The Grateful Dead, Francis Ford Coppola and Bonnie Raitt are among the artists who will receive the 2024 Kennedy Center Honors this December.
— receiving a “special Honors as an iconic American institution” — will also be honored at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on December 8, with a CBS broadcast of the ceremony to follow on December 23.
The band added, “The Grateful Dead has always been about community, creativity, and exploration in music and presentation. We’ve always felt that the music we make embodies and imparts something beyond the notes and phrases being played—and that is something we are privileged to share with all who are drawn to what we do—so 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.
Raitt is a longtime veteran of the Kennedy Center Honors as, during the Jimmy Carter administration, she accompanied her father John Raitt to the ceremony as he took part in a tribute to composer Richard Rogers; she also performed at the event in 2012 and 2016 at ceremonies honoring Buddy Guy and Mavis Staples, respectively. This year, she’ll be the one receiving the lifetime achievement award.
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