MILWAUKEE, WI. (Top40 Charts/ Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation) - The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation today announced Grammy award winning singers
Aaron Neville and Sandi Patty will perform at the fourth annual Bradley Prizes ceremony being held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, May 3, 2007.
The 2007 Bradley Prize recipients are: John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Martin S. Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, Senior Fellows at the Manhattan Institute; and James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. Each award carries a stipend of $250,000.
"We are pleased and proud that Aaron Neville and Sandi Patty will lend their unique voices to make the 2007 Bradley Prizes ceremony a memorable event," said Michael W. Grebe, President and CEO of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. "Their songs of inspiration are a perfect way to honor this year's Bradley Prize recipients."
Aaron Neville is a native of New Orleans. In 1966, he broke onto the national scene with the song "Tell It Like it Is," which shot to No 1 on the pop charts. He has recorded as a solo artist and with the Neville Brothers. He has received four Grammys, and he was named "Best Male Singer" two straight years in the Rolling Stone critics' poll.
Sandi Patty was born in Oklahoma City and is one of the most successful Christian recording artists in history. She has won five Grammys and frequently plays to sold-out audiences around the country. She has performed on the Tonight Show, The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and Christmas in Washington. In 2004, she was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Founded in 1985, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles and values that sustain and nurture it. Its programs support limited, competent government; a dynamic marketplace for economic, cultural activity; and a vigorous defense, at home and abroad, of American ideas and institutions. Recognizing that responsible self-government depends on enlightened citizens and informed public opinion, the Foundation supports scholarly studies and academic achievement.
To schedule an interview with Bradley Foundation President and CEO, Michael W. Grebe, please contact Kevin McVicker with Shirley & Banister Public Affairs at (703) 739-5920 or (800) 536-5920.
