12th Annual Awards

 

Results for the Best Album 2024

David Lanz & Kristin Amarie – Ayres - 1st 

Kevin Kendle – Afterglow - 2nd 

Forrest Smithson – Future Temples - 3rd 

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Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album 2024 

John Lyell – Eternity II - 1st 

KapTep & Brannan Lane – Music for Migraines - 2nd 

Shambhu – Reflections - 3rd 

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Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album 2024  

Paul Adams & Elizabeth Geyer – A Journey of Dreams - 1st 

Radhika Vekaria – Warriors of Light - 2nd 

Jennifer Thomas – Oceans - 3rd 

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Results for the Best Single 2024

DM Ascension – Immersion ft Christophe Goze - 1st 

The Song Gardeners – Talking to Trees - 2nd 

Raf21 & Le Code – My Own River - 3rd 

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Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single 2024 

Liesbet Leroy – Misty Shores - 1st 

Breindy and Matt – Take Me Back to Woody Cape - 2nd 

Jeffrey Baker – My Heart - 3rd 

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Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single 2024  

Silvia Blaser & Orbius – Morning Light - 1st 

Michelle Qureshi – Starfield - 2nd 

Helane Marie Anderson  – Ethereal Bliss - 3rd 

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Monthly Awards Results:

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Results for the Best Album for December 2024

Chrissie & Steve Sheppard – When The Sun Has Legs - 1st 

Fiona Joy Hawkins – Music for Study and Relaxation - 2nd 

Bryan Quinn – Rejuvenescence - 3rd 

Renee Michele – Reunion - Wild Card

​​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album December 2024  KapTep & Brannan Lane – Music for Migraines

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album December 2024  Aura Noctis – Solo Piano II

 

​Results for the Best Single for December 2024

DM Ascension – Immersion ft Christophe Goze - 1st 

Siamak Sarmadian – First Snow - 2nd 

Fred Grenot – Winter Faerie  - 3rd

Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single December 2024  Sonya Haramis– Sleepy Fairies

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single December 2024  James Filkins – Winter Vine

 

​Results for the Best Album for November 2024

David Lanz & Kristin Amarie – Ayres - 1st 

David Vito Gregoli & Ricky Kej – Liquid Planet (Chillax Music) - 2nd 

Rudy Adrian – Beyond The Sleepy Hills - 3rd 

Aroshanti – Healing Soundscapes Solfeggio Frequencies - Wild Card

​​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album November 2024  Healing Sound Project – Pachamama

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album November 2024  Paul Adams & Elizabeth Geyer – A Journey of Dreams

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Results for the Best Single for November 2024

Sandstone – Tethered Echoes - 1st 

Joe Weineck – Earthlings - 2nd 

Mike Howe – Long Before - 3rd

Eric Tingstad – Compassion - Wild Card

​​​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single for November 2024  Jeffrey Baker — My Heart

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single for November 2024  Helane Marie Anderson — Etheral Bliss

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Results for the Best Album for October 2024

Forrest Smithson – Future Temples - 1st 

Ricky Kej – Break Of Dawn - 2nd 

David Arkenstone – Fairy Fantasy - 3rd 

Michael Logozar – Sunrise - Wild Card

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Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album October 2024  Shambhu – Reflections

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album October 2024  Jennifer Thomas – Oceans

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Results for the Best Single for October 2024

Le Code & Liesbet Leroy – Autumn Memories - 1st 

Bryan Quinn – Introspection - 2nd 

James Filkins – Ashes to Ashes - 3rd

​​​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single for October 2024  Breindy and Matt — Take Me Back to Woody Cape

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single for October 2024  Hiromasa Keya Kobayashi — Foreign Lands, Rainy Nights

 

Results for the Best Album for September 2024

Fabrice Tonnellier – Shaman Dream - 1st 

Mark Pinkus – Ice Water Steam - 2nd 

Sharon Chen – Blissful and Beyond - 3rd 

​​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album September 2024  Wily_E_Peyote — Grinkle

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album September 2024  Luis Paniagua & Marlen Martha Maria — Paradise of Presence

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Results for the Best Single for September 2024

David & Kristin Amarie – Air ft Lars Hannibal & Matthew Fisher - 1st 

Richard Zelada – The Tale of the Golden Eye Tiger - 2nd 

Simon Lowy – Cyprus - 3rd

Ancient Astronaut – The Towpath - Wild Card

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Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single for September 2024  Liesbet Leroy — Misty Shores

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single for September 2024  Silvia Blaser & Raf21 — Nature Heart and Soul

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Results for the Best Album for August 2024

David De Michele – Cosmos VIII - 1st 

Hans Christian & Thomas Barquee – Melodiya - 2nd 

Mike Hans STEFFL – Complicated Connections - 3rd 

​​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album August 2024  Christopher Parnis — Everything You Could Be

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album August 2024  Radhika Vekaria — Warriors of Light

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Results for the Best Single for August 2024

Kate Jaconello – Silent Alchemy - 1st 

Winter Silhouette & Christian Alsemgeest – Rising Downs - 2nd 

Steve Sheppard – Aphrodite's Rock ft. Chrissie Sheppard - 3rd

Bryan Quinn – Solitude - Wild Card

​​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single for August 2024  Lonely Lighthouse — Winter Prelude

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single for  August 2024  Michelle Qureshi — Starfield

 

