Logistics - Programs & Events - All great shows and all well done...
"We Are One: Opening Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial," Washington, D.C. January 18, 2009
March 9th, 2009 - President Obama, along with the First Lady, led a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday" to Sen. Ted Kennedy, at a star-studded 77th-birthday tribute to the political legend at Kennedy Center
The Green Room in The White House
Here I am with Mayor David Dinkins of New York City (1990-93) at a Awards Dinner at the Manhattan Russian Tea Room 1/11/10
Meeting Professionals International 2009/2010 Golf Committee won "2010 Committee of the year!" - Here we are at the TriBeCa Rooftop NYC June 2010
National Building Museum in Washington, DC - CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON 2010
CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON 2010
Once again, I was very proud to be part of this year’s 2010 holiday music celebration of “CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON” that was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, featured Andrea Bocelli, Mariah Carey, Miranda Cosgrove, Annie Lennox, Maxwell and Matthew Morrison. CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON was attended by the President, First Lady attended, and other Washington VIPs and it benefited the National Children's Medical Center. It was live at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC on Sunday, December 12, 2010. Produced by Michael and George Stevens, Jr. for TNT; Talent Manager by David Paley and Cat Del Buono, Ground Logistics by Billy Amato of Bermuda Limousine International.
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Tina Fey
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13th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Bermuda Limousine International was the official Ground Transportation Company again for the fourth year at The Kennedy Center for its 13th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Tina Fey on November 9th, 2010 in Washington DC. Tina Fey was the star, executive producer and a writer of "30 Rock," for which she's won almost too many awards to list: an Emmy, two Golden Globes, four SAG Awards and a People's Choice Award. She has starred in two feature films -- "Date Night" and "Baby Mama" -- as well as voicing characters for two animated features. She got her start with the Chicago improve company The Second City and was a writer and performer on "Saturday Night Live" for nine seasons. Her satiric characterization of Sarah Palin was so good that people still think that Palin said, "I can see Russia from my house!" That was Tina Fey, not Palin. The lineup of top entertainers included Fred Armisen, Steve Carell, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Hudson, Jane Krakowski, Steve Martin, Seth Meyers, Lorne Michaels Tracy Morgen, and Betty White will salute Tina Fey in the Concert Hall at the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize For American Humor. The evening will pay tribute to the humor and accomplishments of the popular writer, producer, actress and comedienne. It broadcast over PBS television on November 14, 2010 at 9pm and will repeated over the course the next few years.
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Tina Fey: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize is a production of WETA Washington, D.C.; The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; and CoMedia. Executive producers are Bob Kaminsky, Peter Kaminsky, Mark Krantz, Cappy McGarr and Michael Kaiser. WETA executive producers are Dalton Delan and David S. Thompson. David Paley Talent Manager. Ground Logistics Billy Amato for Bermuda Limousine International.
Photo: Obama was joined by his wife, Michelle, daughters Malia and Sasha, and Marian Robinson, his mother-in-law.
The National Christmas Tree
WASHINGTON DC — Christmas has arrived in Washington.
December 9, 2010 After a 5-4-3-2-1 countdown, President Barack Obama and his family ushered in the holiday season on Thursday December 9, 2010 by lighting the National Christmas Tree – a nearly 42-foot Colorado blue spruce growing on the Ellipse, a grassy area just south of the White House.Mrs. Obama read the classic Christmas poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas." B.B. King, Sarah Bareilles, Maroon 5 and Common were among the musicians who provided entertainment.The 2010 National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony is presented by the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation and produced by Alex Coletti Productions. Underwriters Laboratories (UL) was the premier sponsor of the event and ground transportation & logistics were provided by Billy Amato for Bermuda Limousine International. Broadcast LIVE on PBS and Nationally on Public Television throughout December 2010.
The Kennedy Center 2011 Spring Gala
The Kennedy Center - Washington DC
Sunday, April 3, 2011
A Celebration of Ten Years with Michael Kaiser, featuring an array of stellar performances by celebrated artists that have graced the stages at the Kennedy Center during the past decade. Hosted by Smokey Robinson, the evening includes appearances by Joshua Bell, Barbara Cook, Renée Fleming, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marcelo Gomes and Paloma Herrera of American Ballet Theatre, members of New York City Ballet, TheKennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Christoph Eschenbach, and others as we celebrate President Michael M. Kaiser's 10 years at the Kennedy Center. As one of Washington's premier benefit engagements, the Spring Gala provides critical funding to support the Center's performances, education, and outreach initiatives. During the evening, the Kennedy Center hosted more than 1,500 business and philanthropic leaders from across the nation. The event begins with a reception on the River Terrace, it was followed by an elegant dinner on the Center's Roof Terrace level and a spectacular performance in the Opera House. It culminates with a live band and dancing on the Roof Terrace at the 'Til Midnight Party.
