Viroqua-born producer Butch Vig won a Grammy as compilation producer for “Sound City: Real to Reel.” Credit: Chris Pizzello

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Before the 56th Annual Grammy Awards telecast even began, Wisconsin natives Butch Vig and Mike Maher were celebrating.

Vig, the Viroqua-born producer behind Nirvana's classic "Nevermind," and a past Grammy winner for producing Foo Fighters' "Wasting Light" and Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown," picked up his third Grammy Sunday, for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, as the compilation producer for "Sound City: Real to Reel," the soundtrack for Foo Fighter frontman Dave Grohl's documentary "Sound City," about the studio where "Nevermind," and several other landmark albums, were recorded.

And Wauwatosa native Maher, the 31-year-old trumpet player for the jazz-funk-rock hybrid Snarky Puppy collected his first Grammy with the group, for Best R&B Performance for "Something," with Lalah Hathaway from the band's 2013 album "Family Dinner - Volume 1." Maher, a Marquette University High School graduate in 2000, went to the University of North Texas in Denton to study music, where he co-founded the group, now based in New York, in 2004.

"It's just unbelievable and amazingly exciting," Maher told the Journal Sentinel. "What we do is off the beaten path as far as what's very popular music. It's good to know there is a part of the music industry that is acknowledging what we are doing."

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