Martin and his group of crack bluegrassers took entertainer of the year, the night’s top award at The Ryman Auditorium, while super group The Boxcars took home a leading four awards.
”I want to thank all the other nominees … for losing,” Martin joked after accepting the award. Martin, the Grammy and Emmy award winner best known as a comedian and writer, is also an accomplished banjo picker who has taken the medium to a wider audience with two albums of mostly original music and a high-profile series of performances. Entertainer of the year goes to the act that does the best job representing the genre.Martin previously won a Grammy for his 2001 ”Foggy Mountain Breakdown” collaboration with Scruggs.
The 66-year-old and the Rangers have taken bluegrass to ”The Ellen Show,” ”The Late Show with David Letterman,” ”The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and the Capital Mall over the last year.
”And when I play a concert hall somewhere I know half the audience isn’t even familiar with bluegrass,” Martin said before the awards. ”That way we really reach a really wide audience for this music I love and that I love listening to.
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