For Your Consideration

Best Americana Performance

"Castaway"

and

Best Americana Album

1-2-3

by Gareth Laffely

The single, "Castaway", is a rousing pirate-type song about being stranded. Gareth Laffely is descended from Stephen Hopkins who was on the ship Sea Venture on a voyage to Jamestown, Virginia in 1609 when the ship wrecked in the "Isle of Devils" (Bermuda). After many months - the castaways built a small ship and were able to sail to Jamestown.

Compared to a lot that’s going on in Nashville these days,

he puts the ‘music’ in Music City.” – Rick Moore, Music News Nashville

For Your Consideration

Gareth's album "1-2-3", is up for Best Americana Album. It features a collection of songs written and produced by Gareth and recorded in Nashville, TN, at Sunset Blvd Studios. These songs are a culmination of spiritual and earthy reflections from the title cut "1-2-3" to the ethereal, and entrancing "Someone I Never Found". "Black Swan", is a conversation with death personified, and "My World", was written to bring attention and awareness to autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities. "Walking with Angels" was written in memory of friend and mentor Jimmy Yellow Horse.

Gareth Laffely is a 25-year-old composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, and producer from Nashville, TN. His music has been licensed by the Discovery Channel, A&E Network, NASCAR, and Public Television. An award-winning Native American Flute player and composer, he is the youngest performer to reach #2 on the Billboard New Age Music Top 100 charts for his 3rd CD, Sky Before a Storm in 2017, and was also #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. His CD project, “Voices of the Guardians”, was recorded with George Lucas’s Sky Walker Symphony at SkyWalker Ranch in Marin, CA in 2018, and reached #2 on Billboard's New Age Charts.

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