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A CAPITOL FOURTH 2010 | Preview | PBS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wt7kfaHUxc&feature=channel

This July 4, America’s national Independence Day celebration will mark 30 spectacular years on air! Hosted by Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Jimmy Smits, A CAPITOL FOURTH will feature performances from some of the country’s biggest musical names including: David Archuleta, multiple Grammy, CMA and ACM Award-winning country music superstar Reba McEntire; country music sensation Darius Rucker (Hootie & the Blowfish); as well as world-renowned classical pianist Lang Lang with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of top pops conductor Jack Everly.

Featuring the most dazzling display of fireworks anywhere in the nation, A CAPITOL FOURTH will air live in HD on PBS Sunday, July 4, 2010 from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. ET (check local listings) before a concert audience of hundreds of thousands, millions more at home, as well as to our service members around the world on the American Forces Network.

A CAPITOL FOURTH can also be heard live in stereo over NPR Member stations nationwide.

A Capitol Fourth 2009 | PBS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmrzo5yPX6E&feature=channel

Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Jimmy Smits returns to host the biggest and brightest birthday party in the country, A CAPITOL FOURTH, featuring for the first time ever, Barry Manilow, who will both open and close the concert broadcast with a stirring medley of hits and patriotic classics along with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Choral Arts Society of Washington…….

A CAPITOL FOURTH 2008 | Jimmy Smits Preview | PBS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9bWSx2E524&NR=1

A Capitol Fourth 2007 | PBS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvTQebuwoO0