Bob Wills Selected for Lifetime Achievement Grammy Tue. December 19.2006 5:49 PM EST
Western swing bandleader Bob Wills will be honored posthumously with the Recording Academy's lifetime achievement award at a ceremony during the upcoming Grammy Week activities in Los Angeles. Others announced for the award include Joan Baez, Booker T. & the MGs, opera singer Maria Callas, jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, the Doors and the Grateful Dead. Wills, who died in 1975, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968. The Recording Academy will also bestow trustees awards on Stax Records co-founder Estelle Axton, New Orleans recording studio owner Cosimo Matassa and Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim. The 49th annual Grammy Awards will be held Feb. 11 at Staples Center. Wreckers, Big & Rich Perform During NHL All-Star Activities Tue. December 19.2006 5:49 PM EST The Wreckers, Big & Rich, Trisha Yearwood, and Garth Brooks are among those scheduled to appear during the National Hockey League's All-Star Celebration taking place Jan. 20-24 in Dallas. The Wreckers will sing the national anthem prior to the all-star game on Jan. 24 at the American Airlines Center and will also perform during the intermission. Big & Rich will headline a private party sponsored by the NHL on Jan. 23 at Gilley's club. Yearwood will perform during a concert benefiting Brooks' Teammates for Kids charity. Brooks will host the event taking place April 22 at the Hyatt Regency. Former Nashville Novelist Pens Charity Christmas Song Tue. December 19.2006 5:49 PM EST Novelist and songwriter Cathie Pelletier, who co-wrote the Texas Tornados single "Who Were You Thinkin' Of" while she was living in Nashville, has written and executive produced a Christmas record to raise funds for charities in her current hometown of Fort Kent, Maine. Pelletier drafted ordinary townspeople -- including a carpenter, a janitor and a FedEx driver -- to sing the song, "Northern Maine Christmas." Under the name K. C. McKinnon, Pelletier wrote the novel Candles on the Bay Street, which recently aired on CBS-TV as a Hallmark Hall of Fame film starring Alicia Silverstone. Kay __._,_.___ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
