Mr. Dylan shared the bill, though not the stage, with fellow musicians who regularly sang at civil-rights rallies in the early 1960s — Joan Baez, and Bernice Johnson Reagon with the Freedom Singers — and a cross-generational gathering of performers: Smokey Robinson, Jennifer Hudson, John Mellencamp, Yolanda Adams, Natalie Cole, the Blind Boys of Alabama and the Howard University Choir.
A beloved fixture at folk festivals, Seeger was given major credit for fostering the growth of the hootenanny (a gathering of performers playing and singing for each other, often with audience participation) as a characteristically informal and personal style of entertainment.
He also leads local gatherings of performers.
The awards were announced amid an enthusiastic gathering of veteran performers, critics and fans at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater on Monday, January 9. Indiana Woodward.
An unprecedented revolutionary gathering of poets, performers and grassroots activists that radicalized the collaboration of art and activism, and expressed how creativity and solidarity can be both be powerful testaments of celebration and protest.
This gathering of more than 125 artists, performers and scholars will present Cambodian film, dance, visual art, shadow puppetry and more at venues all around the city, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Asia Society and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The city was briefly without a country station in 2007 (it has a major one now), but that same year saw the arrival of the Stagecoach Festival, an annual gathering of the genre's top performers, held in the desert south of L.A. Put on by the same savvy folks who organize Coachella, Stagecoach was the highest-grossing country-music festival in 2014.
The company introduced the new model on Tuesday on a Hollywood backlot filled with hundreds of performers, broadcasting the ceremony to gatherings in New York, Michigan and the Georgetown, Ky., plant where Mr. Toyoda appeared.
From July 12 to 14, Mr. Rubino and his son are holding their first Tattoo Extravaganza at the Meadowlands, with more than 100 tattoo booths, live bands, sideshow performers and a gathering of old-timers from around the globe.
A vast array of performers are available for children's parties or adult gatherings, and many charge surprisingly reasonable rates.
The event soon became as much about the crowd as the performers themselves, as a peaceful gathering of drug-addled music lovers, hippies and activists, gathered together in the final days of the decade that had defined them.
