#a capitol fourth

[d-criss-news]

Darren Criss Performs “Don’t Stop Believin'” | 2024 A Capitol Fourth

[sillyname30]

therodgiles: Emmy and Golden Globe Winning actor/singer @darrencriss and I. It was really fun singing background for him. He’s a really fun guy in general. Darren Criss rose to fame starring on the television series Glee and received Emmy and Golden Globe acting awards for his leading role as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. #DarrenCriss #ACapitolFourth #PBS #TheCapitol #TheUSCapitol #Singing #July4thPBS

[krispyweiss]

Song Review(s): Chicago - “Saturday in the Park,” “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day Coda” and “25 or 6 to 4” (Live, July 4, 2023)

Chicago didn’t lip synch during their performance at a Capitol Fourth in Washington, D.C., though they - or at least Robert Lamm - perhaps should have.

At 78, Lamm’s once-smooth baritone is now quite rough and nearly unrecognizable. So to hear it on a nationally televised, Fourth of July rendition of “Saturday in the Park” was both jarring and deflating. Backed with a sparse - but still intrusive - symphonic arrangement, this was a poor showing of the quintessential Independence Day pop song.

Sung by new guy Neil Donell, the coda of “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day” fared better, though Sound Bites hates that the band never plays the entire song, even at headlining gigs.

And while the 2023 edition of Chicago can’t play “25 or 6 to 4” with the muscle of the original band, it was kind of funny to watch a bunch of goofy, straight-laced Americans shaking it to a drug song under the fireworks’ red glare.

They’re not very good on stage anymore - read Sound Bites’ review of Chicago’s May gig in Ohio here - but the band has at least retained a subversive sense of humor.

Grade card: Chicago - “Saturday in the Park,” “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day Coda” and “25 or 6 to 4” (Live 7/4/23) - D/C/B-

7/5/23

[dorothy16]

via Mickey Guyton’s Instagram story (July 4, 2022)

[scottdixon]

Gloria Gaynor sings “I Will Survive” in Washington, DC on July 4, 2022.

[the-haven-of-fiction]

I guess I’m turning into a grumpy old person. I don’t want singers with all sorts of superfluous embellishments and unnecessary affectations, weird vowels, phrasing that doesn’t really make sense except to try to be “signature”…just sing the song with clarity and strength and sustained notes when the music calls for it.

[lauraosnessource]

brauhala A capital CAPITOL FOURTH in DC as #artistsupport for my @lauraosnes with our @alysonahrns. Laura shone brighter than the fireworks on national television tonight, and I couldn’t be prouder. A Patriotic Icon. We stan. @july4thpbs

[manilowpicoftheday]

July 4, 2019

#throwbackthursday