Singer/Songwriter Artists Victoria Vox and Kipyn Martin have been recognized by the Washington Area Music Awards (WAMMIE) for their work as Folk Contemporary Vocalists and Songwriters.

Kipyn Martin is an emerging Indie Folk singer-songwriter whose roots sink deep into the banks of the Shenandoah River. Currently based in Columbia, MD, she currently plays festivals, concert halls, coffeehouses, and house concerts from New England to Texas. In addition to her WAMMIE awards, Kipyn’s latest release of Dance Across the Sky, won the coveted Gold Award in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest (Open category) for her song "God is Love", her third MASC Gold adding to previous wins in 2013 and 2014. Her vocals are reminiscent of Joni Mitchell at times, soothing and soaring over her delicately written guitar parts, but that doesn’t stop her from rocking out as well!

With a passion for songwriting, Victoria Vox began writing songs when she was ten. She furthered her music education at the Berklee College of Music, as a vocal principle with an emphasis in Songwriting. A few years after graduating, Vox took up the ukulele. Her music style shifted to chanson tinged with jazz, which, over the years, has settled in nicely with her pop songwriting flair. With 10 albums under her belt (as an unsigned artist), Vox has often found herself performing solo. This has helped her developed her rhythmic ukulele playing style (to give herself her own back-beat drum) and she has also perfected her popular "Mouth Trumpet", under the influence of trumpet icon, Chet Baker. The Mouth-Trumpet has enabled her to take vocal improvisational solos without scatting or using words. Depending on the setting, she pairs the rhythmic uke and mouth trumpet with her electronic-looping skills (to create ostinato bass lines and harmonies) while creating a full sound, atypical to the stereotype of "ukulele music". In addition to cover features in Ukulele Magazine (US) and Uke Magazine(UK), her unique Mouth-Trumpet landed her on the Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno and the cover of the Wall Street Journal.