Sierra Ferrell Wins Artist Of The Year & More At 2024 Americana Honors & Awards
Watch the complete ceremony which also saw performances from Duane Betts, The War & Treaty, Fantastic Negrito and more.
By Nate Todd Sep 19, 2024 • 9:49 am PDT
Sierra Ferrell continued her watershed year at the Americana Honors & Awards on Wednesday at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. The singer-songwriter took home the prestigious artist of the year award and more.
Ferrell also nabbed the album of the year award for her 2024 LP, Trail of Flowers. The record arrived on March 22 via Rounder Records. Ferrell encapsulated what Americana music is all about in her comments on Trail of Flowers.
“With Trail of Flowers, I wanted to make a fuller sound with bigger drums, but still stay true to the stripped-down feel of old-time music whenever it felt right. I wanted to create something that makes people feel nostalgic for the past, but excited about the future of music. I’m just trying to put words and melodies together and build it into something people can pour their feelings into, all their happiness and sorrows, so that it changes their reality a little bit and gives them some comfort. To me, music is like medicine. Whenever I write a song and it feels healing to me, I know it can heal other people too.”
Ferrell performed Trail of Flowers’ “American Dreaming” at the awards.
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Additional highlights from the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards included Duane Betts kicking off the evening with a tribute to his late father and co-founding Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts, who passed away in April. Performing “Blue Sky” alongside Duane was Larry Campbell, Don Was, Buddy Miller, Amy Helm and others.
A number of lifetime achievement awards were handed out, including Rev. Gary Davis, Dwight Yoakam, Blind Boys of Alabama, Don Was and more. Among the lifetime achievement highlights, Fantastic Negrito performed “Samson & Delilah” in honor of influential blues legend Rev. Gary Davis.
Additional winners included Larkin Poe (duo/group of the year), Grace Bowers (instrumentalist of the year), (emerging act of the year) and Brandy Clark (song of the year, “Dear Insecurity,” featuring Brandi Carlile). Other performances of note came from Waxahatchee, The War and Treaty and more. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell wrapped the evening with Gram Parsons’ “Return of the Grievous Angel.”
Watch the complete 2024 Americana Honors & Awards ceremony below via NPR Music:
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