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John Soeder, The Plain Dealer Lucinda Williams performs Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, during the Janis Joplin tribute concert at PlayhouseSquare's State Theatre. Read More

Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Aretha Franklin, Chrissie Hynde, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant — to town for once-in-a-lifetime tribute concerts. Read More

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is celebrating the career of Janis Joplin as part of the 14th Annual American Music Masters Series. Read More

Tabla Rasa Gallery [224 48th Street in Sunset Park, (718) 833-9100], www.tablarasagallery.com. Music, Opera songs: Regina Opera offers scenes from "Rigoletto," "La Boheme," "Le Nozze di Figaro" and "Il Giuramento." $20. 6 pm. Read More

The queen of Woodstock has returned to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's fitting that with the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music & Arts Fair, one of the festival's iconic musical figures will be the focus during the Rock Hall's 14th annual American Music Masters series. Read More

Raised in Illinois by her music scholar mother, Barnett was a professor of history and Africana studies at Sarah Lawrence College from 2003 to 2006 (she now teaches in the SLC Writing Institute), lectures worldwide, and in conversation is prone to long, academic pauses so that she never says more than exactly what she means. Read More

John Russell, Associated Press Lucinda Williams, seen here performing at the 2003 Bonnaroo music festival in Manchester, Tenn., is headed to Cleveland for an American Music Masters salute to Janis Joplin. Read More

→Actor Fyvush Finkel ("Boston Public," "Picket Fences"), 87. Read More