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The Americana Music Association announced nominees today for the 2013 Honors & Awards in Los Angeles at the Grammy Museum®. The ceremony featured performances by now nominated artists Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale, T Bone Burnett with Lisa Marie Presley, Elizabeth Cook and The Milk Carton Kids. The program was broadcast live on Read more…
 The Americana Music Association announced today plans to produce “Cross County Lines,” a one day festival/celebration of Roots inspired music to take place in Middle Tennessee during the early summer of 2014. A kickoff event has been planned, hosted by Alison Krauss and Jerry Douglas, to raise awareness and funds to support the not Read more…
 For 20 years, the Annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival Presented by Regions Bank has featured writers whose songs have become engrained in the fabric of our musical lives, and 2013 promises to offer the best of the best. The event set for Tuesday, April 2 – Saturday, April 6, 2013, and the addition of Read more…
 Patty Griffin will release her new album, American Kid, on May 7. The album, co-produced by Griffin and Craig Ross, is her seventh and first for New West. It is her first album of mainly new material since the acclaimed Children Running Through in 2007. In between then and now, she made the Grammy Award-winning Read more…

As usual there is something for everyone as Bonnaroo covers the musical spectrum. Here’s the lineup:
PAUL McCARTNEY • MUMFORD & SONS • TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS • BJÖRK WILCO • PRETTY LIGHTS • R. KELLY •WU-TANG CLAN • DANIEL TOSH • THE NATIONAL THE LUMINEERS • DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT • PASSION PIT Read more…
 Elaine and Lee Roy backstage at ICM Awards.Photo by Wyneka Thomas
The Roys have been named Inspirational Country Music’s Bluegrass Artist of the Year for 2012, giving them back-to-back wins in this category. “We sing what is in our hearts and true to our Faith,” comments Elaine Roy. “It was a very strong group of Read more…
 You may have seen The Roys around town last week taking part in the IBMA festivities but if you missed them, they’ll be bringing their signature harmonies, progressive instrumental attitude and compelling new music to The Station Inn on October 11. The full-set performance is their first in Music City since the duo’s sophomore Rural Rhythm Records’ Read more…
 The Gibson Brothers won the Entertainer of the Year award at the 23rd International Bluegrass Music Awards. See the rest of the results below:
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
The Gibson Brothers
VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR
Blue Highway
INSTRUMENTAL GROUP OF THE YEAR
Blue Highway
EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers
MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Russell Moore
FEMALE VOCALIST OF Read more…
 The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA)’s World of Bluegrass Week, Sept. 24-30, will get off to a festive start this Sunday when “The Travelin’ McCourys and Friends” host their free show at Cumberland Park after the Tennessee Titans game.
That’s just the start of the incredible music performances at World of Bluegrass, a week of activities Read more…
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