The event on October first will honor some of the biggest names in bluegrass music.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

And she is not the first television host to receive a Kennedy Center honor.

VOA: special.2010.12.06

Seymour,at first, said he could not accept the honor.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Backstage,she said she hopes she is the first of many women directors to earn the honor, the highest in Hollywood.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Diatta says silence to preserve the family's honor often is a family's first reaction when a girl is raped.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

President Obama says the honor is particularly meaningful for the first native of the former East Germany to lead a unified Germany.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"We honor the women who traveled those lonely roads to be the first ones in those court rooms, to be the first ones in those board rooms, to be the first ones on those playing fields, and to be the first ones on those battlefields.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08