{"id":55988,"date":"2016-04-09T15:28:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T20:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=55988"},"modified":"2016-04-09T15:28:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T20:28:51","slug":"martina-mcbride-performs-grammy-salute-to-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/09\/martina-mcbride-performs-grammy-salute-to-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"Martina McBride Performs Grammy Salute to Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-55989\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/martinamcbride002.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"MartinaMcBride002\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/martinamcbride002.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/martinamcbride002-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/martinamcbride002-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/martinamcbride002-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>Martina McBride to Perform at Grammy Salute to Music Legends<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Initial performers announced for \u201cGRAMMY Salute to Music Legends\u2122\u201d include <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Lila Downs, Earth, Wind &amp; Fire, Andy Garcia and the CineSon All Stars, Lucrecia, Martina McBride, and JD Souther<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Recording Academy\u00ae \u00a0will honor its 2016 Special Merit Awards recipients with an awards ceremony and live tribute concert on Saturday, April 23, 2016, at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The event, featuring rare performances by honorees and never-before-seen renditions by those they\u2019ve inspired, is produced in partnership with THIRTEEN as part of the \u201cGreat Performances\u201d series on PBS, set to air later this year. Additional performers will be announced shortly. Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are Ruth Brown, Celia Cruz, Earth, Wind &amp; Fire, Herbie Hancock, Jefferson Airplane, Linda Ronstadt, and RUN DMC. John Cage, Fred Foster, and Chris Strachwitz are Trustees Award honorees; and EMT and Dr. Harvey Fletcher are Technical GRAMMY\u00ae Award recipients. Also being honored is Phillip Riggs, this year\u2019s recipient of the Music Educator Award\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>Paying tribute to three-time GRAMMY winner and four-time Latin GRAMMY\u00ae winner Celia Cruz \u2014 internationally known as the \u201cQueen Of Salsa\u201d \u2014 are Latin GRAMMY nominee Lucrecia and GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY winner Andy Garc\u00eda, who will bring his Cuban musical group, Andy Garcia And The CineSon All Stars, to the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Honorees and six-time GRAMMY winners Earth, Wind &amp; Fire, one of the most important and innovative musical forces influencing music and popular culture across generations, are set to give what will be a roof-raising performance.<\/p>\n<p>A salute to 10-time GRAMMY winner Linda Ronstadt will feature pop, country, and Latin musical offerings from GRAMMY and four-time Latin GRAMMY winner Lila Downs and GRAMMY nominees Martina McBride and JD Souther.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martina McBride to Perform at Grammy Salute to Music Legends Initial performers announced for \u201cGRAMMY Salute to Music Legends\u2122\u201d include Lila Downs, Earth, Wind &amp; Fire, Andy Garcia and the CineSon All Stars, Lucrecia, Martina McBride, and JD Souther The Recording Academy\u00ae \u00a0will honor its 2016 Special Merit Awards recipients with an awards ceremony and live tribute concert on Saturday, April 23, 2016, at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. 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