Press Kit

· Nominated for "Best Political Album" Just Plain Folks Music Awards 2009, Nashville, TN

· Recipient Free Press Arts Activism Award 2009, Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism, Columbus, OH "great art is inherently subversive"

· Honor Award Winner in the 2004 6th Annual Great American Song Contest, Portland, OR

·  Honorable Mention (only one awarded) in the Best Spiritual/Mystical Song in the 2003 Hosting of the Bards Song Contest, Horton, NY

· 2 Honorable Mentions in Folk/Acoustic & Childrens/Novelty categories in 2002 Madison Songwriters Group Song Contest, Madison, WI

· 2002 Tucson Folk Festival Performer, Tucson, AZ

· Finalist in the 2002 South Florida Folk Festival Song Competition, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

· 7th place in Open/World Music category out of 1300 entrants in the 1999 Mid-Atlantic Song Contest for her song "Love Croaks", Washington, DC

· Honorable Mention in the 1998 Napa Valley Folk Festival's Emerging Songwriter Showcase on first submission for Sure Feels Like Home; Napa, CA

· Showcase artist at the North American Folk Alliance Conference: 2002, Jacksonville, Florida; 2000, Cleveland,  OH

· Opener for Tom Paxton , Bob Gibson, Josh White Jr., Pierce Pettis, Maura O'Connell, David Olney, and the Washington Sisters

· Tracks from her debut CD Sure Feels Like Home selected as first tracks for Acoustic Harvest II and Acoustic Harvest IV - Sure Feels Like Home and Warm is the Light, respectively, Brandy from the Cherry was chosen  for Fertile Land, Acoustic Harvest III, All are compilation discs of the Cleveland area folk music organization, Folknet

· live radio appearances on syndicated public radio programs Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour with host Michael  Johnathon, and on River City Folk with Tom May, to name just two

· Featured artist on Folk Sampler, Acoustic Cafe, That's All Folk, Simply Folk, and on country charts in the Netherlands and in Denmark with her song Sure Feels Like Home