Bidens attend Kennedy Center Honors for Gladys Knight, George Clooney, U2, more



Joe and Jill Biden attended the Kennedy Center Honors connected Sunday evening successful Washington to person amusive 5 radical and agencies for their inventive accomplishments.

The president and the archetypal miss archetypal went to the yearly juncture of their existent places of enactment successful 2021, donning disguise due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Donald and Melania Trump, the Bidens' predecessors, skipped the party, that's usually attended done the president.)

This year, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts honored histrion and quality rights activistic George Clooney, vocalist Amy Grant, performer Gladys Knight, composer and conductor Tania León and Irish set U2.

"Growing up successful a tiny metropolis successful Kentucky I should by nary means person imagined that someday I’d beryllium the lone sitting wrong the balcony astatine the Kennedy Center Honors. To beryllium noted wrong the identical enactment with the relaxation of those awesome artists is an honor. This is simply a truly thrilling marvel for the full Clooney family," Clooney stated successful a declaration astatine the Kennedy Center's website.

Vice President Kamala Harris and 2nd man Doug Emhoff were besides slated to hold Sunday night's event.

The Bidens' look came aft the mates welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron for a kingdom sojourn past week. The president additionally traveled to Boston to greet Prince William astatine the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

The halfway each 12 months honors artists for his oregon her effect connected American subculture. Honorees celebrated successful 2021 blanketed "Saturday Night Live" showrunner Lorne Michaels, vocalist and histrion Bette Midler and vocalist Joni Mitchell.

The day solemnisation regularly serves arsenic a magnet for Washington s and Hollywood mainstays, drafting them to the Kennedy Center, located astatine the Potomac River wrong the country's capital.

The recipients of this yr's Kennedy Center Honors had been introduced successful July.

Besides spotting honorees' originative skills and contributions, the rite is besides meant to elevate wealth for the Kennedy Center, which places connected an array of shows passim the yr.