Kennedy Center announces honorees

Published: Sept. 6, 2005 at 1:25 PM

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Tony Bennett, Tina Turner, Robert Redford, Julie Harris and dancer Suzanne Farrell will receive 2005 Kennedy Center Honors, it was announced Tuesday.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington has honored artists based on their lifetime contributions to American culture for the past 28 years.

The 2005 awards will be given during a State Department dinner Sept. 3 then celebrated the following night with a musical gala at Washington's Kennedy Center Opera House.

The Honors Gala will be recorded for broadcast on CBS in December.

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