Lifetime Achievement Awards

Living: Tracy Chapman

Watch speech by Abraham Alexander and a tribute performance from Joy Clark at the 2024 Internationa Folk Music Awards:

Legacy: Victor Jara

Business/Academic: McCabe's Guitar Shop

Living: Janis Ian

Legacy: Josh White

Business/Academic: Oh Boy Records

Living: Flaco Jiménez

Legacy: Nanci Griffith

Business/Academic: Swallow Hill Music

Living: Gordon Lightfoot

Legacy: Celia Cruz

Business/Academic: Putumayo

Living: BeauSoleil

Legacy: Mahalia Jackson

Business/Academic: Preservation Hall, Jamie McKew

Living: Joni Mitchell

Legacy: Leonard Cohen

Business/Academic: fRoots

Living: Peter, Paul & Mary*; Ale Möller

Legacy: Richie Havens

Business/Academic: Elektra Records

Living: David Amram

Living: Dónal Lunny

Legacy: Malvina Reynolds

Business/Academic: Helen Creighton

Living: Ramblin’ Jack Elliott

Legacy: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

Business/Academic: The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS)

Living: Peggy Seeger

Legacy: Bessie Jones

Business/Academic: Canadian Society for Traditional Music

Living: Buddy MacMaster*

Legacy: Dock Boggs

Business/Academic: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Living: The Weavers

Legacy: Mike Seeger

Business/Academic: Augusta Heritage Center

Living: Harry Belafonte

Legacy: Robert Johnson

Business/Academic: The Highlander Center

Living: Joan Baez

Legacy: Jimmie Rodgers

Business/Academic: Les Blank

Living: Bob Dylan

Legacy: Elizabeth Cotten

Business/Academic: National Council for Traditional Arts

Living: Guy & Candie Carawan*

Legacy: Phil Ochs

Business/Academic: Old Town School of Folk Music

Living: Mavis Staples

Legacy: Tommy Jarrell

Business/Academic: Rounder Records

Living: Earl Scruggs*

Legacy: Dave Van Ronk

Business/Academic: Manny Greenhill

Living: Tom Paxton

Legacy: Clifton Chenier

Business/Academic: Kenneth Goldstein

Living: Odetta*

Legacy: Stan Rogers

Business/Academic: The Newport Folk Festival

Living: New Lost City Ramblers

Legacy: Mississippi John Hurt

Business/Academic: Bess Lomax Hawes

Living: Ralph Stanley*

Legacy: Reverend Gary Davis

Business/Academic: SingOut!

Living: Hazel Dickens*

Legacy: Bill Monroe

Business/Academic: Harold Leventhal

Living: Lydia Mendoza*

Legacy: Paul Robeson

Business/Academic: Ralph Rinzler

Living: Doc Watson*

Legacy: Dewey Balfa

Business/Academic: Edith Fowke

Living: Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon

Legacy: The Carter Family

Business/Academic: Anne and Frank Warner

Living: Jean Ritchie*

Legacy: Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter

Business/Academic: American Folklife Center

Living: Bruce “Utah” Phillips*

Business/Academic: Arhoolie Records (Chris Strachwitz)

Legacy: Woody Guthrie

Business/Academic: Moses Moe Asch*

Living: Pete Seeger

Business/Academic: Alan Lomax