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AMA-UK Presents AMERICANAFEST UK ONLINE Tune in online from anywhere in the world Festival and Awards Show Event Programme theamauk.org #amauk21 AMERICANAFEST UK Welcome to AmericanaFest UK 2021! AMERICANAFEST UK On behalf of the Board it gives Achievement Award and the Trailblazer Award. For 2021 we me great pleasure to welcome introduce a special Songwriter Legacy Award to honour John you to the 6th annual Prine. We also have International Trailblazer and International Thank you to our sponsors & partners: AmericanaFest UK & the UK Life Time Achievement Awards to honour artists from outside Americana Awards. Not our the UK who have helped shape the genre to what it is today. usual event in our Hackney We are proud to also be including a tribute show to the venues for reasons I do not legendary John Prine and to share our most recent community need to explain, but none the songwriting workshop that this time brought AMA-UK less we bring two days of members together with staff from the NHS to write songs wonderful international about the incredibly difficult and emotional year they have had showcasing, and the awards in 2020. which are an indication of the artists, albums and songs that really made an impression during 2020 and the recognition of Once again we thank our membership for their commitment to those who were brave enough to still release music during a the nomination and voting process for the seven member voted time when they knew they could not gig and tour. awards, these are your awards and we are glad you take this process so seriously. We feel proud that the nominees and After much deliberation the Board decided late last summer to winners are decided and voted for by the membership. So this go ahead and plan an online event, not something any of us just leaves me to share the Board's heartfelt congratulations to had experience in doing, but we are delighted to share that the nominees, all of them worthy winners. We hope you have a colleagues from across the industry were happy to reach out really special three days. with advice on what had worked for them and what hadn’t - the community across the Americana & Folk world is stronger than ever and that gave us the courage to move forward with our plans for the event. Once again we are thrilled to welcome Guest Showcase hosts; our now established partners CIMA, PEI, Thirty Tigers and Stevie Smith YepRoc are joined this year by Come Hear North Carolina, CEO AMA-UK Loose Records and Sounds Australia, we even have a special Happy Hour coming from East Nashville courtesy of The Wild Ponies. We are more excited than ever by this year's line up - 90 artists over two nights across two stages on our specially Thank you... designed festival website. We can’t thank our sponsors enough as without them this I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the artists who applied; there are so many talented members that it was a whole event would simply not be happening. We treasure difficult task for our selection committee this year. We hope to the support we get from so many in the industry. Welcome find other opportunities for many of you to be part of over the to our new sponsors and big thanks to those who have coming year. Whatever this year brings, we will keep looking been on this journey with us from the start - please take a out for you because being a member of AMA-UK is also being moment over the next few days to visit the sponsor part of the journey the genre is making, growing stronger every banner and click through to their websites. year even during this difficult time for the wider industry. In keeping with our commitment to a number of important On behalf of the Board I extend a huge thanks to our causes, I am proud to say that we have fully realised our amazing event team who have gone beyond the call of Keychange pledge for the fourth year running, with a duty to be inventive and learn new tricks to pull off this minimum 50/50 gender balance across all areas of our event. event - thanks to our production and event manager We also signed the Music Declares Emergency pledge last year and we have held that in our minds during the planning for Renae Brown - Arby Projects, to our brand and event this event. consultant Romano Sidoli, our social media and design manager Lucy Powell, the event producers Mark Lewis We are proud to be associated Our Gala Awards night will look a little different than usual, but we hope you will rise to the occasion and get your best red and Thomas Dibb - The Northern Cowboys, our event with our charity partners: carpet outfits on, pour your favourite drink and celebrate along website developer Leon Nockolds, awards show producer with us. There are lots of ways to be involved with the virtual