The event, which will feature a hybrid presentation of in-person and virtual elements, also will be livestreamed. Visit SheRocksAwards.com to purchase tickets, and to find more details about the ceremony, including how to watch it.
Among the other 2022 She Rocks Awards honorees are Bones UK guitarist Carmen Vandenberg — who was one of Jeff Beck‘s main collaborator’s on his 2016 album, Loud Hailer — and Yvette Young, who fronts the math-rock group Covet. Additional honorees will be announced soon.
The ceremony will be co-hosted Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale and AXS TV host Katie Daryl.
“It’s been my pleasure to honor amazing women in music and audio for 10 years!” says She Rocks Awards founder Laura B. Whitmore. “This year’s show will inspire and energize all, both in person and via our livestream. I’m thrilled to kick things off with our announcement of these iconic performers. They are true groundbreakers!”
The She Rocks Awards ceremony is presented by The Women’s International Music Network, a.k.a. The WiMN, and pays tribute to women who have made important contributions to the music industry. The ceremony is held during the music-equipment trade conference The NAMM Show.
Warwick has a series of upcoming shows on her 2022 schedule, including a March 22-23 stand at the City Winery in New York, and a lengthy Las Vegas residency at The Stirling Club that kicks off March 24.
You can check out a new video interview that Daryl conducted with Dionne at AXS TV’s official YouTube channel.
David Crosby and Michael McDonald are among the artists who have contributed their talents to the second album by Canadian singer/songwriter and keyboardist Michelle Willis, Just One Voice, which will be released on April 8.
Willis, who is based in Brooklyn, New York, is perhaps best known for her work with Crosby’s Lighthouse Band and Skytrails Band, the two backing groups that the folk-rock legend has been touring and recording with in recent years.
Michelle says she was inspired to record Just One Voice after playing the title track for David while they were on the road together and he told her, “No one else sounds like this. This is you. You have to make this record.”
Not long after that, Willis was able to secure a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, which helped her get the project rolling.
McDonald is featured on a song called “How Come.” Another contributor to the album is Becca Stevens, who also is a member of Crosby’s Lighthouse Band.
In 2018, Crosby, Willis, Stevens and Snarky Puppy frontman Michael League — a fellow Lighthouse Band member — released the collaborative album Here If You Listen.
Meanwhile, Michelle recently posted on YouTube a 2019 live performance featuring her duetting with David on “Trigger,” a song that appears on Just One Voice.
(New York) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued its spring 2022 outlook for the U.S. on Thursday, forecasting prolonged, persistent drought in the West and likely below-average precipitation for the second year in a row.
The NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center’s forecast predicts above average temperatures for most of the U.S. from April to June, from the Desert Southwest to the East Coast and north through the Midwest to the Canadian border.
The agency also foresees continuing or worsening drought April through June west of the Mississippi River, from Mississippi to California and north to Montana and Washington.
In the West and South, it will be drier than normal, worsening and expanding the drought. But in the East, drought that has been seen in the Southeast and parts of the Great Lakes will likely improve and end over the next few months.
“Severe to exceptional drought has persisted in some areas of the West since the summer of 2020, and drought has expanded to the southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley,” Jon Gottschalck, chief of the operational prediction branch of the NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, said in a press release.
“With nearly 60% of the continental U.S. experiencing minor to exceptional drought conditions, this is the largest drought coverage we’ve seen in the U.S. since 2013,” Gottschalck added.
Katy Perry admits she’s mispronounced “hyperbole” her entire life. The “Roar” singer revealed on Twitter she had pronounced it as “hyper-BOWL” instead of “high-PURR-boh-lee.” Makes you wonder who corrected her.
Camila Cabello told People her new album, Familia, is “the most honest and unfiltered that I’ve been.” A deluxe version of the album will come “with a journal,” which she teased on Instagram earlier. Familia drops April 8.
Taylor Swift crashed pal Antoni Porowski’s romantic snap with his boyfriend, Kevin Harrington. She’s standing behind the two as they pose on a couch.
Jennifer Lopez is filming her new action thriller The Mother. Daily Mailshared the photos of J.Lo in the Spanish city of Gran Canaria dressed in combat attire. The movie’s is set to debut later this year on Netflix.
Gwen Stefani shared her recent Starbucks run on her stories, which “whipped [the workers] into a frenzy.” Kudos to the barista who kept her cool while taking Gwen’s order.
If you missed GAYLE performing her new hit “ur just horny” for the first time on The Late Late Show with James Corden, you can catch it now online.
Don’t go looking for V‘s solo releases, because they have vanished. The BTS singer removed his old tracks because he’s working on his own EP, reports Billboard, which he says will be out “within the year.”
Speaking of BTS, Jungkook switched up his Instagram username to jungkook.97 and fans are upset. His old username was the alphabet spelled out, expect for “j” and “k,” with a space replacing the two letters.
Catch Lizzo on this week’s new episode of Disney+’s The Proud Family. The “Truth Hurts” singer said she “always wanted to be a cartoon” and “screamed” when asked to join the reboot. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.
