{"id":118280,"date":"2024-08-21T18:02:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/21\/kenny-loggins-to-be-honored-with-the-john-lennon-real-love-award\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:02:05","slug":"kenny-loggins-to-be-honored-with-the-john-lennon-real-love-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/21\/kenny-loggins-to-be-honored-with-the-john-lennon-real-love-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Loggins to be honored with the John Lennon Real Love Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-21\/Getty_KennyLoggins_082124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Marcus Ingram\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Kenny Loggins\u00a0<\/strong>will be honored later this year with the\u00a0<strong>John Lennon\u00a0<\/strong>Real Love Award at the\u00a044th<\/span> a<span class=\"s1\">nnual<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\"> John Lennon Tribute\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">Dec. 7 at Symphony Space in New York.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The annual event is put on by\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1 s3\">Theatre Within,<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0which offers free workshops in creative expression and mindfulness for children, teens and adults impacted by cancer, as well as youth in crisis.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cKenny Loggins is one of those rare artists who fearlessly crosses musical genres and whose songs have touched the hearts of generations of fans,\u201d Theatre Within artistic director\u00a0<strong>Joe Raiola<\/strong>\u00a0says. \u201cBeyond that, Kenny\u2019s charitable impact, particularly for children\u2019s causes, has been seismic and selfless.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Previous recipients of the John Lennon Real Love Award include <strong>Graham Nash<\/strong>, <strong>Natalie Merchant<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Patti Smith<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Ani DiFranco\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Donovan<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The award was established in 2014 with the support of Lennon\u2019s widow,\u00a0<strong>Yoko Ono<\/strong>, to celebrate artists for their creative excellence and charitable\/social impact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Proceeds from the 44th<\/span>\u00a0a<span class=\"s1\">nnual<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\"> John Lennon Tribute <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">benefit Theatre Within\u2019s programs, as well as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatrewithin.org\/jlrlp-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>John Lennon Real Love Projec<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">t songwriting program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s4\">Ticket <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lennontribute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s4\"><strong>are on sale now<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s4\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Ingram\/Getty Images Kenny Loggins\u00a0will be honored later this year with the\u00a0John Lennon\u00a0Real Love Award at the\u00a044th annual John Lennon Tribute\u00a0Dec. 7 at Symphony Space in New York.\u00a0 The annual event is put on by\u00a0Theatre Within,\u00a0which offers free workshops in creative expression and mindfulness for children, teens and adults impacted<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/21\/kenny-loggins-to-be-honored-with-the-john-lennon-real-love-award\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}