The Kennedy Center was proud to honor Michael Kaiser's ten years of dedicated leadership to the Center, serving as America's preeminent institution for the performing arts and the country's largest provider of arts education
The Kennedy Center Spring Gala Premier Sponsor: The Boeing Company
Air Transportation: American Airlines
Global Ground Transport: Bermuda Limousine International
Here I am sitting outside the Green Room at The White House Feb. 2009
"The Green Chair" in the Green room in the White House (There is a story about this chair).
Billy Amato - Logistics star-studded of events The 2007 though 2011 Mark Twain Prize
From Washington DC at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor recognizes artists who have made a significant contribution to the world of American comedy.
Bill Cosby
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Morgan Freeman; Narrated Excerpts
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The Kennedy Center in Washington DC opens JFK commemoration with distinguished crowd...
Thursday,January 20th, 2011 The arts are an essential part of society. The arts are what a society is remembered by. Those were the leitmotifs, sounded again and again, of The Kennedy Center's gala concert to open a two-week mini-festival commemorating the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the president whose name the center bears. Yet the arts have a questionable role at this kind of gala. When your audience includes 300 mayors (in town for the U.S. Conference of Mayors) and 90-some members of the Kennedy family; when your emcees include Terrence McNally, Diane Sawyer and Mike Nichols; and when your performers include Yo-Yo Ma, Herbie Hancock and Paul Simon, the actual art tends to get pushed aside, served up in snippets the size of variety-show acts. That is all the more true when your keynote speaker is the president of the United States. Barack Obama, in a prepared and slightly routine speech, drew implicit and not-so-implicit parallels between John F. Kennedy's presidency and his own. "I can only imagine how he must have felt entering the Oval Office in turbulent times," he said, getting a big laugh and a burst of applause - although after his descriptions of Kennedy as devoted father, inspiring speaker and bearer of a message of hope, the dots hardly needed further connecting. As for the arts, the evening was designed as a celebration, first and foremost. Its second function was as a placeholder, demonstrating the symbolic value of what we call the arts, rather than their full impact. Even if Yo-Yo Ma is playing the cello beautifully, yet another performance of "The Dying Swan" - danced by Veronika Part of American Ballet Theatre - reflects little of great social moment. It is simply, undemandingly, lovely and not too long. In an effort to be all things to all people, these events also become an odd melange of styles and levels of expertise. You have students from the Harvard Glee Club on the one hand, Simon on the other. Now Hancock, Esperanza Spalding and Jack DeJohnette in a vivid jazz combo, now Harolyn Blackwell in an alarmingly schmaltzy, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink arrangement of "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands." Now you have the tap-dancing, teenage local whiz kids the Manzari Brothers (John and Leo); now, David Rubenstein, the Kennedy Center's president, giving the obligatory speech of individual thanks that makes so many Kennedy Center gala events feel slightly like meetings of a Rotary Club. Each excerpt exists in its own artistic atmosphere. You could say that, artistically, the evening's focus was the world premiere of Peter Lieberson's "Remembering JFK (An American Elegy)," commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach, whose mien at his entrance brought to mind the words of another American president: Speak softly, and carry a big stick (or baton). Eschenbach certainly put his heart into a piece that worked hard, and succeeded, at sounding instantly well known. While Morgan Freeman narrated excerpts of Kennedy's speeches, the orchestra passed around a Coplandesque theme that had the warm American familiarity of worn jeans, a broken-in baseball glove and wind off the prairie. Lieberson kept a balance between the elegiac and the heroic (two time-honored functions of this kind of occasional music), creating a score that was stirring, not offensively derivative, and laid out so clearly that, with Eschenbach's help, you could hear the demarcations between each section - from the rousing opening (slightly marred at the very beginning by unsteadiness in the trumpet's call) through the expected slow movement to a coda in which the music struck out in a new direction, conjuring up a calmer, brighter universe in response to the words about world peace. Does it say anything about our society now? No. Is it a fine piece with crowd appeal that will be suitable for Presidents' Days and other orchestral commemorations for years to come? Indubitably. (The NSO will be included on the recording that the orchestra is issuing in May 2011.) Yet a more immediate highlight of the program came when Simon, 69, came out with his guitar and the polymathic string player Mark Stewart (here on cello) to sing a song he wrote just months after Kennedy's assassination in 1963, "The Sound of Silence." Simon's voice is miraculously unchanged; his singing was like a time capsule opening on another era, and the moment said a lot more about our lives, or the time between the Kennedy era and now, than anything else on the program. Produce by Robert Pullen for the Kennedy Center, Logistics by Billy Amato for Bermuda Limousines International.
