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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 Wednesday evening, 10/19, the 2023 Awards Show will include a screening of the award winning movie,
“The Birth and History of Western Swing”
from Executive Producer Mike Markwardt
beginning at 6pm followed by artists’ performances
as noted in the 2023 lineup.
My artist friends, you are about to discover a digital platform
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We will be updating you periodically between now
and the Awards Show about all of the perfectly
designed tools at your disposal.
Also, the Awards Show will be filmed and streamed
LIVE this year by the wonderful team at PickleJar!!!
CMA of Texas Awards Show
MC HOSTS
HD Ainsworth
Kelly Scott
The 2022 Artists Award Recipients
October 18, 2022 – starting at 6:30pm
Artist – Kensie Coppin
Band – Kin Faux
Video – Kin Faux
Johnny Gimble / Troy Bates Fiddle Award
Rico Gonzales, Kin Faux Band
Songwriter – Dallas Burrow
Song – Jason Nutt, Purple Banners
Cowboy Western Entertainer – Kristyn Harris
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
Waylon Jennings Artist Award – Chris Hoff
Producer – Rick Garcia
* Traditional Country Artist – Jake Hooker
* 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
HERITAGE Award – Jim Haneline
(* New 2022 first time awards)
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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