This year's Awards Show is going to be a first on many fronts! For starters, we will be celebrating the OFFICIAL MUSIC OF TEXAS - WESTERN SWING
with a lineup of 2023 Award Recipients to include new talent performing this treasured music.
On Tuesday evening, 10/18, a reception at the theatre will include a viewing of the award winning movie,
"The Birth and History of Western Swing"
from Executive Producer Mike Markwardt. A showcase performance by Steve Markwardt with his band will also be included.
My artist friends, you are about to discover a digital platform designed by a company who puts you, the artist, FIRST. We will be updating you periodically between now and the Awards Show about all of the perfectly designed tools at your disposal. Also, the Awrds Show will be filmed and streamed LIVE this year by the wonderful team of PickleJar!!!
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2022/2023 CMA of Texas
Awards Show
October 18 & 19, 2022
Cactus Theatre Lubbock, TX
with MC Host, Radio Personality, DJ HD Ainsworth Morning Host of the I-20 KBEF "Live" Radio Show Minden LA, M-F, 6-8AM, www.kbef.com
The 2022 Artists Award Recipients
Artist - Kensie Coppin
Band - Kin Faux
Video - Kin Faux
Songwriter - Dallas Burrow
Song - Jason Nutt, Purple Banners
Album - Spur 327 Band, West Texas Roots
Americana Artist - Jon Young
Americana Song - Hilda Lamas
Rising Star - Aubry Rodriguez
Rising Star - Clay Gibson
Instrumentalist - Lonnie Kuss
Joe DeLeon Drummer - Mike Patton
Cowboy Western Song - Josh Ward, A Cowboy Can
Cowboy Western Entertainer - Kristyn Harris
Waylon Jennings Artist Award - Chris Hoff
Producer - Rick Garcia
* Traditional Country Artist - Jake Hooker
* Lyricist - Chad Holloway
* SIGNATURE DANCEHALL - Karl & Teresa Parker Last Chance Bar & Dancehall
* SIGNATURE PUBLICATION - Creed Cahill Texas Life Magazine
Country Gospel Song - Bernie Nelson Somebody's Praying
Country Gospel Album - Cathy Jewell, Engraved
Radio DJ - Susanne Abbey
LIVING LEGEND - Shake Russell
JIM & MONA BOLES TEXAS LEGACY Award B.J. Thomas
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Award - Claude Gray
TOP OF TEXAS Award - Jason Roberts, Director Bob Wills' Texas Playboys
(* New 2022 first time awards)
The 2023 Artists Award Recipients
Artist - George Dearborne
Americana Artist - Annie Davis, aka Trashy Annie
Song - Steve Markwardt, Oklahoma's Calling Me
Male Vocalist - Shane Vandiver
Rising Star Award - Jasmine McDonald
Rising Star Award - Brayden Ryle
Director's Choice - Mike Markwardt The Birth and History of Western Swing Documentary Film
JIM & MONA BOLES TEXAS LEGACY Award Curt Ryle
LIVING LEGEND Award - Chuck Cusimano
Johnny Gimble / Troy Bates Fiddle Award Rico Gonzales, Kin Faux Band
Ambassador - Carol Roshkind
Ambassador - Brandon Messerly
HERITAGE Award - Lucy Dean Record
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Kin Faux
This band of ultra talented artists has at their center, Rico Gonzales, who is a monster talent in other wordly ways!!! To see them perform is an experience way past the extraordinary. Radio loves them too, helping them chart their original tunes, one written by Bernie Nelson, "Plainview." The CMA of Texas is so very excited to honor this band with
BAND OF THE YEAR.
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2022 CMA of Texas Awards Show Sponsors
THANK YOU!!!
Rustic Furniture Warehouse
The CMA of Texas is registered with the Texas Secretary of States Office as the
CMAA Country Music Artists Association, a Director managed non-profit, and operates online as the Official CMA of Texas, Established 1975.
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