THE MID-ATLANTIC SONG CONTEST 

MASC 42 Category Awards
(HM = Honorable Mention)

Adult Contemporary

Gold — Mother of My Mother — Lauren Compton and Lyla Elise
Silver — House on Fire  — Erynn McLeod         
Finalist — Jet Plane — Lauren Compton and Lyla Elise
Finalist — Tame — Avery Anderson      
HM — Afterwards, on the Greyhound — Daniel Kenny
HM — Just A Person — Erynn McLeod 
HM — Lastima — Paola Prato 
HM — One of Your Crimes — Lilianna Rindal   
HM — Thunder of the Ocean — Allison Sutherland     

Americana

Gold — Every Kind of Loneliness — Debra St. Charles and Michelle Swan
Silver — Away — Susan Kane  
Finalist — Alaska — Baback Vaziri        
Finalist — Blue Haired Groupies — Tim White 
HM — Guys Be Wise — Dan Grove       
HM — Old Abandoned Farmhouse — Andrew Wolf      
HM — Plainfield 1956 — James Lenz   
HM — Rain — Claudia Gibson 
HM — Red Wine — Allison Cook           
HM — Summer of Love 67 — Fred Ball
HM — Summertime, Orkney Springs — Brent Funkhouser

Children’s

Gold — Hairy Knuckles — Kevin Neidig
Silver — Granny's Stew — Thomas Brown
Finalist — Mariposa — Audrey Engdahl
Finalist — Pockets — Kevin Neidig
HM — I Stood My Ground— Jim Clark
HM — Scrub in the Tub — Kevin Whalen
HM — Sunshine is Medicine— Kelli Caldwell
HM — The Colors Inside of Me — Aspen Black
HM — The Turkey Social Dance — Linda Marks

Country/Bluegrass

Gold — Angel Allegations — Grace Stephenson            
Silver — Widow Kip — Kevin Whalen   
Finalist — American Chestnut — Allen Partlow             
Finalist — By Myself — George Katsos 
Finalist — Honky Tonk Man — Jeremy Ahimsa 
Finalist — My Last Cup of Coffee — Cathy Fink             
HM — Count on your Fingers — Joseph Thompson      
HM — Little Red Five-Speed — Andrew Pauls  
HM — Lucky Stars — David Chong       
HM — One Hit Wonder — Phillip Zuckerman and Allen Kave
HM — Painting the Town — John Bolten            
HM — Red, White & Blue-Colored Heart — Robert Keelin         
HM — Sunday Morning Parking Lot — Greg Poulos       
HM — What Comes Next — Kevin Dudley         

Folk Acoustic

Gold — Musicians and Sailors — Janet Gillies                             
Silver — Neil Young— Marilyn Hucek, Philip Silverberg and Marty Dodson             
Finalist — Man in My Dreams — Erin Ash Sullivan
Finalist — Miles Away— Caitlin Schneiderman                                          
Finalist — Password — Kevin Neidig                                 
HM — Fabled Moon — Bett Padgett and Gail Oare                     
HM — Second Chances — Andrew Wolf and Mack Reynolds                
HM — Tip of Your Tongue — Rebecca Berlin                                  
HM — Will You Remember Me  — Jim Clark                                  
HM — You Can't Go Home — David Hollingsworth                                    |
HM — Your Picture in my Mind — Jim Johnson                

Freedom Songs

Gold — New Pledge — Andrew Pauls  
Silver — Better Off Together — Hassan El-Tayyab         
Finalist — Find Peace Here — Michelle Murray and Michael Murray
Finalist — Stand There — Daniel Kenny            
HM — 1,000 Reasons (The Only Way) — Carrie Ferguson            
HM — American Circus — Catherine Pajic       
HM — Climb the Mountain— Lawrence Holzman        
HM — Cut to the Chase — Abhiram Tammana
HM — I Don't Want Your Billions Mr. — David Scott Weaver

Gospel/Inspirational

Gold — Don't Become What You Claim to Hate — Gracious Me            
Silver — Will You Remember Me — Jim Clark  
Finalist — Beyond Belief — Bob Reilly 
Finalist — Holy — Evan Oseni  
HM — Angel Soul — Marcelo Villavicencio       
HM — Drowning in an Ocean— Luke Denver  
HM — Even a Sinner Like Me— Howard Goldberg        
HM — God is the Gardener — David Scott Weaver        

