Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 as the Gramophone Awards,[1] to recording artists for releasing albums in the regionally based traditional American music, including Hawaiian, Native American, polka, zydeco and Cajun music genres.

Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".

The change was the result of a major overhaul of Grammy categories, announced in April 2011.

[4] It was moved from the Grammy Award for Best Música Mexicana Album (including Tejano) category, as it is regarded as an American Roots genre rather than a Mexican music genre.

Hawaiian musician Kalani Pe'a holds the record for most wins in the category with four.

2014 winners Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience .
2015 winner Jo-El Sonnier .
Four-time winner Kalani Pe'a .
2018 winner The Lost Bayou Ramblers .