Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album

Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Album
Awarded forquality vocal or instrumental regional forms of american roots music albums
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded2012
Currently held byRanky Tanky - Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (2023)
Websitegrammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 as the Gramophone Awards,[1] to recording artists for releasing albums in the regionally based traditional American music, including Hawaiian, Native American, polka, zydeco and Cajun music genres. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[2]

The category was introduced in 2012 in which the previous Best Hawaiian Music Album, Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album and Best Native American Music Album categories were combined. The change was the result of a major overhaul of Grammy categories, announced in April 2011.[3] The new category also recognizes other American roots forms, such as polka, whose own Grammy category was discontinued in 2009. In 2021, the category added the inclusion of Go-go music, and in 2024 it was announced that conjunto would be recognized under the category starting in 2025.[4]

Hawaiian musician Kalani Pe'a holds the record of most wins in the category with three.

  1. ^ "Grammy Awards at a Glance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  2. ^ "Overview". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
  3. ^ "Grammy Awards Category Mapper". Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  4. ^ Grein, Paul (June 14, 2024). "Grammys 2025: No New Categories, But 10 Rule Tweaks". Billboard. Retrieved June 14, 2024.