2016 Award Winners

BEST IN INDUSTRY

best live music venue

Cosmic Charlie's

best music store (instruments)

Willcutt Guitars

best music company (CD & music sales, labels, agents, arts orgs, etc)

CD Central 

best recording studio/engineer/producer

Sneak Attack Recording Studio/Jason Groves (engineer)

best music educator (Jay Flippin Music Educator Award)

Kevin Holm-Hudson (University of KY)

best live sound tech

Wallace "Gator" Harrison

best DJ (radio)

Dead Air Dennis -WKQQ

best instrument repair/builders/customization

Willcutt Guitars

BEST ARTIST IN STYLE CATEGORIES

Americana/Folk

Maggie Lander

Blues

Tee Dee Young

Classical

Lexington Philharmonic

Country/Bluegrass

Avery Crabtree

Funk/R&B/Reggae

Kung Fu Grip

Hip-Hop/Rap

Devine Carama and Hybrid the Rapper (tie)

Jazz/Latin/Big Band/World

Soljam 

Pop

Rhyan Sinclair

Rock

The Seas

Singer-songwriter

Taylor Hughes 

Cover Band/Variety Act

Lexington Lab Band

Song of the Year

"I Can't Love You Like I Said I Could" Taylor Hughes, Whitney Acke, Ray Adams

BEST ARTIST IN PERFORMANCE CATEGORIES

Vocalist (female - any style)

Lauren Mink

Vocalist (male - any style)

Avery Crabtree

Drummer/percussionist

Tony Hammons

Guitarist

Ben Lacy

Bassist

Bob Bryant

Keyboardist

Raleigh Dailey

Wind/Brass

Paul Osbourne

Strings (non guitar/bass)

Katie Penn-Williams

Community Service

Rennie Neubecker & Lexjam

Lifetime Achievement

J.P. Pennington

J.D. Crowe

Ricky Skaggs

McLain Family Band

Vince DiMartino