The singer Carrie Underwood mentioned Monday that she would carry out subsequent week at President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration.
“I really 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,” Ms. Underwood mentioned in a press release on Monday. “I’m humbled to reply the decision at a time after we should all come collectively within the spirit of unity and trying to the longer term.”
Ms. Underwood, whose profession was launched when she received “American Idol” in 2005, will sing “America the Stunning” with an accompaniment from the Armed Forces Refrain and america Naval Academy Glee Membership, in accordance a duplicate of the inaugural program obtained by The New York Occasions.
After she sings, Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath of workplace to Mr. Trump.
Ms. Underwood’s settlement to carry out will lend star energy to the occasion. Eight years in the past there have been days of headlines of singers making it clear that they might not be acting at Mr. Trump’s first inauguration. The Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and Elton John have been amongst those that mentioned that they might not seem, and after it was introduced that the Rockettes would carry out inner tensions throughout the dance troupe burst into public view.
Quite a few different occasions and events, many that includes musical acts, can be held across the inauguration.
Victor Willis, the final surviving founding member of the Village Folks, introduced on Fb on Monday that the group had accepted an invite to take part in Mr. Trump’s inaugural actions. Mr. Trump had made the Village Folks music “Y.M.C.A.” a marketing campaign anthem of kinds, enjoying it at his rallies and marketing campaign occasions.
Charlie Kirk, the founder and chief of the pro-Trump, youth-focused group Turning Level USA, mentioned on social media that the Village Folks would carry out on the Turning Level Inaugural-eve Ball.
Mr. Willis wrote on Fb that the choice wouldn’t make some followers completely satisfied nonetheless, “we consider that music is to be carried out with out regard to politics,” he mentioned. “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.”
Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.