Katy Perry admits she’s mispronounced “hyperbole” her entire life. The “Roar” singer shared a voice note to her Twitter explaining she had pronounced it as “hyper-BOWL” instead of “high-PURR-boh-lee.” Her tone was flat and comical. It does make you wonder who was the brave soul that corrected her.
Camila Cabello told Peopleher new album, Familia, is “the most honest and unfiltered that I’ve been.” A deluxe version of the album will come “with a journal” that she promises will share “cool little facts and tidbits that people don’t know yet” of each and every song. Familia drops April 8.
Taylor Swift crashed pal Antoni Porowski‘s romantic snap with his boyfriend, Kevin Harrington. She’s standing behind the two as they pose on a couch, possibly unaware she was there. Antoni and the Queer Eye cast starred in Taylor’s “You Need to Calm Down” music video.
Jennifer Lopez is filming her new action thriller, The Mother. Daily Mailshared the photos of J.Lo in the Spanish city of Gran Canaria dressed in combat attire. She was with her co-star Omari Hardwick, who was bloodied up for the shot. Not much is known about the movie, but it’s slated to debut later this year on Netflix.
Gwen Stefani visited a local Sephora to chat about her all new makeup line, GXVE Beauty, and answered fans’ questions in an Instagram live video. But, before she got there, she made a quick pit stop at a local Starbucks, which she showed on her stories. Apparently, her being there “whipped [the workers] into a frenzy.” Kudos to the barista who kept her cool while taking Gwen’s order.
It was previously reported that Top Gun: Maverick will finally land at the Cannes Film Festival, but now Deadline is reporting the star himself, Tom Cruise, will be the focus of a retrospective about his career before the movie screens.
The event will take place May 18.
The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival runs from May 17 to May 28 in France. Incidentally, Cruise’s honor comes 30 years after his first trip to the event, the trade points out, when he was promoting the Ron Howard-directed film Far and Away.
Top Gun: Maverick has been delayed multiple times: The movie, which was initially scheduled to premiere back in 2019, will now fly into theaters on May 27.
The follow-up to the 1986 blockbuster also stars Top Gun veteran Val Kilmer, Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Jon Hamm, Monica Barbero and Miles Teller.
(MIDLAND, TX) — A 13-year-old was at the wheel of the pickup truck that swerved in front of a van carrying the University of the Southwest’s men’s and women’s golf teams, killing nine people, including the underage driver, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Six members of the team and the head coach were killed in the crash. Two remain in critical condition at a Texas hospital.
NTSB Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg told reporters that the Dodge 2500 Ram pickup truck driven by the teen was traveling northbound near Midland, Texas, on Tuesday night when it crossed into the southbound lane and collided head on with the 17-seat passenger van carrying the golf teams. The truck’s left front tire was a spare that failed and caused the vehicle to pull hard left and cross into the opposing lane, according to the NTSB.
In addition to the 13-year-old, whose name was not released, a 38-year-old man, Henrich Siemens, was in the Dodge pickup. Both were killed, as well as the coach, Tyler James, and six golfers in the passenger van.
The players who died were identified as Maurico Sanchez, 19, of Mexico; Travis Garcia, 19, of Pleasanton, Texas; Jackson Zinn, 22, of Westminster, Colorado; Karissa Raines, 21, of Fort Stockton, Texas; Laci Stone, 18, of Nocona, Texas; and Tiago Sousa, 18, of Portugal.
The two passengers in the team van who survived the wreck, Dayton Price,19, of Mississauga, Ontario, and Hayden Underhill, 20, of Amherstview, Ontario, remain hospitalized as of Thursday in Lubbock, Texas, according to the University of the Southwest.
Investigators were able to determine the teen was in the driver’s seat based on the size of the remains inside the truck, according to Landsberg.
Landsberg said his team is going through all of the evidence at the scene, including vehicle recorders, but it does appear that the incident was “very clearly a high speed, head-on collision.” Both vehicles burst into flames after the crash.
“We have literally thousands of pictures that were taken by the various first responders, and there is no question about the force of impact,” he said.
Landsberg added that “quite a number of the bus passengers were not wearing seatbelts,” during the incident.
The NTSB will release a preliminary report on its investigation in two to three weeks, Landsberg said.
Ryan Tipton, the provost of the University of the Southwest, provided an update on the two injured students during a news conference Thursday and said the school would be supporting them during their long journey.
“Every day is a game of inches, and every hour is one step closer to another day,” he said.
Tipton said most students are off campus for spring break but the school is planning to hold a memorial service in honor of those who died when classes resume.
“We are a family of Mustangs,” he said, referring to the school’s mascot. “We’ve run as one, we run together and [when] one of us is hurting, all of us are hurting.”
Justin Bieber opened up to fans about wife Hailey‘s recent health scare during his concert in Denver on Tuesday, and posted video of his comments to Instagram on Thursday. The model suffered “stroke-like symptoms” last week and required hospitalization for a blood clot in her brain, but has since made a full recovery.
Justin told the cheering crowd, “Life randomly throws you curveballs. We can’t really control much…Obviously you guys know [or] most of you probably know or seen the news about my wife.”
