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Celebrating Armed Forces Day

In commemorate to our nation’s military forces from past to present who served to protects our country and assured to maintain our freedom and democracy. Every year the City of Torrance celebrating Armed Forces Day in continuing the tradition, this year marked the 58th annual celebration to honor the men and women in the Armed Forces.
The three-day observance will start on Friday, May 19 till Sunday, May 21, 2017. The events including the concert, Parade, 5K run and the military exhibits. It’s FREE and everyone is welcome. The highlights of this year event will honor the United States Air Force. The City of Torrance salute and thank the Armed Forces military services for keeping our nation safe for our future generation. For more information of the upcoming event please visit the website at: www.TorranceCA.Gov/ArmedForcesDay.htm.
Here are some of the photo on the past year event, which captured the concert, parade and Armed Forces exhibits of military aircraft, vehicles, tanks, equipment and other artifacts display. My son really excited with the exhibits and most of the crowds are fascinating with the plane, tank and interesting display including live and preserved animals and insects. Thanks to the friendly accommodation with our men and women in the military that makes everyone’s trip enjoyable and memorable.

Hall of Fame and Museum's All for the Hall Los Angeles Fundraiser

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 All For the Hall Los Angeles fundraiser took place last night, September 23, 2010 at Club Nokia.

The event follow a “guitar pull” format and feature performances by Country Music Hall of fame member Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Vince Gill and superstar Taylor Swift. The special guest and remarkable performances of Lionel Richie.

 

The museum launched All for the for the Hall, Its first-ever non-bricks -and-mortar fund raising campaign, in 2005. The campaign addresses the museum's needed for long term financial security and will provide a safety net for the institution and its work. Last night, marked the 4^th year the museum has taken it's “annual giving” event on the road. Hosting previous All for the Hall events in New York in 2007 and 2008 and in Los Angeles in 2009. 

That evening offers a unique performances of each and every singer-songwriters to interact with one another as they take turns swapping songs, stories and personal recollections. The “guitar pull” is a Nashville Specialty; it originated in the homes of Nashville songwriters who gathered to try out new compositions for their peers. Nashville's storied guitar pulls were hosted by John and June Carter Cash. The Hallmarks of a great guitar pull are spontaneity and camaraderie.

 

This year event will provide much needed support as Nashville works to recover from the devastating impact of a once-very-500-years flood in Ford Theater.

All the for the Hall Los Angeles is chaired by AEG Live Chairman Tim Leiweke and produced by CAA's Rod Essig and Vector Management's Ken Levitan. The event is made possible by the generosity of AEG live and Club Nokia LA Live. The 2010 host committee for All for the Hall Los Angeles includes Orly Adelson ( dick clark productions), Thomas Carroll (Sun Trust Bank), Jay Faires (Lionsgate), John Frankenheimer (Loeb & Loeb LLP), Gary Haber (Haber Corporation), Henry Juszkiewicz (Gibson Guitar Corporation), Levitan, Cameron Strang (New West Records) and Jody Williams (BMI). All for the hall Los Angeles's supporting sponsor is Greenberg Traurig LLP.

 

    
 Lionel Richie is an American singer-songwriter and record producer who has sold (solo or as group member) more than 100 million records.

After leaving the Commodores, Lionel Richie became one of the most successful male solo artists of the '80s, arguably eclipsed during his 1981-1987 heyday only by Michael Jackson and Prince. Richie dominated the pop charts during that period with an incredible run of 13 consecutive Top Ten hits, five of them number ones. As his popularity skyrocketed, Richie moved farther away from his R&B origins and concentrated more on adult contemporary balladry, which had been one of his strengths even as part of the Commodores. After 1987, Richie fell silent, taking an extended break from recording and touring before beginning a comeback toward the tail end of the '90s.

 

Emmy Lou Harris introduced country music to a broader audience by building bridges to folk, gospel, rock and alternative music. She has sold millions of albums worldwide and claimed 12 Grammys in a career that now stretches over four decades.

 

 

 

  Taylor Swift is a four-time Grammy winner. The top-selling digital artist in music history, has had singles top both the country and pop radio charts, and had the best-selling album in any genre of music in both 2008 and 2009. This year, at age 20, she became the youngest artist in history to win the music Industry's highest honor.

 

 

 

 

 Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in high demand as a guest vocalist, and a duet partner. Gill has recorded more than twenty studio albums, charted over forty singles on the U.S.

 

 

 Kris Kristofferson has enjoyed a distingushed career that has encompassed the authorship of such classic American songs as Me and Bobby ;for the Good Times; to name a few. Three Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and a year of outspoken political and social activism.