Breakfast with the Arts is a television program that aired on A&E

A&E Network

The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...

 from 1991 until 2007.

Over the years, the show featured performances and interviews from all facets of the performing arts

Performing arts

The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...

 including rock

Rock music

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, jazz

Jazz

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, and classical

Classical music

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, music, Broadway

Musical theatre

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, film

Film

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, dance

Dance

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, and books. Guests included country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

ian Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt

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, rock band

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 Los Lobos

Los Lobos

Los Lobos are a multiple Grammy Award–winning American Chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños.-History:The...

, pop artist Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne

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, actress Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall

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, and pop singer

Pop music

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 Natasha Bedingfield

Natasha Bedingfield

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. The host for the first 12 years was Peabody Award

Peabody Award

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 winning broadcaster Elliott Forrest; later episodes were hosted by Karina Huber.

TV personality Timberly Whitfield

Timberly Whitfield

- Early life :Born in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., her United Methodist Church lay missionary parents moved Whitfield and her brother to Tanzania, East Africa, when she was six. As a Swahili-speaking eight-year-old, Whitfield taught English to local Tanzanian children...

 also served as a correspondent and interviewed celebrities for the program.

In 2005, the series was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award. After the cancellation of the series in summer 2007, A&E debuted a new Sunday morning arts program titled Private Sessions

Private Sessions

Private Sessions is a television series produced by the A&E Network featuring entertainers interviewed by host Lynn Hoffman. Most guests are musicians that perform one or more of their songs during the hour-long episode, but actors also have appeared on the show.In the United States, the show...

, formatted similarly to Breakfast and hosted by Lynn Hoffman.