Recent Awards For Excellence Winners and Nominees

Recent Awards For Excellence Winners and Nominees

Each year we recognize individuals, duos and groups for the talents in promoting and preserving western music and poetry.

2019 Bill Wiley Award

2019 Hall of Fame Inductees

Cowboy Joe Babcock Lynn Anderson

2019 Entertainer of the Year

2019 Male Performer of the Year

Gary Allegretto

2019 Female Performer of the Year

2019 Songwriter of the Year

2019 Working Cowboy Song of the Year
“The Outside Circle”

2019 Song of the Year
“It’s a Cowboy I Will Be”

2019 Instrumentalist of the Year

2019 Radio DJ / Radio Program of the Year
Campfire Café

Bobbi Jean Bell Gary Holt

2019 Male Poet of the Year

2019 Female Poet of the Year

Teresa Burleson

2019 Cowboy Poetry CD of the Year
“The Truth”

2019 Liz Masterson Crescendo Award

2019 Curly Musgrave Silver Buckle Award

2019 President's Award

2019 Harmony Award
Harmony Youth - Kacey & Jenna Thunborg
Harmony Overall - Miss Devon & The Outlaw

Jenna Thunborg Kacey Thunborg Miss Devon & The Outlaw

2019 Cowboy/Western Swing Album of the Year
“Plains, Trains, and Also Bob Wills”

Miss Devon & The Outlaw

2019 Poetry Contest

2018

2018 Bill Wiley Award

2018 Hall of Fame Inductees

Robert Wagoner The Girls of the Golden West

2018 Entertainer of the Year

2018 Male Performer of the Year

2018 Female Performer of the Year

2018 Songwriter of the Year

Richard Elloyan

2018 Song of the Year
The Pitchfork Grays

2018 Traditional Album of the Year
Satisfied Hearts

Gary Prescott Jean Prescott

2018 Instrumentalist of the Year

2018 Male Poet of the Year

2018 Female Poet of the Year

2018 Cowboy Poetry CD of the Year
A Good Ride

2018 Cowboy PoetryWestern Book of the Year
Tales of the Trails

2018 Liz Masterson Crescendo Award

2018 Harmony Award

Leah Sawyer Olivia Morgayne

2018 Yodeling Award
Youth: Jeneve Rose Mitchell
Male: Vic Anderson
Female: Paula Erlene
Janet McBride Best of the Best Award: Paula Erlene

Jeneve Rose Mitchell Vic Anderson

2018 Duo or Group of the Year
The Cowboy Way

Doug Figgs Jim Jones Mariam Funke

2018 Cowboy/Western Swing Album of the Year
Wild West Texas Wind