In Performance at the White House Part 1

Description

In this video, country music star Merle Haggard and his band, The Strangers, along with 20-year-old national fiddle champion Mark O'Connor, perform for President and Mrs. Reagan and 400 invited guests. The performance, introduced by singer Beverly Sills, took place on March 8, 1982 at Rancho Sierra Grande, a cattle ranch owned by Stuart & Lynn Gildred and located near the Reagans' property in the Santa Ynez Mountains of California. The film is a co-production of WETA (Washington, D.C.) and WNET (New York) and was executive produced by Peter Weinberg and directed by Kirk Browning.

Collection

Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Series

Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities