Lifetime Achievement Award
This honor is given by the Board of Trustees in recognition of the recipient's significant and substantial lifetime achievement in scholarship, performance, teaching, and/or support of American Music. The following is a list of awardees:
2012 - Donald Krummel
2011- Paul E. Bierley & Kate Van Winkle Keller
2010 - Wayne Shirley
2009 - Horace Clarence Boyer
2008 - Bill C. Malone
2007 - Vivian Perlis
2006 - Samuel A. Floyd, Jr
2005 - Dena Epstein
2004 - Adrienne Fried Block
2003 - H. Wiley Hitchcock
2002 - Charles Hamm
2001 - Richard Crawford
2000 - Billy Taylor & Eileen Southern
1999 - Robert Stevenson