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 guide 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,” stated co-chairs Steve Witkoff and Kelly Loeffler in an announcement offered 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.”
Beneath is an inventory 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 twenty years in the past, is about 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 stated in an announcement offered 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 track “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 through the years and was closely featured eventually summer time’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 stated in an announcement offered to NPR. “The President has been a pal of [my wife] Kim [Payne] and I’s for a few years and this is among the most historic moments in our lifetime. I stay up for celebrating this special occasion with proud People all over the place.”
Child Rock
Child Rock, who has been a vocal supporter of Trump since his first time period and in addition carried out on the Republican Nationwide Conference, is about to take the stage on the Make America Nice Once more Victory Rally. Final summer time, the Michigan singer-songwriter headlined the touring competition Rock the Nation, which celebrated a fusion of MAGA politics and nation music.
Village Individuals
The disco band Village Individuals, led by surviving unique 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 track “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 track’s lyrics, wrote that the marketing campaign’s use of the track had broadly boosted its reputation, together with touchdown it on the high of the Billboard dance digital track 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 track has been broadly adopted as an unofficial homosexual anthem, it’s “a false assumption” that the track 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 track Y.M.C.A. is a worldwide anthem that hopefully helps carry 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 carry the nation along with music which is why VILLAGE PEOPLE will likely be acting at varied occasions as a part of the 2025 Inauguration of Donald J. Trump.”
Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus, who shared his help 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 just lately gained two 2020 Grammys for his characteristic on a remix of Lil Nas X‘s country-crossover hit, “Outdated City Street.” His daughter, pop star Miley Cyrus, has overtly criticized Trump.
Liberty College’s Reward Choir
LU Reward is a gospel choir “devoted to glorifying God by testimony, track, and worship,” in response to Liberty College’s web site. The group will carry out throughout the Make America Nice Once more Victory Rally.
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 time, Aldean devoted a efficiency of his track “Strive That in a Small City” to the then-candidate whereas on tour. On Election Day, he reaffirmed his help for Trump on Instagram.
“Over the previous a number of years we’ve taken a variety of warmth from the leisure business and the media for our help of @realdonaldtrump,” Aldean wrote. “As a father and an American citizen, I wish to see our nation get again to its values and ideas that made us nice to start with.”
Rascal Flatts
Nashville nation trio Rascal Flatts — which discovered business 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 just lately 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 together with his 2003 album, Chariot, will carry out on the Starlight Ball. His track “I Do not Need to Be,” which grew in reputation because the theme track for The CW’s teen drama One Tree Hill, was licensed platinum within the U.S.