Free Veterans Day Outdoor Concert

At our nation’s Capitol, the Veterans Day National Committee is gearing up for the attendance of thousands to mark the occasion with a special Veterans Day Celebration Concert, as this year the holiday falls within the eleventh year of the new millennium.

The outdoor Concert will be free, taking place on Vermont Avenue Northwest with streets between H and I closed for the duration of the event.  Festivities will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 10.  Performances will include the famous rhythm and blues (R&B) group the Chi-Lites, as well as the popular R&B and pop-funk band Kool & the Gang, whose hit song “Celebration” was number one for two straight weeks in February, 1981.

Other attending guests will be daytime soap-opera personality James Reynolds, the pop band Tucker and country music star and the Animal Planet TV channel host Lucas Hoge. The Concert is hosted by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with support from national nonprofit organization Help Hospitalized Veterans (HHV) as well as several other veterans service organizations and sponsors. 

“HHV invites the community to join us in this exciting celebration,” said Mike Lynch, HHV president and CEO.  “The Concert is free because we feel that the price of our freedom has already been paid by those who wore the United States’ armed forces uniform.  If you’re able, please do attend this event to show your support of our nation’s veterans.” HHV is the largest distributor of free therapeutic arts & crafts kits to our nation’s military and VA hospitals and state veterans nursing homes, having provided over 27 million craft kits since 1971.  For more information visit www.hhv.org or call (888) 567-VETS.

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