Danny And The Champions Of The World and Gretchen Peters were the big winners at the first UK Americana Awards in London’s St John at Hackney yesterday evening. Danny and The Champions took home UK Artist, Album and Song Of The Year awards and Gretchen won International Album and Song Of The Year.

Set to become an annual event, the award ceremony rounded off two days of activities at this year’s Americana Music Association UK conference. In a night celebrating the Americana music scene, an audience of guests, AMA-UK delegates, members of the music industry and the public witnessed performances from Billy Bragg, Danny And The Champions Of The World, Bear’s Den, The Dreaming Spires, Lewis & Leigh, Emily Barker, Robert Vincent, Gretchen Peters and Cale Tyson…

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