…and the GRAMMY Nominees are:
Best New Artist: Ed Sheeran
Best Pop Instrumental Album:
Summer Horns – Dave Koz, Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair, and Richard Elliot
Best New Age Album:
Awakening the Fire – R. Carlos Nakai & Will Clipman
Best Folk Album:
They All Played For Us: Arhoolie Records 50th Anniversary Celebration – Various Artists (including Peter Rowan)
Producer – Chris Strachwitz Label – Arhoolie Records
To view the full list of nominees, please visit www.grammy.com/nominees
A Train staff celebrates the special Halloween release of Fireballet’s Night on Bald Mountain. Especially remastered by the notable Larry Fast, Night on Bald Mountain goes live on Halloween for a special night of trick or treating.
Congratulations to the following A Train artists for making the initial Grammy ballot! Stay tuned for updates as we discover final nominees, and eventually the winners for each category.
Click here to view the list of A Train artists on the ballot.
Award winning singer-songwriter, Lila Downs, continues to gain momentum and critical acclaim as she broadens the horizons of Latin Music:
“Música Latina: In Performance at the White House will bring energetic, passionate music to our audiences and share some treasures of Latino culture with our viewers. Much like the people that it honors, Latin music is extraordinarily diverse, and I am proud that we are able to share this program with audiences across the country.”
-Paula A. Kerger, President and CEO of PBS.
“But the most elaborate costumes flanked Lila Downs, a neo-traditionalist Mexican singer whose “Pecados y Milagros” was named best folk album; she sang “Zapata Se Queda” with the Colombian folk singer Totó la Momposina and the Mexican accordionist Celso Piña, as a lavish Day of the Dead procession filled the aisles and the stage.” -Jon Pareles, New York Times
Watch Lila Downs Perform “Zapata Se Queda”
(Lila also performed at the Latin GRAMMY Person of the Year Gala, honoring Caetano Veloso)
Open up this week’s Billboard Magazine (10.12.2013) and check out the World Music charts- in #1 is Rokia Traore’s Beautiful Africa and #2 is Clannad’s Nádúr, featuring the voice (and compositions) of Moya Brennan.
Produced by John Parish, Beautiful Africa was recently featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and is Rokia’s first new release in five years. She has been touring in Europe and will be coming to the US in November.
Nádúr is Clannad’s first recording of new material since 1998 and is accompanied by a worldwide tour with stops already in Spain, as well as Australia and New Zealand dates at the end of October.