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The Recording Academy has expanded its lineup for the 'GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends,' an awards ceremony and live tribute concert celebrating the 2018 Special Merit Awards honorees on Saturday, July 14, 2018, at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

The Recording Academy has expanded its lineup for the 'GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends®,' an awards ceremony and live tribute concert celebrating the 2018 Special Merit Awards honorees on Saturday, July 14, 2018, at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Added to the lineup are four-time GRAMMY® winner Yolanda Adams, who will perform and honor Tony Agnello and Richard Factor, GRAMMY winner Gustavo Dudamel who will present to John Williams; violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, who will perform in tribute to Williams; and members of The Meters, including Joseph '?Zigaboo' Modeliste, Cyril Neville, Leo Nocentelli, and George Porter Jr. This year's Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are Hal Blaine, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Louis Jordan, The Meters, Queen, and Tina Turner. Additional Special Merit Awards honorees to be celebrated include Bill Graham, Seymour Stein, and Williams, who are this year's Trustees Award honorees, and Agnello and Factor, who are the Technical GRAMMY® Award recipients. Also being honored is Melissa Salguero, this year's recipient of the Music Educator Award. Tickets for the event are on sale now via Ticketmaster.

The founder of the original Commodores is back and he's returning with his signature sound intact with a new high energy show called Thomas McClary's The Commodores Experience.

London-based jazz and neo-soul artist Alba Plano has shared her latest single 'I Hope' via Sunrise, taken from her upcoming EP White Lotus, and follows her debut single 'Out There'. For the last two years, Plano has fronted Forever Amy, a project featuring Amy Winehouse's original band, touring and performing in large venues throughout Europe and the UK. She has performed backing vocals for Ninja Tune's Jordan Rakei and has collaborated with a host of accomplished musicians such as Dale Davis (bass player and musical director for Amy Winehouse, Tina Turner and Freak Power), Jim Hunt (sax for Richard Ashcroft, Brand New Heavies, Noel Gallagher, Jamiroquai) Troy Miller (drummer and producer for Laura Mvula, Becca Stevens, Jamie Cullum) and with a previous project opened for Elio e le Storie Tese at Shepherds Bush Empire.

Direct from 5 sell-out performances in Australia and across the UK, drag superstar Velma Celli delivers an electrifying cabaret featuring the legendary music of Queen, Bowie, Boy George, Lady Gaga, Tina Turner and more in Iconic - A Brief History of Drag. Forget lip-synching for your life, supported by backing singers and an onstage band, this is singing for your soul - from one of the West End's leading performers.

From the producer of hit stage shows The Greatest Love of All Show and The Michael Jackson HIStory Show comes a brand new tribute that will have audiences dancing in their chairs!

While appearing on Consequence of Sound's Kyle Meredith With… podcast Friday, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter announced plans to release a new and final album in 2019. 

Legends in Concert is celebrating 35 years as the longest-running show in Las Vegas with an incomparable cast of music legends.  The acclaimed production, featuring a live band and dancers, will bring audiences to their feet with performances paying tribute to Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and, for the first time ever on the Legends stage, Jon Bon Jovi and Bob Marley at Flamingo Las Vegas July 1 through September 9, 2018. (Elvis Presley runs through July 19 and Johnny Cash runs from July 21 through September 9, 2018.)

Next month, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

Bay Area Cabaret announces its 15th Anniversary Season of shows, its ninth at the legendary Venetian Room (Fairmont Hotel 950 Mason Street atop Nob Hill). This season's stellar lineup features many performers making their Bay Area Cabaret debuts, as well as the return of several favorites. It kicks off on Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 7:00 pm with the San Francisco solo concert debut of Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe award-nominee Matthew Morrison (Glee, Hairspray, South Pacific, Finding Neverland).

West End's free outdoor performance event West End Live took place this past weekend! Check out photos below of the cast of Madagascar, plus Matt Henry, Emma Kingston, Nathan Amzi, Trevor Dion, and Danielle Hope!

Perfect for newbies and know-it-alls alike, Shaken plunges head first into over 50 years of James Bond iconography. Pitting the seven 'James Bond' actors against each other in a race to determine, scientifically, which of them is the greatest all-time Bond. 

Following his live performance appearances in the upcoming Grand Theatre production of Ladies' Day this July, TONY CHRISTIE returns for a full live concert on Saturday 3 November. Tony Christie has enjoyed an incredible career, which includes over forty albums, seventy singles and countless live performances - a living legend and national treasure.

The BROADWAY PRINCESS PARTY is having a homecoming of sorts. The brand, led by Benjamin Rauhala and Laura Osnes (Rodgers and Hammerstein's CINDERELLA), touched down at Feinstein's/54 Below (then simply 54 Below) back in August 2015, returning for four more engagements over the next three years. When the show returns to the space on June 25, it will look a bit different than what New York audiences may have come to expect.

West End's free outdoor performance event West End Live wrapped up yesterday! Check out photos below of the casts of Heathers, Tina, The Lion King and The Barricade Boys!

The War and Treaty were featured on Saturday's edition of NPR's “All Things Considered.” Listen to the full the interview HERE. Of the husband and wife duo,Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Blount-Trotter, host Michel Martin declares, “If you are planning to see any live music this summer, we are told that our next guests are the ones to see.”

HBO has greenlit Storm Over Brooklyn, the winning project of the inaugural Feature Documentary Initiative created in 2017 by award-winning production company Lightbox and the American Black Film Festival (ABFF), as part of their joint initiative to foster diversity in the feature documentary arena.

West End's free outdoor performance event West End Live wraps up today! Matt Henry took to the stage and you can watch his performance below!

West End's free outdoor performance event West End Live wraps up today! Trevor Dion Nicholas, the Genie in Aladdin, took to the stage and you can watch his performance below!

West End's free outdoor performance event West End Live wraps up today! Danielle Hope took to the stage and you can watch her performance below!