Amy Grant

Amy Grant was honored during the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony with musical performances by Sheryl Crow and The Highwomen.

[said of the recognition](https://www.everythingnash.com/amy-grant-u2-gladys-knight-among-kennedy-center-honorees/). Although disappointing at the time, the 62-year-old now says she is [grateful for the season of rest](https://www.everythingnash.com/amy-grant-feels-gratitude-quietest-season-following-bike-accident/). “Or somebody sits down for a conversation and you’re giving 100 percent attention, but you also can’t make the next thing on the calendar completely go away. For someone who has worked nearly nonstop since her debut album came out 45 years ago, the break was not something Grant did easily. Indeed, her recovery time included very little work, as she was told to limit screen time and focus on rest and healing. “Well, you’ve done it and you’re still doing it.”

The 'Kennedy Center Honors' TV broadcast has Eddie Vedder covering U2, the Highwomen saluting Amy Grant and Ariana DeBose doing Gladys Knight.

Blige was supposed to sing “One,” which she famously performed with the group for a 2005 benefit and subsequent single, but fell ill, so Eddie Vedder was tasked with covering that in addition to his scheduled “Elevation.” You could do worse than to have Pearl Jam’s frontman be the one pressed into emergency double duty in representing the U2 catalog, even though it’s too on-the-nose a pick to represent something transformative, the way the choice of Blige once did. True story.” That’s a hard legacy to live up to, but to the extent that Wesley Morris is quoted in an introductory film as saying she “made us all her Pips,” there’s a wealth of appropriate talent on hand to uphold her, from Garth Brooks pointing out the country origins of “Midnight Train to Georgia” to her friend of six decades, Patti LaBelle, leading the inevitable “That’s What Friends Are For” group-sing. Amy Grant gets a very well-rounded musical salute, which begins with Sheryl Crow testifying to her secular side with “Baby Baby” and ends with Michael W. (Even Clooney earns a musical number as part of his salute, though, as Dianne Reeves pops up to serenade the actor-director with “How High the Moon,” a standard she sang in his “Good Night, and Good Luck” film 17 years ago.) Kudos, anyway, to CBS for keeping all the anti-antisemitism stuff in (even if they probably would have taken hell for cutting it after Cohen’s routine was so widely reported). The Bidens and Harrises are on hand for a program honoring

Hemby and her fellow Highwomen were among the featured performers of the night, paying tribute to the five honorees—Grant, George Clooney, U2, Gladys Knight, ...

[said of the honor](https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). [wrote on social media](https://www.instagram.com/p/CmuHQm_O9t3/) prior to the broadcast. Hemby and her fellow Highwomen were among the featured performers of the night, paying tribute to the five honorees—Grant, George Clooney, U2, Gladys Knight, and Tania León.

The six-time Grammy winner was on hand to receive her award. It's one of her first television appearances since recovering from injuries sustained in a biking ...

[Highwomen](https://tasteofcountry.com/tags/the-highwomen/). The six-time Grammy winner was on hand to receive her award. In addition to the Highwomen, other artists performed in Grant's honor.