The Americana Music Association announced the 2017 recipients of the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Highlighted for this honor is two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Graham Nash. Nash will receive the “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech in Music Award.

Other honorees include singer-songwriter Iris DeMent (Americana Trailblazer Award recipient), The Hi Rhythm Section (Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist), Robert Cray (Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance), Van Morrison (Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting), and High Tone Records founders Larry Sloven and Bruce Bromberg (the Jack Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award for Executive).

“We are proud and humbled to honor these artists whose work has shaped what we not only call Americana today but the musical landscape on the whole,” says Americana Music Association Executive Director Jed Hilly. “We are inspired by their work and excited to see them all as they will honor us in song at the Ryman this fall.”

Nash will accept the honor during the Americana Honors & Awards ceremony on September 13th. The ceremony takes place during the Americana Music Festival in Nashville from September 12th to the 17th.