Tyler Childers, Sierra Ferrell lead 2024 Americana awards nominees. See the full list.

Tyler Childers and Sierra Ferrell lead as the most nominated male and female artists for 2024's Americana Honors & Awards.

The winners will be announced during the Americana Honors & Awards on Sept. 18, 2024, at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. The event will serve as the focal point of the 24th edition of Americanafest from Sept. 17-21, 2024.

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In total, 2024's award nominees reflect not just the breadth of stellar live acts occupying a timeless space between country music's mainstream and the genre's numerous organic roots. More profound, the most-nominated acts highlight how taking a trip to the honky-tonk or venues beloved by barnstormers could serve as a preview to America's next great arena-packing performers.

The evening's most vaunted award, Entertainer of the Year, features Ferrell repeating her 2023 nomination alongside Charley Crockett and Allison Russell. Upstart pop-crossover favorite Noah Kahan and Childers also round out the nominees.

Emerging Act of the Year could be the most intriguing category of the night. Most significantly, it highlights the latest generation of Americana stars wholly influenced by the most ear-warming pieces of the legacies of three decades of genre favorites.

Recent 2024 Ameripolitan Award for Best Honky Tonk Female Kaitlin Butts is nominated alongside 2024 Opry Nextstage class member Wyatt Flores, critically-acclaimed occasional Luke Combs tour opener Charles Wesley Godwin, Alabama-based "gothic country" upstarts The Red Clay Strays and 2023 John Prine Songwriting Fellowship winner Jobi Riccio.

Grammy-winning Americana favorites Brandy Clark and Jason Isbell are also featured as nominees.

The former's self-titled and Brandi Carlisle-produced 2023 album and its single "Dear Insecurity" are among the nominees for Album and Song of the Year.

Isbell and the 400 Unit's album "Weathervanes" is also nominated for Album of the Year.

Notable, too, alongside Maddie Denton, Jamie Dick, Megan McCormick and Joshua Rilko as Instrumentalist of the Year nominees is Nashville-based teenage guitar virtuoso Grace Bowers.

The Americana Music Association annually honors its musical community members with six member-voted annual awards and Lifetime Achievement Awards, including the NMAAM co-presented Legacy of Americana Award.

For over two decades, the Americana Honors & Awards have celebrated pioneers and newcomers, including Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash's last live performance and the late John Prine with Bonnie Raitt.

The event also featured show-stopping performances by an all-genre who's who, including k.d. lang, Van Morrison, Mavis Staples, Bob Weir, Buddy Guy, George Strait, Don Henley, Gregg Allman, The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, Alabama Shakes, Solomon Burke, Rosanne Cash, the late Dr. John with Dan Auerbach, Irma Thomas, Levon Helm, Robert Plant and more.

A full list of categories and nominees for the Americana Music Association’s 2024 Americana Honors & Awards is below:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• "Brandy Clark," Brandy Clark; Produced by Brandi Carlile

• "The Past Is Still Alive," Hurray for the Riff Raff; Produced by Brad Cook

• "Rustin’ In The Rain," Tyler Childers; Produced by Tyler Childers and The Food Stamps

• "Trail of Flowers," Sierra Ferrell; Produced by Eddie Spear and Gary Paczosa

• "Weathervanes," Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit; Produced by Jason Isbell

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

• Tyler Childers

• Charley Crockett

• Sierra Ferrell

• Noah Kahan

• Allison Russell

DUO/GROUP OF THE YEAR

• Black Pumas

• Larkin Poe

• The Milk Carton Kids

• Turnpike Troubadours

• The War And Treaty

EMERGING ACT OF THE YEAR

• Kaitlin Butts

• Wyatt Flores

• Charles Wesley Godwin

• The Red Clay Strays

• Jobi Riccio

INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR

• Grace Bowers

• Maddie Denton

• Jamie Dick

• Megan McCormick

• Joshua Rilko

SONG OF THE YEAR

• "American Dreaming," Sierra Ferrell; Written by Melody Walker and Sierra Ferrell

• "Dear Insecurity," Brandy Clark; Written by Brandy Clark and Michael Pollack

• "In Your Love," Tyler Childers; Written by Geno Seale and Tyler Childers

• "Jealous Moon," Sarah Jarosz; Written by Daniel Tashian and Sarah Jarosz

• "Right Back To It" - Waxahatchee; Written by Katie Crutchfield

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