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Tag: Americana Music Festival
New Americana Music Festival artists announced
The Americana Music Festival, set for Nashville Sept. 11-16, has just released a new roster of performers. Additions include John Prine and friends, John Hiatt, I’me With Her, the Milk Carton Kids and Niki Bluhm.
This week: Americana Music Festival
We’re just days away from our favorite music event in Nashville and the AMericana Music Festival boasts another great line-up of performers.
2015 Americana Music Festival notebook
The Americana Music Festival remains the best single week for music in Music City –and that’s saying something.
Americana Music Festival 2015: The line-up
New additions to the Americana Music Festival 2015 line-up: Glen Hansard, Jewel, Hot Rize featuring Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers, Jay Farrar, Buddy Miller and Marc Ribot, JD McPherson, Parker Millsap, Joel Rafael, Nellie Clay, Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear and the Watkins Family Hour.
Expanded Americana Music Festival lineup
The Americana Music Association has just added a second wave of artists booked for thie fall’s Americana Music Festival and Conference, set for Sept. 15-20 in Nashville, including Band of Heathens, the McCrary Sisters, Luther Dickinson, the Fairfield Four, JD Souther, Doug Seegers, Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale.
This just in: 2015 Americana Music Festival line-up
The Americana Music Association has just announced its initial artist line-up for the 16th annual Americana Music Festival and Conference, set for September 15 – 20, 2015, in Nashville.
Americana Music Festival’s deep, diverse line-up
2014 Americana Music Association Conference and Festival line-up
Americana Festival announces 2014 line-up
The ever-growing American Music Association announced today that its annual Nashville festival will feature an outdoor concert on the city’s riverfront on Sept. 20 with the Avett Brothers as headliners
3-minute interview: Jim Lauderdale on Americana
Jim Lauderdale has hosted the Americana Music Festival awards show for more than a decade and is one of the genre’s biggest boosters. His thoughts on the music and on his friend and collaborator Robert Hunter:
Interview: Chip Taylor on “Block Out the Sirens of This Lonely World”
By Ken Paulson Chip Taylor regularly attends the Americana music Festival and it’s always great to catch up with him. He wrote classic pop songs like “Angel of the Morning,” “I Can’t Let Go” and Wild Thing” and then carved out a country career in the early ’70s that was truly a precursor to what we now call Americana. Here’s…
Interview: Randall Bramblett on “The Bright Spots”
Sun209 – We caught up with Randall Bramblett at the Americana Music Festival. He played a great, but short set to open the evening at the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville. Here’s Bramblett on his career and new album The Bright Spots: listen to ‘Randall Bramblett’ on Audioboo
Duos dominate Americana Music Awards
Duos dominated at tonight’s Americana Music Association Honors and Awards show at the Ryman.
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell won for album of the year for Old Yellow Moon, and were also named top duo/group.
Americana Music Awards tickets on sale
The Americana music awards show, a highlight of Nashville’s musical year, will be hosted once again by Jim Lauderdale, Buddy Miller will head up the always stellar house band.
Americana Music Festival artists announced
There’s an impressive line-up of artists booked for the 2013 Americana Music Association Festival and Conference set for Nashville Sept. 18-23.
Rosanne Cash, Billy Bragg set for Americana Music Festival
Americana Music News — The Americana Music Association just announced its initial line-up of performers for its 2013 Festival and Conference, Sept. 18-22, in Nashville. It’s an impressive line-up that includes Rosanne Cash, Billy Bragg and the ubiquitous Buddy Miller and Jim auderdale. The roster so far: Black Prairie Billy Bragg Rosanne Cash The Del-Lords The Devil Makes Three Sam Doores, Riley Downing &…
This just in: 2013 Americana Honors and Awards Nominees
The Americana Music Association has just announced the 2013 Americana Honors and Award Nominations, with a particularly impressive set of nominations for Shovels & Rope.
Americana Music Festival releases 2012 line-up
Americana Music News – The Americana Music Association has announced an impressive line-up for the Americana Music Festival & Conference September 12-15 in Nashville , with more performers to be named later. As usual, the roster includes a good mix of accomplished veterans and emerging artists. Among the biggest names: Billy Joe Shaver, the Punch Brothers, Brandi Carlile, Richard Thompson, Sara Watkins,…
Registration opens for 2012 Americana Music Festival in Nashville
Early registration for the 13th annual Americana Music Association Festival and Conference, set for Sept. 12-15, 2012 in Nashville is now open. This is one of the best music festivals in the nation, and always attracts an intriguing mix of artists. This year, Gregg Allman, Robert Plant, the Civil Wars and a Muscle Shoals tribute were all on the bill. The…
ACL’s Terry Lickona recaps best of Americana Music Festival
The Americana Music Festival edition of Austin City Limits is being seen across the country on PBS stations this week, and Brian Atkinson interviewed ACL producer Terry Lickona for the Austin American-Statesman about how the show came about. You’ll find the full interview at the American-Statesman site, but here’s what he had to say about the highlights of the evening:…