Lincoln Center’s American Songbook 2015 History of past performers, composers and lyricists

Artists who have appeared on the American Songbook series include Karen Akers, Matt Alber, Herb Alpert and Lani Hall, Keren Ann, Kate Baldwin, Laura Benanti, Andy Bey, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Stephanie Blythe, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lawrence Brownlee, Jonatha Brooke, Betty Buckley, Ann Hampton Callaway, Calexico, Bill Callahan, Liz Callaway, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jim Caruso, Neko Case, Rosanne Cash, Michael Cerveris, Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Cincotti, Victoria Clark, Barbara Cook, Eric Comstock, Gavin Creel, Rodney Crowell, Alan Cumming, Michael Daves, Dean & Britta, Mos Def, Deer Tick, Dirty Projectors, John Doe, Christine Ebersole, Kurt Elling, Raúl Esparza, Marianne Faithfull, Sutton Foster, The Fountains of Wayne, Bebel Gilberto, Jonathan Groff, Ann Harada, Mary Cleere Haran, Darius de Haas, Joe Henry, Fred Hersch, Mellissa Hughes, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Jason Isbell, Sarah Jasosz, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Jane Krakowski, Leslie Kritzer, Judy Kuhn, LaChanze, k.d. lang, Bettye LaVette, Amos Lee, Sondre Lerche, Norm Lewis, Patti Loveless, The Low Anthem, Rebecca Luker, Patti LuPone, Taylor Mac, Kathy Mattea, Nellie McKay, Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, Del McCoury, Audra McDonald, Lori McKenna, Nellie McKay, Lindsay Mendez, Meow Meow, Alan Menken, Ingrid Michaelson, The Milk Carton Kids, Cristin Milioti, Patina Miller, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jessica Molaskey, Jane Monheit, Thurston Moore, Mark Mulcahy, Megan Mullally, Alexi Murdoch, James Naughton, Kelli O’Hara, Beth Orton, Joan Osborne, Ozomatli, Marco Paguia, Tonya Pinkins, John Pizzarelli, Martha Plimpton, Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Steve Ross, Stephin Merritt with The Magnetic Fields, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tom Morello, Nico Muhly, Aoife O’Donovan, Stephen Oremus, Elaine Paige, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Anika Noni Rose, Lea Salonga, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Jimmy Scott, Valerie Simpson, Connie Smith, Patti Smith, Todd Snider, Ben Sollee, JD Souther, Mavis Staples, Sufjan Stevens, Stew, Billy Stritch, Elaine Stritch, Marty Stuart, St. Vincent, Paulo Szot, They Might Be Giants, Chris Thile, tUnE-yArDs, Leslie Uggams, Suzanne Vega, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, Deborah Voigt, Lillias White, Dar Williams, Shara Worden, Lizz Wright, David Yazbek and John Lloyd Young.

The series has also presented concerts highlighting the music of composers and lyricists such as Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Harold Arlen, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Leonard Bernstein, Jason Robert Brown, William Bolcom and Arnold Weinstein, John Bucchino, William Finn, Michael Friedman, Gabriel Kahane, John Kander & Fred Ebb, Kait Kerrigan & Brian Lowdermilk, Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey, Henry Krieger, Michael John LaChiusa, Cy Coleman, George and Ira Gershwin, Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel, David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez, Lance Horne, Carolyn Leigh, Frank Loesser, Alan Menken, Joni Mitchell, Cole Porter, Andy Razaf, Richard Rodgers, Arthur Schwartz, Duncan Sheik, Stephen Sondheim, Billy Strayhorn, Charles Strouse, Jule Styne, Jeanine Tesori, Jimmy Van Heusen, and David Zippel.