Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King are taking a trip down memory lane!
08.04.2022 - 00:49 / variety.com
Chris Willman Music WriterWhat were the odds that the Recording Academy would honor the woman that many consider the greatest living female songwriter, Joni Mitchell, and great living male songwriter, Paul Simon, within a week’s time of one another? And yet that’s what happened as last Friday’s pre-Grammys MusiCares tribute to Mitchell in Las Vegas was followed Wednesday in Los Angeles with “Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon,” both with spectacularly curated lineups worthy of the feted. And although the Mitchell night is not set to be publicly aired, the good news for fans is that the Simon salute was filmed for a future CBS broadcast and is destined to be one of the highlights of the music-TV year.
The taping at L.A.’s Pantages Theatre, which was open to the public, had a significant portion of its lineup announced when tickets first went on sale, including Dave Matthews, Billy Porter, Brad Paisley, Rhiannon Giddens, Angélique Kidjo, Little Big Town, Trombone Shorty, Shaggy, Take 6 and Irma Thomas. But the roster was significantly filled out with additional performers Wednesday, including Garth Brooks with his wife Trisha Yearwood, Stevie Wonder, the Jonas Brothers, Eric Church, Jimmy Cliff, Ledisi, the Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Eric Idle in tandem with Puddles Pity Party.Presenters included Oprah Winfrey, Dustin Hoffman (who introduced “Mrs.
Robinson,” naturally), Woody Harrelson, Herbie Hancock and Sophia Carson. Previously recorded performances by Sting and Bonnie Raitt appeared on the big screen during the live show.
Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King are taking a trip down memory lane!
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Eric Church has promised fans a free concert in Texas after outrage over his decision to cancel a show to watch a college basketball game.Exclusive: Carly Pearce teases exciting tour update that fans will love"Thank you to San Antonio for letting me take my family to this game," he wrote in an Instagram post on Friday.
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Chris Willman Music WriterCountry star Eric Church, who’s taken a social media battering for canceling a sold-out concert to attend an NCAA tournament game, is looking to make it up to Texas fans who were unhappy about being spurned for a ballgame.Church sent a message to ticketholders — or former ticketholders — for the show that was to have taken place Saturday night at AT&T Center in San Antonio, telling them they would be invited to a makeup show in the nearby city of New Braunfels in five months.“Thank you San Antonio for letting me take my family to this game,” Church wrote. “It took a minute to figure out how and when I could properly express my thanks.