Eagles member Don Henley will receive the 2007 Musicares Person of the Year Award, an honor bestowed by the MusicCares Foundation leading into the Grammy Awards.
Henley will receive the award for his work for environmental issues as well as fighting for artists causes."Don is one of the most relevant and respected musical voices of our time, and it is a fitting testament to his extraordinary talents and charitable work that he will be honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year," said Neil Portnow, President of the MusiCares Foundation.
A little known fact about Henley is that in 1990, he founded the Walden Woods Project, which leads the effort to preserve historic Walden Woods, the 2,680-acre ecological area surrounding Henry David Thoreau's Walden Pond in Massachusetts.
He also founded the Caddo Lake Institute in his native East Texas, a privately operating foundation to act as an "ecosystem-specific" sponsoring entity, underwriting local wetland science and conservation education including cultural and ecological research and monitoring.
For artists, Henley co-founded the Recording Artists' Coalition, a nonprofit, non-partisan group formed to represent the interests of recording artists with regard to legislative issues in which corporate and artists' interests conflict, and to address other public policy debates that come before the music industry.
Henley will receive the award at a gala ceremony on February 9, 2007 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
