Academy
award trophy
can be made for the country Music Awards. Two country music performing
artists, Eddie Miller and Tommy Wiggins joined two club owners, Mickey
and Chris Christensen to found the Country and Western Music Academy. It
aims to realize their collective dream of gaining support of west coast
musical artists in order to promote country music in the thirteen
states comprising the West Coast. The CWMA presented its first country
music awards ceremony to honor excellence in achievement within the
country music industry from during the past year two years later. The
event marked the first country music awards backed by a major
organization and succeeded in shedding the spotlight on the genre for
all the public to take notice.
Winners of the
first ceremony included Buck Owens who is Top Male Vocalist; the
Buckaroos is his band as Band of the Year; and Bonnie Owens as Top
Female Vocalist; all performers based on the West Coast in keeping with
the organization's mission to bring such artists recognition. Indicative
of their membership is composed primarily of peers in country music
also based on the West Coast.
