{"id":29945,"date":"2024-07-18T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/grateful-dead-bonnie-raitt-among-the-47th-annual-kennedy-center-honors-recipients\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:02:34","slug":"grateful-dead-bonnie-raitt-among-the-47th-annual-kennedy-center-honors-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/grateful-dead-bonnie-raitt-among-the-47th-annual-kennedy-center-honors-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful Dead &amp; Bonnie Raitt among the 47th annual Kennedy Center Honors recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-18\/Getty_BonnieRaitt_071824.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Mickey Bernal\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famers <strong>Grateful Dead<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Bonnie Raitt<\/strong> are among the artists who\u2019ll be celebrated at the 47th edition of the Kennedy Center Honors, recognizing their lifetime artistic achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year&#8217;s other honorees include director <strong>Francis Ford Coppola\u00a0<\/strong>and jazz musician <strong>Arturo Sandoval<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>as well as the\u00a0iconic Harlem venue The Apollo, which will receive a special Honors recognition as an American institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOur Honorees this year have each played an invaluable, pioneering role in developing American culture\u2014not with one act of art but with their decades-long devotion to pushing creative boundaries,\u201d Kennedy Center President <strong>Deborah F. Rutter <\/strong>shares.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt goes without saying that the Kennedy Center Honors represents the highest of reaches for artistic achievement,\u201d Dead members <strong>Mickey Hart<\/strong>,<strong> Bill Kreutzmann<\/strong>,<strong> Phil Lesh\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> Bobby Weir <\/strong>said in a statement. \u201cThe Grateful Dead has always been about community, creativity, and exploration in music and presentation\u00a0&#8230; it also must be said that our music belongs as much to our fans, the Dead Heads, as it does to us. This honor, then, is as much theirs as ours.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Raitt shared that she was \u201cdeeply honored and thrilled to have been chosen&#8221; as one of this year&#8217;s honorees, noting, \u201cThere is no higher level of esteem nor as delightful a celebration and I want to extend my sincere thanks to all who have chosen me to receive this honor.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She added,\u00a0\u201cI look forward to the upcoming ceremony and festivities, which I know will be one of my life\u2019s peak experiences.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Kennedy Center Honors will be handed out on Dec. 8, ahead of a CBS broadcast of the event on Dec. 23.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. 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This year&#8217;s other honorees include director Francis Ford Coppola\u00a0and jazz musician Arturo Sandoval,\u00a0as well as the\u00a0iconic<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/grateful-dead-bonnie-raitt-among-the-47th-annual-kennedy-center-honors-recipients\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}