Library of Congress; Gershwin Prize for Popular Song To Sir Paul McCartney June 2, 2010
Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was presented to Sir Paul McCartney at a special concert in the East Room of the White House on June 2, 2010.The program was taped by WETA PBS Washington, D.C., as part of the "In Performance at the White House" series as "Paul McCartney: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song In Performance at the White House."The concert feature a tribute by major stars, many of whom will perform the songs that propelled McCartney to legendary status in music and humanitarianism around the world. The lineup of performers includes Stevie Wonder, Faith Hill, Jonas Brothers, Dave Grohl, Jack White, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Herbie Hancock, Corinne Bailey Rae, Lang Lang and remarks by Jerry Seinfeld.The Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was created by the Library of Congress to honor artists, whose creative output transcends distinctions between musical styles and idioms, bringing diverse listeners together, and fostering mutual understanding and appreciation. The PBS broadcast on July 28, 2010 as part of The All-Star White House Concert Special series.
Show Credits: Executive producers of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song are Peter and Bob Kaminsky, Mark Krantz, Cappy McGarr and Dalton Delan; the Kaminskys, Krantz and McGarr are also the creators and executive producers of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, now in its 14th year. Dalton Delan and David S. Thompson are executive producers for WETA Washington, D.C, Execuitive Talent Manager; David Paley and Cat Del Buono, Ground Transport and Logistics by Billy Amato for Bermuda Limousine International.
PHOTO: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder perform "Ebony and Ivory" at the concert honoring McCartney, recipient of the Gershwin prize, in the East Room of the White House.
Photo: President Obama presented America’s highest award for popular music - the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song - to Sir Paul McCartney in the East Room of the White House
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Another great show well done.....
The First annual 2011 Comedy Awards...
(held at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York on Saturday, March 26, 2011) Comedy Awards was aired on April 10, 2011 on Comedy Central and other Viacom-owned networks MTV, Nick at Nite, VH1 and TV Land.
David Letterman and Tina Fey are among the winners at the first annual Comedy Awards in New York.Letterman received the night's highest honour as the first recipient of the Johnny Carson Award for Comedic Excellence, while Eddie Murphy took out the Comedy Icon Award.
Fey (Date Night) and Zach Galifianakis (Dinner for Schmucks) were awarded Best Comedy Actress and Actor in Film, while Alec Baldwin (30 Rock) and Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live) picked up the same gongs for television.
Modern Family received the award for Best Comedy Series and The Other Guys for Best Comedy Film.The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has won for Best Late-Night Comedy Series, South Park for Animated Comedy Series and Toy Story 3 for Animated Comedy Film.
A Don Mischer Production Ground Transport by: Bermuda Limousine International
The Kennedy Center 9/11:
Septermber 8, 2011 - -
The Kennedy Center 9/11: 10 Years Later: An Evening of Remembrance and Reflection…Was streamed live on Facebook.
The Kennedy Center presented a special event to commemorate, in words and music, the 10th anniversary of the tragedies that took place on September 11, 2001. September’s eighth evening program was private and by invitation only. Hosted by Christiane Amanpour, the tribute concert includes performances by Denyce Graves, Emmylou Harris, Wynton Marsalis, and the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Mauceri. Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Madeleine Albright and Leon Wieseltier offered commemorative remarks and readings. There were soaring vocals from Denyce Graves and Raul Esparza, and there was a humble but eloquent song — “Hard Times Come Again No More” — from Emmylou Harris. There was the muted jazz trumpet of the remarkable Wynton Marsalis. In addition, Melissa Leo, the Oscar-winning actress, read verse that was as solemn and sober and dour as the soaking rain outside. It was a kind of musical metaphor for what ABC News anchor Christiane Amanpour, the evening’s host, called “the new normal” after Sept. 11, as wary but hopeful Americans pulled together and regrouped. The evening program was produced by Robert Pullen for the Kennedy Center and ground logistics by Billy Amato for Bermuda Limousine International.
-- By Paul Farhi of The Washington Post
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