FOLK ALLIANCE FAMILY WINS BIG AT THE GRAMMYS

February 9th, 2009

Excerpted from the Folk-Alliance listserv. Originally sent by Louis Meyers.

What a grand Grammy night for our Folk Alliance community. Congratulations to our own Rounder Records for winning SEVEN Grammy Awards including the biggest award of the evening, Album of the Year for Robert Plant & Alison Krauss album, Raising Sand. They also won record of the year for “Please Read the Letter”, best pop collaboration with vocals for “Rich Woman,” best country collaboration with vocals and best contemporary Folk/Americana album.

Other Folk Alliance Family Grammy Winners:
(*) denotes artist is performing at this years International Folk Alliance Conference

Best Pop Instrumental Album: *Jingle All The Way, Bila Fleck & The Flecktones [Rounder]

Best Country Instrumental Performance: Cluster Pluck: Brad Paisley, *James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, *Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert & Steve Wariner

Best Traditional Gospel Album: Down In New Orleans, The Blind Boys Of Alabama [Time Life]

Best Traditional Folk Album: At 89, Pete Seeger [Appleseed Recordings]

Best Polka Album: Let The Whole World Sing, Jimmy Sturr And His Orchestra [Rounder]

Best Historical Album: Art Of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years Of Traditional American Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum; Steven Lance Ledbetter & Art Rosenbaum, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists) [Dust-To-Digital]

Congrats to all the winners.