Indie Acoustic Project Announces 2015 Winners

Tim Wenger | May 4, 2015

The Indie Acoustic Project is proud to announce the winners of the IAP’s “Best CDs of 2014” Awards. The winners in each of 7 categories were selected from among the 3 finalists in each category. It is the position of the IAP that all of the 21 CDs selected as finalists were in fact the 21 Best CDs of 2014. Accordingly, it was extremely difficult to determine the “winner” for each category, as all of the finalist CDs were outstanding in their own rights. But, since our award process is (loosely) modeled on the Oscar and Grammy Awards, a winner is expected to be chosen.
The process for determining the finalists was difficult enough: the finalists were selected from the ever-growing multitudes of CDs considered for the awards. As always, the quality of the CDs submitted was terrific, leading to the only major problem we faced: because there were far more than 21 excellent CDs (and only 21 finalist slots), many deserving recordings could not be included.
Once again, for everyone who submitted recordings for the awards, thank you for your excellent work and dedication, and for keeping up the excellent quality of independently produced music. It is our hope that these awards will help all indie artists by generating increased awareness of independently produced music from around the world.
The list of winners and finalists may also be found on our website at www.indieacoustic.com . Questions may be directed to [email protected] .
WINNERS:
ALT COUNTRY
Lynne Hanson River of Sand Self-produced
INSTRUMENTAL
Nick DiSebastian Window View FGM
MULTI GENRE
Mary Fahl Live Rimar
PROGRESSIVE EDGE
Mosey West Bermuda Mosey West
ROCK
Big Wreck Ghosts Anthem / Factor
SINGER-SONGWRITER
Lauren Shera Gold and Rust DigSin
WORLD MUSIC
Violons Barbares Saulem Ai World Village / Harmonia Mundi