41st Annual Kennedy Center Honors Announces Full List Of Honorees And Performers
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