Newlin Music Prize

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Newlin Music Prize
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First awarded	2022
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The Newlin Music Prize is an award given to the best full-length album from the Richmond-Petersburg, VA metropolitan area based solely on artistic merit without regard to style or popularity. The prize annually awards $1,000 in the hope of fostering future recordings and performances. It was named after Dika Newlin, a composer, pianist, professor, punk rock singer, and cabaret performer who taught at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond from 1978 until 2006. Per the award's website, the award "is dedicated to her memory and the enduring legacy she left upon the Richmond, VA music scene with her remarkable talent, endless creativity, free spirit, and beautiful heart."

The Newlin Music Prize is modeled after Canada's Polaris Music Prize and the United Kingdom/Ireland's Mercury Prize.

Jury and selection process

There is no submission process or entry fee for the Newlin Music Prize. All albums released in the previous calendar year are elgible as long as they are from a musician or group in the Richmond-Petersburg metropolitan area and exceeds 25 minutes in length or contains at least five songs. A jury of local musicians, journalists, radio hosts, artists, photographers, and activists submit nominations for albums they deem worthy of consideration. Each juror is allowed to submit up to 40 albums each year. After nominations are received, a 12 person committee determines the final short list of 20 albums officially up for the award. Jurors then have one month to select what they consider the ten best albums from the short list. The ballots are tabulated with each number one pick awarded ten points, a number two pick awarded nine points and so on. There is also a public fan vote open in the same window that serves as one ballot in the final tally.

The organization itself is a not-for-profit corporation with the goal of raising awareness of Richmond's music scene as well as encouraging more great musical works to come out of the area.

Newlin Winners and short list nominees

Year	Winner	Shortlisted Nominees & Albums
2022 (1st)	McKinley Dixon – For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her	Abby Huston – AH HA Angélica Garcia – Echo Eléctrico Ant The Symbol – Ant Hasn't Heard Of You, Either Big Fundamental – Hyperbeam Book Of Wyrms – Occult New Age Caro – From My Room DJ Harrison – Tales From The Old Dominion Frames – Every Room Giant – Big Talk Gnawing – You Freak Me Out Illa Styles – IllaVeRs Jewell Booker – Love Sick 2020 Junnie Mac x NameBrand – Peace, Mercy & Blessings Matthew E. White – K. Bay Prabir Trio – Haanji Tennishu – 2021 Terminal Bliss – Brute Err/ata Tiara & Andrew – Roller Skates WKNDR – Rising
2023 (2nd)	Deau Eyes - Legacies	Armagideon Time - Crime As Theatre Butcher Brown - Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey Featuring Tennishu And R4ND4ZZO BIGB4ND Cassidy Snider & The Wranglers - A Good Heartbreak Drook - Life In Estates Dumb Waiter - Gauche Gists Erin & The Wildfire - Touchy Feely Justin Golden - Hard Times And A Woman Mackenzie Roark - Rollin' High, Feelin' Low Monday Night & Heather Grey - Soon You'll Understand Ms. Jaylin Brown - Take It Easy No BS! Brass - Undying Piranha Rama - Omniscient Cloud Cover Radio B Stop - Looking For Noise Spooky Cool - Existential Pie Strawberry Moon - Habitual Creatures Timothy Bailey And The Humans - Timothy Bailey And The Humans T V L P A - Walk With Me Ty Sorrell - HomeGrown Tyler Meacham - Into The Fray

External links

• Official website

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