Willie Nelson News

Segerstrom Center's Off Center Festival returns for its third consecutive year today, January 23 - February 2. This year's festival will showcase an entirely new lineup of wonderfully creative and innovative contemporary performance companies and artists.

Columbia Records and Legacy Recording, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Bob Dylan - The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration - Deluxe Edition

Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age Dave Grohl and Lindsey Buckingham will close THE 56TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS.

The latest performers announced for THE 56TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS® are current GRAMMY® Award nominee Gary Clark, Jr., nominee Hunter Hayes

PBS today announced at the Television Critics Association a new addition to the Ken Burns pipeline, COUNTRY MUSIC. The film will air in 2018.

Tickets for the 2014 Spring Season at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts go on sale Jan. 24. The all-star lineup boasts award-winning musicians, speakers, famed dance troupes and returning favorites.

John Legend, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban, as well as nominee Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr - who as members of the Beatles will receive the 2014 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.

January 10, 2014 International legend Engelbert Humperdinck plays the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Sunday, January 19th at 8:00pm. Mr. Humperdinck's impressive forty year international career has sold over 150 million records and remains a constant force in the music industry. With his heavenly voice, romance serves as the core of Engelbert Humperdinck's music with his number one hits, "Release Me," "The Last Waltz," "After the Lovin," and "A Man Without Love".

The latest performers announced for THE 56TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS® are current GRAMMY® Award nominee Lorde; nominee Katy Perry; and eight-time GRAMMY Award-winning group Metallica

The South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) today announced the ambitious performance schedule for January - May 2014. From Grammy Award- winners such as Paula Cole to guitar legends including Johnny Winter to a night of comedy with Jay Mohr, SOPAC's 2014 season sates every artistic appetite. With a nod to sounds of Americana, SOPAC serves a heaping of national folk treasures in a robust singer/songwriter concert series. As always, SOPAC welcomes its ongoing Juilliard @ SOPAC classical concert series as well as the Jazz in the LOFT and the Blues in the LOFT series.

El Cid presents the best in live Americana, roots, and outlaw country music with its weekly Honky Tonk Hacienda Todays. Jazz Tuesdays-The Moonrise Club on Tuesdays and today January 30 and February 13 brings old time, hot jazz, western swing, and other acoustical iterations from the 20's and 30's to El Cid.

El Cid presents the best in live Americana, roots, and outlaw country music with its weekly Honky Tonk Hacienda Thursdays. Jazz Tuesdays-The Moonrise Club on Tuesdays and on Thursday January 30 and February 13 brings old time, hot jazz, western swing, and other acoustical iterations from the 20's and 30's to El Cid.

Bergen Performance Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey will present An Acoustic Evening With Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt on Tuesday January 28th, 2014 at 8PM. Tickets are $95, $75, $65, $55, & $45 and available at www.ticketmaster.com or www.bergenpac.org or the Box Office (201) 227 1030.

Steve Goodman, the Chicago-born folk music singer-songwriter whose promising career was cut short in 1984, is brought to life by Elaine St. George, in a loving and irreverent tribute that begins an extended run at Don't Tell Mama, 343 West 46th Street, on Wednesday January 29 at 7:30pm.

The Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has announced its March 2014 events. Details below!

TLC's hit series Cake Boss returns to Monday nights at 9pm starting December 30, and the season kicks off on a high note when Buddy and the Carlo's Bakery team are asked to make a cake for Willie Nelson's 80th Birthday.

Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt are set to perform an acoustic evening at The Capitol Center for the Arts on Saturday, January 18 , 2014 at 7:30pm. Tickets start at $34.50 and are available at the Capitol Center box office, located at 44 South Main Street, Concord, NH, via phone at 603-225-1111, and online at www.ccanh.com

Nine-time Grammy winners Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel delivers Santa Loves to Boogie at The Grand 1894 Opera House for one not-to-miss holiday treat Today, December 21 at 8pm. With a repertoire that combines the band's most popular songs with holiday favorites and originals such as 'Christmas in Jail', 'Merry Texas Christmas Y'all', 'Pretty Paper', and many more performed in true eggnog -swinging style as only Asleep at the Wheel can deliver. This performance is part of Galveston's Passport to Holiday Magic activities and events.

Award-winning musical theater superstar, Patti LuPone, who has portrayed some of Broadway's most memorable roles, returns to Segerstrom Center for the Arts for a special one-night-only performance of her latest concert, Far Away Places on Saturday, March 22 at 8 p.m. in the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.

The first performers announced for THE 56TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS® are current GRAMMY® nominee Daft Punk, nominee Kendrick Lamar and nominee Imagine Dragons, who will also perform together