To help kickoff the inaugural celebration this weekend, Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen are scheduled to sing this Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial during "We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial" . The event will be taking place at 2pm on Sunday afternoon and the is expected to draw a crowd of 500,000. HBO will air the concert live at 2:30pm ET with two encore showings scheduled for 7pm ET and 11:30pm ET, and they are making it available for free to all cable operators. The concert will also be available online at www.hbo.com .

The concert was initially scheduled for two hours, but it is believed that it will run longer.

The star studded event will feature performers from a variety of musical traditions, and contemporary folkies will enjoy hearing from John Mellencamp and James Taylor, among others. President-elect Obama and Vice-President-elect Biden are scheduled to speak.

Springsteen apparently extended the invitation to Seeger to join the celebration and while it is not confirmed, it is rumored that they will sing Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land".

It is particulary fitting that Seeger has joined the celebration. Seeger marched with Dr. Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights movement and he introduced the civil rights leader to the song "We Shall Overcome" - which was sung at the historic March on Washington in August 1963 when Dr. King made the "I Had A Dream" speech.


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