Kennedy Center Honors {KCHonors}~

The Kennedy Center Honors is returning to tradition this year.
Sunday’s ceremony, which will be broadcast Dec. 22 by CBS, is the centerpiece of the Kennedy Center’s 50th anniversary of cultural programming.
 The center opened in 1971.

The lifetime achievement awards for artistic excellence will be presented Sunday night in a gala at the Kennedy Center’s main opera house after the coronavirus pandemic forced delays and major changes to last year’s plans.

Honorees include Motown Records creator Berry Gordy,
  Saturday Night Live mastermind Lorne Michaels,
 actress-singer Bette Midler,
 opera singer Justino Diaz and folk music legend Joni Mitchell

2021 Kennedy Center honorees, from left, Justino Díaz, Lorne Michaels,

 Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler, and Berry Gordy pose following the Medallion Ceremony for the 44th annual Kennedy Center Honors on

 Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, at the Library of Congress in Washington