The Americana Music Affiliation and Americana Music Basis introduced its annual AMERICANAFEST Pre-Grammy Salute for 2025 in celebration of John Hiatt. The occasion shall be held on the Troubadour in West Hollywood, Calif. on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 8 p.m. PT. Normal public tickets shall be out there via the Troubadour’s web site on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at 10 a.m. PT.
This 12 months’s salute will function a profit to MusiCares and its support to these in want in the course of the Los Angeles wildfires.
“Americana has hosted its annual Pre-Grammy Salute yearly since 2013 and this 12 months, in mild of the unbelievable devastation delivered to California by the current fires, our solely thought was, ‘How can we assist?’,” Jed Hilly, govt director of the Americana Music Affiliation stated in an announcement. “We’re turning our Troubadour present right into a fundraiser, with proceeds going to MusiCares. We hope a sold-out present will assist, even in a small manner, those that have misplaced the whole lot.”
Earlier AMERICANAFEST Pre-Grammy salutes have paid tribute to the songs of Paul Simon (2024), Lucinda Williams (2023), Willie Nelson (2020), John Prine (2019), Emmylou Harris (2018), Loretta Lynn (2017), Glenn Frey (2016), Phil Everly (2014), and Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell & Associates (2013). The Troubadour hosted all evenings apart from 2018, when the Grammys have been held in New York Metropolis.
Co-presented by Vector Administration and the Americana Music Affiliation and Basis, all Pre-Grammy Salutes have been produced by Michelle Aquilato and Americana Music Affiliation govt director Jed Hilly.
Hiatt, 72, is a 10-time Grammy nominee, with nominations spanning nation, rock, modern folks and Americana/American roots classes. He has but to win a Grammy.
Hiatt has positioned 16 albums on the Billboard 200, with 11 of them making the highest half of the chart.
