A2IM: American Association of Independent Music

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A2IM congratulates the indie label community’s artists on 34 GRAMMY wins, led by Bon Iver’s two GRAMMY’s including the Best New Artist award. The indie community’s percentage share of GRAMMY wins increased over the prior year with additional multiple A2IM member label wins by Big Machine’s Taylor Swift, Concord Music Group’s (label winner of seven GRAMMY’s) Chick Corea, and Rounder’s Alison Krauss.  A number of A2IM member comments are included here in the A2IM press release and we congratulate them all!

In addition to these wins, Adele who is signed to Beggars/XL but licensed to and marketed by Columbia in the U.S. (and therefore excluded from the indie total), won six GRAMMY awards including Album of the Year. This marks the fourth consecutive year that an artist signed to an indie label has won Album of the Year, following  2011’s winner Arcade Fire’s ‘The Suburbs’, 2010’s winner Taylor Swift’s ‘Fearless’ (Big Machine), and 2009’s winner Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ ‘Raising Sand’ (Rounder).

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The Americana Music Festival & Conference brings together both legendary and rising artists, along with the best and brightest music industry leaders for four days of education, inspiration and pure fun! This year’s event will take place Wednesday through Saturday, October 12 – 15, gathering thousands of artists, fans and industry professionals from all over the world in Nashville, TN. Americanafest promises to once again be the must-attend event of the year for anyone who loves great music. Conference registrations, showcase wristbands and tickets are available now at www.americanamusic.org. (more…)

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A2IM label’s artists dominate the 12th annual Americana Music Award nominations with three of the four nominees in the Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the year categories! Thirty One Tigers’ Elizabeth Cook and Concord Music Group/Rounder Records’ Robert Plant and his Band of Joy leading with three nominations each. We congratulate all of our member’s nominees.

Read the AMA press release HERE for a list of all of the AMA award nominees which includes artists from A2IM members Acony, Bloodshot Records, Glassnote Music and New West Records.

The AMA invites all A2IM members to attend AmericanaFest, from October 12th thru October 15th, at a discount rate of $300 from now through July 31st.  That is $100 off the current AMA non-member rate ($400).  To register