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*NSYNC Set For Olympic Closing Ceremony Performance
02/21/2002 3:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Donna Adcock
(2/21/02, 3 p.m. ET) - *NSYNC is among the acts scheduled to perform at the closing ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics at Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium in Salt Lake City on Sunday (February 24).
Singer Lance Bass told LAUNCH that after having carried the Olympic Torch prior to the the start of the games, he's looking forward to closing them out with a performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner": "It's gonna be great. I've been watching the Olympics this whole time, so I'm excited to go. I had the pleasure of running the torch for the Olympics, so it's going to be fun to go there and follow up doing the closing ceremonies. It's an honor to sing the national anthem. It's going to be very cold--I know that because I know we're performing outside. We're going to do like a 40-minute show."
"It has been crazy the past couple of days," *NSYNC's Joey Fatone added. "We've been rehearsing for the Olympics, which is a different show all together, then rehearsing for the Grammy's, and then we go out on tour."
NSYNC's performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" will be just one of many highlights of the event. Christina Aguilera plans to debut a new song titled "Infatuation," and Gloria Estefan will perform a greatest-hits medley marking her second Olympic performance. Estefan performed "Reach," the theme song to the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
In addition, Harry Connick Jr. will perform "Over The Rainbow" and "America The Beautiful," Josh Groban and Charlotte Church will duet on "The Prayer," and Kiss will perform its classic hit "Rock & Roll All Night."
Dianne Reeves, Moby, Bon Jovi, and Earth, Wind & Fire, among others, are also scheduled to perform. The Closing Ceremony of the XIX Winter Olympic Games will begin at 6:00 p.m. ET, and will air nationally on NBC.
--Jason Gelman, New York For more news at LAUNCH, click here.
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