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    After Missing Last Year, 2021 Kennedy Center Honors Are Announced

    COVID cancelled the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2020. Today the Center announced that the show will go on in May 2021, honoring five extraordinary performers.
    by Elizabeth Blair Jan 13, 2021 2 minutes
    Clockwise from upper left: Debbie Allen, Garth Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Joan Baez and Midori Goto.

    The annual Kennedy Center Honorees have been announced: choreographer, and actress Debbie Allen; singer-songwriter and activist Joan Baez; country singer-songwriter Garth Brooks; violinist Midori; and actor Dick Van Dyke.

    The Kennedy Center Honors are prestigious, "lifetime artistic achievement" awards that are typically announced over the summer and then celebrated at a splashy gala performance in December that is later broadcast Honors Gala will be modified to meet safety protocols with a series of smaller events for reduced audiences to take place over the course of a week beginning May 17.

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