Results for the Best Album for July 2024

Kevin Kendle – Afterglow- 1st 

Holland Phillops – A Sense of Distance - 2nd 

The Song Gardeners – Sonic Landscape - 3rd 

Jim Kimo West & David Vito Gregoli – KIMO VITO - Wild Card

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Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album July 2024  John Lyell — Eternity II

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album July 2024  Alise Ashby — Stardust

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Results for the Best Single for July 2024

George Pendred – Growth - 1st 

Jim Gelcer & David Vito Gregoli – Resilience - 2nd 

Chrisitan Alsemgeest – Turquoise - 3rd

​​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single for July 2024  Rick Sparks — Belleza Isle

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single for  June 2024  Mark Barnes — While The Forest Sleeps

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Results for the Best Album for June 2024

City of Dawn – Invincible Summer - 1st 

James Michael Stevens – Once Upon A Summer - 2nd 

Ron Bracale – Mysterious Black Modes - 3rd 

​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album June 2024  Anantakara — Unseen Patterns Of Light

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album June 2024  Sherry Finzer & Jere Friedman — Inner Sojourn

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Results for the Best Single for June 2024

Raf21 & Le Code – My Own River - 1st 

Jacquelyn G. Kleine – Novae - 2nd 

Orchestra Indigo – Evening On The Esplanade - 3rd

​​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single for June 2024  Tom Caufield — When She Walks Into the Room

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single for  June 2024  Johannes Linstead — Casa Bomba

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Results for the Best Album for May 2024

Erik Wollo – Crossing the Equator - 1st 

Masako – Lost There Found Here - 2nd 

Keith Fiala – New Beginnings - 3rd 

​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album June 2024  Romerium — Fairytale Forest

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album June 2024  Mad Dog Friedman — Love Poems

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Results for the Best Single for May 2024

David Lanz & Kristin Amarie – Beautiful One ft Cameron Stone - 1st 

Paul Adams & Elizabeth Geyer – The Reward - 2nd 

Shambhu & Jeff Oster – Montauk to Mexico - 3rd

Caitlin Grey – Man in the Moon - Wild Card

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Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single for May 2024  LMI — Euphorical

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single for  May 2024  Silvia Blaser & Orbius — Morning Light

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Results for the Best Album for April 2024

Christof R Davis – The Tree and The Moon - 1st 

James Michael Stevens – When April Flowers - 2nd 

Rick Sparks – Angeline - 3rd 

​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album April 2024  Billy Denk — Meditations of the Cosmos

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album April 2024  Douglas Blue Feather — Blue Chill

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Results for the Best Single for April 2024

Antonio Miguel Pérez – Beyond The Dreams - 1st 

Liesbet Leroy – Early Spring - 2nd 

Aroshanti – Bilss - 3rd

NEORACLE – Iniciatic Times - Wild Card

​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single for April 2024  Sharon Chen — What Was I Made For?

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single for  April 2024  Carlo Corazza — Aprile

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Results for the Best Album for March 2024

Andy Rogers – The Ambient Forest - 1st 

Bernd Scholl – Quiet Time - 2nd 

Peter Calandra – Spirit - 3rd 

Lorna James – Stratosphere - Wild Card

​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album  March 2024  Megwyn Goodall — Rythmn of the Ancients 2

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album  March 2024  Windtalker — Earth Songs

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Results for the Best Single for March 2024

Ryan Judd – Space to Breath - 1st 

David Helpling & Jon Jenkins – A Treasured World - 2nd 

Santiago Trigueros – Sensualis - 3rd

Joseph L Young – Kismet - Wild Card

​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single for March 2024  510Jazz — Tropical Delight

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single for  March 2024  Crystal Ramirez — Joyful Union of Singing Hearts

 

Results for the Best Album for February 2024

David Lanz – Valentine Hill - 1st 

Jonn Serrie – Ascendant Destiny - 2nd 

Brent Allen Scott – The Drift, Volume 1 - 3rd 

Wychazel – Harmonic Resonance - Wychazel

​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album  February 2024   Allusion Quartet — Odyssey

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album  February 2024  Sandi Horton — Native Flute Journeys 4

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Results for the Best Single for February 2024

Jacquelyn G. Kleine – Aurora - 1st 

Masako – Walk Together - 2nd 

Al Jewer & Andy Mitran – Sapphire ft Hans Christian - 3rd

Christopher Kull – Imaginary Ventures - Wild Card

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Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single for February 2024  Richard Zelada — Glory

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single for  February 2024  Sherrie Davis — Summer Breeze

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Best Album for January 2024

Altus — Solastalgia 1st 

Fred Grenot — Respite: Music for Healing 2nd

MyklH — Seasons & Elements 3rd

Michelle Qureshi — A Day On Venus - Wild Card

​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Album  January 2024   Dino Pacifici — A Boat Without Oars

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Album  January 2024  Orchestra Indigo — The Small Hours

 

Best Single for January 2024

Adelynn Shan Lee — A Warrior's Love 1st

Cynthia Lim 林意 & Take — Starlight in Your Mind: Think and Create  2nd

Jacquelyn G. Kleine — Snowfall 3rd

The Song Gardeners - Talking to Trees - Wild Card

​Steve Sheppard Award for Best Single for January 2024  Kerry Barnes — Misty

Chrissie Sheppard Award for Best Single for January 2024  Antonija Pacek — Reminiscent​​​