For Your GRAMMY® Consideration

Dear Academy members, I am grateful for two first round ballot submissions this year. Both collaborative efforts with people I am humbled to have had the opportunity to work with and know. If the past year has taught me anything (other than extremely efficient hand washing) it’s that collaboration and working together to make something from nothing is one of the most fulfilling feelings to share. I can’t wait to continue down this path as a once exclusively solo creator ❤️ Shoutouts to the collaborators below 🙏

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella: Somebody That I Used to Know, Mike Dawes & @tommyemmanuelcgp (composer @gotye )

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Shows & Distancing: Live in the USA

Both mixed and mastered by @getrealaudio (Josh Clark) in Chippenham, U.K.

Shows & Distancing captured by Steve Chant & @thomasrossjohansen ft. @quistguitar

@vectormgt @brianpenix @reneek612

#grammy #firstroundballot #fyc #foryourconsideration #guitar #guitarist #acoustic #fingerstyle #tommyemmanuel #mikedawes #grammys ...

Rock n Roll endings 2 & 3:

Can anyone name the tunes from these tiny clips?

‘Thank you Rhode Island not an island’ because it’s not an island. Silly beans. ...

This is the best thing that has ever happened.

@empirestatestudio @jamiitreverb #markdores #mikedawes #amityville #tattoo #notmylegmum

🖼 @michelegonzalezhelm ...

Spoopy theatre in Rhode Island. Cute town with wow coffee. Very recommend. ☕️ @mainstreetcoffee_eg ...

DID THAT GET YOUR ATTENTION!? 🤣

🇬🇧 U.K. people it is with great pleasure I’m announcing a super special headline show on April 1st 2022. Why is it special?…

So the above photos are from 15/16 year old heavy metal Mike’s first ever gigs with his high school metal band 😅 The local venue that allowed budding young musicians to play is called the @loungebaralton , based in Alton, Hampshire.

The amazing @cat.or.catherine who runs said venue is celebrating 15 years of the place, and they’re organising some really cool shows for this occasion.

It’s super exciting to be asked to play one of these and I can’t wait to come back to the room that I caught the ‘gig bug’ in, way back in 2006 (even though my music is a little quieter now)

Tickets on sale now via my story, website and Facebook/loungebaralton. ⚠️They are quite limited⚠️

Proceeds will help the place carry on post-covid impact, guaranteeing the next generation of local players somewhere to perform 🙂 ...

Starting again. Last night I got to return to the location of my very first USA concert, back in 2013 ❤️

8 years have flown by, but with all the craziness of the past 18 months it felt like a not-so-deep metaphor for the start of something. Hopefully the start of a real return to normalcy (typing this from a mall Starbucks)

The crowd were so awesome last night. Seeing a sea of spontaneous (to us) glow sticks appear during Nights in White Satin was wild. The perfect sweaty par can induced end to a day that started with an unwilling gaze at not one, but three pairs of testicles in a retirees pool changing room shower.

Rock and roll ⚽️ 🏀 🏈

#tour #balls #mikedawes #fingerstyle #guitar #acoustic ...

Cheers Chicago for the first shows back after 18 months ❤️

Fun day off trying out vintage guitars from the @chicagomusicexchange vault with fellow guitarists @zeppelinbarnatra @officialmyleskennedy @nickperri 🎸😬

Next up, Ohio…

#guitar #guitarists #chicagomusicexchange #zeppelinbarnatra #mikedawes #myleskennedy #alterbridge #nickperri ...

Back at it 🇺🇸

Feels good 💪

Please get vaccinated if you’re coming out 👍 ...