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  • Independent Music Awards

Lead Belly, Baby!

Dan Zanes and Friends

2018 IMA for Best Children’s Music Album
Classic English and Scottish Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways

Various Artists

2018 IMA for Best Compilation Album
Folkways.si.edu

Smithsonian/Visual Dialogue

2014 IMA for Best Music Website
Classic African American Songsters from Smithsonian Folkways

Various Artists

2014 IMA for Best Compilation Album
Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Girl (Medley)

Pete Seeger | From Classic Banjo from Smithsonian Folkways

2013 IMA for Best Bluegrass Song
2013 IMA Vox Populi Award for Best Bluegrass Song
Blue Clouds

Elizabeth Mitchell

2013 IMA for Best Children’s Music Album
Old Man Below

The Dust Busters with John Cohen

2012 IMA for Best Bluegrass Album
2012 IMA Vox Populi Awards for Best Bluegrass Album
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection

Woody Guthrie

2012 IMA for Best Compilation Album and Best Album Packaging
Woody at 100 Limited-Edition T-Shirt

Designed by Visual Dialogue

2012 IMA for Best Swag (promotional material)
2012 IMA Vox Populi Awards for Best Promotional Material
¡Cimarrón! Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia

Cimarrón

2011 IMA for Best Latin Album
Rising Sun Melodies

Ola Belle Reed

2010 IMA for Best Reissue Album
¡Y Que Viva Venezuela! Maestros del Joropo Oriental

Various Artists

(2)2009 IMA and Fan-Voted IMA for Best Latin Album
¡Ayombe! The Heart of Colombia's Música Vallenata

Various Artists

2008 Fan-Voted IMA for Best Latin Album
On The Right Road Now

The Paschall Brothers

2008 IMA for Best Gospel Album
Flaco & Max: Legends & Legacies

Flaco Jiménez & Max Baca

2014 IMA for Best Latin Album
Long Time... Seldom Scene

The Seldom Scene

2014 IMA for Best Bluegrass Album

"Mean Mother Blues" from Long Time...Seldom Scene

2014 IMA for Best Bluegrass Song
Delicious Peace: Coffee, Music & Interfaith Harmony in Uganda
2013 IMA for Best World Traditional Album
2013 IMA Vox Populi Award for Best World Traditional Album
Music of Central Asia Vol. 10: Borderlands

Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route

2012 IMA Vox Populi Awards for Best Long Form Music Video
Satchmo at the National Press Club: Red Beans and Rice-ly Yours

Louis Armstrong, Tyree Glenn, Tommy Gwaltney

2012 IMA for Best Reissue Album
¡Parranda! Venezuelan Carnival Music

La Sardina de Naiguatá

2012 IMA for Best Latin Song
JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology

Various Artists

2011 IMA for Best Compilation
Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology T-shirt

Designed by Visual Dialogue

2011 IMA for Best Swag (promotional material)
Music of Central Asia Vol. 8: Rainbow

Kronos Quartet with Alim & Fargana Qasimov and Homayun Sakhi

2010 IMA for Best Music Video, Long Form
Classic Appalachian Blues from Smithsonian Folkways

Various Artists

2010 IMA for Best Album Compilation
Blodeugerdd: Song of the Flowers – An Anthology of Welsh Music and Song

Various Artists

2009 IMA for Best Traditional World Album
Territory

Tony Trischka

2008 IMA for Best Americana Album