Chris Barrow
speaker
910 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Jun
Chris Barrow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I spoke to our correspondent at the event, Hal Griffith.
It's a mixture of nostalgia, talking about the USA's 250-year history and pulling on that thought of a state fair and childhood memories that some people have.
And then, yes, it's also got the hallmarks of a Trump rally, lots of MAGA hats, plenty of stars and stripes.
And the main act of the president himself, who, after some musicians pulled out, is at the top of this bill.
Yeah, just tell us what the festivities will involve over the next few days.
And it seems like the celebration's gone for weeks.
Yeah, 16 days altogether in what, well, one person from the stage described would be the most epic party in all American history.
What does it mean?
Well, it means lots of stalls on the mall between the monument and...
and Capitol Hill, and then events like this, where people come out and cheer, hear some singing, and get all patriotic together.
If you want to spend $20 on a roast turkey or maybe some pretzels, then there's lots of food from around America on offer as well.
So as I said, it's drawing on that sort of sense of
nostalgia and patriotism, but there are political overtones and a military overtone as well.
In fact, we just had a B-2 bomber fly overhead at the end of one song and the words military might come up on the screen showing American military dominance and sending that message that America sees itself as the most powerful country in the world still.
You mentioned some of the music acts that dropped out in the run-up to this event.
Just tell us a little bit about some of the replacements and some of the people who are still in the event, because not everybody dropped out.
No, not everyone.
We've just been hearing from New York tenor Christopher Macchio.
He was performing Hallelujah as that bomber flew overhead.
We've also got some country singers.
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