HipHop/R&B/Urban

Gold — California — Nicolas Montalvo             
Silver — Get My Drift — Louis Cate        
Silver — My Self Destructive Tendencies — John Seay
Finalist — Bright — Hymie Witthoft      
Finalist — Clandestine — David Perrin
Finalist — I Told You — Michael Downey           
HM — Green Light — Jim Alvey and Brenda Bunn

Instrumental

Gold — La Mariposa — David Perrin
Silver — Shoot the Tires, Donald! — Kevin Neidig
Finalist — A la Jorma — Michael Potts
Finalist — A Last Goodbye — Shelley Stolaroff Segal
HM — Aires de la Pampa — Valeria Stewart
HM — Deep Waters — Rich Morey
HM — Shovelhead Gentleman — Michael Potts
HM — Third and Foremost— Michael Potts

Lyrics Only

Gold — Run This Town — Grey Jacks   
Silver — Just the Way It Goes — Roderick Deacey        
Finalist — Margaret Mackin — Allison Sutherland         
Finalist — Maria, Ask Me Why — Eric Carzon   
Finalist — Tangled — Cinda Smith        
HM — A Month of Sundays— Rob White          
HM — Death on the Jam — Bruce Fuchs and Brandon Fuchs
HM — Etched into Me — Remi Smith   
HM — The Leavin' Door— Robert Dale Klein

Open

Gold — Brooklyn's Burning — Abe Loomis
Silver — Bad Detective — Allison Cook
Finalist — If It Looks Like It Feels — Hassan El-Tayyab
Finalist — Untitled Prayer — Rebecca Berlin
HM — Believing — Rich Morey
HM — Better Times — Lilianna Rindal
HM — Fido Scared the Mailman Away — Luke Denver
HM — Hurts Sometimes — Tom Kaye
HM — Island Time — Amy Kucharik
HM — Silent Ship — Allison Cook
HM — The Settling — Alex McIntosh

Pop

Gold — Quiet — Erynn McLeod                                          
Silver — Don't Call Me Pretty — Penelope Sutton                                      
Finalist — Guts and Glory — Caroline Brennan                                          
Finalist — I Feel the Rain — Michael "Max" McGee, Michael Dubacher, and Ignacio Martin Trevox        
HM — Birds — Daniel Casher and James DeLeo                         
HM — Brooklyn's Burning— Abe Loomis                                       
HM — I Won't Make That Mistake Again — Luke Jones                              
HM — One of Your Crimes — Lilianna Rindal                                
HM — Your Fault — Paul Harrison         

Rock/Alternative

Gold — Echo — Emily Hahr
Silver — Younger Years — Jon Lewis
Finalist — Don't Tell Me— Devin Castleton
Finalist — Hurts Sometimes — Tom Kaye
Finalist — Open Road — Greg Pitchford
Finalist — The Chesapeake — Eric Selby
HM — Better Man — Rich Alden
HM — You Can't Go Home — David Hollingsworth

Video

Gold — Chelsea Hotel — Amoreena Athanas 
Silver — Lastima — Paola Prato            
Finalist — American Dream — Jeremy Ahimsa
Finalist — Appalachian Hollow — Rick Landers             
Finalist — Hippie Chicks — Dirk Schwenk        
Finalist — Jerusalem — Bryan Lee        
Finalist — Two — David Scott Weaver and Louisa Branscomb
HM — Beauty Like Yours — James Mathews    
HM — Carousel of Colors — Alison Tucker       
HM — Lost in London — Ken Demith   
HM — People Will RISE — Lynne Revo-Cohen 
HM — The Leavin' Door — Robert Dale Klein   
HM — Then You Fly — Andrew Stenehjem

Vocal Jazz/Blues

Gold — My Way Home — Bruce Rosenblum    
Silver — Please Do That to Me — Carly Harvey
Finalist — Cave Shadows — John Abrahams   
Finalist — Everybody but You — Caitlin Schneiderman             
Finalist — In Times Like These — Ken Avis        
Finalist — Love is a Word — Doug Kolmar         
HM — Call Me American — Louis Cate
HM — French Toast — Laura Baron      
HM — Grown Up Since Tuesday— Oren Levine            
HM — Help Desk Blues — Barbara Keeler        
HM — Picasso Lips — Leah Kaufman  
HM — Stealing All That Is Pleasant — Louisa Amend and Tom Amend