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Best American Roots Song

Mark Knopfler – Ahead Of The Game

Sam Beam – All In Good Time (Iron & Wine featuring Fiona Apple)

Aoife O’Donovan – for All My Friends” (Aoife O’Donovan)

Sierra Ferrell & Melody Walker – American Dreaming (Sierra Ferrell)

John Hahn & Will Kimbrough – Blame It On Eve (Shemekia Copeland)

Best American Roots Performance

Shemekia Copeland – Blame It On Eve

The Fabulous Thunderbirds Featuring Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood – Nothing In Rambling

Sierra Ferrell – Lighthouse

Rhiannon Giddens – The Ballad Of Sally Anne

Best Americana Performance

Beyoncé – Ya Ya

Madison Cunningham – Subtitles

Madi Diaz featuring Kacey Musgraves – Don’t Do Me Good

Sierra Ferrell – American Dreaming – WINNER

Sarah Jarosz – Runaway Train

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Empty Trainload of Sky 

Best Bluegrass Album

Bronwyn Keith-Hynes – I Built a World

The Del McCoury Band – Songs of Love and Life

Sister Sadie – No Fear

Billy Strings – Live Vol. 1

Tony Trischka – Earl Jam

Dan Tyminski – Live From The Ryman

Best Traditional Blues Album 

Cedric Burnside – Hill Country Love

The Fabulous Thunderbirds – Struck Down

Sue Foley – One Guitar Woman

Little Feat – Sam’s Place

The Taj Mahal Sextet – Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa – WINNER

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Joe Bonamassa – Blues Deluxe Vol. 2

Shemekia Copeland – Blame It On Eve

Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour – Friendlytown

Ruthie Foster – Mileage

Antonio Vergara – The Fury

Best Folk Album 

American Patchwork Quartet – American Patchwork Quartet

Madi Diaz – Weird Faith

Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future

Aoife O’Donovan – All My Friends

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland 

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Sean Ardoin and Kreole Rock And Soul – 25 Back to My Roots

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & The Golden Eagles featuring J’Wan Boudreaux – Live at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

New Breed Brass Band featuring Trombone Shorty – Live at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Kalani Pe’a – Kuini – WINNER

The Rumble featuring Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr. – Stories from The Battlefield

 

Best Reggae Album

Collie Buddz – Take It Easy

Vybz Kartel – Party With Me

Shenseea – Never Gets Late Here

Various Artists – Bob Marley: One Love – Music Inspired By The Film (Deluxe)

The Wailers – Evolution

 

Best Global Music Performance 

Arooj Aftab – Raat Ki Rani

Jacob Collier featuring Anoushka Shankar & Varijashree Venugopal – A Rock Somewhere

Rocky Dawuni – Rise

Sheila E. featuring Gloria Estefan & Mimy Succar – Bemba Colorá – WINNER

Angélique Kidjo featuring Soweto Gospel Choir – Sunlight to My Soul

Masa Takumi featuring Ron Korb, Noshir Mody & Dale Edward Chung – Kashira

 

Best African Music Performance

Yemi Alade – Tomorrow

Asake & Wizkid – MMS

Chris Brown featuring Davido & Lojay – Sensational

Burna Boy – Higher

Tems – Love Me JeJe – WINNER

 

Best Global Music Album 

Matt B ft. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Alkebulan II – WINNER

Ciro Hurtado – Paisajes

Rema – Heis

Antonio Rey – Historias de un Flamenco

Tems – Born in the Wild

 

Best Children’s Music Album

Lucky Diaz & The Family Jam Band – Brillo, Brillo!

Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats – Creciendo

John Legend – My Favourite Dream

Rock For Children – Solid Rock Revival

Divinity Roxx & Divi Roxx Kids – World Wide Playdate

 

Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording 

All You Need Is Love: The Beatles In Their Own Words – Guy Oldfield

…And Your Ass Will Follow – George Clinton

Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones – Dolly Parton

Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration – Jimmy Carter – WINNER

My Name Is Barbra – Barbra Streisand

 

Best Spoken Word Poetry Album

Civil Writes: The South Got Something to Say – Queen Sheba

Concrete & Whiskey Act II Part 1: A Bourbon 30 Series – Omari Hardwick

Good M.U.S.I.C. Universe Sonic Sinema Episode 1: In the Beginning Was the Word – Malik Yusef

The Heart, The Mind, The Soul – Tank and the Bangas

The Seven Number Ones – Mad Skillz

 

Best Comedy Album

Armageddon – Ricky Gervais

The Dreamer – Dave Chappelle

The Prisoner – Jim Gaffigan

Someday You’ll Die – Nikki Glaser

Where Was I – Trevor Noah

 

Best Musical Theater Album

Hell’s Kitchen 

Merrily We Roll Along 

The Notebook 

The Outsiders 

Suffs 

The Wiz 

 

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

The Color Purple 

Deadpool & Wolverine 

Maestro

Saltburn 

Twisters: The Album 

 

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Includes Film and Television)

American Fiction – Laura Karpman

Challengers – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

The Color Purple – Kris Bowers

Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer

Shōgun – Nick Chuba, Atticus Ross and Leopold Ross

 

Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Pinar Toprak

God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla – Bear McCreary

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 – John Paesano

Star Wars Outlaws – Wilbert Roget II

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord – Winifred Phillips

 

Best Song Written for Visual Media

Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma (from Twisters: The Album)

Better Place (from Trolls Band Together)

Can’t Catch Me Now (from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes)

It Never Went Away (from American Symphony) – WINNER

Love Will Survive (from The Tattooist of Auschwitz)

 

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Karen Slack (soloist); Michelle Cann (pianist) – Beyond the Years – Unpublished Songs of Florence Price

Nicholas Phan (soloist); Palaver Strings (ensemble) – A Change Is Gonna Come

Fotina Naumenko (soloist); Marika Bournaki (pianist) – Newman: Bespoke Songs

Will Liverman (soloist); Jonathan King (pianist) – Show Me The Way

Joyce DiDonato (soloist); Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor of Il Pomo d’Oro) – Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder

 

Best Classical Compendium

Andy Akiho & Imani Winds (artists); Andy Akiho, Sean Dixon & Mark Dover (producers) – BeLonging

Curtis Stewart (artist); James Blachley (conductor), Blanton Alspaugh (producer) – American Counterpoints

JoAnn Falletta (conductor); Bernd Gottinger (producer) – Foss: Symphony No. 1; Renaissance Concerto; Three American Pieces; Ode

Sangeeta Kaur, Omar Najmi, Hilá Plitmann, Robert Thies & Danaë Xanthe Vlasse (artists); Michael Shapiro (conductor); Jeff Atmajian, Emilio D. Miler, Hai Nguyen, Robert Thies, Danaë Xanthe Vlasse & Kitt Wakeley (producers) – Mythologies II

Gustavo Didamel (conductor); Dmitriy Lipay (producer) – Ortiz: Revolución Diamantin

 

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Curtis Stewart (artist); James Blachley (conductor), Blanton Alspaugh (producer) – American Counterpoints

JoAnn Falletta (conductor); Bernd Gottinger (producer) – Foss: Symphony No. 1; Renaissance Concerto; Three American Pieces; Ode

Sangeeta Kaur, Omar Najmi, Hilá Plitmann, Robert Thies & Danaë Xanthe Vlasse (artists); Michael Shapiro (conductor); Jeff Atmajian, Emilio D. Miler, Hai Nguyen, Robert Thies, Danaë Xanthe Vlasse & Kitt Wakeley (producers) – Mythologies II

Gustavo Didamel (conductor); Dmitriy Lipay (producer) – Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina

 

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

Michael League – Baby Elephant Walk – Encore (Snarky Puppy)

Jacob Collier, Tori Kelly & John Legend – Bridge Over Troubled Water (Jacob Collier ft. John Legend & Tori Kelly) – WINNER

Béla Fleck & Ferde Grofé – Rhapsody in Blue(grass) (Béla Fleck ft. Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz & Bryan Sutton)

Erin Bentlage, Alexander Lloyd Blake, Scott Hoying, A.J. Sealy & Amanda Taylor – Rose Without the Thorns (Scott Hoying ft. säje & Tonality)

Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnnaye Kendrick & Amanda Taylor – Silent Night 

 

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals 

Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnnye Kendrick & Amanda Taylor – Alma (säje ft. Regina Carter)

Matt Jones – Always Come Back (John Legend)

Willow, Chris Greatti, Zach Tenorio – B i g f e e l i n g s  (Willow)

Charlie Rosen & Jake Silverman – Last Surprise (The 8-bit Big Band ft. Jonah Nilsson & Button Masher)

Cody Fry – The sound of silence (Cody Fry ft. Sleeping At Last

 

Best Recording Package

Jonny Black & Giorgia Sage – The Avett Brothers (The Avett Brothers)

Sarah Dodds & Shauna Dodds – Baker Hotel (William Clark Green)

Brent David Freaney, Charli XCX & Imogene Strauss – Brat (Charli xcx)

Archie Lee Coates IV, Austin Post (Post Malone), Bobby Greenleaf, Jeffrey Franklin, Blossom Liu, Kylie McMahon & Ana Cecilia Thompson Motta – F-1 Trillion (Post Malone)

Kate Bush & Albert McIntosh – Hounds of Love – The Baskerville Edition (Kate Bush)

Andrew Wong & Julie Yeh – Jug Band Millionaire (The Muddy Basin Ramblers)

Lee Pei-Tzu – Pregnancy, Breakdown and Disease (WhoiWhoo)

 

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Nick Azinas & Mike Hicks – Half Living Things (Alpha Wolf)

Kate Bush & Albert McIntosh – Hounds of Love – The Boxes of Lost at Sea (Kate Bush)

Doug Cunningham & Jason Noto – In Utero (Nirvana)

Simon Hilton & Sean Ono Lennon – Mind Games (John Lennon)

Takahiro Kurashima & Marek Polewski – Unsuk Chin (Unsuk Chin & Berliner Philharmoniker)

Rebeka Arce & Farbod Kokaki – We Blame Chicago (90 Day Men)

 

