Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Cityfolk's 2010 Grammy Connections

Nominations for the 2010 Grammys were recently announced, and as usual, some Cityfolk favorites were nominated. Who are you rooting for?

Best Jazz Vocal Album
    Luciana Souza, Tide

Best Improvised Jazz Solo
    Villa Palmeras
    Miguel Zenón, soloist
    Track from: Esta Plena

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Solo or Group
    Quartet Live
    Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow & Antonio Sanchez

Best Latin Jazz Album

    Esta Plena
    Miguel Zenón

Best Tropical Latin Album
    Bach In Havana
    Tiempo Libre

Best Bluegrass Album
    Could We Get Any Closer?
    Jim Lauderdale

    Destination Life
    Rhonda Vincent

Best Traditional Blues Album
    Stomp! The Blues Tonight
    Duke Robillard

Best Contemporary Blues Album
    The Truth According To Ruthie Foster
    Ruthie Foster

    Live: Hope At The Hideout
    Mavis Staples

Best Traditional Folk Album
    Naked With Friends
    Maura O'Connell

Best Hawaiian Music Album
    He Nani
    Tia Carrere & Daniel Ho

    Masters Of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, Volume 2 (Various Artists)
    Daniel Ho, George Kahumoku, Jr., Paul Konwiser & Wayne Wong, producers

Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album
    Alligator Purse
    Beausoleil Avec Michael Doucet

Best Traditional World Music Album
    Ancient Sounds
    Rahim Alhaj And Amjad Ali Khan

    Double Play
    Liz Carroll & John Doyle

    Douga Mansa
    Mamadou Diabate

Best Contemporary World Music Album
    Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 — Africa Sessions
    Béla Fleck

    Seya
    Oumou Sangare

Best Musical Album for Children
    Banjo To Beatbox
    Cathy (Fink) & Marcy (Marxer) With Special Guest Christylez Bacon

Best Classical Crossover Album
    The Melody Of Rhythm
    Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer (Detroit Symphony Orchestra)

    Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs Of Joy And Peace
    Yo-Yo Ma (Odair Assad, Sergio Assad, Chris Botti, Dave Brubeck, Matt Brubeck, John Clayton, Paquito d'Rivera, Renée Fleming, Diana Krall, Alison Krauss, Natalie McMaster, Edgar Meyer, Cristina Pato, Joshua Redman, Jake Shimabukuro, Silk Road Ensemble, James Taylor, Chris Thile, Wu Tong, Alon Yavnai & Amelia Zirin-Brown)

2 comments:

Amy Wiedeman said...

We present only the best at Cityfolk!!

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