2 singers with Lancaster County ties nominated for Grammy Awards

Two performers with Lancaster County ties were nominated for Grammy Awards, which were announced Friday afternoon.

Madi Diaz, a singer-songwriter who lived in Mount Nebo in Martic Township and now currently works and lives in Nashville, Tennessee, was nominated for two Grammy Awards.

Her album, "Weird Faith," which released in February, was nominated for Best Folk Album. Diaz performed at West Art in Lancaster city in September in support of that album.

Diaz's second nomination is for Best Americana Performance, for the song "Don't Do Me Good," which featured country singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves.

These are Diaz's first two Grammy nominations.

As one of the stars of the 2023-24 Broadway musical revival "Merrily We Roll Along," Ronks native Jonathan Groff is among those nominated in the Grammy category of best musical theater album.

Groff, a Conestoga Valley High School alum, won the Tony Award in June for his role of film producer Franklin Shepard in "Merrily." The production was a revival of a 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical.

Groff, along with "Merrily" co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, are nominated for the Grammy as principal soloists on the cast album.

For his principal-soloist role as King George III, Groff was among the "Hamilton" Broadway cast members who won the Grammy for the musical's album in 2016. Groff also sang on the "Spring Awakening" cast album, which won the cast-album Grammy in 2008 — before principal soloists were honored with individual awards for an album.