• 2013 Bluegrass Grammy follow-up

    Della Mae celebrating their Grammy nomination in Nashville Following up on our notice earlier about the announcement last night of the nominees for the 2014 Best Bluegrass Album in the The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Grammy award, we got some

  • 2014 Bluegrass Grammy nominees

    The 2014 Grammy nominees were announced on Friday evening. In the midst of the cavalcade of glitzy stars was news of the all-important Best Bluegrass Album. And the nominees are: It's Just A Road - The Boxcars, Mountain Home Brothers Of The Highway - Dailey

  • Grammy announces Best American Roots Song category

    Among the items included in their recent Trustees Report, the Recording Academy announced the designation of a new Grammy award category that will be of interest to bluegrass songwriters. Quoting from the report... Best American Roots Song has been added to the American

  • And the Bluegrass Grammy for 2013 goes to…

    Congratulations to Steep Canyon Rangers, whose Nobody Knows You album was just announced as the winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for the Best Bluegrass Album. The Goat Rodeo Sessions (Yo Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan) was awarded

  • 55th Grammy Award nominees announced

    The Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 55th annual Grammy Awards in a Nashville ceremony last night. While the rest of the world gushes over Jay-Z, The Black Keys and Kanye West, we'll save our praise for the all important

  • And the Grammy goes to…

    Congratulations to Alison Krauss & Union Station for being awarded the Best Bluegrass Album at the 2012 Grammies for Paper Airplane. Well done, AKUS! Paper Airplane was also recognized as Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, and Béla Fleck and Howard Levy Won

  • Protests today at The Grammys

    There has been a notable amount of pushback following the July 2011 decision by the Grammy folks to consolidate the number of awards to be meted out at today's (2/12) Grammy Awards festivities. Both longstanding and relatively new categories were

  • Steve Martin throws down the gauntlet

    Steve Martin took to Twitter last week, in a blatant attempt to influence Grammy voters heading into Awards Season. Hollywood has long embraced the tradition of pushing projects forward in the press, both to hopefully garner Oscar nominations, and subsequently, to

  • Grammy Nominations Announced

    And the nominations are … Yesterday (10/30) the Recording Academy officially began the countdown for the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards with the announcement of the nominations for the 2012 awards which will be presented on Sunday, February 12 at STAPLES Center