In 2009, on her album Running for the Drum, Buffy Sainte-Marie released a new version of " America the Beautiful ".

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

In 2009, she distributed a series of podcasts called At Home in the Cosmos with Annie Druyan in which she described the life of husband, Carl Sagan, her works, and their marriage.

The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot's influence and legacy opened in Paris on 29 September 2009 – a day after her 75th birthday.

The series Glee, which began in 2009, features Dianna Agron as Quinn Fabray, the captain of her high school cheerleading squad, the Cheerios.

On Christmas Day 2009, Sally Webster told husband Kevin that she had breast cancer, just as he was about to leave her for lover Molly.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.

Kane is known for her portrayal of the evil headmistress Madame Morrible in the Broadway musical Wicked, whom she played in various productions from 2005 to 2009.

She ended her limited engagement on March 22, 2009.

On October 27, 2009, Parton released a four-CD box set entitled " Dolly " that features 99 songs and spans most of her career.

She released her second live DVD and album, Live From London in October 2009, which was filmed during her sold out 2008 concerts at London's O2 Arena.

( Harper Paperbacks, 2009 ISBN 0-06-166916-4 )- An etiquette guide to " gently persuade others in her chosen subculture that being a polite Goth is much, much more subversive than just wearing T-shirts with " edgy " sayings on them.

In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?

Concentrating on her two children left Polgár with little time to train and play competitively and her ranking dropped from eighth in 2005 to the mid-50s in 2009.

After serving seven years, about half of her sentence, Olson was released from prison on March 17, 2009, and will serve her parole in Minnesota.

Lewinsky corresponded in 2009 with scholar Ken Gormley, who was writing an in-depth study of the Clinton scandals, maintaining that Clinton had lied under oath when asked detailed and specific questions about his relationship with her.

Hart has been married since 1990 to lawyer and environmental activist Caryl Hart, who obtained her PhD from UC Berkeley in 2009 on the topic of climate change and public lands.

Nancy Reagan and one of her successors, First Lady Michelle Obama, at a luncheon, June 3, 2009

She traveled to Washington, D. C. in June 2009 to unveil a statue of her late husband in the Capitol Rotunda.

She has received critical acclaim for her roles in Volver ( 2006 ) and Nine ( 2009 ) receiving Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for each.

In May 2009, Abdul debuted her latest song " I'm Just Here for the Music " ( originally an unreleased song from Kylie Minogue's ninth album Body Language ) on the Ryan Seacrest Radio KIIS-FM show and performed the single on the American Idol results show.

The Master Musicians of Jajouka who are led by Bachir Attar performed in Lisbon, Portugal, in January 2007, and the group performed at the 16th annual Meltdown festival curated by Ornette Coleman at London's Southbank Centre in June 2009, alongside such talents as Yoko Ono and Patti Smith.

He is also the author of the 2009 New York Times bestseller Meltdown ( Regnery Publishing, 2009 ).

* Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse ( February 2009 ) ( ISBN 1-5969-8587-9 ) & ( ISBN 978-1-5969-8587-2 )

The thesis of an October 20, 2009, broadcast of the PBS television magazine Frontline, Early Warnings of the Economic Meltdown, was that the failure of Congress to allow CFTC a role in regulating derivatives was a key element eventually leading to the Financial crisis of 2007 – 2010.

