6th annual CELEBRATION OF VETERANS

FREE ADMISSION
  • Showing:
    Showing daily beginning Sat November 5, 2011
  • Times:
    Saturday, November 5 @ 11:30am
  • Prices:
    ADMISSION IS FREE - No tickets or reservations required.
  • Location:
    SCERA Center for the Arts
    745 South State Street, Orem, UT 84058

11:30-1:00pm
Join us for an inspiring, entertaining and patriotic event at the SCERA Center for the Arts featuring patriotic presentations, special guests and a variety of musical performances in a USO-style show.  A moving event for veterans and families of all ages!

•    National champion fiddlers Grace Dayton and Alina Geslison will present their toe-tappin’ prize-winning numbers.
*    Colonel Jack Tueller, a WWII veteran, now in his 90's, will play his trumpet and tell his most famous war story.  This incredible man was featured on CNN - click here to read the story and watch a video.  
•    Jazz duo Frank and Mike Otto will play classic 1940’s jazz.    
•    Mountain View High School Men’s Choir and women’s specialty group Con Brio will perform under the direction of Rosemary Matthews.
•    Music from Aliza Tuttle, winner of SCERA’s 2011 Celebrity Vocal Competition.
•    Brynn Stevens, national winner of American Mother’s 5th Grade Essay Contest will read her essay “What My Mother Means To Me,” about her mother Chao Lee Stevens, a Humong      refugee from the Vietnam War, who will also speak.
•    Moving presentation from Gold Star Mother Kim Olsen about families who have lost a child in military service.
*   New Orem City Mayor Jim Evans will also be in attendance and will make some brief comments.