Facing another wintry wallop, the White House decided to move a concert celebrating civil rights music from Wednesday to Tuesday night to beat what could be a second crippling storm in a week.
The White House announced that Wednesday'' concert would be performed on Tuesday because of storm threatening to dump another heavy load of snow on the nation's capital, where the federal government has been shut down for days. President Barack Obama planned remarks, and first lady Michelle Obama was also set to attend the event, which transformed the formal East Room into a concert-style stage.
Smokey Robinson, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez planned to perform, along with Yolanda Adams, Natalie Cole, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, John Mellencamp, Seal and the Blind Boys of Alabama. The Howard University Choir and The Freedom Singers also were set to perform at an event featuring remarks by Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Queen Latifah.
The concert was to be televised at 8 p.m. Thursday on public broadcasting stations nationwide as part of the ''In Performance at the White House'' series. National Public Radio also planned a one-hour concert special from the event to be broadcast nationwide on NPR stations beginning Friday.
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