The “Sorry” singer assured fans that Hailey is “okay” and “is strong,” but he admitted, “It’s been really scary, but I know for a fact that God has her in the palm of his hands. And that’s a good thing.”
He also told fans he was “grateful to be here with you guys, celebrating life.” Justin turned his attention to the “horrible things happening in earth right now,” and said,” For us to be in this room all together laughing, smiling and singing songs — I can’t think of a better place I’d rather be.”
Justin also encouraged his fans to be open about their insecurities, even though society views such discussions as “uncool.” He remarked, “I think talking about it is the greatest thing you could possibly do, because then you just let it out and people get to know you better. You get to build deeper connections.”
He then declared, “I have insecurities. I have fears. You don’t have to hide those things. That’s what makes you you,” before launching into a performance of his song “As I Am.”
Prior to talking to the audience about Hailey’s health scare, he powered through several technical issues, such as troubles with his microphone and the stage lights.
(FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — Two people are dead and another two injured after a shooting on a public transit bus in Florida, police said.
Another three people were injured in a car crash connected to the incident in Fort Lauderdale Thursday afternoon.
The shooting occurred around 3:25 p.m. on a Broward County Transit bus. The bus driver heard “several gunshots” and pulled into the parking lot of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, according to acting Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Luis Alvarez.
“The bus driver’s quick actions to pull into the police station saved lives,” Alvarez said at a briefing.
The driver forced the bus past another vehicle to get into the parking lot, resulting in the car crash, the chief said. The three people injured in the crash were treated at the scene for minor injuries.
Within an hour of reporting the incident, police said the suspected shooter was in custody. The suspect surrendered to an officer, according to Alvarez.
“We do not believe there to be any further threat to the public,” the Fort Lauderdale Police Department said on Twitter.
The motive is unclear at this time.
All witnesses are being questioned as part of the investigation, police said.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
(WASHINGTON) — As Ukrainians continue to flee their homes and find safety in neighboring countries, some cities are becoming overwhelmed with refugees and are unable to provide them with the resources they need.
“We’ll continue helping. We will accept as many Ukrainians as we need to,” Rafal Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw, Poland, told ABC News Live on Thursday. “But we need assistance, we need international institutions in place. We need a relocation system in Europe and in the world, because we can’t do it alone.”
More than 3 million refugees have fled Ukraine, with over half moving to Poland, according to the United Nations. Warsaw, the capital of Poland, has seen a 20% increase in its population in just a few weeks, according to Trzaskowski. He said the city has welcomed over 300,000 Ukrainians but are no longer able to improvise.
Trzaskowski is calling on the European Union and the United Nations to help set up a system, which would help move refugees in Warsaw to other cities that are less overwhelmed and can better provide the physical and psychological care that’s needed.
“I’m calling myself in the middle of the night, my friends from different cities in Poland and in Europe, and I ask them for assistance. We bus people to different places all over,” Trzaskowski told ABC News Live. “We cannot do it anymore. We need a workable system.”
Trzaskowski said it’s not just beds and food that people need, but that as time goes on, new refugees are coming in having seen more destruction and are in need of immediate mental health services.
“At the beginning, three weeks ago, people who were coming to Warsaw were taken care of by their families and by their friends. Now, people come traumatized by war. They escape rockets, they escape bullets, members of families have been killed, members of their families are stranded in basements,” he explained. “They not only need shelter, they need reassurance. They need a helping hand.”
The mayor said Poland has tried to provide a sense of normalcy for families. Earlier this week, a bill was passed in Polish Parliament to provide Ukrainian children with free education and schooling. The mayor told ABC News Live that more than 10,000 Ukrainian students are already learning in Warsaw classrooms.
“We welcome them and we treat them like citizens,” Trzaskowski said. “We provide any help we can, but there is only so much that we can coordinate.”
Trzaskowski said Warsaw and all of Poland have tried their best to help during this crisis. Polish families have stood at the border, inviting refugees into their homes, feeding people who have gone days without eating or drinking water while traveling and making them feel welcomed into the country while the war continues.
“Without volunteers, without non-governmental organizations, we wouldn’t go anywhere,” the mayor said.
He emphasized that though these efforts have been able to provide for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, more still needs to be done. And without a plan going forward, they will not be able to continue this effort, he said.
The mayor went on to thank the United States for providing support and said it’s made a significant impact throughout this crisis.
“I want to thank President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the whole Biden administration, and the U.S. Congress for being really tough on Russia, for imposing sanctions, for treating them seriously and for those words which are ringing in our ears, which say that the United States of America will defend every inch of NATO territory,” he told us. “And just because we can feel secure, all of us in Europe, because of that statement and because of the actions of the American government, we can do our job in a peaceful manner.”
Trzaskowski added that throughout this refugee crisis, he has looked to the bravery of leaders in Ukraine, which has given him courage to produce a plan that will give every refugee a place to call home while their nation is under attack.
“If President Zelenskyy in Kyiv is not panicking, we’re not going to either,” he said.
