6th annual CELEBRATION OF VETERANS
- 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.

