Podunk Songwriting Competition Winners
2024
1st – Dennis Sheridan, Bolton, CT – “Hope Valley”
2nd – J M Clifford and Ron Pope, Brooklyn, NY – “Complicated Man”
3rd – Mary Beth Stone and Rob Taube, Nashville, TN – “Last Farm Left in Hardin County”
2023
1st – Patrice Webb ~ Ponderay, ID – “Idaho”
2nd – Roy O’Neill ~ Washington, CT – “Marriage on the Rocks”
3rd – Buddy Guido & Paul Kelly ~ Mohawk, NY – “I Can’t Stand to Sit Around”
2022
1st – Stan Keach and Jeff Trippe, Rome, ME – “Can’t You Hear It Callin’?”
2nd – Dennis Sheridan, Bolton, CT – “Old Guys”
3rd – Patrice Webb, Ponderay, Idaho – “The Mountain”
2021
1st – Richard Piccarreto, Stowe, MA – “Tenney Hill”
2nd – Boyd Timothy, Highland, UT – “Creek Side Bend”
3rd – Co-written by Paul Kelly Santa Fe, NM and Buddy Guido Mohawk, NY – “Dig a Little Deeper”
2020
1st – Boyd Timothy of Highlands, UT – “Pines of Caroline”
2nd – Jerry Johnston Fort Worth, TX – “Bluebonnet Blue”
3rd – Co-written by Paul Kelly Santa Fe, NM and Buddy Guido Mohawk, NY – “Word of Mouth”
2019
1st – Stan Keach, Rome, Maine – “Bear in the Barn”
2nd – Stan Keach, Rome, Maine – “Up On Little Round Top”
3rd – Kevin Hale, Brentwood, TN – “A Good Old Fiddle Tune”
2018
1st – Nick Anderson – “Houses on the Farm”
2nd – Mark Swartzentruber – “I’m Tired of Pretending”
3rd – Laurence Baer – “I Woke Up Today”
2017
1st – Kevin Hale, Brentwood, TN “Angel from Appalachia”
2nd – Mike Swartzentruber, Centerburg, OH “My Child Welcome Home”
3rd – Kevin Hale, Brentwood, TN “Are There Hillbilly Bands in Heaven?”
2016
1st – David McKeon, Astoria, NY “Sweet Annie Mae”
2nd – Kevin Hale, West Lake Village, CA “I Paid for Your Sins”
3rd – Eben Salter, Gales Ferry, CT “The Old Iron Gate”
2015
1st – Geoff Bartley, Framingham, MA “Sunny Side of Town”
2nd – Greg Baker, Conifer, CA “Fifty Miles from Nowhere”
3rd – Eben Salter, Gales Ferry, CT “The Call of the Crow”
2014
1st – Julie Foldesi, New York, NY “This Part of Town”
2nd – Abby Hollander, Brooklyn, NY “Darlin’ City”
3rd – Abby Hollander, Brooklyn, NY “Loneliness Here”
2013
No Festival
2012
Data Missing
2011
1st – Andrea Asprel, Milford, CT
2nd – Mary Munsey, Abingdon, VA
3rd – Peter Niabut, Southampton, MA
