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July 16th - Tickets for the 9th Annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony will go on sale Saturday, July 24. Slated for Thursday, September 9 at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the roots music revival will feature tongue-wagging performances by the Emmylou Harris, The Avett Brothers, Rodney Crowell, Wanda Jackson,Rosanne Cash, Patty Griffin, Sam Bush, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Ryan Bingham,Corb Lund, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Joe Pug, Will Kimbrough and many more, to be announced in the coming months.
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July 15th - Hank Cochran, a consummate songwriter who composed a string of hits including "Make the World Go Away" for Eddy Arnold, has died. He was 74. Martha E. Moore, his publicist, said Cochran died Thursday morning at his home in Hendersonville, Tenn.He had been in declining health in recent years, and suffered an aortic aneurysm in March. He wrote these No. 1 hits: "I Fall to Pieces" by Patsy Cline; "Ocean Front Property" by George Strait; "Don't You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me" by Ronnie Milsap; "He's Got You" by Cline and Loretta Lynn; "I Want to Go With You" by Arnold; "Set 'em Up Joe" by Vern Gosdin and "That's All That Matters to Me" by Mickey Gilley.
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July 13th - Billy Joe Shaver recovering after minor heart surgery, ncluding a stent procedure yesterday.
Shaver, 71, famously suffered a heart attack on stage in 2001 at the Gruene Hall while playing a New Year’s Eve show. He is expected to make a full recovery and will resume performing in August, said manager Greg Henry.“He’s scheduled for a bunch of shows in August, and we’ll take stock but we don’t intend to cancel anything at this point,” said Henry. “He even thought he could do his show in Luckenbach on the 17, but we decided it was better to have him rest for a while.”
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May 20th - Music Saves Mountains Concert at the Ryman Calls Attention to Destruction in Appalachia... Dave Matthews Joins Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Patty Griffin and other Nashville Stars in rallying rgainst Mountaintop Removal Mining.
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May 12th - The Americana Music Association announced the nominees for the organization’s 2010 Honors and Awards.
The show, in its 9th year, will be held September 9th at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Longstanding Americana supporters Emmylou Harris and Todd Snider read the list of award candidates to a crowd of industry executives, artists and tastemakers, while Duo/Group nominee Carolina Chocolate Drops performed. Dave Rawlings received four nominations, Texas songwriters Ray Wylie Hubbard and Ryan Bingham received three and Patty Griffin, The Avett Brothers and Hayes Carll garnered two nominations.
Slated for Wednesday, September 8 through Saturday, September 11, the 11th Annual Americana Festival and Conference will offer daily seminars, panels and networking opportunities at the Sheraton Nashville Downtown Hotel. The event brings more than 100 stacked musical showcases to key venues throughout Nashville. Approximately 1,000 industry professionals attended the 2009 conference and more than 12,000 fans experienced the Festival's musical events.
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April 22nd - Robert Plant has announced plans to tour with a new group, resurrecting the name of the band he formed before joining Led Zeppelin. The Band of Joy will play 12 US dates before releasing an album later this year. "I'm enjoying such creativity and vitality," Plant said in a statement. The new project has little in common with Led Zeppelin, or even with the original Band of Joy. The rekindled Band of Joy is drawn from the Americana scene, including singer-songwriters Patty Griffin, Darrell Scott, bassist Byron House, drummer Marco Giovino and guitarist/singer Buddy Miller. Miller will also co-produce the group's debut.
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March 26th – “Freedom Sings,” an evening celebrating the power of free speech in music and honoring the career of MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, will be presented April 27 at the Newseum in downtown Washington. Carpenter will receive the “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech in Music Award from the Newseum’s First Amendment Center and the Americana Music Association. The award recognizes artists who have used their work to raise awareness and promote free speech through their music and other efforts. Past recipients include Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, Judy Collins, Charlie Daniels and Steve Earle. “Freedom Sings” will include a conversation with Carpenter about her music and career, and will feature guest musical performances by Grammy Award-winning artists Judy Collins and Rodney Crowell.
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Jan. 31st - LEVON HELM's Electric Dirt wins the first-ever Best Americana Album award at this year's Grammy Awards! Other winners include STEVE EARLE's Townes (Best Contemporary Folk Album), for LOUDIN WAINWRIGHT III's
High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project (Best Traditional Folk Album) and STEVE MARTIN's The Crow for
Best Bluegrass Album. More here.
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Jan 17th - Country Music Hall of Fame Member CARL SMITH Dies at Age 82, A Superstar of the '50s, He Was Singer-Songwriter Carlene Carter's Father. Smith was so long out of the spotlight -- enjoying what was for most stars of his generation an early, atypical and genteel retirement -- many began to wonder if younger CMA electors would ever induct him into the Country Music Hall of Fame. When they finally did in 2003, Smith's few seconds back on national TV consisted of a silent smile and wave to his well-deserved standing ovation. CMT story.
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Dec. 10th - Nashville singer-songwriter PAUL BURCH presents 8 Day of Rock, which begins at sundown this Friday and will run the 8 days of Hanukah. Each night Paul will upload a new song that will be available to stream for 24 hours, which will then be replaced the next day with a new song. On the last day all 8 songs will be available to download for 24 hours only. The songs have some pretty awesome guests, so far the confirmed list of collaborators includes the Waco Brothers, Kelly Hogan, Laura Cantrell, members of Calexico, Lambchop, the Mekons, and Superchunk. Here's a link to some live performances he did for the Green Couch Sessions http://thegreencouchsessions.com/ More details to come...
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