FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA TRIPLE WINNER AT KERRVILLE AWARDS AUSTIN, Texas --- The fourth annual Kerrville Music Awards were held here on Thursday evening, December 5, at the stately Texas Federation of Women's Clubs ballroom and Arkansas-based Trout Fishing in America came home triple winners. They were inducted into the Hall of Fame for their three years of consecutive wins in the Duo of the Year category, their CD "Reel Life" on Trout Records won Best Independent CD, and they won the 1996 award for Outstanding Children's Entertainer. The black-tie awards show was co-hosted by Eliza Gilkyson and Peter Rowan who introduced more than 50 celebrity presenters. Winning two awards each were Kevin Welch of Nashville for Outstanding Male Vocalist and National Album of the Year: "Life Down Here on Earth" on Dead Reckoning Records; Christine Albert for Female Vocalist of the Year and Duo of the Year (with Jimmy LaFave) and Sara Hickman who won both the Spirit of Kerrville Award and the 1996 Community Service Award. Hall of Fame winners included the late Walter Hyatt and Hondo Crouch with living inductees being Ray Wylie Hubbard and Tom Paxton. Joining Trout Fishing in the Hall of Fame for winning in category three years in a row were Erik Hokkanen (Instrumentalist of the Year) and Tish Hinojosa (Community Service Award). George T. Wein of New York received the Kerrville Music Foundation's first Life Time Achievement Award for founding and continuing service through his Newport folk and jazz festivals. Accepting the award for Wein was Newport Folk Festival producer Bob Jones. Other award winners included the Austin Lounge Lizards (Band of the Year), mandolinist Paul Glasse (Instrumentalist of the Year), Buddy Mondlock (Song of the Year: "The Kid"), Eric Taylor (Texas Album of the Year), the North American Folk Alliance (Industry's Most Important Contribution of the Year), Producer's Award for Corporate Support (Schlotzsky's Deli), and Producer's Award for Individual Support (Bobby Peele of Austin and Vaughn Hafner of Dallas, volunteer coordinators of Kerrville's 800 member volunteer festival staff during the 25 day Kerrville Folk Festival). Industry leaders from all over the U.S. were in attendance including John Briggs of ASCAP (Nashville), Roger Sovine of BMI (Nashville), Brett Perkins who is executive director of the National Academy of Songwriters, Los Angeles and introduced to the awards crowd as the new executive director, starting January 1, of the non-profit Kerrville Music Foundation, Meredith Carson who is concert coordinator of Swallow Hill Music (Denver), and out of state entertainers including David Amram (New York), blackfoot Indian performer Jack Gladstone (Montana), Dana Cooper and Carol Elliott (Nashville), Ellis Paul (Boston), Celeste Krenz (Denver), Don Conoscenti (Atlanta) plus Austin's Tish Hinojosa, Jimmy LaFave, Allen Damron, Cherokee story teller Gayle Ross and many more. Texas Music Office director Casey Monahan joined awards executive producer and Kerrville Festivals founder Rod Kennedy to present the Corporate Support Award. The Awards are co-sponsored by ASCAP, BMI, Whole Foods Market, Southwest Airlines, Schlotzsky's Inc., The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs and Hill Country Budweiser. The 1997 edition is set for December 4. |
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