Mary Gauthier nominated for Album of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Association Awards

bbowdler May 16, 2018

Congratulations to Mary Gauthier whose album Rifles & Rosary Beads has been nominated in the Album of the Year category at the 2018 Americana Music Association Awards. The album, which was released back in January to critical acclaim, features eleven songs co-written with and for wounded veterans as part of the five-year-old SongwritingWith:Soldiers programme. You …

Richard Thompson to Receive the UK Americana Lifetime Achievement Award

bbowdler November 16, 2016

The UK Americana Awards nominations were announced last night at the press launch co-presented by Imelda May and BBC Radio 2 DJ Baylen Leonard. As part of the nominations, it was announced that Richard Thompson has been chosen to receive the UK Americana Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his contribution to the Americana genre …