AMA 2012 Americana Award Nominees to Be Announced at Grammy Museum, May 31
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The Americana Music Association will reveal the nominees for this year’s awards during a special announcement to take place at the Grammy® Museum’s Clive Davis Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 11AM Pacific Daylight Time. All the details are in the press release:
The event, co produced with the Porchlight Sessions, will stream LIVE on the web at www.livestream.com, www.musiccityroots.com, www.pastemagazine.com and on the Americana Music Association’s Facebook page. This year’s nominee announcements in Los Angeles are sponsored by BMI, the Gibson Foundation and Nissan, the Association’s title sponsor.
John C. Reilly, Grammy®, Academy Award® and Golden Globe® nominated artist/actor and music aficionado, will read the list of nominees during the traditional “opening of the envelope” segment of the ceremony. Americana stalwart Jim Lauderdale will host the event and Buddy Miller will lead an Americana All Star quartet with Don Heffington, Greg Leisz and Don Was, with music featuring newcomer Robert Ellis and seminal Americana artists Shelby Lynne and Lucinda Williams.
The announcement of the nominees is the precursor of the Americana Honors and Awards program, which will take place at the historically cool Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN on Wednesday, September 12, 2012. The show is the capstone event of the Americana Music Festival and Conference, which runs from September 12-15, 2012.
Each year, the Americana Music Association honors distinguished members of the music community with six member voted annual awards and with Lifetime Achievement Awards, which will be announced leading up to the event. Already confirmed at this time, Bonnie Raitt will be the Lifetime Achievement for Performance honoree. Jim Lauderdale hosts the critically acclaimed show with Buddy Miller as the program’s bandleader. Described by Paste Magazine as “the world’s best awards show,” the Honors & Awards are attended by over 2000 artists, music loving fans and entertainment industry executives and, in 2011, was broadcast live on Nashville Public Television with an edited version of the show titled ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival – which ran in the Austin City Limits timeslot on PBS nationally.
Described by Emmylou Harris as “the shining star of Nashville and music everywhere,” the event has been broadcast internationally via SiriusXM Radio, BBC2, WSM and Voice of America. The Honors & Awards have featured many amazing moments including Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash’s last live performance together, as well as show-stopping appearances by Gregg Allman, The Avett Brothers, Solomon Burke, Rosanne Cash, Civil Wars, Harris, Patty Griffin, Levon Helm, Robert Plant and many more.
Find out more about the Americana Music Association at www.americanamusic.org
Liv Carter
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