Music
National Memorial Day Concert to feature Diane Carlson Evans
May 29, 2021
This year's National Memorial Day Concert, which airs on PBS stations nationwide at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday, May 30, includes a tribute to American nurses who served in the Vietnam War. Among those…
Charlie Daniels, 1936-2020
July 7, 2020
The famed country music singer and fiddler Charlie Daniels, an early supporter of Vietnam Veterans of America, died yesterday (July 6, 2020) after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke at age 83. Daniels, who was voted into…
“The Girl in the Photograph” and “Children of Fire”
December 11, 2019
In 1972, the jazz trumpeter and composer Hannibal Lokumbe was so taken with the famed “The Girl in the Photograph” image of nine-year-old Kim Phuc naked and fleeing a napalm attack in South Vietnam that…
‘Thunder Mountain’: A Country-Rock Single about a Vietnam War Veteran
November 26, 2019
County music singer/songwriter Rob Appleblatt’s second single, “Thunder Mountain,” is a powerful country rocker that deals with a Vietnam War veteran’s post-war struggles. The song, Appleblatt says, “is about the selfless sacrifice our warriors make for…
Student Music Query: What We Listened To
January 25, 2019
Grace Powers, a senior at Drexel University, is working on her senior thesis, which she has titled "The Affect of American Popular Music on Vietnam Veterans during War Time." The goal of the project, she…
Cyril Pahinui, 1950-2018
December 19, 2018
Cyril Pahinui, a renowned Hawaiian lack-key guitar player who was drafted into the Army and served in the Vietnam War, died November 17 at age 68 of an Agent Orange-related lung disorder and pneumonia. Pahinui…
Memorial Day Writers Project in D.C. May 28
May 23, 2018
The Memorial Day Writers Project will hold its 25th biannual reading on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day, Monday May 28, from 11:30 am to 5:30 pm. The Project's tent will be set up…
May Screening in D.C. of ‘Vietnam: An Inner View’ doc
March 28, 2018
The new documentary film, "Vietnam: An Inner View," will have its Atlantic Coast premiere on Thursday, May 24, at the Avalon Theatre in Washington, D.C. There will be two screenings of the film, which the…
Henry Threadgill Performs in NYC in November – Vietnam Vets Invited
October 27, 2017
The renowned Pulitzer-Prize-winning jazz composer Henry Threadgill will be performing mixed media pieces in two venues in New York City in mid-November: on November 17 at 7:30 p.m at the Tilton Gallery (8 E. 76th St.), and on November 18…
Henry Threadgill at Lincoln Center: VVA Members Invited
August 24, 2017
The renowned jazz musician Henry Threadgill will be doing two concerts, on September 22 and 23, at Rose Theater in Lincoln Center in New York City. Titled “The Pulitzer Nights,” the concerts will highlight the…