Miles Myerscough-Harris plus our wonderful awards host red carpet and the after party bar - read on to find out more. Bob Harris OBE, NHS songwriting film producer Georgie So… as usual alongside the member-voted awards, this year d’Albiac, and to our CFO Ian Thomas for keeping the we have eight special awards, which you can read about in the numbers under control. following pages, once again celebrating exactly what makes this genre so special with wonderful recipients from every And thank you to the Chair of our Board Lynne Best, all corner of the Americana genre. As well as the Emerging Artist the Board Members and Ambassador Board for their Award, Best Selling Americana Album and our Grassroots support and having trust in me to do this job! Award, the Board selected a UK artist for the Lifetime 2 theamauk.org theamauk.org 3 AMA-UK Presents CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2021 UK AMERICANA AWARDS NOMINEES AMERICANAFEST UK ONLINE Tune in online from anywhere in the world OFFICIAL SHOWCASES CHURCH OF ROSWELL • DAISY CHUTE • DAN BETTRIDGE • DECLAN O'ROURKE DELILA BLACK • DUSTBOWL REVIVAL • EDDY SMITH & THE 507 • EMMA SWIFT • GOOD LOVELIES HANNAH WHITE • JAMES RILEY • JAIMEE HARRIS • JOSH O'KEEFE • JOSHUA BURNSIDE • JUDY BLANK KAREN JONAS • KATIE PRUITT • KYSHONA • LARKIN POE • LAUREN HOUSLEY • LOGAN LEDGER MASSY FERGUSON • MEGAN O'NEILL • MISTY RIVER • OUR MAN IN THE FIELD • PETER BRUNTNELL ROSEANNE REID • RUTHIE COLLINS • SAM COE • SARAH POTENZA • SOUTHERN AVENUE THE HANGING STARS • THE MARRIAGE • THE NORTHERN BELLE • THE WANDERING HEARTS AMERICAN AQUARIUM STEVE EARLE International Album of the Year “Lamentations” International Trailblazer Award TRUE STRAYS • THE WAR AND TREATY • WILD PONIES • + A SPECIAL GUEST GUEST HOSTS LOOSE RECORDS SHOWCASE CLOSE UP PRESENTED BY SOUNDS AUSTRALIA COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS, DANNY GEORGE WILSON, ANDREW FARRISS, BECCY COLE, CHARLIE COLLINS, GILL LANDRY, ISRAEL NASH, JIM WHITE, JOANA SERRAT, DAN SULTAN, FANNY LUMSDEN, FENN WILSON, SAIJE, NATIVE HARROW, THE HANDSOME FAMILY, TREETOP FLYERS TRACY MCNEIL, TROY CASSAR-DALEY NORTH CAROLINA COME HEAR NC / VISIT NC STAGE THIRTY TIGERS # STORYTELLERS HOSTED BY DAVID MENCONI: AMERICAN AQUARIUM, BRENT COBB, CHARLEY CROCKETT, DARLINGSIDE ARNOLD RICHARDSON, CHATHAM COUNTY LINE, DIANA DEMUTH, EMILY BARKER, IDA MAE, HAMILTONES, JIM LAUDERDALE, JIMMY VIPPERMAN, JASON ISBELL (AND THE 400 UNIT), LUCERO, LAKOTA JOHN, MIPSO, RISSI PALMER ROBERT VINCENT, THE MAVERICKS, TRE BURT MUSIC PEI SHOWCASE YEP ROC RECORDS SHOWCASE MUSIC EXPORT CANADA CORY GALLANT, GORDIE MACKEENMAN CHUCK PROPHET, GRANT LEE PHILLIPS, PRESENTS CANADIAN BLAST & HIS RHYTHM BOYS, HAUNTED HEARTS, MICHAELA ANNE CAHI, CARMANAH, JULIAN TAYLOR, LAWRENCE MAXWELL LES HAY BABIES, THE EAST POINTERS, Tickets: bitly.com/AMAUK21 TERRA LIGHTFOOT LILLY HIATT THE SECRET SISTERS Tickets valid for two weeks International Song of the Year “Brightest Star” International Song of the Year “Hand Over My Heart” *includes access to UK Americana Awards 28th Jan AMERICANAFEST UK YOURRegistration GUIDE TO AMERICANAFEST UK 2021 We are so excited to welcome you to the first ever online edition of AmericanaFest UK. We have built a special digital festival website for you to enjoy for the duration of the event AND for two weeks afterwards so you can check back in and watch anything you might have missed! You can use your login details to come back to the festival to watch performances on demand for up to two weeks after the event has finished. Access to performances will finish at midnight on the 11th February 2021. How to join the event LOGGING IN 1. Copy your DICE access code received by SMS or email and follow the link to americanafestuk.com/virtual-wristband 2. Sign up for an AmericanaFest UK account by filling in your details (same email used for your ticket!) and clicking submit 3. You will then be asked to enter your access code - paste it here 4. You're in! If you need to buy your ticket, please click the buy tickets button and follow instructions to pay and access the site. If you didn't receive your access code from DICE please get in touch with their customer service team who will be happy to help out. If you're having other issues logging in please email [email protected] We recommend you go through the Sign Up / Log In process on the AmericanaFest UK microsite as soon as possible in order to collect your virtual wristband for the event. Once you do this you will be able to explore the site and view the schedule in advance, as well as information/links for the artists performing at the festival. This should help you to plan your schedule and avoid missing out on artists you'd like to watch! We request that you collect your virtual wristband no later than Sunday 24th January.