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Kody Norris Show Presented Blue Blaze Award
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Jamboree President and Coordinator Sam Stout and Marketing Director Shan Williams Stout, presented the Kody Norris Show with the 2022 Blue Blaze Award.
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The Kody Norris Show got down to old time bluegrass music last Saturday, wowing the crowd with their retro suits and down home style. The group was presented this year’s Blue Blaze Award.

The Kody Norris Show showed the Jamboree crowd what Bluegrass music is all about last Saturday evening, playing a short session before receiving the 2022 Smithville Fiddlers’ Jamboree and Crafts Festival’s Blue Blaze Award. The Blue Blaze Award honors performers that “Keeps the embers of bluegrass music glowing for future generations.”

“I am truly honored and humbled to be the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Blue Blaze Award,” Norris told the crowd. “Organizations like the Smithville Fiddlers’ Jamboree embody so many of the same values that the band and I work so diligently to pass on to the next generation. By preserving ole’ time country & bluegrass music and presenting it in a positive manner, it is my hope that bluegrass and pure country music will last through the ages. Receiving an award given previously to many of my bluegrass friends and heroes is one of the most humbling experiences of our lives.”

The foursome features Norris on guitar and his fiddling “sweetie,” Mary Rachel Nalley-Norris, Josiah Tyree on banjo and Cousin Charlie Lowman on the bass. The band’s album, “When I Get the Money Made,” was named 2017 Bluegrass Album of the Year by the National Traditional Country Music Association. The Kody Norris Show was honored with seven SPBGMA nominations in 2018 and four nominations in 2022. In addition to winning Fiddler performer of the year, the Kody Norris show was also named the 2022 Entertainer of the Year!

Playing 90+ dates a year, The Kody Norris Show covers the road from Canada to Mexico, only missing two states to date. They’ve been part of the University of Chicago Folk Festival and have performed at the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center and are part of two weekly programs on the acclaimed RFD-TV’s network, The Cumberland Highlanders Show and The Bluegrass Trail. For more than 3 years, The Kody Norris Show has been the host of the Farm and Fun Time Noon Show. This is also a weekly broadcast through The Birthplace of Country Music Musuem and Radio Bristol, hitting over 5 million Views collectively.

The Kody Norris Show signed with Rebel Records from Charlottesville, VA in 2019 and has since then released, All Suited Up which debuted #7 on the Billboard Charts.