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Past Inductees:
2006 /
2004 /
2002
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The
2008 Induction Class:
1)
Les McCann
2)
Crystal Gayle
3)
Florence Henderson
4)
Norro Wilson
5)
Dwight Yoakam
2008 Dany Ford Service Award
Governor Paul
Patton-Born at home in Fallsburg, Kentucky,
on May 26, 1937, Paul Patton was one of three
children of Ward and Irene Patton. Both parents
worked to support the family and save for the
children's education. Paul graduated from Louisa
High School in Lawrence County in 1955, and went
onto the University of Kentucky where he worked in
the campus cafeteria. After graduation, literally
working from ground up, Paul Patton spent the next
20 years building a successful coal business. He
then turned his attention to public service and
began a new career as Deputy State Transportation
Secretary in the administration of Governor John Y.
Brown, Jr. in 1979. In 1982, Patton ran for public
office and was elected Pike County Judge-Executive.
He won reelection,
but in 1991, Patton returned to Frankfort as Lt.
Governor-the forst to serve as an appointed cabinet
secretary heading up the Economic Development
Cabinet. Patton made history by writing a jobs
program that put tens of thousands of Kentuckians to
work by allowing the state to attract new industries
and help existing companies to expand. He is
credited with rescuing nine thousand jobs at
Louisville's General Electric Appliance Park through
his jobs program.
Kentucky's Broadcasters Association
Steven Foster Award
Wallace "Pete"
Stamper- The Kentucky Broadcasters
Association presents awards to those individuals who
have made oustanding contributions and who have
earned fame or acclaim in their field of endeavor,
in recognition of the value of those achievements to
the state.
Pete Stamper has
been the single most identifiable voice at WRVK 1460
Radio in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky. he began his
professional entertainment career in Renfro Valley
in 1952. Two years later, Red Foley offered Pete the
feature comedy spot on his Ozark Jubilee, America's
first Country Music Neetwork (ABC) television show.
He appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and in 1975, Dolly
Parton asked him to travel with her as comedian and
road manager.
Pete is a
songwriter whose songs have been recorded by Red
Foley, Porter Wagoner, Susan Tomes Laws, Dale Ann
Bradley, Bill Anderson and others. he also helped
produce the second oldest continuous radio broadcast
in the nation, the "Sunday, Renfro Valley Gatherin"
for 39 years. Pete's book, It All Happened In Renfro
Valley, was written and released in 1999. Pete and
his wife, Minnie Lee, reside in Renfro Valley,
Kentucky.
Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement
Homer Ledford-Homer
Ledford was born and raised in the Tennessee
Mountains, a part of the Appalachian chain. At an
early age, he began making musical instruments, his
first being a "match stick" fiddle. At the age of
eighteen, he was given a rehabilitation scholarship
to attend the John C. Campbell Folk School, in
Brasstown, North Carolina. There, while recuperating
from rheumatioc fever, he made his first dulcimer.
Mr. Ledford
attended Berea College in 1949 and transferred to
Eastern Kentucky University where he received a B.S.
degree in 1954. Teaching industrial arts for ten
years, he resigned in 1963 to become a full time
instrument maker. Mr. Ledford's craft is represented
in the Smithsonian Institute and registered in the
U.S. Patent Office.
Mr. Ledford was a
fine Bluegrass musician who played 13 different
instruments and organized the Homer Ledford and the
Cabin Crekk Band in 1976. Homer was honored by his
hometown of Winchester, Kentucky in 1986 when they
named a Bluegrass Festival after him.
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The
2006 Induction Class:
1)
John Conlee
2)
Sam Bush
3)
Wynonna & Noami Judd
4)
John Jacob Niles
5)
Todd Duncan
6)
Mary Travers
7)
Dottie Rambo
8)
Lionel Hampton
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The
2004 Induction Class:
1) The
Coon Creek Girls
2) Billy
Vaughn
3) J.D.
Crowe
4) Vestal
and Howard Goodman
5) Jerry
Chesnut
6) Boots
Randolph
7) Ricky
Skaggs
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The 2002 Induction Class:
1)
Rosemary
Clooney (
Open / Variety )
2) Everly
Brothers ( Open / Rock-n-Roll )
3)
Red
Foley
(
Country )*
4)
Tom
T. Hall (
Country / Bluegrass )
5)
Grandpa
Jones (
Open / Comedy )*
6)
Bradley
Kincaid (
Country / Bluegrass )
7)
John
Lair
(
Country / Bluegrass & Open Non-Performer )
8)
Loretta
Lynn (
Country )*
9)
Bill
Monroe (
Bluegrass )*
10)
The
Osborne Brothers
( Bluegrass )
11)
Jean
Ritchie ( Folk )
12)
Merle
Travis ( Country )*
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