Carrie Underwood is ready to carry out “America the Lovely” throughout President-elect Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony Monday.
Paras Griffin/Getty Photographs for ABA
cover caption
toggle caption
Paras Griffin/Getty Photographs for ABA
President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be sworn into workplace on Jan. 20 — and in contrast to his first inauguration in 2017, which reportedly struggled to e-book high-profile performers, a number of well-known artists will partake on this 12 months’s inaugural occasions.
“The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee is proud to announce that a few of our nation’s most iconic [musicians] will likely be collaborating within the inaugural celebrations,” mentioned co-chairs Steve Witkoff and Kelly Loeffler in an announcement supplied to NPR. “This monumental weekend will commemorate President Trump’s historic victory and the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration with a celebration of music, unity, and patriotism, ushering in America’s new Golden Age.”
Under is a listing of the artists scheduled to carry out all through inaugural occasions, not together with a shock musical visitor set to seem on the Liberty Ball.
Carrie Underwood
Nation star Carrie Underwood, who jump-started her profession because the winner of American Idol 20 years in the past, is ready to carry out “America the Lovely” throughout the swearing-in ceremony.
“I like our nation and am honored to have been requested to sing on the Inauguration and to be a small a part of this historic occasion,” Underwood mentioned in an announcement supplied to NPR. “I’m humbled to reply the decision at a time after we should all come collectively within the spirit of unity and seeking to the longer term.”
Christopher Macchio
Classical tenor Christopher Macchio will carry out the nationwide anthem throughout the swearing-in ceremony. In a video posted to his YouTube web page, Macchio said that he first met Trump when Elton John dropped out of a New Yr’s Eve efficiency at Mar-a-Lago and Macchio was employed to fill in.
Lee Greenwood
Lee Greenwood, whose music “I.O.U.” gained a 1984 Grammy for greatest vocal nation efficiency, will carry out on the swearing-in ceremony and the Make America Nice Once more Victory Rally. Greenwood has acquired 5 further Grammy nominations over time and was closely featured ultimately summer season’s Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee.
“I’m humbled and honored to be requested to carry out for our forty seventh President Donald J. Trump throughout his inaugural occasions,” Greenwood mentioned in an announcement supplied to NPR. “The President has been a pal of [my wife] Kim [Payne] and I’s for a few years and this is likely one of the most historic moments in our lifetime. I look ahead to celebrating this special occasion with proud Individuals all over the place.”
Child Rock (proper) shakes fingers with President Trump after signing the Music Modernization Act in 2018.
Saul Loeb/AFP by way of Getty Photographs
cover caption
toggle caption
Saul Loeb/AFP by way of Getty Photographs
Child Rock
Child Rock, who has been a vocal supporter of Trump since his first time period and likewise carried out on the Republican Nationwide Conference, is ready to take the stage on the Make America Nice Once more Victory Rally. Final summer season, the Michigan singer-songwriter headlined the touring pageant Rock the Nation, which celebrated a fusion of MAGA politics and nation music.
Village Individuals
The disco band Village Individuals, led by surviving authentic member Victor Willis, will carry out at two occasions: the Make America Nice Once more Victory Rally and the Liberty Ball. The group’s 1978 hit music “Y.M.C.A.” was a staple at Trump’s marketing campaign rallies, even resulting in a viraldance. In a Fb put up, Willis, who penned the music’s lyrics, wrote that the marketing campaign’s use of the music had broadly boosted its reputation, together with touchdown it on the high of the Billboard dance digital music gross sales chart.
Willis went on to write down that whereas Trump’s use of “Y.M.C.A.” had drawn controversy as a result of the music has been broadly adopted as an unofficial homosexual anthem, it’s “a false assumption” that the music deliberately carries a queer subtext. In mild of the announcement that Village Individuals would partake within the presidential inauguration, Willis once more took to Fb.
“We all know this may not make a few of you content to listen to nonetheless we imagine that music is to be carried out with out regard to politics,” a assertion posted to each Willis’ and the group’s official pages reads. “Our music Y.M.C.A. is a world anthem that hopefully helps convey the nation collectively after a tumultuous and divided marketing campaign the place our most well-liked candidate misplaced. Subsequently, we imagine it is now time to convey the nation along with music which is why VILLAGE PEOPLE will likely be acting at numerous occasions as a part of the 2025 Inauguration of Donald J. Trump.”
Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus, who shared his assist for Trump on the marketing campaign path, will carry out on the Make America Nice Once more Victory Rally. The “Achy Breaky Coronary heart” singer most not too long ago gained two 2020 Grammys for his function on a remix of Lil Nas X’s country-crossover hit, “Outdated City Street.” His daughter, pop star Miley Cyrus, has brazenly criticized Trump.
Liberty College’s Reward Choir
LU Reward is a gospel choir “devoted to glorifying God by means of testimony, music, and worship,” in accordance with Liberty College’s web site. The group will carry out throughout the Make America Nice Once more Victory Rally.
Jason Aldean is ready to carry out on the Liberty Ball.
Jason Kempin/Getty Photographs
cover caption
toggle caption
Jason Kempin/Getty Photographs
Jason Aldean
Nation singer-songwriter Jason Aldean, who launched Trump at a marketing campaign rally in Georgia, will carry out on the Liberty Ball. After the tried assassination on Trump in Pennsylvania final summer season, Aldean devoted a efficiency of his music “Strive That in a Small City” to the then-candidate whereas on tour. On Election Day, he reaffirmed his assist for Trump on Instagram.
“Over the previous a number of years we’ve taken a number of warmth from the leisure trade and the media for our assist of @realdonaldtrump,” Aldean wrote. “As a father and an American citizen, I wish to see our nation get again to its values and rules that made us nice to start with.”
Rascal Flatts
Nashville nation trio Rascal Flatts — which discovered industrial success with songs like “What Hurts the Most,” “Prayin’ for Daylight” and a canopy of Tom Cochrane’s “Life is a Freeway” — will carry out on the Commander in Chief Ball. After a hiatus, the band not too long ago reunited and introduced its 2025 Life is a Freeway Tour.
Parker McCollum
Nation singer Parker McCollum, whose No. 1 songs on Billboard‘s Nation Airplay chart embody “Burn It Down” and “Fairly Coronary heart,” will carry out on the Commander in Chief Ball.
Gavin DeGraw
Gavin DeGraw, the singer-songwriter who broke out onto the pop charts along with his 2003 album, Chariot, will carry out on the Starlight Ball. His music “I Do not Need to Be,” which grew in reputation because the theme music for The CW’s teen drama One Tree Hill, was licensed platinum within the U.S.
