Toby Keith accepts USO award onstage during ACM Presents: An All-Star Salute To The Troops at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in April 2014. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for ACM)
Update: A day after the announcement, Jennifer Holliday pulled out of the concert and apologized for a “lapse of judgment.”
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While most of the music industry has declined to support the president-elect’s celebrations, Donald Trump’s inaugural committee announced today that they’ve found a couple of takers, with Toby Keith and 3 Doors Down slated to perform at a pre-inauguration concert on January 19.
The event, dubbed the Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration, will also have appearances by Jon Voight, Jennifer Holliday, The Piano Guys, Lee Greenwood, RaviDrums, and The Frontmen of Country. And the president-elect will make remarks.
The concert is free and taking place at the Lincoln Memorial.
“President-elect Trump has made it clear that this inaugural is of, by, and for the American people,” said the committee chairman Tom Barrack in a release.
Last month, Trump said in a tweet that “the so-called ‘A’ list celebrities are all wanting tixs to the inauguration, but look what they did for Hillary, NOTHING. I want the PEOPLE!”
“The 58th Inaugural will celebrate American history and heritage, while setting the course to a brighter and bolder future for all Americans,” Barrack continued. “Above all, it will serve as tribute to one of our greatest attributes, the peaceful transition of partisan power.”
We have also been promised “soft sensuality” at the inauguration ceremony, which has a short entertainment line-up featuring “America’s Got Talent” contestant Jackie Evancho, the Radio City Rockettes, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Meanwhile, Scarlett Johansson, Katy Perry, Cher, Julianne Moore, Olivia Wilde, and a bevy of other celebrities are expected to join the Women’s March on Washington, taking place on the following day.
