SummerStage is thrilled to present the list of past SummerStage artists, from 1986 – 2011, who have been nominated for 2012 Grammy Awards.
A note from SummerStage Artistic Director Erika Elliott on this year’s nominees: “As Artistic Director, my hope is that we are able to present the widest cross-section of contemporary music possible to represent New York City. It is an enviable albeit challenging task to represent the incredible diversity and vibrancy that is New York City, but I am proud to say with nominees in virtually every genre of the nominations, it seems we do a good job of covering as much music ground as possible …”
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
- The Black Keys – SummerStage 2010
The Black Keys. Photo by David Atlas
Best Pop Instrumental Album
- Booker T. Jones – SummerStage 1994 (with Booker T. & the MG’s)
- Brian Setzer – SummerStage 1999 (with The Brian Setzer Orchestra)
Best Rock Performance
- The Decemberists – SummerStage 2005 & 2007
Best Rock Song
- The Decemberists – SummerStage 2005 & 2007
Best Rock Album
- Wilco – SummerStage 2003
Best Alternative Music Album
- Death Cab for Cutie – SummerStage 2005
Best R&B Performance
- Ledisi – SummerStage 2009
Best Traditional R&B Performance
- Melanie Fiona (w/Cee Lo Green) – SummerStage 2011
- Raphael Saadiq – SummerStage 2002 & 2010
Raphael Saadiq. Photo by Amanda Cuttler
Best R&B Song
- Ledisi Young (w/Charles Harmon & Claude Kelly) – SummerStage 2009
Best R&B Album
- Ledisi – SummerStage 2009
Best Rap Performance
- Wiz Khalifa – SummerStage 2011
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
- Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter – SummerStage 2006 (Grace Potter & the Nocturnals)
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
- Sonny Rollins – SummerStage 2003 & 2008
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
- Gerald Clayton – Charlie Parker Jazz Festival 2011
- Sonny Rollins – SummerStage 2003 & 2008
Sonny Rollins in 2008. Photo by Laura Hanifin.
Best Gospel Song
- Donald Lawrence – SummerStage 2000
Best Latin Pop, Rock, Or Urban Album
- Calle 13 – SummerStage 2006 & 2009
- Los Amigos Invisibles – SummerStage 2000 & 2010
Best Tropical Latin Album
- Cachao – SummerStage 2000
Best Americana Album
- Ry Cooder – SummerStage 1994
- Emmylou Harris – SummerStage 2004, 2005 & 2011
- Levon Helm – SummerStage 2007 & 2011
- Lucinda Williams – SummerStage 1989, 1992, 2002 & 2004
Emmylou Harris in 2011. Photo by Aylin Gucalp.
Best Bluegrass Album
- The Del McCoury Band – SummerStage 1997
Best Blues Album
- Warren Haynes – SummerStage 2010 (w/ Government Mule)
Best Folk Album
- Steve Earle – SummerStage 1998 & 2001
- Gillian Welch – SummerStage 1997 & 2004
Best Regional Roots Music Album
- Rebirth Brass Band – SummerStage 1987, 1990, 2000 & 2005
- Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys – SummerStage 1995
Best Reggae Album
- Monty Alexander – SummerStage 1996
- Ziggy Marley – SummerStagen 1996, 1997, 1999 (w/ The Melody Makers) & 2009 (solo)
Best World Music Album
- Femi Kuti – SummerStage 1995, 2000, 2005 & 2007
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo – SummerStage 1997
- Tinariwen – SummerStage 2010
Femi Kuti in 2007. Photo by David Atlas.
Best Instrumental Composition
- Béla Fleck (w/ Howard Levy) – SummerStage 2001 (&The Flecktones), 2009 (solo)
Best Long Form Music Video
- TV on the Radio – SummerStage 2009
