On May 21, the 75-year-old rock legend made good on that promise, as France’s ambassador to the United States Philippe Etienne bestowed her with the Legion d’Honneur, his country’s highest order of merit. “It’s an indescribable honor, I understand the gravity of it,” she told AFP backstage, after delivering a spirited performance alongside her daughter Jesse on piano and her long-time collaborator and guitarist Lenny Kaye.

Grammy-winning Beninese singer, Angelique Kidjo, is the recipient of the Headies Hall of Fame in its 2022 edition. This was announced on the Headies official Instagram page, alongside the full list of the nominations for the music award.

U2 songwriters Bono and The Edge performed a pastoral set in Ukraine, setting up in one of Kyiv’s subway stations, now doubling as a bomb shelter, on the invitation from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

“The people in Ukraine are not just fighting for your own freedom, you are fighting for all of us who love freedom,” U2 vocalist Bono told the audience, veteran soldiers included. “We pray that you will enjoy some of that peace soon.”

Patti Smith performed last night at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Okla., marking the second evening of festivities related to the opening of the Bob Dylan Center.

The Bob Dylan Center will officially open to the public on May 10, featuring hundreds of items from the singer-songwriter's vast archive, including handwritten lyric sheets, letters from fans, instruments and other various interactive installations.

JONESBORO — Arkansas State University held its 2022 spring graduation ceremony Saturday morning along with conferring an honorary doctoral degree upon one of America’s great singer/songwriters, women of letters, and historic preservationists, Rosanne Cash.

The Board of Trustees voted in March 2020 to award the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, but the presentation was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. “It is with deep gratitude that I accept this honor and the beautiful acknowledgement that goes with it that I am an ancestral daughter of Arkansas,” said Cash as she addressed the graduates and the audience in Centennial Stadium.

Carly Simon has faced her fear of flying before. In 1971, she forced herself to board a plane to Los Angeles for her first-ever show at the Troubadour, where she opened for Cat Stevens. In 1989, she made another momentous trip there, this time to attend the Academy Awards, where “Let the River Run,” from Working Girl, won her a Best Original Song trophy. And this fall, she’ll return to L.A. for the 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where she’s finally being inducted after being eligible since 1996.

“There’s that first thought of, ‘I don’t believe it. It must be the House of Pancakes I just got into,'” says Simon. Simon spoke to RS about getting into the Hall of Fame, the upcoming film adaptation to her 2015 memoir Boys in the Trees, and the 50th anniversary of No Secrets.

Eclectic singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo was born in 1960 on the cusp of a new era: Her homeland, now called Benin, was just two weeks away from becoming independent from France. But her ancestral village, Ouidah, remained haunted by its past. It was one of the most notorious centers for transport of enslaved people to the Americas.

That history is the inspiration for “Yemandja,” a musical theater piece conceived by Kidjo; Jean Hébrail, her husband; and Naïma Hebrail Kidjo, their daughter. Angélique Kidjo leads a cast of 10 in the central role of a Yoruban orisha (or spirit) in the production, which makes its Washington bow May 6 and 7 at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater.

Veteran Belgian singer Arno, a rock icon known for his husky voice and unruly hair, died on Saturday from cancer at the age of 72, his agent announced. Arno, born Arnold Hintjens, was a national icon in Belgium, his gravelly voice compared to that of US singer-songwriter Tom Waits. Arno had announced in February 2020 that he was suffering from pancreatic cancer. "We'll all miss him, but he'll always be here thanks to the music that kept him going until the end," his Belgian agent Filip De Groote said in a statement.

Don't stop her now! The 'Bohemian Rhapsody' star teases her biggest role yet.

Lucy Boynton is no stranger to musicians. She played Freddie Mercury’s former fiancée and best friend Mary Austin in Bohemian Rhapsody, getting to know Queen rock stars Brian May and Roger Taylor in the process. She holds raucous karaoke sessions with actor-singer Ben Platt, her co-star on Netflix‘s The Politician. And when she was cast as Marianne Faithfull in an upcoming biopic, the ‘60s icon gave Boynton her personal seal of approval.

With her massive late ’80s hits “Luka” and “Tom’s Diner” and their parent albums, Suzanne Vega (1985) and Solitude Standing (1987), singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega returned folk rock to the mainstream, opening the door for up-and-coming artists like Tracy Chapman, Edie Brickell, and Ani DiFranco. Vega visits Levon Helm Studios on April 23 at 8pm.

It also appears on abcnews.com describing how the “pop queen” responsible for such hits as “You’re So Vain,” “Anticipation” and “Nobody Does It Better” fell ill during the first of two shows there that night. ''I had two choices,'' Simon told The New York Times. ''I could either leave the stage and say I was sick or tell the audience the truth. I decided to tell them I was having an anxiety attack, and they were incredibly supportive. They said, 'Go with it — we'll be with you.'

