Up to date: Every year, the Americana Music Affiliation takes over the Troubadour on Grammy eve to salute a legend within the area, and this yr’s occasion can be a tribute to John Hiatt, with this system pivoting to grow to be a profit for the L.A. wildfire aid efforts of the Recording Academy’s MusiCares program.
The preliminary expertise lineup for the salute, launched on Tuesday, consists of an look by Hiatt himself, in addition to Los Lobos, Lyle Lovett, Michael McDonald, John C. Reilly, Sarah Jarosz, Tom Morello, the Milk Carton Children, Maggie Rose, Joe Bonamassa, Cedric Burnside and Shemekia Copeland. Extra artists can be introduced within the run-up to Saturday’s present.
Tickets are actually on sale to most people on the Troubadour web site with a minimal donation of $200.
The annual AmericanaFest program has been solely loosely affiliated with the Recording Academy previously, present with the Academy’s blessing however not its official imprimatur. This yr, the affiliation goes official, with MusiCares welcoming the Americana Music Affiliation’s suggestion to have the present go on as a fundraiser.
This yr’s occasion can even have a livestream part, by means of Quantity.com, which is able to equally channel donations on to MusiCares.
“We have been deeply saddened and troubled by the magnitude of the fires,” says AMA govt director Jed Hilly. “We’re not an enormous company that would cancel an occasion and donate 1,000,000 {dollars}. We don’t essentially have tens of 1000’s of {dollars} to donate. However by shifting this, we’re doing what we are able to. (Recording Academy CEO) Harvey Mason Jr. had launched an announcement the place he talked concerning the therapeutic energy of music, and we agree with Harvey. We hope that our occasion will give some folks the chance to heal in some methods, and to get out of the zone that so many individuals are in. We contacted the Recording Academy and MusiCares, they usually gave us their blessing. Now we have a QR code that’s going to go straight to MusiCares, and we’re completely satisfied about that.”
Hilly continued, “I went to The Grammys after we began this greater than 10 years in the past and requested permission as a result of I didn’t need them to assume I used to be poaching on their territory.The American roots music world isn’t essentially the one which will get probably the most consideration, however fact be advised, the Recording Academy was completely satisfied after we began this as a result of they knew that too, they usually noticed our occasion as a method to give a house across the Grammys for these Grammy nominees which may not in any other case be instantly seen in mainstream media. However to have the precise sanctioning and blessing for this occasion undoubtedly takes it to a different stage. Earlier than, it was like, ‘We expect that’s nice. No drawback.’ However this time it was like, ‘Use the emblem.’ I’m really humbled that they’ve given us the help to do that as a fundraiser. I do know that Laura Segura and Harvey Mason Jr. are moved and grateful that we’re doing this, and to be sanctioned by them means the world to me.
Grammy eve salute to John Hiatt
Americana Music Affiliation
“In years previous, we’ve finished this occasion probably not to make any cash, however as a result of the Americana Music Affiliation and Basis needed to acknowledge the artists who had gained Grammys previously or who have been nominated on the time. It’s been actually enjoyable to place these extremely gifted musicians collectively and activity them with selecting a track from an unbelievable songwriter, from John Prine to Willie Nelson to Loretta Lynn to (final yr’s honoree) Paul Simon.”
A stable lineup for the Hiatt tribute is already in place, however for the second, not less than, the roster is being held again, partly as a result of a few of those that are signing on have themselves been affected by losses suffered within the fires, and the AMA will not be eager to stress anybody who nonetheless hasn’t decided for certain whether or not they can seem on this system.
Hiatt is anticipated to observe within the footsteps of a few of the honorees of the previous which have confirmed as much as take pleasure in and carry out at their very own tribute, as John Prine and a few others have finished.
The singer-songwriter already acquired a lifetime achievement award from the Americana Music Affiliation again in 2008. His catalog, which dates again to the mid-Seventies, ought to present a wealthy supply for materials within the present. A tribute album launched in 2007 included Hiatt songs recorded by, amongst others, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, Eric Clapton, Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Money and Patty Griffin.
