Americana Music Association Will Host Special Party And Showcase March 14 At South By Southwest Music Conference.Entertainment Editors NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2002 The Americana Music Association The Americana Music Association (AMA) is a trade organization developed to provide professional support and to promote awareness of Americana music. Toward these ends the organization works with artists, radio stations, record labels, publishers, and others to create networking is proud to be hosting a party and showcase at SXSW SXSW South By Southwest, Inc. (Texas music festival) in Austin, TX this year. The Americana Showcase will be an officially sanctioned SXSW event and will be held on Thursday March 14th at Antones. Performers include Caitlin Cary Caitlin Cary is an alt-country musician originally from Seville, Ohio, United States. Cary began playing the violin at age six. She joined the band Whiskeytown in 1994, while in college at North Carolina State University. She currently lives in Raleigh, NC. , the Drive-By Truckers Drive-By Truckers are a rock/alt-country/cowpunk band based in Athens, Georgia, though three out of five members (Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood, and Shonna Tucker) originally hail from The Shoals region of Northern Alabama. , Freddy Fender and Jack Ingram, and Old Crow Medicine Show. Showcase begins at 9pm. Earlier that day the AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. will host a party at Antones from 5pm-8pm and feature music from Jon Langford, Lonesome Bob & friends. 2001 was a banner year for the Americana format with over 30 Americana artists gaining final nominations for Grammy Awards. The "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack, (a former #1 on Album Network's Americana Roots chart), has now sold over 4 million albums in the U.S. alone, recently bumping Garth Brooks from atop the Billboard's Country Album Sales Chart to return to #1 where it logged over 20 weeks last year. Additionally, Merlefest, the nation's largest Americana festival, tallied over 77,000 attendance last April, a 12% increase from 2000. Organizers expect Merlefest 2002, in its 15th year, to be even bigger this April. Even legendary Nashville-based country station WSM WSM Samoa (ISO Country code) WSM Wave Structure of Matter WSM Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland) WSM Web Services Management WSM Weston-Super-Mare (Somerset, England) recently began airing "This Week In Americana" - a weekly syndicated radio show dedicated to Americana artists. The AMA is a professional trade association with over 650 members. The mission of the AMA is to provide a forum for the advocacy of Americana music, to promote public awareness of this genre, and to support the creative and economic viability of professionals in this field. For more information contact J.D. May at 615/438-7500 or visit our website www.americanamusic.org. |
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