Awards & Winners

Smithsonian Folkways

Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution. It is a part of the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, located at Capital Gallery in downtown Washington, D.C. The label was founded in 1987 after the family of Moses Asch, founder of Folkways Records, donated the entire Folkways Records label to the Smithsonian. The donation was made on the condition that the Institution continue Asch's policy that each of the more than 2,000 albums of Folkways Records remain in print forever, regardless of sales. Since then, the label has expanded on Asch’s vision of documenting the sounds of the world, adding six other record labels to the collection, as well as releasing over 300 new recordings. Some well-known artists have contributed to the Smithsonian Folkways collection, including Pete Seeger, Ella Jenkins, Woody Guthrie, and Lead Belly. Famous songs include "This Land Is Your Land", "Goodnight, Irene", and "Midnight Special." Due to the unique nature of its recordings, which include an extensive collection of traditional American music, children's music, and international music, Smithsonian Folkways has become an important collection to the musical community, especially to ethnomusicologists, who utilize the recordings of "people's music" from all over the world.

Awards by Smithsonian Folkways

Check all the awards nominated and won by Smithsonian Folkways.

2014


Independent Music Award for Best Album - Children’s Music
Honored for : Blue Clouds

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Children’s Music Blue Clouds

2013


Independent Music Award for Best Album - Reissue
Honored for : Satchmo at the National Press Club: Red Beans and Rice-Ly Yours
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Compilation
Honored for : Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Bluegrass
Honored for : Old Man Below

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Bluegrass Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Bluegrass Old Man Below
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Children’s Music Little Seed: Songs for Children By Woody Guthrie
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Compilation Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Live Performance The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Reissue Satchmo at the National Press Club: Red Beans and Rice-Ly Yours

2012


Independent Music Award for Best Album - Compilation
Honored for : Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Latin
Honored for : ¡Cimarrón! Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Children’s Music A Life of Song
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Compilation Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Latin ¡Cimarrón! Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Latin ¡Soy Salvadoreño! Chanchona Music from Eastern El Salvador
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Reissue Eclipse
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Reissue The Yoruba / Dahomean Collection: Orishas Across the Ocean
Independent Music Award for Best Album - World Traditional Music from Aluku
Independent Music Award for Best Song - Instrumental Joropo quitapesares
Independent Music Award for Best Song - Latin Cimarroneando (Cimarrón-ing)

2011


Independent Music Award for Best Album - Reissue
Honored for : Rising Sun Melodies
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Compilation
Honored for : Classic Appalachian Blues From Smithsonian Folkways

Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Blues Rappahannock Blues
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Compilation Classic Appalachian Blues From Smithsonian Folkways
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Compilation Classic Sounds of New Orleans
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Live Performance Rappahannock Blues
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Reissue Rising Sun Melodies
Independent Music Award for Best Song - Blues See What You Done Done
Independent Music Award for Best Song - Children’s Music Don't I Fit in My Daddy's Shoes?

2010


Independent Music Award for Best Design - Album Packaging
Honored for : Pete Seeger \u2013 American Favorite Ballads: Vol. 1-5

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Americana 50 Years: Where Did You Come From? Where Did You Go?
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Blues Richmond Blues
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Blues Classic Piano Blues
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Children’s Music Honk-Hiss-Tweet-GGGGGGGGGG and Other Children's Favorites by Tom Glazer
Independent Music Award for Best Song - Cover La Bamba
Independent Music Award for Best Design - Album Packaging Pete Seeger \u2013 American Favorite Ballads: Vol. 1-5

2009


Independent Music Award for Best Album - Gospel
Honored for : On the Right Road Now
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Americana
Honored for : Territory

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Americana Territory
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Gospel On the Right Road Now
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Latin ¡Ayombe! - The Heart Of Colombia's Música Vallenato
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Latin Amor, Dolor Y Lágrimas: Música Ranchera