2024 Americana Music Honors & Awards

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The 2024 Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony will be held on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, at the Ryman Auditorium the in Nashville, Tennessee. The marquee event for the Americana Music Association and the centerpiece of their annual Americanafest, artists are awarded for outstanding achievements in the music industry and the americana genre. The show is set to be livestreamed on the Circle YouTube channel and on the AMA's Facebook page, alongside live radio broadcasts on Sirius XM and local Tennessee stations WSM, WMOT and WRLT. An hour-long special of highlights will on PBS in November as part of Austin City Limits.^{[citation needed]}

Tyler Childers and Sierra Ferrell led the nominations, with three each.^{[citation needed]}

All performers were backed by the All-Star Americana House Band led by Buddy Miller (guitar) and featuring Jerry Pentecost (drums), Don Was (bass), Jim Hoke (pedal steel/banjo), Bryan Owens (percussion), Larry Campbell (fiddle/mandolin/guitar), Jen Gunderman (piano/accordion) and The McCrary Sisters (vocals).

The eligibility period for the 23rd Americana Music Honors & Awards is April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024. The nominees were announced by Gina Miller on May 7, 2023, at a ceremony at the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville which featured performances from SistaStrings, Sierra Ferrell, Kaitlin Butts, Megan McCormick with Amanda Fields and Ethan Ballinger, and The War and Treaty.^[1]

The Lifetime Achievement honorees were announced on June 24, 2024.^[2]

• Shelby Lynne

• Reverend Gary Davis

• The Blind Boys of Alabama
• Dwight Yoakam

• Dave Alvin

• Don Was

• Amy Helm and Amythyst Kiah - presented Instrumentalist of the Year
• Susan Tedeschi - presented Lifetime Achievement Award to The Blind Boys of Alabama
• Ann Powers - introduced Waxahatchee
• Warren Zanes - introduced Charles Wesley Godwin
• Jimmie Dale Gilmore - presented the Americana Trailblazer Award
• Elizabeth Cook - tribute to Jeremy Tepper and Mojo Nixon, and introduced Wyatt Flores
• Noelle Taylor and Shannon Sanders - presented Legacy of Americana Award
• Joe Henry - introduced The Milk Carton Kids and T Bone Burnett
• T Bone Burnett - introduced Larkin Poe
• MC Taylor and Gaby Moreno - presented Emerging Artist of the Year
• Shane Smith and Bennett Brown - introduced Turnpike Troubadours
• Martina McBride - presented Lifetime Achievement Award to Don Was
• Jed Hilly - introduced The War and Treaty
• Michael Grimes - introduced Sarah Jarosz
• The Lone Bellow - presented Duo/Group of the Year and introduced Brandy Clark
• The Milk Carton Kids - introduced Sierra Ferrell and Noah Kahan
• Allison Moorer - presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Shelby Lynne
• Iron & Wine and Silvana Estrada - presented Song of the Year and introduced Hurray for the Riff Raff
• Lukas Nelson - presented Album of the Year
• Brandy Clark - presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Dwight Yoakam
• Nathaniel Rateliff - presented Artist of the Year
• Margo Price - introduced Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell