Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album
Award category
The Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards , a ceremony that was established in 1958 as the Gramophone Awards,[1] to recording artists for releasing albums in the regionally based traditional American music, including Hawaiian , Native American , polka , zydeco and Cajun music genres. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[2]
The category was introduced in 2012 in which the previous Best Hawaiian Music Album , Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album and Best Native American Music Album categories were combined. The change was the result of a major overhaul of Grammy categories, announced in April 2011.[3] The new category also recognizes other American roots forms, such as polka , whose own Grammy category was discontinued in 2009. In 2021, the category added the inclusion of Go-go music.
Hawaiian musician Kalani Pe'a holds the record of most wins in the category with three.
Recipients
2014 winners Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience .
2015 winner Jo-El Sonnier .
Three-time winner Kalani Pe'a .
2018 winner The Lost Bayou Ramblers .
^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.
References
^ "Grammy Awards at a Glance" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved April 24, 2010 .
^ "Overview" . National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. Retrieved November 11, 2010 .
^ "Grammy Awards Category Mapper" . Retrieved 2011-05-18 .
^ "2011 — 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: American Roots Field" . The Recording Academy . November 30, 2011.
^ [List of 2013 nominees "Nominees and Winners | GRAMMY.com" . Archived from the original on 2012-02-01. Retrieved 2016-02-23 . ]
^ "56th GRAMMY Awards: Full Winners List" . Billboard . Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
^ List of Nominees 2015
^ "Grammy Awards 2016: See the Full Winners List" . Billboard . Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
^ "59th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees" . GRAMMY.com . Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
^ Lynch, Joe (November 28, 2017). "Grammys 2018: See the Complete List of Nominees" . Billboard . Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
^ Grammy.com, 7 December 2018
^ 2020 Grammy Awards nominations list
^ 2021 Nominations List
^ "2022 GRAMMYs Awards: Complete Nominations List" . GRAMMY.com . 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2021-11-26 .
^ "2023 GRAMMYs Awards: Complete Nominations List" . GRAMMY.com . 2022-11-15. Retrieved 2022-11-16 .
^ "2024 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Full Nominees List | GRAMMY.com" . www.grammy.com . Retrieved 2023-11-12 .
External links
Special awards Ceremonies
(years are of music release; ceremonies are the next year)
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