41st Annual Kennedy Center Honors Announces Full List Of Honorees And Performers
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See below for the complete list of honoree, presenter, performer and production credits for The 41st Annual Kennedy Center Honors, to be broadcast Wednesday, Dec. 26 at 8:00 PM ET/PT only on CBS.
Host Remarks: Gloria Estefan
Honoree: Reba McEntire
Tribute Presenters/Performers:
- Bobby Bones (Spoken Tribute)
- Kelly Clarkson (Performing "Fancy")
- Lady Antebellum (Performing "Is There Life Out There"/"The Greatest Man I Never Knew")
- Melissa Peterman (Spoken Tribute)
- Kristin Chenoweth (Performing "Doin' What Comes Naturally")
- Brooks & Dunn (Performing "Why Haven't I Heard From You")
Honoree: Wayne Shorter
Tribute Presenters/Performers:
- Jason Moran (Spoken Tribute)
- Wayne Shorter Tribute Jazz Band (Performing "Over Shadow Hill Way"/"Joy Ryder")
- Herbie Hancock (Performing "Footprints"/"Endangered Species"/"Elegant People")
- Esperanza Spalding (Performing "Elegant People"/"Endangered Species")
- Bernie Williams (Spoken Tribute)
- Renée Fleming (Performing "Aurora Leigh")
Honorees: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Andy Blankenbuehler and Alex Lacamoire
Tribute Presenters/Performers:
- Anthony Ramos (Spoken Tribute)
- Renée Elise Goldsberry (Performing "Schuyler Sisters")
- Jasmine Cephas Jones (Performing "Schuyler Sisters")
- Phillipa Soo (Performing "Schuyler Sisters")
- Christopher Jackson (Performing "One Last Time" with Voices of America Youth Choir)
- Lin-Manuel Miranda (Performing "One Last Time" with Voices of America Youth Choir)
Honoree: Philip Glass
Tribute Presenters/Performers:
- Paul Simon (Spoken Tribute)
- Jon Batiste (Performing "Opening" from "Glassworks")
- Philip Glass Ensemble with the Washington Chorus (Performing "The Grid" from "Koyaaniquats")
- Anjelique Kidjo (Spoken Tribute)
- Annie Clark [St. Vincent] (Performing "Osamu's Theme")
- Jennifer Koh (Performing "Osamu's Theme/"Knee Play 5")
- S. Epatha Merkerson (Performing "Knee Play 5" from "Einstein On The Beach")
Honoree: Cher
Tribute Presenters/Performers:
- Whoopi Goldberg (Spoken Tribute)
- Little Big Town (Performing "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves"/"I Found Someone"/"Baby Don't Go")
- Amanda Seyfried (Spoken Tribute)
- Adam Lambert (Performing "Believe"/"I Got You Babe")
- Cyndi Lauper (Performing "[If I Could Turn] Back Time"/"I Got You Babe")
Produced By: White Cherry Entertainment
Executive Producers: Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss
Director: Glenn Weiss
Writer: David Boone
Supervising Producer: Rob Paine
Coordinating Producer: Sarah Levine Hall
Production Designer: Steve Bass
Lighting Designer: Bob Dickinson
Music Director: Rickey Minor
Conductor: Patrick Vaccariello
