{"id":30994,"date":"2024-12-07T00:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T00:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/grateful-dead-bonnie-raitt-to-be-celebrated-as-kennedy-center-honorees-on-sunday\/"},"modified":"2024-12-07T00:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T00:02:30","slug":"grateful-dead-bonnie-raitt-to-be-celebrated-as-kennedy-center-honorees-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/grateful-dead-bonnie-raitt-to-be-celebrated-as-kennedy-center-honorees-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful Dead &amp; Bonnie Raitt to be celebrated as Kennedy Center Honorees on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-06\/Getty_BonnieRaitt_120624.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Grateful Dead<\/strong> and <strong>Bonnie Raitt<\/strong> will be celebrated on Sunday as some of this year\u2019s recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The celebration is happening at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., with highlights from the\u00a0ceremony to air Dec. 22 on CBS. So far performers set to honor this year&#8217;s recipients have not been announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/12\/04\/grateful-dead-kennedy-center-honors-hart-kreutzmann-weir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> profile released ahead of the ceremony, The Dead&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Mickey Hart<\/strong>\u00a0discussed the band&#8217;s appeal, noting, \u201cYou couldn\u2019t pigeonhole the Grateful Dead. You still can\u2019t.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Grateful Dead is a lot of things,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The Grateful Dead is a record. The Grateful Dead is mythology. The Grateful Dead is us. The Grateful Dead is a force.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In her own <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/12\/03\/bonnie-raitt-kennedy-center-honors-tour\/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=wp_main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> profile, Raitt discussed her love of playing live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s like a magical exhalation that happens, the exchange between the audience and us,\u201d she says. \u201cPlaying live is what drives you. That\u2019s what your purpose is. At the end of the night, I feel like I\u2019ve had my blood changed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year\u2019s celebration will be hosted by <strong>Queen Latifah<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>who received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2023. The other honorees this year are director\u00a0<strong>Francis Ford Coppola\u00a0<\/strong>and jazz musician\u00a0<strong>Arturo Sandoval<\/strong>, as well as the iconic Harlem venue The Apollo, which will receive a special Honors recognition as an American institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic Grateful Dead and Bonnie Raitt will be celebrated on Sunday as some of this year\u2019s recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors.\u00a0 The celebration is happening at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., with highlights from the\u00a0ceremony to air Dec. 22 on CBS.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/grateful-dead-bonnie-raitt-to-be-celebrated-as-kennedy-center-honorees-on-sunday\/\">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\/30994"}],"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=30994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}