Past Winners Include Charlie Parr (Photography by Shelly Mosman) (Dom Flemons, Ryan Sheridian, Buffalo Rise, Rod Abernethy, Ellis Paul, Jonatha Brooke, Meghan Trainor, Bertie Higgins & Bellamy Brothers, etc. This is a great opportunity for the musician to take that All-important Step to enter the awards…
Registration is now open for the 22nd Annual IAMA (International Acoustic Music Awards); this is great opportunity for music artists everywhere. IAMA is the preeminent awards for musicians, promotes excellence in acoustic music performance and artistry. Acoustic artists in various genres can gain exciting radio and web exposure through this competition. Participating sponsors include Acoustic Cafe (a syndicated radio program) and Sirius XM Satellite Radio. Music artists stand a chance to win awards in eight different categories: Best Male Artist, Best Female Artist, Best Group/Duo Folk, Americana/Roots/AAA, Instrumental, Open (any musical style or genre), Bluegrass/Country, etc. There will also be an Overall Grand Prize winner awarded to the top winner worth over US$11,000, which includes radio promotion to over 250 radio stations in US and Canada.
IAMA is sponsored by: PreSonus, New Music Weekly, Loggins Promotion, Solid State Logic (SSL), Airplay Access, Ditto Music, Sirius XM Radio, Ditto Music, Acoustic Café Radio Show, Paige Capo, and Kari Estrin Management & Consulting.
In its 22nd year, IAMA has a proven track record of winners going on to get signed and hit the Billboard Charts. Meghan Trainor was discovered by IAMA eleven years ago and is now a global superstar with #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts with “All About That Bass” (#1 for 8 weeks) and #1 on The Billboard 200 Charts with her debut album “Title”, won for a Grammy award for Best New Artist in 2016. Meghan has a staggering 11 songs so far on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts so far, enough to release a “Greatest Hits Album” in her young music career.
Other past winners of IAMA include: Dom Flemons, Ellis Paul, Jonatha Brooke, Liz Longeley, Ryan Sheridan (from Ireland), David Francey (from Canada), Charlie Dore (from UK), Carl Wockner (from Australia), AJ Croce, Rod Abernethy, Tim Schou (from Denmark), Buffalo Rose (Folk group), and many more. Liz Longley was signed to Sugar Hill/Rounder Records 4 years after her top win at IAMA. All of the above mentioned winners have received radio airplay after their win.
Critically Acclaimed folk-acoustic artist Charlie Parr (pictured) won top honors in the 21st Annual IAMA (International Acoustic Music Awards). He also won Best Folk/Americana/Roots Award as well.
“It’s truly wonderful to receive an award and be acknowledged for doing something I’m passionate about. Thank you!”, said Charlie Parr, the top winner.
Charlie plays a Mule resonator, National resonator guitar, a fretless open-back banjo, and a twelve-string guitar, often in the Piedmont blues style. Before his death in 2024, Minneapolis blues musician Spider John Koerner gave his 12-string Gretsch guitar to Parr, requesting that Parr continue using it on stage. Charlie Parr is signed to Smithsonian Folkways Records. Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution. It is a part of the Smithsonian’s Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, located at Capital Gallery in downtown Washington, D.C.
The deadline to enter is November 7th. For more information, go to:
www.inacoustic.com/
