Americana Music Best in Nashville

Southern Living Magazine Proclaims
Americana Best Music in Nashville
Americana Music Festival is # 1 in Music City

April 26, 2010: Nashville, TN. The Americana Music Festival is featured in the May issue of Southern Living magazine as the Best Music Festival in Nashville. The issue, which is on newsstands now, includes an insider’s guide to music capitals Austin and Nashville exploring "Which City Has Better Music Chops?"

According to Southern Living, “The big secret is that the best music in Nashville isn’t country – It’s Americana” and the best festival in Music City is the Americana Music Festival in September. Kind praise for the fledgling not for profit Americana Music Association, whose mission is to advocate for the flourishing Americana music community.

The Americana Music Festival is the nighttime component of the Americana Music Association’s Festival and Conference. Critically acclaimed for promoting “singers who can sing, players who can play and writers who can write” (Wall Street Journal). The four day confab has grown in size and stature over the years gathering an international audience, while maintaining the feel of small and intimate event. The capstone of Americanafest is the Honors & Awards show at the historic Ryman Auditorium which Emmylou Harris recently described as “the shining star of Nashville and music everywhere.”

Southern Living is one of the largest lifestyle magazines in the United States boasting a readership of approximately 16 million, primarily in the Southern region, but also reaches the hundreds of thousands in the Northeast and Midwest.

For More Information about the Americana Music Association:
Registrations and ticket information visit www.americanamusic.org or call (615) 386-6936
Media Contact: Jayne Rogovin; Jrogovin@mac.com (615) 403-2393