Grammy Award for Best Folk Album
The Grammy Award for Best Folk Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums in the folk genre. 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".
The Civil Wars are the inaugural winners of the award.
2020 recipient Patty Griffin.
Musical partners David Rawlings and Gillian Welch won the award in 2021.
2022 winner and four-time nominee Rhiannon Giddens.
Christopher Scott Thile is an American mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and radio personality, best known for his work in the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek and the acoustic folk and progressive bluegrass quintet Punch Brothers. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. From 2016 to its cancellation in 2020, he hosted the radio variety show Live from Here.
Thile hosting A Prairie Home Companion in 2016
Chris Thile with Punch Brothers at Wintergrass, 2008
Chris Thile with Punch Brothers at Wintergrass, 2008
Thile hosting A Prairie Home Companion with guest Brandi Carlile