Best Album Notes

Tim Brooks – After Midnight 

Lauren de Graf – The Carnegie Hall Concert 

Ricky Riccardi – Centennial 

Dominic Fyfe – John Culshaw – The Art of the Producer – The Early Years 1948-55 

Josh Kun – SONtrack Original de la Pelicula Al Son de Beno

 

Best Historical Album

Centennial – Meagan Hennessy & Richard Martin

Prince – Diamonds and Pearls: Super Deluxe Edition

Paul Robeson – Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings

Pepito y Paquito – Pepe De Lucía & Javier Doria,

The Sound of Music – Super Deluxe Edition 

 

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical 

Jessi Alexander 

Amy Allen – WINNER

Édgar Barrera 

Jessie Jo Dillon 

Raye 

 

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical 

Algorithm (Lucky Daye) 

Cyan Blue (Charlotte Day Wilson) 

Deeper Well (Kacey Musgraves) 

Empathogen (Willow) 

I/O (Peter Gabriel) 

Short n’ Sweet (Sabrina Carpenter)

 

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical 

Alissia

Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II

Ian Fitchuk

Mustard

Dan Nigro – WINNER

 

Best Remixed Recording

Kaytranada – Alter Ego (Kaytranada Remix) (Doechii featuring JT)

David Guetta – A Bar Song (Tipsy) (remix) (Shaboozey & David Guetta)

Mark Ronson x FnZ – Espresso (Working Late remix) (Sabrina Carpenter)

Alexx Antaeus, Footsteps & MeMyish – Jah Sees Them (Amapiano remix)” (Julian Marley & Antaeus)

A. G. Cook – Von Dutch (remix) (Charli XCX & A. G. Cook featuring Addison Rae)

 

Best Immersive Audio Album

Roxy Music – Avalon

Ray Charles – Genius Loves Company 

Trondheim Symphony Orchestra – Borders 

Peter Gabriel – i/o (In-Side Mix)

Ensemble 96 & Current Saxophone Quartet -Pax 

 

Best Instrumental Composition

Shelton G. Berg – At Last 

Christopher Zuar – Communion 

André 3000, Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau & Carlos Niño – I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A “Rap” Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time 

Chick Corea – Remembrance

Pascal Le Boeuf – Strands

 

Best Engineered Album, Classical

Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay – Adams: Girl of the Golden West 

Silas Brown, Doron Schachter & Michael Schwartz – Andres: The Blind Banister 

Mark Donahue & John Newton – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Bates: Ressurexit

Daniel Shores – Clear Voices in the Dark 

Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay – Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina 

 

Producer of the Year, Classical 

Erica Brenner

Morten Lindberg

Dmitriy Lipay

Elaine Martone

Dirk Sobotka

 

Best Orchestral Performance 

Marin Alsop (cd); ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra – Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance

JoAnn Falletta (cd); Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra – Kodály: Háry János Suite; Summer Evening & Symphony in C Major

Gustavo Dudamel (cd); Los Angeles Philharmonic – Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina

Susanna Mälkki (cd); Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra – Sibelius: Karelia Suite; Rakastava & Lemminkäinen

Esa-Pekka Salonen (cd); San Francisco Symphony – Stravinsky: The Firebird

Best Opera Recording

Adams: Girls of the Golden West -Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Master Chorale

 Catán: Florencia en el Amazonas – The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Moravec: The Shining -Kansas City Symphony; Lyric Opera of Kansas City Chorus

 Puts: The Hours – The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Saariaho: Adriana Mater -San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; Timo Kurkilangas

 

Best Choral Performance

Skylark Vocal Ensemble (ensemble) – Clear Voices in the Dark

True Concord Voices (ensemble) – A Dream So Bright – Choral Music of Jake Runestad

Apollo’s Fire (ensemble); Apollo’s Singers (ensemble) – Handel: Israel in Egypt

 The Crossing (ensemble) – Ochre

Novus NY, Artefact Ensemble, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Downtown Voices & Trinity Youth Chorus (ensembles) – Sheehan: Akathist

 

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance 

JACK Quartet – J.L. Adams: Waves & Particles

Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos & Emanuel Ax – Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97, ‘Archduke’

Beth Willer, Christopher Cerrone & Lorelei Ensemble – Cerrone: Beaufort Scales

Miró Quartet – Home

Caroline Shaw & So Percussion – Rectangles and Circumstance

 

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Andy Akiho – Akiho: Longing

Vikingur Ólafsson – Bach: Goldberg Variations

Seth Parker Woods (soloist); Christopher Rountree (conductor of Wild Up) – Eastman: The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc

Mak Grgić – Entourer

Curtis Stewart (soloist); James Blachly (conductor of the Experiential Orchestra) – Perry: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra

Best Classical Compendium

Andy Akiho & Imani Winds – BeLonging

Curtis Stewart – American Counterpoints

JoAnn Falletta – Foss: Symphony No. 1; Renaissance Concerto; Three American Pieces; Ode

Sangeeta Kaur, Omar Najmi, Hilá Plitmann, Robert Thies & Danaë Xanthe Vlasse – Mythologies II

Gustavo Didamel – Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina