Forty musicians from the Richmond area were honored with the Newlin Music Prize funds totaling $12,500.
Founded in 2022, the Newlin Music Prize is awarded to the best full-length album from the Richmond metropolitan area based solely on artistic merit.
Each year, a jury of more than 100 members from the Richmond arts community selects 20 albums to be considered for this award.
In 2022 and 2023, the prize for winning the award was $1,000.
In 2024, that amount increased to $2,500, with an additional $4,750 raised to award $250 to each nominee on the shortlist.
This supplemental payout reflects the new payment status, ensuring that artists from the first two years are celebrated and honored similarly.
“We are very excited to be able to bestow this money to artists from the previous two years of the award,” said Doug Nunnally, Newlin Music Prize president. “The organization was established to elevate all artists within Richmond’s music scene, not just the winner of each year’s award. In our third year, we demonstrated this commitment by awarding funds to both the winner and all nominees, and it was equally important for us to honor the talented artists from the previous years’ rounds. Their contributions have greatly enriched Richmond’s diverse musical landscape, and we are thrilled to celebrate their achievements and support their future creative endeavors with this endowment.”
Artists receiving payments include:
- Abby Huston
- Angélica Garcia
- Ant The Symbol
- Armagideon Time
- Big Fundamental
- Book Of Wyrms
- Butcher Brown
- Caro
- Cassidy Snider & The Wranglers
- Deau Eyes
- DJ Harrison
- Drook
- Dumb Waiter
- Erin & The Wildfire
- Frames
- Giant
- Gnawing
- Illa Styles
- Jewell Booker
- Junnie Mac
- Justin Golden
- Mackenzie Roark
- Matthew E. White
- McKinley Dixon
- Monday Night
- Ms. Jaylin Brown
- No BS! Brass
- Piranha Rama
- Prabir Trio
- Radio B
- Spooky Cool
- Strawberry Moon
- T V L P A
- Tennishu
- Terminal Bliss
- Tiara & Andrew
- Timothy Bailey And The Humans
- Ty Sorrell
- Tyler Meacham
- WKNDR
The Newlin Music Prize is raising funds for its 2025 award which will celebrate albums from the Richmond-Petersburg metropolitan region released in the 2024 calendar year. The 2025 campaign kicked off on Aug. 4 with a fundraiser at the Kava.
For more information on the organization and each nominated album, please visit NewlinMusicPrize.com.
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