Jessica Lea Mayfield Featured in NPR Americana Music Awards Nominees Mix; NPR to Webcast AMA Awards Ceremony from Nashville

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Jessica Lea Mayfield is among the artists featured on the new mix streaming from NPR Music and Folk Alley celebrating the recipients and nominees of the Americana Music Association's 10th Annual Honors and Awards. Mayfield has been nominated for the 2011 Americana Music Award for New/Emerging Artist of the Year. NPR Music will webcast live from the awards ceremony at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium next Thursday, and Austin City Limits will air an edited version of the show on PBS in November.

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Jessica Lea Mayfield is among the artists featured on the new mix streaming from NPR Music and Folk Alley celebrating the recipients and nominees of the Americana Music Association's 10th Annual Honors and Awards. Mayfield has been nominated for the 2011 Americana Music Award for New/Emerging Artist of the Year. Included in the mix is "Our Hearts Are Wrong" off Mayfield's 2011 Nonesuch debut album, Tell Me. Listen to the mix online at npr.org.

The AMA Honors and Awards ceremony will take place next Thursday, October 13, at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, and will include live performances by this year's Lifetime Achievement Award recipients—Lucinda Williams, Jerry Douglas, and Gregg Allman—as well as a number of the nominees.

NPR Music's Ann Powers and Folk Alley's Jessie Scott will host a live webcast of the event starting at 6 PM ET at npr.org. For folks in and around Nashville, the show will also be broadcast live on Nashville Public Television (NPT Channel 8) to the Middle Tennessee viewing area. An edited version of the award show will air across the US November 19 as a special episode of the PBS series Austin City Limits.

While in Nashville, Mayfield will perform an AMA Festival showcase at the Mercy Lounge on October 14. The following week, she'll join fellow AMA nominees The Avett Brothers (up for Duo/Group of the Year) for three concerts, October 18–21, in El Paso, Texas; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Mesa, Arizona. For additional details on these and other upcoming shows, go to nonesuch.com/on-tour.

To pick up a copy of Jessica Lea Mayfield's album Tell Me, head to the Nonesuch Store, where CD orders include high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the album at checkout.

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  • Thursday, October 6, 2011
    Jessica Lea Mayfield Featured in NPR Americana Music Awards Nominees Mix; NPR to Webcast AMA Awards Ceremony from Nashville
    Michael Wilson

    Jessica Lea Mayfield is among the artists featured on the new mix streaming from NPR Music and Folk Alley celebrating the recipients and nominees of the Americana Music Association's 10th Annual Honors and Awards. Mayfield has been nominated for the 2011 Americana Music Award for New/Emerging Artist of the Year. Included in the mix is "Our Hearts Are Wrong" off Mayfield's 2011 Nonesuch debut album, Tell Me. Listen to the mix online at npr.org.

    The AMA Honors and Awards ceremony will take place next Thursday, October 13, at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, and will include live performances by this year's Lifetime Achievement Award recipients—Lucinda Williams, Jerry Douglas, and Gregg Allman—as well as a number of the nominees.

    NPR Music's Ann Powers and Folk Alley's Jessie Scott will host a live webcast of the event starting at 6 PM ET at npr.org. For folks in and around Nashville, the show will also be broadcast live on Nashville Public Television (NPT Channel 8) to the Middle Tennessee viewing area. An edited version of the award show will air across the US November 19 as a special episode of the PBS series Austin City Limits.

    While in Nashville, Mayfield will perform an AMA Festival showcase at the Mercy Lounge on October 14. The following week, she'll join fellow AMA nominees The Avett Brothers (up for Duo/Group of the Year) for three concerts, October 18–21, in El Paso, Texas; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Mesa, Arizona. For additional details on these and other upcoming shows, go to nonesuch.com/on-tour.

    To pick up a copy of Jessica Lea Mayfield's album Tell Me, head to the Nonesuch Store, where CD orders include high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the album at checkout.

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