Nashville, Tenn. — Alison Krauss & Robert Plant and Levon Helm were among the winners at tonight’s Americana Music Association’s 7th Annual Honors & Awards show at Nashville’s Historic Ryman Auditorium. Appearing at the festivities to pick up two awards for their critically-acclaimed “Raising Sand” Krauss and Plant won Album of the Year and Duo/Group [...]

Nashville, Tenn. — The Americana Music Association is proud to announce plans to celebrate the legacy of the Grateful Dead at this week’s ninth annual conference and music festival in Nashville. At Thursday night’s Honors & Awards at the Ryman Auditorium, Jerry Garcia will be named the recipient of the 2008 AMA President’s Award, a [...]

The Americana Music Association announced today comprehensive and pragmatic greening initiatives to take place during next week’s festival, Sept. 17-20, in Nashville. Not only will there be recycling, but there will be a daily schedule of panels at the conference devoted to green ways of living, touring and promoting.
There will be workshops and panels including [...]

List to date of confirmed showcase artists:

Peter Bradley Adams
Nels Andrews
Marcia Ball
Band of Heathens
Randall Bramblett
Laura Cantrell
Chatham Country Line
John Cowan Band
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Dailey & Vincent
Dedringers
Christopher Denny
Joe Ely
Mike Farris
Rosie [...]

Nashville, Tenn. — The Americana Music Association is proud to announce that eminent Austin City Limits producer Terry Lickona will receive the Jack Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award for an Executive at the organization’s 7th Annual Honors and Awards ceremony, slated for September 18 at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
It is impossible to overstate the [...]