AP - Oct 14, 2009
Harry Connick Jr. says he did the right thing by expressing his outrage at a blackface skit poking fun at the Jackson Five in Australia last week. I m pleased with the way I handled the situation, the...
More »AP - Oct 8, 2009
An Australian variety show host has apologized for a skit in which singers parodying the Jackson Five performed in blackface. American singer and actor Harry Connick Jr., who was serving as a guest judge...
More »AP - Feb 18, 2009
Harry Connick Jr. is going home for Mardi Gras. The New Orleans native and co-founder of the Krewe of Orpheus is returning home to celebrate Mardi Gras with his family, friends and Krewe mates. He will...
More »AP - May 14, 2008
As former President Jimmy Carter nailed down the front porch of a home under construction Wednesday, singer Harry Connick Jr. gave an update on the progress being made in the Upper 9th Ward, an area slow...
More »AP - May 6, 2008
Harry Connick Jr. and the Gershwins, George and Ira Broadway s newest trio. The jazz pianist-singer will return to Broadway in spring 2009 in Nice Work If You Can Get It, a new musical comedy...
More »E! Online - Mar 13, 2008
It had to be him. Apparently fearful of the revolutionary potential of Harry Connick Jr.'s song stylings, Chinese censors, still reeling from the recent Björking, brought down the hammer on...
More »AP - Mar 13, 2008
Singer-pianist Harry Connick Jr. is the latest Western performer to bump up against China s cultural restrictions. Connick said Thursday he was forced to make last-minute changes to his show last weekend...
More »Reuters - Sep 13, 2007
Actor and musician Harry Connick Jr. returned to his hometown to break ground on Thursday on a project aimed at restoring a New Orleans music scene damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Connick and musician...
More »AP - Sep 13, 2007
Harry Connick Jr. walked through the Bourbon Street jazz club where he performed as a child, saying repeatedly how amazed he is that so little has changed. It s exactly the same, the singer-pianist...
More »AP - May 5, 2007
Singer Harry Connick Jr. wielded a paintbrush. R&B heartthrob John Legend did a little laundry. The two were among the musicians performing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and giving back...
More »AP - Jan 30, 2007
Harry Connick Jr., Oh My Nola (Columbia); Chanson du Vieux Carre (Marsalis Music) When Hurricane Katrina struck, Harry Connick, Jr. rushed to his hometown days before the National Guard arrived, traveling...
More »AP - Jan 19, 2007
The Neville Brothers, the closing act for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival for more than a decade before Hurricane Katrina, will miss the musical fete in their hometown for the second year in...
More »AP - Nov 19, 2003
Harry Connick Jr. will be home for Christmas barely. Connick spent much of last month taping his last episodes of Will & Grace and a holiday TV special. This month, he set out on a nationwide...
More »USRN - Aug 4, 2002
(8/4/02, 7 a.m. ET) -- Lee Ann Womack s upcoming Christmas album, A Season For Romance, features a duet with Harry Connick Jr. The two recorded their version of Baby It s Cold Outside for the project,...
More »USRN - Nov 6, 2001
(11/6/01, 7 a.m. ET) -- Harry Connick Jr., the prolific singer-songwriter whose musical Thou Shalt Not just hit Broadway, now has the pleasure of having two albums simultaneously debut in the upper half...
More »USRN - Nov 3, 1999
(11/4/99, 10 a.m. ET) - Harry Connick Jr. and Bobby McFerrin joined forces with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at New York s Avery Fisher Hall on Monday (Nov. 1) for the fundraising...
More »USRN - Sep 27, 1999
Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com): NBC: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno - Garth Brooks guests. (To read a Garth Brooks feature, click here.) VH1: Road To Fame: Harry Connick Jr. - In this VH1 Save...
More »USRN - Jun 16, 1999
(6/16/99, 4 p.m. PDT) - Ricky Martin has risen to the top of the pop scene with his Latin-flavored music and captivating dance moves. His hit single, Livin La Vida Loca, spent five weeks on top of the...
More »USRN - Sep 22, 1998
(9/22/98, 6 p.m. PDT) - Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, and Buddy & Julie Miller will be among the country-rock stars performing at a Washington, D.C. concert to raise awareness...
More »USRN - May 26, 1998
(5/26/98) - Harry Connick, Jr. told his audience during a recent gig that he hates male models--but his wife, Victoria s Secret supermodel Jill Goodacre, is always introducing him to more. It turns out...
More »USRN - Nov 25, 1997
(10/28/97) - Newly madeover cover girl Courtney Love was the big winner at this year s VH1 Fashion Awards, which were hosted by smooth-talker Harry Connick, Jr. and up-and-coming actress Ashley Judd...
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