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Only apply if you agree with terms in the members area and are available to showcase in London on either 25th or 26th Jan 2022. You can not have any London gigs 2 weeks either side of these dates. Applications close on 16th August 2021

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COVID CAVEAT: The festival is set to go ahead in person based on current UK government COVID guidelines. If this changes, we will keep artists updated regarding the format of the event. If you are applying from outside the UK please keep in mind that travel restrictions are constantly evolving and may impact your ability to travel to London for the festival.

We are delighted to bring you another opportunity to win a wonderful guitar from our sponsors at Heritage and Bandlab

There are two separate tickets for two beautiful guitars - see the product pages here to purchase your tickets  and read full product details and T&Cs

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE and thank you for your support for the AMA-UK

Raffle closed 

Raffle closed 

A Statement from the AMA-UK board  -   Safeguarding the Americana Music Community in the UK

Like so many, we at the Americana Music Association UK have been listening to the voices of women in recent weeks and have been engaged with our membership in exploring how we, as a representative body and an organiser of events, can provide a welcoming, safe and secure environment at all times for our members, partners, friends and music fans. With everything that we do, we are mindful of our role and responsibility and we want to explain what we are already doing in this regard and what more we hope to do to drive forward positive change.

We will continue to:

• Grow and strengthen our partnership with Safe Gigs for Women, ensuring we are informed and educated on how we can make our events as safe as possible for women and those who feel at risk.
• Ensure a 50:50 gender balance across all of our events, from the performers on stage to the volunteers behind the scenes, and continue to work with PRS Foundation as a partner on their Keychange initiative.
• Educate ourselves and our members by exploring this important theme through our annual events programme.
• Strive to ensure female artists are heard, respected and supported both on stage and off.

In addition, we commit to:

• Working with our venue partners across all of our events to introduce a “safe word” to facilitate easy reporting and immediate support.
• Working with our partners at Hackney Council to review safety measures implemented during our annual AmericanaFest UK, particularly when moving from one venue to another to attend showcases.
• Working with our events partners to create a safe space at our events where inappropriate conduct can be confidentially reported. 

The Americana Music Association UK is committed to creating positive experiences and opportunities to champion and celebrate music and talent from within our community. We will continue to strive to make the genre, as well as our events and activities, as accessible and inclusive as possible within a safe and open environment. We thank our members and partners for their feedback and input in guiding our steps and we will continue to listen and evolve in the months and years ahead.

The Americana Music Association UK

Take a trip down memory lane, cast your minds back a few months to this wonderful event that brought us all back together again for a few days  to kick off the year...

Thank you to the awesome Northern Cowboys for editing this showreel together

Our heartfelt thanks go out to so many people for making AmericanaFest UK “staying Connected” happen against all odds!

We can’t thank our sponsors enough,  without them this whole event would simply not have happened. We treasure the support from so many in the industry. Thank you to our new sponsors and big thanks to those who have been on this journey with us from the start. On behalf of the Board, I extend a huge thanks to our amazing event team who went beyond the call of duty to be inventive and learn new tricks to pull off this event -  thanks to our brilliant production and event manager Renae Brown  - Arby Projects, to our brand and event consultant Romano Sidoli, our social media and design manager Lucy Powell; I think you will all agree she made the festival look amazing.  Thanks to our event producers Mark Lewis and Thomas Dibb - The Northern Cowboys for their calm, cool and collected streaming skills while running the live event, thanks to our event website developer Leon Nockolds.  Huge thanks to our awards show producer Miles Myerscough-Harris  - Wholehog Media,  Kerry McLean for being the "voice of God” during the awards.  Special thanks go out to Bob Harris OBE for presenting the awards (for the 6th year running) in a way only he could.  Thank you to Ralph McLean for the John Prine Tribute show introduction, thank you to all the performers throughout the whole event, the NHS staff and songwriters, the nominees and presenters.  Thanks to the NHS songwriting film producer Georgie d’Albiac.  Thank you to our PR team Claire Horton and Richard Wootton, and to our CFO Ian Thomas for keeping the numbers under control. And thank you to the Chair of our Board Lynne Best, all the Board Members and Ambassador Board for their support and having trust in me to do this job! Lastly, we send thanks to everyone who came to AmericanaFest UK last week  - we are still feeling warm & fuzzy from the communal Americana hug that stretched around us all for three days in January, from across the globe.

If you attended the event we would be grateful if you could take 2 minutes fill out this SURVEY HERE

Don't forget you can till log in until Feb 11th, you can still enter the raffle and you can still buy memorabilia merch.

Thank you 

AMA-UK

If you have a ticket to AmericanaFest UK 2021 you will also have access to the UK Americana Awards and the John Prine Tribute show on the 28th January from 7PM 

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Behind The Industry: AMA-UK CEO Stevie Smith

Read the Holler Guide to AmericanaFest Uk 2021

Get your wristbands HERE

Wristbands include the John Prine Tribute show and the NHS Songwriting workshop film

If this playlist teaches us anything it's that Americana is a beautifully eclectic inclusive genre  - listen through, make some lists who you don't want miss  - full programme coming to all ticket holders soon - see you there! 

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You can now buy T-shirts, Hoodies, Baseball shirts, a mug or a tote bag - every single sale helps us towards the cost of putting on the event so we hugely appreciate you support as ever