Willie Nelson News

Over the course of 53 years and 58 albums, seminal Irish exports THE CHIEFTAINS have uncompromisingly popularized their country's rich musical heritage, collaborating with some of modern music's biggest names, and ultimately earning the group six Grammys and 18 Grammy nominations. THE CHIEFTAINS are not only the world's most famous traditional Irish musicians, they are some of the most beloved. As comfortable playing spontaneous Irish sessions as they are headlining Carnegie Hall, they make the music their own with a style that is as exhilarating as it is definitive. Thursday, February 20 at 8:00 pm at Marin Veterans' Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags at Civic Center Drive in San Rafael, CA 94903. Tickets are $50, $40, $25, Premium Seats $75, Students 20 and under $20, Bargain seats (rows 25-34) $20; and can be ordered through the Marin Center Box Office at 415-473-6800 or visit www.marincenter.org

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, tonight, January 29 at 7:30pm.

Kicking off the weekend of the Kennys is the three-time Grammy Award winner Kenny Rogers on Saturday, February 8, 2014. Having charted a record within each of the last 7 decades, there are few performers that can say they have the staying power like that of Kenny Rogers. While continuing to tour the world, Kenny Rogers has consistently put out new albums and remains one of Adult Contemporary/Country music's biggest stars, and he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. He also received the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award durning 'The 47th Annual CMA Awards,' last November.

Last night's Grammy Award ceremony was one for the record books. With stunning performances by the music industry elite, one could not help but notice a few soon to be familiar faces.

The latest performers announced for THE 56TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS® were announced today, including seven-time GRAMMY® Award winner Madonna

The latest performers announced for THE 56TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS® were announced today, including seven-time GRAMMY® Award winner Madonna

The Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis is pleased to announce a new Just Added performance, Willie Nelson and Family, performing in Jackson Hall on April 9, 2014 at 8 p.m.

City Winery Napa at the Historic Napa Valley Opera House hased announce the much-anticipated artist lineup from the soft launch in April through June 2014. Over the next few weeks ten new concert dates a week will be released until the complete schedule of approximately twenty shows per month is announced. All shows begin at 8pm unless otherwise noted. Tickets available at citywinery.com.

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

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.