2008 LIBERTY MEDAL CEREMONY on CBS 9/18

Thought I’d post here what I put up on the official site, may be of interest!

JUDY COLLINS AND BRUCE HORNSBY TO PERFORM AT 2008 LIBERTY MEDAL CEREMONY

Philadelphia, PA (September 5, 2008) –World famous recording artists Judy Collins and Bruce Hornsby will perform during the 2008 Liberty Medal ceremony at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA, on Thursday, September 18, 2008, honoring President Mikhail Gorbachev. Judy Collins will open the ceremony with an a capella rendition of “Amazing Grace,” and Bruce Hornsby will perform his hit song “The Way It Is.” Collins and Hornsby will join renowned pianist Van Cliburn, who was announced as a Liberty Medal performer last month.

The National Constitution Center’s 2008 Liberty Medal will be awarded to former Soviet leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev for his courageous role in ending the dangerous, decades-long Cold War and in giving hope and freedom to millions who lived behind the Iron Curtain. The public Liberty Medal ceremony will take place on Thursday, September 18, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. at the National Constitution Center in Historic Philadelphia, and will set the stage for international commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2009.

The Liberty Medal ceremony will be broadcast live locally on CBS 3 on Thursday, September 18 at 7:00 p.m. The CW Philly 57 will rebroadcast the ceremony that same evening at 10:00 p.m. CBS 3 (KYW-TV) and The CW Philly 57 (WPSG-TV) are part of CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation.

Established in 1988 by We the People 200 to commemorate the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, the Liberty Medal annually honors men and women of courage and conviction who strive to secure the blessings of liberty to people across the world.The National Constitution Center, located at 525 Arch St. on Philadelphia’s Independence Mall, is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the U.S. Constitution and the ideas and values it represents. The Center serves as a museum, an education center, and a forum for debate on constitutional issues. The museum dramatically tells the story of the Constitution from Revolutionary times to the present through more than 100 interactive, multimedia exhibits, film, photographs, text, sculpture and artifacts, and features a powerful, award-winning theatrical performance, “Freedom Rising”. The Center also houses the Annenberg Center for Education and Outreach, which serves as the hub for national constitutional education. For more information, call 215.409.6700 or visit http://www.constitutioncenter.org
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