Lifetime Achievement Awards & Honors

    
2009 Elaine Weissman Lifetime Achievement Award
Guy & Candie Carawan
Phil Ochs
Old Town School of Folk Music
    
Folk DJ Award
Album of the Year: Joe Crookston for “Able Baker Charlie and Dog”
Song of the Year: Ray Bonneville
    


Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees
 
2008
Mavis Staples
Tommy Jarrell
Rounder Records

2007
Earl Scruggs
Dave Van Ronk
Manny Greenhill

2006
Tom Paxton
Clifton Chenier
Kenneth Goldstein

2005
Odetta
Stan Rogers
Newport Folk Festival

2004
Bess Lomax Hawes
New Lost City Ramblers
Mississippi John Hurt

2003
Ralph Stanley
Reverend Gary Davis
-Sing Out!

2002
Hazel Dickens
Bill Monroe
Harold Leventhal

2001
Lydia Mendoza
Paul Robeson
Ralph Rinzler

2000
Doc Watson
Dewey Balfa
Edith Fowke

1999
Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
The Carter Family
Anne & Frank Warner

1998
Jean Ritchie
Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly)
The American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress

1997
Utah Phillips
Chris Strachwitz

1996
Woody Guthrie
Moe Asch

1995
Pete Seeger
Alan Lomax