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National Museum of African American Music’s Inaugural Awards Gala to Celebrate Alice Randall & More
The National Museum of African American Music's inaugural gala will be held in Nashville on Oct. 5.
The National Museum of African American Music(NMAAM) is set to hold its inaugural awards gala on Saturday, Oct. 5, in downtown Nashville. This year’s honorees are producer/music executive Torrance Esmond (known as “Street Symphony”); Dr. Forrest Harris, president of American Baptist College and a member of the NMAAM’s Education Advisory Council; Americana Music Association executive director Jed Hilly; The Lovenoise Group managing partner Eric Holt; Origins Records CEO Gina Miller; award-winning professor, songwriter and author Alice Randall; and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, musician and activist (and soon to be Broadway star) Allison Russell. The 56,000-square-feet NMAAM opened in 2021 and works to preserve and celebrate more than 50 musical genres and styles—among them blues, jazz, gospel, hip-hop and R&B—that have been created, inspired and/or influenced by African Americans.
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