The 23rd Annual Americana Honors & Awards, which are set for Sept. 18 at Nashville’s fabled Ryman Auditorium, will be bookended by memorable performances.
Duane Betts will open the show by performing the Allman Brothers Band’s “Blue Sky,” which his father Dickie Betts wrote. The song appeared on the 1972 classic Eat a Peach, the band’s first album to make the top 10 on the Billboard 200. Dickie Betts died on April 18 at age 80.
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell will close the show with “Return of the Grievous Angel,” the opening track on Gram Parsons‘ Grievous Angel, on which Harris was prominently featured. The album was released in January 1974, four months after Parsons’ death from an overdose. He was just 26.
The Americana All-Star Band, led by Buddy Miller, will return to back the artists who are performing on Americana music’s biggest night. Other band members include Don Was (who is set to receive a lifetime achievement award), The McCrary Sisters, Bryan Owings, Jerry Pentecost, Jen Gunderman, Jim Hoke and Larry Campbell.
In addition to being top nominees this year, Sierra Ferrell, Noah Kahan and Brandy Clark are set to perform on the show.
Blind Boys of Alabama, Dave Alvin, Dwight Yoakam and Shelby Lynne, all of whom are set to receive lifetime achievement awards, will also perform.
Other performers set for the show include SistaStrings (who will perform with Clark) and Fantastic Negrito (who will perform in a tribute to the late Rev. Gary Davis, who will receive the Legacy Award in partnership with the National Museum of African American Music).
The program will be filmed for broadcast on PBS in the Austin City Limits time slot in November. The awards show is the centerpiece of the annual Americanafest, which returns for its 24th year Sept. 17-21.
The show is set to begin at 6:30 pm CT. Doors open at 5:30 pm CT.
Here are all the performers and presenters for the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards.
Performers
- Blind Boys of Alabama
- Brandy Clark (with SistaStrings)
- Charles Wesley Godwin
- Dave Alvin
- Dwight Yoakam
- Fantastic Negrito
- Hurray for the Riff Raff
- Jobi Riccio
- Kaitlin Butts
- Larkin Poe
- The Milk Carton Kids
- Noah Kahan
- Sarah Jarosz
- Shelby Lynne
- Sierra Ferrell
- Turnpike Troubadours
- The War and Treaty
- Waxahatchee with MJ Lenderman
- Wyatt Flores
Presenters
- Allison Moorer
- Amy Helm
- Amythyst Kiah
- Gaby Moreno
- Hiss Golden Messenger
- Iron & Wine
- Jimmie Dale Gilmore
- Joe Henry
- Lukas Nelson
- The Lone Bellow
- Margo Price
- The Milk Carton Kids
- Nathaniel Rateliff
- Shane Smith & Bennett Brown
- Silvana Estrada
- Susan Tedeschi
- T Bone Burnett
- Warren Zanes
