The Apollo is the first theater honored, along with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and musicians Arturo Sandoval, the Grateful Dead and Bonnie Raitt.
ByWell, that’s probably not how it’ll happen. But in an usual twist, storied Harlem theater the Apollo, New York’s gravitational center for Black arts which turns 90 this year, is among the 47th class of Kennedy Center honorees.
The Dec. 8 ceremony will take place in the 2,364-seat Opera House, where celebrity guests, top secret until the night of, will celebrate the honorees from the stage. The center has not decided whether the evening will follow tradition and include a host . The show will be broadcast on CBS and streamed on Paramount Plus on Dec. 23.
On Dec. 8, he’ll join other directors of his generation in receiving the honor, including Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. He paid tribute to Scorsese during the “Goodfellas” director’s own Kennedy Center Honors ceremony in 2007. By the time founding member Jerry Garcia died in 1995 — a year after the band was the inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and eight years after receiving a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award — the group had attracted the most concertgoers in the history of the music business. It disbanded a month before Garcia’s death, and still holds the world record for most concerts: 2,318.
For nearly two decades, only those in the know knew about Bonnie Raitt. The rock-blues guitarist and songwriter released her first album in 1971 and remained a cult favorite until her 1989 album, “Nick of Time.”
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