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Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album

Award category

Summary

Award category

Field	Value
name	Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Album
awarded_for	quality vocal or instrumental regional forms of american roots music albums
imagesize	100px
alt	A gold gramophone trophy with a plaque set on a table
caption	Gilded gramophone trophy presented to Grammy Award winners
presenter	National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
country	United States
year	2012
holder	Kalani Pe'a - Kuini (2025)
website	grammy.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, 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".

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. 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. It was moved from the Grammy Award for Best Música Mexicana Album (including Tejano) category, as it is regarded as an American Roots genre rather than a Mexican music genre.

For the 2026 Grammy season, the category description is as follows: "This category recognizes recordings of cultural roots styles of music, including Cajun, Hawaiian, Indigenous/Native American, Second Line brass band, Polka, Zydeco, Go-go, Swamp Pop, Conjunto, and others, with production and sensibilities distinctly different from a pop approach".

Hawaiian musician Kalani Pe'a holds the record for most wins in the category with four.

Recipients

2014 winners [[Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience]].

2018 winner [[The Lost Bayou Ramblers]].

Year	Performing artist(s)	Work
Rebirth Brass Band	Rebirth of New Orleans	{{smalldiv
Wayne Toups, Steve Riley & Wilson Savoy	The Band Courtbouillon	{{smalldiv
Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience	Dockside Sessions	{{smalldiv
Jo-El Sonnier	The Legacy	{{smalldiv
Jon Cleary	Go Go Juice	{{smalldiv
Kalani Pe'a	E Walea	{{smalldiv
The Lost Bayou Ramblers	Kalenda	{{smalldiv
Kalani Pe'a	No 'Ane'i	{{smalldiv
Ranky Tanky	Good Time	{{smalldiv
New Orleans Nightcrawlers	Atmosphere	{{smalldiv
Kalani Pe'a	Kau Ka Pe'a	{{smalldiv
Ranky Tanky	Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival	{{smalldiv
Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. & The Legendary Ils Sont Partis Band	New Beginnings	{{smalldiv
Kalani Pe'a	Kuini	{{smalldiv
Various Artists	A Tribute to the King of Zydeco

Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

References

"Grammy Awards at a Glance". [[Los Angeles Times]].
"Overview". [[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]].
"Grammy Awards Category Mapper".
Grein, Paul. (June 14, 2024). "Grammys 2025: No New Categories, But 10 Rule Tweaks".
(November 30, 2011). "2011 — 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: American Roots Field". [[Recording Academy.
"Nominees and Winners | GRAMMY.com".
"56th GRAMMY Awards: Full Winners List".
[http://www.grammy.com/files/pages/57thpresslist12042014-with_aoy.pdf List of Nominees 2015]
"Grammy Awards 2016: See the Full Winners List".
"59th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees". GRAMMY.com.
Lynch, Joe. (November 28, 2017). "Grammys 2018: See the Complete List of Nominees".
[https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/61st-annual-grammy-awards Grammy.com, 7 December 2018]
[https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/2020-grammy-awards-complete-nominees-list 2020 Grammy Awards nominations list]
[https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/2021-grammys-complete-nominees-list 2021 Nominations List]
(2021-11-23). "2022 GRAMMYs Awards: Complete Nominations List".
(2022-11-15). "2023 GRAMMYs Awards: Complete Nominations List".
"2024 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Full Nominees List {{!}} GRAMMY.com".
(November 9, 2024). "2025 Grammys: See The Official Full Nominations List".
"2026 GRAMMYS: See The Full Nominations List {{!}} GRAMMY.com".

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