NPR To Broadcast AMA Award Show

Can’t be in Nashville for the Americana Music Association’s 2010 Honors & Award Show tonight (9/9)? Well, fear not. NPR Radio and partner station Folk Alley will be webcasting the entire affair from the Ryman Auditorium starting at 6:30pm ct, joining the BBC, Voice of America Radio, Sirius XM, and WSM AM as the show’s broadcast partners. NPR will also have the ceremony archived and available for on-demand listening at www.npr.org/music as well as from its iPhone app.

Award show tickets are still available for $55 from Ticketmaster, Ryman.com, or at the Ryman box office. Jim Lauderdale will handle hosting duties again, joined by Buddy Miller and his All-Star house band featuring Don Was, Aaron Embry, Greg Liesz, and Bryan Owings. Scheduled performers include John Mellencamp, Emmylou Harris, The Avett Brothers, Rodney Crowell, Wanda Jackson, Rosanne Cash, Patty Griffin and more. Presenters include Jack White, Lucinda Williams, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Grace Potter, John Oates, Mary Gauthier and more.