The Americana Honors & Awards show, slated to take place Sept. 16 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, has been formally canceled with less than a week to go after organizers decided that it …
, who released a letter Friday “to inform you that despite all our hope, logistical wrangling and passion, we have concluded that it would not be safe to conduct the Americana Honors & Awards at the wonderful and historic Ryman Auditorium next Wednesday… We’ve carefully evaluated safety measures both with an audience and without. It is our conclusion that if just one person walked out of the Ryman with COVID-19, we would not be able to forgive ourselves.
Another addition of considerable interest is a premiere for passholders of the new documentary “Linda and the Mockingbirds,” which waslast week as having been picked up by Shout! for theatrical and home distribution this fall. The film, which charts a trip taken in 2019 by Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne and a group of music educators and students to a Mexican village, will be seen for the first time as part of Thriving Roots, in lieu of its planned Telluride Film Festival premiere.
Also added to the bill is a conversation with Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards, who’ll tell WFUV program director Rita Houston about returning to music after a long layoff with her first album in eight years.
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