• Over 375 performers including:
• Nick Clooney -- celebrated journalist, radio and television host and one of Kentucky’s most beloved citizens
• The American Spiritual Ensemble, featuring Everett McCorvey
• Metropolitan Opera star Angela Brown
• Mark O’Connor – violin, performing “Ashokan Farewell”
• University of Kentucky Opera Theatre – will perform portion of a new opera about Lincoln as a young man, “River of Time”
• University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Maestro John Nardolillo conducting – performance of Copland’s “A Lincoln Portrait”
• Lexington Vintage Dance Society performing the dance of Lincoln's time
• Kentucky Repertory Theatre “One Man’s Lincoln” vignette. Billy Herndon tells the “truth” about Lincoln
• The Lexington Singers – one of the largest community choruses in the United States
• Jane Gentry, Kentucky’s poet laureate
• Kentucky Chautauqua®’s Henry Clay, Emilie Todd Helm, Abraham Lincoln, and others bring history to life

Our Lincoln features the American Spiritual Ensemble, the University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, performing Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait with spoken word by Nick Clooney, and the premiere national performance of selections from River of Time, a new Kentucky folk opera (lyrics by James Rodgers, music by Joseph Baber) about Lincoln as a young man. Nationally known violinist Mark O’Connor will play some of the haunting music made known widely to the public by filmmaker Ken Burns’ The Civil War. Our Lincoln will also include the extraordinary voice of Metropolitan Opera star Angela Brown performing “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” as was sung in 1939 by Marian Anderson on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Dramatic selections include Kentucky Repertory Theatre’s cameo from “One Man’s Lincoln,” an original drama about Lincoln as told by his law partner, Billy Herndon, and Kentucky Chautauqua® vignettes voicing the opinions of those who knew Lincoln best. Kentucky’s poet laureate, Jane Gentry, will read her new poems dedicated to the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln.