Bob Weir, Bonnie Raitt, Jason Isbell & More Perform At 2016 Americana Music Fest

Earlier this year, The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville hosted the Americana Music Awards as part of the Americana Music Fest 2016. Highlights of many of the performances at the historic venue are featured in a new video posted by PBS.

Shown as part of the PBS Austin City Limits Presents collection, this year’s event took place on September 21. The concert featured Buddy Miller leading a house band made up of Chris Wood, Dave Cobb, Stuart Duncan, Fred Eltringham, Steve Fishell, Matt Rollings and The McCrary Sisters.

The ACL Presents footage begins with Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir leading the house band on a tribute to Merle Haggard with a rendition of “Mama Tried.” Additional performers included The Lumineers, Bonnie Raitt, Parker Millsap, Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires, Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, William Bell, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell and George Strait.

Watch the performances below:

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365890974