Arts-Entertainment
The Academy of Western Artists has released their award finalists recognizing work done in 2024. A winner of each award will be selected by a panel of expert judges and announced at an awards ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas on Tuesday, December 2nd.
Livingston’s own John Lowell is a finalist in four awards—Western/Cowboy Male Vocalist, Western/Cowboy Song—for his original song “A Wandering Stray”—Western/Cowboy Single for “Snow on the Wineglass,” as well as Western/Cowboy Album of the Year for “Snow on the Wineglass.”
“What an honor to be named with other distinguished writers and performers,” said Lowell from his home in Livingston. “I’m so appreciative of this spotlight on our music by the Academy of Western Artists.”
“Snow on the Wineglass” won Lowell the International Western Music Association’s Album of the Year at a ceremony hosted in Albuquerque in November 2024, and he was named the organization’s Songwriter of the Year. Lowell and his wife Joanne will be traveling back to Albuquerque next week to award this year’s recipient of the Album of the Year, as well as performing for the convention leading up to the awards show.
Lowell also received the Montana Governor’s Arts Award in December 2024 and has been touring the state since, trying to perform in as many of the 56 counties as possible. He will be performing with Joanne for the Sweet Grass Arts Alliance at a show in Big Timber at the Sweet Grass Arts Theater on December 4th at 7 pm. A reception will follow at Two Rivers Gallery. Tickets can be purchased at the theater. For more information, please contact Kristy Cowell at 406-799-2896 or sgatheater@gmail.com, or Deanna Novotny at denovotnybt@gmail.com.