Performance Schedule: 2024
August 25, 2024, Yorktown Lions Summer Concert Series
Jack Devito Veterans Memorial Field: 5 PM Sharp
Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598
August 2, 3, Windham Music Festival, Windham, NY
June 14, 15, 16, Greenwood Lake Airshow, New Milford, NJ
June 7, 8, 9, MAAM WWII Weekend, Reading Airport, Reading PA
National Anthem and God Bless America all three days: 2 PM Friday, Noon Saturday and Sunday.
WRDG Radio Stage: Homefront Area, 9 AM, 12:15 duets with Frank Cubillo, followed by full set 12:30 - 1:00 PM
War Bond Rally with cast of WRDG: Main Stage, 2:00-4:00 PM
Additional duets with Frank Cubillo throughout the weekend at the Officers Club
WRDG Radio Stage: Homefront Area, 9 AM, 12:15 duets with Frank Cubillo, followed by full set 12:30 - 1:00 PM
War Bond Rally with cast of WRDG: Main Stage, 2:00-4:00 PM
Additional duets with Frank Cubillo throughout the weekend at the Officers Club
June 22,23, Red Mill Museum Village, in the Pavilion
May 25, 26, FDR Library and Museum, WWII Encampment, Hyde Park, NY
National Anthem at Noon and several sets throughout the afternoon: Museum Main Lawn
February 4, 2024, Four Chaplains Ceremony: 2 PM, Yorktown American Legion Post 1009
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Alyssa Martin performs as Dawn O'Day
Swing and a MissAlyssa Martin began her singing career in the church choir. For her Girl Scout Gold Award, she created a singing trio based on the music and style of the popular 1940s singing trio, the Andrews Sisters, dedicated to bringing smiles and laughter to veterans and seniors through a live WWII style variety show of 1940s comedy, singing and dancing, she called "A Sentimental Journey." Alyssa and the group researched the period clothing, colloquialisms, skits, vocal styling, and mannerisms, to keep their entire production as authentic and accurate to the time period as possible.
Inspired by both of her Grandfathers' military service in WWII and Korean War, and the fact that her Grandmother was a USO "Victory Belle" in NYC and Long Island during WWII, her live music project was modelled after WWII Command Performances, and USO shows. After successfully completing and earning the Gold Award by presenting at numerous veteran's homes, assisted living centers airshows and similar veterans orientated venues, Alyssa continued to receive requests to perform at similar events. Initially, she continued to enlist the help of her 2 friends who completed the trio. Unfortunately, college life and careers took the other girls to different parts of the country making it more difficult to continue the singing group. Undaunted by this set back and still wishing to perform for seniors and veterans, Alyssa embarked upon a "solo career”, as Dawn O'Day, (the original stage name of her great aunt, actress Anne Shirley), creating a song list of popular 1940s tunes by such artists as Vera Lynn, Judy Garland, Doris Day, Kitty Kallen, etc. She also created an extended entertainment troupe called the AAFHA Squadronaires, with members of her Army Air Force Historical Association, to incorporate comedy sketches, duet and solo songs and dance routines by the new participants. Either solo, with smaller groups or with a full AAFHA troupe, Alyssa has brought her 1940s musical show to thrill thousands of seniors and veterans at events and senior and veteran centers where they continue to perform before enthusiastic audiences. She has performed at American Legion Halls, Veterans Hospitals, Assisted Living Centers, the FDR Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY, The Westchester County Veterans Museum, The NY Historical Society and airshows throughout the Tri-state area and Pennsylvania. Alyssa has also sung the National Anthem at many of these same venues. 
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Photo above by Marc Herman
Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson - 2020 Juliette Gordon Low Award Recipient - Alyssa Martin:
We are proud to announce that Alyssa was recently awarded the 2020 Juliette Gordon Low Award for her continued dedication and devotion to the community by her volunteer performances to Veterans and Senior Citizens organizations. Juliette Gordon Low Award recognizes and honors a young adult Girl Scout alumna who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in her professional or volunteer life. Nominees are young woman between the ages of 21 and 35, who participated in Girl Scouting as a girl for at least three years, and has distinguished herself as an exceptional leader in her chosen profession and/or current volunteer capacity in her community and needs to have held a leadership position for a minimum of one year either in a professional, community or volunteer role. The GSHH Juliette Gordon Low Leadership Awardees embody the tenets of the Girl Scout promise and law. Girl Scout Mission: “Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.” Girl Scout Promise: “On my honor, I will try: to serve God and my country, to help people at all times and to live by the Girl Scout Law.” Girl Scout Law: “I will do my best to be honest and fair, friendly and helpful, considerate and caring, courageous and strong, and responsible for what I say and do, and to respect myself and others, respect authority, use resources wisely, make the world a better place, and be a sister to every Girl Scout.“ |
