Jed Hilly
Executive Director @Americana Music Association
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WORK HISTORY
Executive Director @Americana Music Association
Franklin, TN, US
Oversee all development, marketing and operations for the Americana Music Association Develop and manage all initiatives involving sales, publicity, promotion, broadcast, and marketing.Executive Producer, Americana Honors & Awards (PBS/AXS TV, NPR.org, SiriusXM, WSM, BBC2, Voice of America) & Americana Music Festival & Conference.During his tenure, the Association and community has flourished with milestones including the creation of the Best Americana Album, Best Americana Roots Performance and Song Grammy Categories; the insertion of the musical term, Americana, in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Sales charts at Billboard and the Official Charts Company (UK).Regional Emmy and Grammy winner as Producer, Levon Helm: Ramble at the Ryman and three time Regional Emmy winner as Producer of ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival / Americana Honors & Awards
EDUCATION
Hampshire College
BA, PolySci/Communications
ABOUT JED HILLY
In the spring of 2007, Jed Hilly accepted the position as Executive Director of the Americana Music Association, whose mission is to advocate for the authentic voice of American Roots Music around the world. During his tenure, expansion has been evident such as the Recording Academy’s decision (2010) to add the Best Americana Album Category to its list of Grammy Awards and in 2011, Merriam-Webster added the word, Americana, as a musical term, to its prestigious Collegiate Dictionary. Hilly has steered the Association to increased attendance totals at their annual Americana Music Festival and Conference and significantly, raised the profile of the genre with Rolling Stone magazine printing the Americana Music Airplay Chart, the creation of the Americana Landing Page at amazon.com and major feature stories about the genre and the organization in Billboard, the New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal and hundreds of other periodicals worldwide. Hilly is the Executive Producer of the annual Americana Honors & Awards show at the Historic Ryman Auditorium, which has been broadcast around the world on PBS, AXS TV, CMC in Australia along with BBC2 Radio, XM/Sirius Satellite Radio, WSM, Voice of America and NPR.org. In recent years the organization has been bolstered with ever-growing support and attendance of artists like Bonnie Raitt, John Fogerty, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle and Levon Helm (with whom Hilly produced the GRAMMY and EMMY Award winning PBS special Levon Helm: Ramble at the Ryman). The recent success and inclusion into the Americana umbrella of new and emerging artists like the Avett Brothers, the Civil Wars, Mumford & Sons, Tift Merritt, the Lumineers and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals has broadened the scope of the Americana audience to the next generation of music loving fans.
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