A few weeks ago Emily and Martie were in Nashville to present an award at The Americana Awards which honors artists whose work blurs the traditional boundaries between country, rock, folk, blues, bluegrass and other quintessential American styles of music. This year was the ninth annual event and was held at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.

Emily and Martie presented the award for the prestigious award of Artist Of The Year:

Here they are backstage before the show rehearsing the lines:

and again right before they went on:

After the show everyone was able to relax and Emily and Martie ran into some familiar faces:

Emily, Patty Griffin, Grace Potter and Martie swap phone numbers

And our very own Martin Strayer didn't seem to be upset about being the only guy in the room:

More to follow soon,

Team CYH