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

Joe and Jill Biden are acceptable to be the Kennedy Center Honors connected Sunday evening successful Washington to observe 5 individuals and groups for their creator accomplishments.

The president and the archetypal woman archetypal went to the yearly lawsuit successful their existent offices successful 2021, donning masks owed to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Donald and Melania Trump, the Bidens' predecessors, skipped the celebration, which is customarily attended by the president.)

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

President Joe Biden holds retired his limb for archetypal woman Jill Biden arsenic they permission the Kennedy Center honorees reception astatine the White House, Dec. 4, 2022, successful Washington.

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Kennedy Center honorees US histrion George Clooney and Bono of the set U2 be a reception for the Kennedy Center Honorees successful the East Room of the White House, Dec. 4, 2022, successful Washington.

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President Joe Biden speaks during the Kennedy Center honorees reception astatine the White House, Dec. 4, 2022, successful Washington.

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"Growing up successful a tiny municipality successful Kentucky I could ne'er person imagined that someday I’d beryllium the 1 sitting successful the balcony astatine the Kennedy Center Honors. To beryllium mentioned successful the aforesaid enactment with the remainder of these unthinkable artists is an honor. This is simply a genuinely breathtaking astonishment for the full Clooney family," Clooney said successful a connection connected the Kennedy Center's website.

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

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden be the 44th Kennedy Center Honors,Dec. 5, 2021, successful Washington.

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The Bidens' quality volition travel aft the mates welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron for a authorities sojourn past week. The president besides traveled to Boston to greet Prince William astatine the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

The halfway each twelvemonth honors artists for their interaction connected American culture. Honorees celebrated successful 2021 included "Saturday Night Live" showrunner Lorne Michaels, vocalist and histrion Bette Midler and vocalist Joni Mitchell.

The solemnisation often serves arsenic a magnet for Washington politicos and Hollywood mainstays, drafting them to the Kennedy Center, situated connected the Potomac River successful the nation's capital.

Kennedy Center Honorees for 2022, Amy Grant, Gladys Knight, George Clooney, Tania León, articulation U2 set members, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr., The Edge, and Bono astatine the State Department, Dec. 3, 2022, successful Washington.

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The recipients of this year's Kennedy Center Honors were announced successful July.

Besides recognizing honorees' creator talents and contributions, the ceremonial is besides intended to rise wealth for the Kennedy Center, which puts connected an array of shows passim the year.