Americana Music News — The Americana Music Association’s annual festival and conference kicks off Wednesday night with its Honors & Awards show. Tickets are in short supply, but this year fans can watch or listen to the show from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on AXS TV, NPR.org, Sirius/XM and WSM in Nashville.The show, which begins at 8 p.m. EST, will include performances by Bonnie Raitt, Alabama Shakes, John Hiatt, Justin Townes Earle, Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson, Punch Brothers,Booker T. Jones, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Deep Dark Woods, Hayes Carll with Cary Ann Hearst, Guy Clark, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Tom T. Hall with Lee Ann Womack and Peter Cooper, Robert Ellis, Sarah Jarosz, the Mavericks, and Richard Thompson.
Here’s a look back at the remarkable 2011 show.
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