Best Pop Instrumental Performance – Béla Fleck – Throw Down Your Heart: Tales from The Acoustic Planet Vol.3 – Africa [Rounder]

Best New Age Album – David Darling – Prayer for Compassion [Wind Over the Earth]

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album – New Orleans Jazz Orchestra – Book One [World Village]

Best Bluegrass Album – Steve Martin – The Crow/New Songs for the Give String Banjo [Rounder]

Best Traditional Folk Album – Loudon Wainwright III – High Wide & Handsome – The Charlie Poole Project [Proper Records]

Best Traditional World Music Album – Mamadou Diabate – Douga Mansa [World Village]

Best Contemporary World Music Album – Béla Fleck – Throw Down Your Heart: Tales from The Acoustic Planet Vol.3 – Africa [Rounder]

Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album – Buckwheat Zydeco – Lay Your Burden Down [Alligator Records]

Best Engineered Album, Classical – Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony – Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major – Adagio from Symphony No. 10 [San Francisco Symphony]

Best Classical Album – Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony – Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major – Adagio from Symphony No. 10 [San Francisco Symphony]

Best Choral Performance – Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony – Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major – Adagio from Symphony No. 10 [San Francisco Symphony]

Best Small Ensemble Performance – Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier – Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion [Harmonia Mundi]