On Wednesday at 5:15 pm Eastern Time, the event titled “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement Concert” is scheduled to take place, and will be streamed live on the internet. The White House page devoted to the event is at this link. The live streaming will be offered on the page at this link. [ADDENDUM TUESDAY 2/9/2010: This event has been moved up to TODAY.]

There’s also an embed code that people can put on their websites, as at the bottom of this post. For what it’s worth, I’ll post it again on the day. While the event will be broadcast on U.S. Public Television stations the following day, I assume that it will be edited down, so watching the live stream is the only way to be sure of seeing it all. Of-course, there will be people who will capture it and post it in various places, no doubt.

There are reports now that Joan Baez’s name has been added to the list of performers. It’s more surprising that her name wasn’t there to begin with, considering everything. People are writing that she will “join Dylan” or “reunite with Dylan,” and of-course it seems a good bet that they will sing something together, but then, you never know. They have had a, er, complex relationship. Dylan’s hardly ever — if ever — said anything particularly nasty about her, but the same can’t be said the other way around. I shudder to think what she’ll say about him if he somehow avoids performing with her at this event! But you have to expect that they will do at least one tune in tandem.

For the record, additional performers and speakers are expected to include: Yolanda Adams, Natalie Cole, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, John Mellencamp, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Smokey Robinson, Seal, the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Howard University Choir, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Queen Latifah, Joanne Woodward, Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama.

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