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Presidential Inaugural Committee Announces
General Public Ticketing for Kids Inaugural Concert at Verizon Center
The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) today announced plans
to distribute more than a thousand free tickets each for the Neighborhood
Inaugural Ball, the premiere event of Tuesday night's activities,
and the Kids' Inaugural: We Are the Future concert to members of
the general public in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Tickets will
be distributed to area residents through a number of local organizations
working hand in hand with the PIC. The PIC also announced that,
working with the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee (AFIC), they have
made thousands of tickets to Monday night's concert honoring our
troops available to the families of military personnel. Tickets
for the general public and military families will be free of charge.
"President-elect Obama is committed to holding an Inaugural
that involves all Americans, whether they are here in Washington,
D.C., or in their neighborhoods across the country," said PIC
Executive Director Emmett Beliveau. "Working with local community
groups we have made thousands of tickets available to the general
public here in Washington for the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball and
the Kids' Inaugural concert on Monday night. Monday night's concert
will also be an opportunity to honor and celebrate the families
of our men and women in uniform as we invite thousands of military
families to join the Obama and Biden families at this special event.
We invite Americans across the country to join with the friends
and families to be a part of this historic occasion by experiencing
these events in their homes and neighborhoods."
More than a thousand tickets to the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball,
airing live on ABC (8:00 - 10:00 p.m. ET, Tuesday, January 20th),
are being made available to members of the District of Columbia
metro area's general public, free of charge, today. The PIC is working
with dozens of community organizations across the metro area and
will release tickets to them today to make available for their neighborhoods,
volunteers and those they serve in the local community. The Neighborhood
Inaugural Ball is the premiere event of the night, during which
these DC area residents, along with people from neighborhoods across
the country, can celebrate with newly sworn-in President Barack
Obama at his first ball appearance of the evening.
"We are really excited about this," said Angela Byrd,
Executive Director of the D.C. Foster and Adoptive Parent Association,
which received tickets today. "This is a really special opportunity
for people in the metro area to be able to participate. Our foster,
adoptive, and kinship families are ready to welcome the new President
to his new neighborhood here in DC."
Thousands of tickets to the Kids' Inaugural: We Are the Future
concert, airing on the Disney Channel Monday night (8:00 - 9:30
p.m. ET/PT, Monday, January 19th), including some of the best seats
in the house, have been made available to military families across
the region. The PIC, working closely with the Armed Forces Inaugural
Committee (AFIC), has transferred these tickets to the Department
of Defense for distribution. The tickets for military members, Active,
Guard and Reserve, Wounded Warriors, dependents, and Families of
the Fallen are being issued by the Armed Services to their respective
Service members free of charge, with the majority of tickets being
allocated to the families of enlisted personnel and junior officers.
"It really means a lot to all of us in the military that our
incoming President and Vice President along with their wives have
remembered not just our service, but most of all, our sacrifice,
which often involves us leaving our families behind as we serve,"
said Lt. Commander Brenda Steele, a spokesperson for AFIC. "What
a beautiful way to honor us, and what a wonderful gift for our children."
More than a thousand tickets for Monday night's concert are also
being made available free of charge to families in the DC area.
The PIC has worked closely with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater
Washington to distribute tickets to children and their families
through the organizations' 20 affiliated clubs in Maryland, Virginia,
and Washington, D.C.
For more information please visit www.pic2009.org.
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