Angelique Kidjo makes it clear that this is a category that should have a mission: "We've got to educate people to understand that it's not just commercial music that is 'music.' We have music in the global category that is the roots of all the commercial music that people are listening to. It's important to go back and find out where the commercial music you are listening to comes from. "We need to bring the topic of global music to the forefront of the Grammys. We need to have a constant discussion to improve and get better. The whole world is watching."

Beninese diva-superstar Angelique Kidjo and David Byrne had known each other for many years before they ever thought about working together. In 2018, Kidjo released Remain in Light, a track-by-track reimagination of the seminal record by the Talking Heads, of which Byrne was the large-suited frontman. And amidst a lockdown landscape, both have stayed hard at work, with Kidjo—who is nominated for three Grammys this year, including Best Global Music Album and Best Global Music Performance—starring in Yemanja, a music theater performance that she created with her daughter, and Byrne starring in American Utopia, the Broadway adaptation of his tenth studio album. The two remain close, though in light of the pandemic, they haven’t had an extended chance to chat until now. In order to reconnect, they hopped on the phone to discuss African musical entrepreneurship, generational shifts in young artists’ agency, and what’s to come for Afrobeats at large.

The Schaefer Center Presents series, presented by Appalachian State University’s Office of Arts and Cultural Programs, welcomes award-winning singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash to Boone on Saturday, April 9 at 7pm. The iconic Americana artist will close out the 2021-22 season with a concert spanning new songs (“Crawl into the Promised Land”), revered classics (“Seven Year Ache”) and all the memories in between.

The 6th annual Love Rocks NY took place Thursday night at the Beacon Theater in NYC lasting nearly four hours. The event featured a stellar lineup of artists including the reunion of Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos, Mavis Staples, baseball legend Bernie Williams, Hozier, Anders Osborne, and Larkin Poe as well as several celebrity speakers.

The Weight Band, an ensemble featuring former members of The Band and The Levon Helm Band, will release a new record titled Shines Like Gold on Friday, April 1. Shines Like Gold is the second album from the group, and was previewed with a video for “Out of the Wilderness”.

Warren Haynes announced via social media that Gov’t Mule‘s spring tour, which was scheduled to commence on April 6th, has been postponed due to a shoulder injury he suffered while on vacation with his family in Costa Rica this past weekend. As noted in the announcement, Warren Haynes is expected to recover in time for Gov’t Mule to hit the road this summer, as planned, according to doctors. View a list of the postponed spring tour dates below, and stay tuned for updates.

Australian music greats have banded together to help raise money for flood-ravaged communities in the nation’s east.

Part of Queensland and NSW were submerged in waters, forcing locals to flee their homes.

Dozens of people also lost their lives in the unprecedented weather event.

The rest of the nation has been asked to dig deep into their pockets and raise money to help the hundreds of thousands of flood victims.

On Thursday evening, some of the music and entertainment world’s biggest stars came together at the Beacon Theatre for the sixth edition of Love Rocks NYC, the marathon benefit for Gods Love We Deliver produced by famed fashion designer John Varvatos alongside Greg Williamson and Nicole Rechter.

Cocaine, violence... and who the fuck is Neil Diamond ?

Despite forging her own way as a successful actor and singer, acclaimed for her collaborations with Lars von Trier, Charlotte Gainsbourg has been compared to her father Serge and mom Jane Birkin all her life, she says. In directorial debut “Jane by Charlotte,” she comes back to the subject on her own terms. Shown at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival this week following its Cannes premiere, the film is sold internationally by The Party Film Sales.

Around the world, Benin-born singer, songwriter and activist Angélique Kidjo is musical royalty. Widely considered the “Queen of African Music,” she has performed at United Nations, Olympic and Nobel Prize ceremonies, collaborated with musical luminaries from Bono to Philip Glass and recorded numerous albums, four of which have won Grammy Awards.

On Friday, March 4, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, she will become a goddess in “Yemandja.”

The first night of married couple Roseanne Cash and John Leventhal’s four-day run at SFJAZZ (through Sun/27, tickets still available) mostly explored her vaunted family legacy. Cash shone while gave us songs from “The List,” the 100-track rundown of the most essential sounds in country music history, as assessed by her knowledgeable dad, Johnny Cash. There were a few surprises though—including her delivery of two Dylan songs.

With a legacy as imposing and multifarious as Johnny Cash’s, there’s no way to encompass it on a single album. Rather than making a quixotic attempt to wrap up her father’s life in a concise musical statement, Rosanne Cash took a more elliptical path with her 2009 album The List. The concept was elegant, sentimental, and deeply gratifying, with the singer-songwriter interpreting a dozen folk and country standards gleaned from a list of 100 essential tunes that Johnny Cash recommended she learn as a budding 18-year-old musician.