{"id":43523,"date":"2013-04-23T21:52:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T04:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=43523"},"modified":"2013-04-23T21:52:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T04:52:33","slug":"sinise-mantegna-co-host-2013-memorial-day-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2013\/04\/sinise-mantegna-co-host-2013-memorial-day-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinise &#038; Mantegna Co-Host 2013 Memorial Day Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Gary Sinise<\/b> (<i>CSI: New York&#8217;<\/i>s Mac Taylor) will reunite with <b>Joe Mantegna<\/b> (<i>Criminal Minds<\/i>) for the eighth year in a row to co-host the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/memorialdayconcert\/\">2013 National Memorial Day Concert<\/a> on Sunday, May 26. Mantegna got involved with the concert in 2002, and began hosting the event a few years later. He asked friend and fellow Chicago actor Sinise to participate in the 2005 concert, and they began hosting the event together the following year. &#8220;The first year he \u2026 performed with his band,&#8221; Mantegna told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanhomecomings.com\/news\/2013\/04\/22\/joe-mantegna-gary-sinise-to-co-host-memorial-day-concert-on-pbs\/\">American Homecomings<\/a>. &#8220;And he was so taken by the whole event, as I knew he would, I said to him, &#8216;Gary, if you&#8217;d like to keep doing this, why don&#8217;t we co-host together?&#8217; And he was all for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nYou can find a 2011 video featuring Sinise and Mantegna embedded after the jump, in which they discuss the concert and their thoughts on Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more--><center><object width = \"512\" height = \"328\" ><param name = \"movie\" value = \"http:\/\/dgjigvacl6ipj.cloudfront.net\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" ><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"video=http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/videoPlayerInfo\/1497533988\/?player=PBS_Partner_Player_v1&#038;start=0&#038;end=0&#038;balance=true&#038;player=viral&#038;end=0&#038;lr_admap=in:warnings:0;in:pbs:0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param ><param name = \"allowscriptaccess\" value = \"always\" ><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param ><embed src=\"http:\/\/dgjigvacl6ipj.cloudfront.net\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" flashvars=\"video=http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/videoPlayerInfo\/1497533988\/?player=PBS_Partner_Player_v1&#038;start=0&#038;end=0&#038;balance=true&#038;player=viral&#038;end=0&#038;lr_admap=in:warnings:0;in:pbs:0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"512\" height=\"328\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #808080; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 512px;\">Watch <a style=\"text-decoration:none !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#4eb2fe !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/1497533988\" target=\"_blank\">Backstage<\/a> on PBS. See more from <a style=\"text-decoration:none !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#4eb2fe !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/memorialdayconcert\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Memorial Day Concert.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nRelated: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2012\/05\/sinise-to-co-host-2012-national-memorial-day-concert\/\">Sinise To Co-Host 2012 National Memorial Day Concert<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/05\/sinise-mantegna-co-host-memorial-day-concert\/\">Sinise &#038; Mantegna Co-Host Memorial Day Concert<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/05\/sinise-their-sacrifice-is-not-taken-for-granted\/\">Sinise: Their Sacrifice Is Not Taken For Granted<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Sinise (CSI: New York&#8217;s Mac Taylor) will reunite with Joe Mantegna (Criminal Minds) for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2908],"tags":[2925,2954],"class_list":["post-43523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-ny","tag-sinise","tag-video"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI: New York<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: New York","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43538,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43523\/revisions\/43538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}