Mock The Week ( BBC2 ), Have I Got News For You ( BBC1 ), Michael McIntyre ’ s Comedy Roadshow ( BBC1 ), Never Mind The Buzzcocks ( BBC2 ) Argumental ( Dave UKTV ), The Comedy Store ( Comedy Central ), The Politics Show ( BBC1 ), Sex Bombs ( BBC2 Northern Ireland ), Strictly Dancing: It Takes Two ( BBC2 ), Most Annoying People 2009 ( BBC3 ), Most Annoying People 2008 ( BBC3 ), The ONE Show ( BBC1 ), World Rally: Portugal 2009 ( Dave UKTV ), Saturday Night Live ( ITV1 ), Girls Who Do Comedy ( BBC1 ), The Bigger Picture ( BBC1 ), Mock The Week ( Dave UKTV ), The Blame Game ( BBC N. Ireland ), World ’ s Greatest Stand Up ( Ch4 ), The Stand Up Show ( BBC1 ), The World Stands Up ( Comedy Central ), Comic Side Of 7 Days ( BBC3 ), That ’ s So Last Week ( Ch5 ), Stitch Up ( BBC1 ), Best Of The Comedy Store ( Ch5 ), The Comedy Store-series 2, 4 & 6 ( Ch5 ), So Graham Norton ( Ch4 ), Music Hall Meltdown ( BBC4 ), And Then You Die ( Dave UKTV ), Test The Nation ( BBC1 ), Big Brothers Little Brother ( Ch4 ), Back In The Day ( Ch4 ), Bridget Jones Cultural Icon ( ITV ), 100 Greatest Tearjerkers ( Ch4 ), 100 Greatest Christmas Moments ( Ch4 ), The Comedian ’ s Comedian ( Ch4 ), Who Stole Bob Monkhouse ’ s Jokes ( BBC ), Take The Mike ( ITV ), Life ’ s A Pitch ( BBC1 ), Ladies & Gentlemen ( BBC ), The Loafers ( BBC North ), Notes From The Ditch ( BBC South ), The Jack Docherty Show ( Ch5 ), Don ’ t Drink The Water ( BBC Challenge ), You ’ re Not Yourself Today ( BBC ), Five ’ s Company ( Ch5 ),

An English-language version, simply titled Kristina, was staged in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City for two nights in September 2009, yielding a live recording, and at the Royal Albert Hall for one night in April 2010.

On 14 March 2009 the band joined Neil's older son, Liam Finn, on stage for three songs at the Sound Relief concert in Melbourne.

A new album, Addicted to Black, was released in May 2009 and is available for purchase at his North American concert performances and is available on his website.

Probably the most ambitious and perhaps significant work to date is Ingwe ( 2003 – 2009 ) by Georges Lentz ( written for Australian guitarist Zane Banks ), a 60-minute work for solo electric guitar, exploring that composer's existential struggles and taking the instrument into realms previously unknown in a concert music setting.

Paban Das Baul, baul singer at Nine Lives concert, 2009.

In December 2009, he began a 5-year concert deal with the Encore Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

Brooks at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial | We Are One concert in 2009

Amchitka, the 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace has been published by Greenpeace in November 2009 on CD and is also available as mp3 download via the Amchitka concert website.

She was the honoree at the Rock Hall's American Music Master concert and lecture series for 2009.

Koto concert at Himejijo kangetsukai in 2009

* 2009 – Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist ( b. 1917 )

On September 24, 2004 a Frankfurt, Germany concert was recorded at The Festhalle for DVD ( titled R30: Live in Frankfurt ), which was released November 22, 2005 ; a complete version of the R30 Frankfurt set ( the original DVD release omitted eight songs ) was released on Blu-ray on December 8, 2009.

In February 2009, SBS TV programme RocKwiz hosted a 50th anniversary concert for the Myer Music Bowl, RocKwiz Salutes the Bowl, which included " World of Our Own " performed by Rebecca Barnard and Billy Miller and " The Carnival Is Over " by Durham.

In March 2009, EuroArts released Amor, Vida de Mi Vida, a recording on Blu-ray disc of an August 2007 zarzuela concert by Plácido Domingo and Ana María Martínez, with the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg conducted by Jesús López-Cobos.

At Glastonbury 2009, he played an unadvertised concert in the " pinball-machine " stage at trash city.

Kate McGarrigle's song about the legend was one of the last things she wrote prior to her death, and received its only performance at her last concert at Royal Albert Hall in December 2009.

While it was rumoured that Williams would reunite with Take That on 12 November 2009 for a Children In Need charity concert at The Royal Albert Hall, they merely greeted each other warmly on stage between performances.

In 2009 the group announced that they would play a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on 1 April 2010, titled the Zeitgeist concert, 35 years after their milestone concert there on 2 April 1975.

In December 2008, Blur announced they would reunite for a concert at London's Hyde Park on 3 July 2009.

In July 2009, Gary Numan appeared as a special guest at the " Wave Goodbye " Nine Inch Nails concert at The O2 arena ( London ) in London.

Recognized by MovieMaker Magazine as one of 25 " Coolest Film Festivals " ( 2009 ) and one of 25 " Festivals Worth the Entry Fee " ( 2011 ), Indie Memphis offers Memphis year-round independent film programming including the Global Lens international film series, IM Student Shorts student films, and an outdoor concert film series at the historic Levitt Shell.