Honored

CARY C. BANKS with a Silver Telly Award for his participation as guest artist and guest host for the video series StoryTellers & MusicMakers.

ROBERT E. CHAPPELL by the Connecticut Post with a front-page story recognizing his efforts to shine light on the state of Connecticut.

JOE DAVIS' band as winner of the Charlotte Music Awards. Davis appeared with legendary drummer Carmine Appice on May 1, 2007.

IAN DICKE, ELIZABETH KELLY and MISSY MAZZOLI as participants in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Composers Workshop.

JACK EVANS and band Reverend Zen nominated in the Best Song/AC category in the 2007 Los Angeles Music Awards for their song "Dangerous Times." Evans was a finalist in the 2006 VH1 "Song of the Year" Contest.

SHARON FARBER received first prize at the Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition for her a cappella piece "The Third Mother/Mothers' Lament."

STEVEN FROMHOLZ, who has had tunes recorded with such artists as Willie Nelson and John Denver, was named Poet Laureate of the State of Texas by proclamation of the Governor.

STACY GARROP, selected as winner of the Harvey Gaul Composition Competition for 2006-2007. She was commissioned to compose a new work to be premiered by Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble during its 2008 season.

JOAN HAMMEL for the third year in a row as Entertainer of the Year in the Pop category by the Chicago Music Awards.

EDIE HILL received her second Bush Artist Fellowship, a $48,000 award granted over a three-year period, to further develop her career. She was also commissioned by the Rock Valley College Foundation to compose an a cappella choral work to be performed by the Rock Valley College Chamber singers.

MONICA HOUGHTON with the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2007.

MARYANNE AMACHER AND DAVID DUNN with the Henry Cowell Award, which recognizes the composer's spirit of innovation and experimentalism.

DARLENE KOLDENHOVEN for having the number one spot on the New Age/World Radio Charts in April with her crossover/new age album.

DARIA MARMALUK-HAJIOANNOU selected as a 2007 Parent's Choice Award Winner for her latest CD Beautiful Rainbow World.

RICHARD NANES by Excellence In Media with a 2007 International Silver Angel Award.

CLINT NEEDHAM with the American Composers Orchestra's 2007 Underwood Commission. The recipient of this award receives a $15,000 commission for a work to be premiered by American Composers Orchestra.

MICHAEL POWERS nominated for Best International Male Vocal, Best International Electric Guitar, and Best International CD (with band Prodigal Son) at the Blues Awards.

FAITH RIVERA by the 2007 New Thought Songwriters Tribute with a nomination for her song "Kumbaya" in the Personal Transformation category and her song "Standing as One" in the Spiritual Social Action category.

ANDREW SARNOFF won first prize in the Song of the Year Contest, an international songwriting contest supporting VH-1's Save the Music Foundation, for his and Pat Maiorino's song "A Mother's Kiss."

DENNIS SCOTT, two-time Grammy winner, awarded a regional Emmy for his composition and arrangement of the music for TBN's BJ's Teddy Bear Club.