The President and First Lady hosted a concert "Carole King: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize In Performance at the White House".  President Obama presented the award as he did when the Library of Congress honored Stevie Wonder (2009), Sir Paul McCartney (2010), and the songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David (2012).  The event was streamed live at www.whitehouse.gov/live on May 22.

The esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA bestowed Honorary Doctor of Music degrees to Carole King, Willie Nelson and Annie Lennox at their commencement on May 11 at the Agganis Arena at Boston University.

Current students paid tribute to the honorees during the traditional concert held the night before the ceremony, by performing music associated with their careers. 

"Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" is scheduled to open in spring 2014, with a pre-Broadway run at the end of this year, the producers announced on Friday, March 15, 2013. The show will have a book by Douglas McGrath, whose screenplay for "Bullets Over Broadway," written with Woody Allen, was nominated for an Oscar in 1995. Paul Blake and Sony/ATV Music Publishing are the producers.

Update - May 2, 2013
Prior to its planned Broadway arrival in spring 2014, "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" has locked in a San Francisco tryout run for the fall.

Carole spoke with Pandora about songwriting, recording, being a mother and her future in music.  Watch the interview HERE.