{"id":29752,"date":"2024-06-18T18:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/smokey-robinson-sheila-e-and-more-set-for-a-capitol-fourth\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:03:33","slug":"smokey-robinson-sheila-e-and-more-set-for-a-capitol-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/smokey-robinson-sheila-e-and-more-set-for-a-capitol-fourth\/","title":{"rendered":"Smokey Robinson, Sheila E and more set for &#8216;A Capitol Fourth&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-18\/Getty_SmokeyRobinson_061824.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Rodin Eckenroth\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Smokey Robinson<\/strong> and <strong>Sheila E <\/strong>are among the artists set to perform live on\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">A Capitol Fourth<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, the annual PBS special celebrating Independence Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The celebration,\u00a0America&#8217;s longest-running live national July Fourth TV tradition, will air July 4 at 8 p.m. ET and will feature a telecast of the fireworks live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The program will once again be hosted by\u00a0<strong>Alfonso Ribeiro<\/strong>, with Smokey headlining a tribute to Motown&#8217;s 65th anniversary.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The night will also feature performances by <strong>Sister Sledge<\/strong> featuring <strong>Slegendary<\/strong>, <strong>Fantasia<\/strong>,<strong> Darren Criss<\/strong>,<strong> Fitz <\/strong>and<strong> Noelle <\/strong>from<strong> Fitz and The Tantrums<\/strong>, the<strong> National Symphony Orchestra\u00a0<\/strong>and more. There will also be a salute to Team USA ahead of the Paris Olympics, featuring gold medal gymnast\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1 xn-person\"><strong>Shawn Johnson East<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodin Eckenroth\/Getty Images Smokey Robinson and Sheila E are among the artists set to perform live on\u00a0A Capitol Fourth, the annual PBS special celebrating Independence Day. The celebration,\u00a0America&#8217;s longest-running live national July Fourth TV tradition, will air July 4 at 8 p.m. ET and will feature a telecast of the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/smokey-robinson-sheila-e-and-more-set-for-a-capitol-fourth\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4,47,48],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}