolitical acts will take the stage on Thursday and Friday.
It is not true, as a lot of commentary would have it, that Donald Trump'south inauguration will feature "no stars." Some of the entertainers who have signed on to play have, in fact, built their success on entertaining millions of people. But it is true that what'due south considered "the A-list" will be clearly absent, as volition be acts from other lists: The B-Street Band, a Bruce Springsteen tribute group, backed out from an unofficial inaugural party later outcry; Broadway singer Jennifer Holliday reneged from the main concert event.
The mix of entertainers lined up for Thursday's "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" on the National Mall and Friday's swearing-in ceremony represents a mishmash of credo and expediency. In a savvy MTV essay about Trump's national-anthem singer Jackie Evancho, Doreen St. Félix argued that booking the xvi-yr-old America's Got Talent runner upwardly was "a matter of scavenging, and then gilding over the spoils"—a description that could apply across the lineup given the many headlines nigh Trump's team getting turned down by celebrities then saying that not having famous people is a good thing. Merely in its relative lack of glitz, and in its coalition of performers well familiar to land-off-white stages, this week's bill may inadvertently attain the stated inaugural goal of projecting an image not of Trump only of the people who elected him.
I group of musicians have fabricated careers off of earnest performances of support-the-troops patriotism—which is to say they are, for the most role, state singers. Th night will bring out Toby Keith, the nation's reigning musical jingoist, who aired post-9/11 rage and pride in "Courtesy of the Cerise, White, and Bluish (The Angry American)," "American Soldier," and "Fabricated In America." The kickoff vocal of that list is his most indelible, a reminder of the kind of accident-'em-to-hell rhetoric that the administration of the past eight years has avoided only that Trump has vowed a return to.
Keith will exist joined past comrades in genre, like the Frontmen of Country, a trio of Lonestar'due south Richie McDonald, Niggling Texas's Tim Rushlow, and Restless Heart's Larry Stewart. He'll as well accept comrades in troops tributes, in the form of 3 Doors Down, the postal service-grunge band known both for early-2000s smashes ("Kryptonite," "When I'g Gone") and for a promotional partnership with the National Guard. And he'll take a comrade in both genre and iconic patriotism: Lee Greenwood, the country singer of 1984's "God Bless the United states of americaA." Jon Voight, the actor who'south been one of the well-nigh outspoken critics of liberal Hollywood, will besides play some sort of role in Thursday's concert, as will Trump himself.
There'll also be performers of less obvious political or aesthetic identification with Trump. Take the unexplained example of DJ Ravi Drums, a self-styled futuristic solo drummer and DJ whose claims to fame include a cameo in The Matrix Reloaded's political party scene, a role on Howie Mandel's brusk-lived NBC variety show Howie Do Information technology, and, near cyberspace-famously, a 2008 Wii Music sit-in that many took equally unintended comedy. He hasn't spoken almost the politics of this upcoming gig, but his website makes it seem equally though his bread-and-butter are corporate and individual parties; the countdown publicity could help with those.
Other acts have put along a standard line about the inauguration, talking about non-partisan civic duty and a desire to wish the president—any president—well. "I was a participant in the civil rights movement and have seen many positive changes and advocacy in my 81 years of living in this wonderful country, just I know nosotros must all bring together hands and piece of work together with our new president," the soul singer Sam Moore, formerly of Sam and Dave, said. And indeed, he played an Obama inaugural result in 2008.
Other artists take more visibly struggled with the conclusion to play. "I just kind of thought that this is for my country," the 16-yr-erstwhile Evancho has said, though Trump himself turned her into something of a political prop by taking credit for a boost in her album sales later on she became the first recognizable proper noun to sign on to perform. Profiles both by The New York Times and CBS have spotlighted the backfire that has visited the teenager lately; they have likewise publicized the fact that her sister Juliet is transgender and supports the decision to perform, but volition be skipping the inauguration.
Utah's The Pianoforte Guys, a ring of classical and pop players whose videos radiate uplift and dad-next-door vibes, have as well given the typical line that they're performing out of duty. Simply they elaborated in a lengthy argument to fans about where they depart from Trump'south public image:
Those of y'all who know usa, know nosotros grew up equally "nerdy" musicians and we experienced bullying immediate. We abhor and decry bullying. Yous know that nosotros honor our relationships with our spouses more than anything else. You know we believe women are Divinely appointed to not simply equality, merely besides respect and chivalrous deference.
The tension between the notion of doing one's borough duty and the notion that Donald Trump embodies incivility has too drawn attention to the Rockettes, some of whose members reportedly clashed with direction over the decision to play, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, who lost at least ane singer because of the issue. They, along with Evancho, volition make their contributions before the swearing-in on Friday, with the Tabernacle Choir apparently set to sing "America the Beautiful."
Setting bated the American institutions that are the Rockettes and the Tabernacle Choir (and mayhap Toby Keith), Trump's countdown musicians all conspicuously might stand up to gain past the attention surrounding the event—either considering they're past their heyday or nevertheless on a career climb. Whether their careers really stop upwardly benefiting depends to some extent on how they do on stage. But it depends, peradventure more, on what happens in America in the years after.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/trump-inauguration-performers-preview/513326/
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