Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway won at the 2024 International Folk Music Awards. Tracy Chapman received a lifetime achievement award.
The International Folk Music Awards honored the best song, album, and artist of work released in 2023 and presented lifetime achievement awards topeople and organizations supporting folk music.
The International Folk Music Awards – presented by Folk Alliance International (FAI), a 501(c)3 and the foremost global nonprofit for folk music took place last night as part of the opening of the conference and Best of 2023 awards were won by Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway (Album of the Year); Billy Strings (Artist of the Year); and Iris Dement (Song of the Year). NPR Music and World Cafe live-streamed the awards show.