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/ Composer and bandleader Maria Schneider accepts a Grammy Award in Los Angeles in 2014. On Sunday she won two more, for Best Instrumental Composition and Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. The Grammy Premiere Ceremony — the pre-telecast ritual where most of the Grammy Awards are actually announced — took place virtually this year, like so many other recent events of its kind. Despite those restrictions, there was room for a performance by Terri Lyne Carrington & Social Science, whose Wait...

Grammys 2021: The Country Music Winners From Best Country Album to Best American Roots Performance, the complete country and Americana rundown Joseph Hudak, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Awards in the Americana and country music categories were handed out during the 63rd Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony on Sunday afternoon with John Prine winning a pair of posthumous Grammys for his song “I Remember Everything.” Written with Pat McLaughlin, “I Remember Everything” was named Best Amer...

The list of winners from the 63rd Grammy Awards.

Octogenarian Mississippi bluesman Bobby Rush nabs another Grammy Award Bob Mehr, Memphis Commercial Appeal Octogenarian Mississippi bluesman Bobby Rush was one of the Mid-South artists who earned a 2021 Grammy Award on Sunday.  Due to COVID-19, the 63rd annual Grammy ceremonies took place as a largely virtual event. Several members of the Memphis chapter of the Grammys -- which also represents Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana and part of Missouri -- came away with trophies.�...

Mississippis Bobby Rush wins second Grammy Share Updated: 7:27 AM CDT Mar 15, 2021 Share Updated: 7:27 AM CDT Mar 15, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA NATS WILL GANSS, ABC NEWS NEW YORK JACKSONS OWN BOBBY RUSH WON HIS SECOND "GRAMMY" YESTERDAY. THE 87-YEAR-OLDS SONG "RAWER THAN RAW" WON IN THE "BEST TRADITIONAL BLUES ALBUM" CATEGORY. RUSH WON HIS FIRST "GRAMMY" IN 2017 AT TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Update...

Johnette Isham, executive director for the organization Realize Bradenton that produces the event, hopes that by December the pandemic will have lessened to the degree that such drastic social distancing measures will not be necessary. If they are, however, she said the LECOM Park site offers that flexibility, and that last year’s event showed that the festival could be held safely under such measures. “We wanted to keep the blues alive, not only for our community, but also for musicians,...

12:26 pm UTC Feb. 17, 2021 Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, field...

Lici Beveridge, Mississippi Clarion Ledger Published 8:54 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021 Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. JACKSON, Miss. — B...