Best Traditional Folk Album

FOR ALBUMS — VOCAL OR INSTRUMENTAL

This Category recognizes excellence in albums of traditional folk recordings. Traditional folk includes folk recordings with folk song structures, harmonic structures, and rhythms, including traditional folk instruments such as piano, harmonica, traditional woodwind, strings, and percussion from around the world. It also includes song types such as old time, a cappella, work songs, shanty, protest, call and response, ballad, and other traditional folk song structures created in and/or passed through community-rooted tradition distinct from Regional Roots.

Nominees are Artist(s) of greater than 50% playing time on the album.

Grammy statuettes awarded to Artist(s), Producer(s), Engineer/Mixer(s), Songwriter(s) of new songs, if other than Artist(s), of greater than 50% playing time on the album.