The Talent
- Over 375 performers including:
- Nick Clooney -- celebrated journalist, radio and television host and one of Kentucky’s most beloved citizens
- Bob Edwards - National Public Radio personality and guest host
- The American Spiritual Ensemble, featuring Everett McCorvey and Angelique Clay
- Metropolitan Opera star Angela Brown
- 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 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, their Children's Choir, and the University of Kentucky Chorale
- Jane Gentry, Kentucky’s poet laureate
- Kentucky Chautauqua®’s Henry Clay, Emilie Todd Helm, Abraham Lincoln, and others bring history to life
- Gregory Turay - American tenor from Kentucky
