{"id":261320,"date":"2026-06-10T01:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261320\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:06:13","slug":"no-kings-hosting-concert-in-nyc-as-trump-celebrates-birthday-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261320\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No Kings&#8217; hosting concert in NYC as Trump celebrates birthday this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment&#8221; will take place this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at New York City\u2019s Town Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 90-minute event is hosted by the Committee for the First Amendment alongside No Kings and Indivisible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It serves as direct counter-programming to President Trump\u2019s 80th birthday celebration in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK CITY &#8211; As President Donald Trump celebrates his 80th birthday with a UFC cage fight in the nation&#8217;s capital, the &#8220;No Kings&#8221; movement is planning a nationwide event with its hub in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A star-studded lineup is taking the stage at The Town Hall in New York City, and screens across the country, for &#8220;Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment&#8221; at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 90-minute event is being hosted by the Committee for the First Amendment in partnership with No Kings and Indivisible to &#8220;celebrate the freedoms guaranteed by our First Amendment\u2014of speech, religion, press, assembly, and protest\u2014and the people power that both fuels these rights and is essential to guarantee them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The concert will feature several artists, cultural leaders, and media voices, including Bette Midler, Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Sasha Allen, Joy Reid and more.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What you can do<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tickets to the live concert can be purchased directly through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/030064A2DD0A1F7A\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:event&#039;s website;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;event&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">event&#8217;s website<\/a>, with all proceeds going to support the Committee for the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No Kings and Indivisible are also organizing watch parties across the country, along with a livestream for those wanting to watch at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The organizing groups have stated their goal is to reclaim patriotism as something &#8220;inclusive, participatory, and rooted in care for one another\u2014not power, pageantry, or one person&#8217;s spotlight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A statement on the &#8220;No Kings&#8221; site reads, &#8220;We can let strongman politics and corruption define the moment. Or we can make the story of America about people coming together&#8230; to defend our rights and build a future rooted in people power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The other side<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The concert will place on the same day that Trump celebrates his 80th birthday in Washington, D.C., with &#8220;UFC Freedom 250,&#8221; a massive combat sports spectacle featuring a 92-foot steel cage constructed on the South Lawn of the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information from this article was sourced from the &#8220;No Kings&#8221; website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief &#8220;Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment&#8221; will take place this Sunday at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[92446,77990,153,85413,4646,9,56,63,65,64,18253],"class_list":["post-261320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-80th-birthday","tag-bette-midler","tag-donald-trump","tag-grassroots-movement","tag-kings","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-patti-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}