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Harry Connick Jr. attends the ceremony honoring him with a Star on The Hollywood Stroll of Reputation held on Oct. 24, 2019 in Hollywood, Calif.
Singer and actor Harry Connick Jr. has spent a spread of his existence on tour buses and touring from metropolis to metropolis, nonetheless even when the pandemic shut down the country, he couldn’t sit down easy.
With the help of his daughter, Georgia Connick, who is a filmmaker, and a bunch of GoPro cameras, he launched into a virulent illness street drag to fulfill very important workers around the country who had been risking their lives at some level of the pandemic.
United We Assert: A Grammy Tribute to the Unsung Heroes, a TV particular that airs on CBS on Sunday (June 21) at 8 p.m. ET/PT, highlights the day after day heroes along his go to New Orleans, with help from Connick’s considerable person chums together with Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Sandra Bullock and Renee Zellweger. The disclose also capabilities musical performances from Jamie Foxx, Cyndi Lauper, Branford and Wynton Marsalis, Dave Matthews, Tim McGraw, Irma Thomas and extra.
“I correct need to reach out and meet most of these of us, sanitation workers or elementary faculty lecturers or of us which can be working at food banks,” Harry Connick acknowledged. “These are the of us which can be maintaining the provision chain going and maintaining our lives going.”
Over the direction of about 12 days, Georgia Connick filmed her father on handheld cameras or GoPros as he drove a recreational vehicle to be taught about how the new coronavirus used to be affecting workers in public transportation, grocery stores, well being care and extra.
“Staring at these of us elevate out their day after day jobs, no longer necessarily pondering they’re heroes, nonetheless every person else pondering they’re heroes, is incredibly unattainable,” Georgia Connick acknowledged.
They started their drag at a health center in the Queens borough of New York City, where Connick’s sister, an Navy Reserve colonel and psychiatrist, helped with the Pentagon’s response to the pandemic.
“It used to be extremely emotional,” Harry Connick acknowledged. “We desired to retain out a disclose that used to be about occasion as in opposition to repeatedly reminding of us of how sad the put is. And it’s far. But there’s a spread of silver linings.”
As soon as reaching his place of start of New Orleans, Harry Connick walked throughout the empty streets of Bourbon Highway, the neon-lit leisure hotspot in general filled with music, drinking and dancing that had long past restful at some level of the pandemic.
“The mayor used to be form ample to permit us to movie on Bourbon Highway below very, very tight cases and prerequisites,” he acknowledged.
In its put of the aged second line parade, the dancers and musicians stayed 12 feet apart, dancing in put with masks.
“We hope when of us ogle on Sunday night time, they’ll beget of have a respite from the humble barrage of sinister recordsdata,” he acknowledged.
The actual will elevate funds for charities that pork up underserved kids, together with No Kid Hungry and the Ellis Marsalis Center for Song in New Orleans, as well to to the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund, a charitable organization of the Recording Academy.
