Hall of Honor Inductees:
Doc Watson and Lance LeRoy

Distinguished Achievement Award:
The Stoneman Family, Paul Mullins, Rienk Janssen, The Grand Ole Opry

Click for the Nominees
All of the following are "of the year"

Instrumental Performers:

• Banjo: Jim Mills
• Fiddle: Ronnie Stewart
• Bass: Missy Raines
• Guitar: Bryan Sutton
• Dobro: Rob Ickes
• Mandolin: Ronnie McCoury
• Emerging Artist: Nickel Creek

• Entertainer: The Del McCoury Band
• Vocal Group: IIIrd Tyme Out
• Instrumental Group: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
• Female Vocalist: Rhonda Vincent
• Male Vocalist: Dudley Connell
• Song: Murder On Music Row (by Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time) written by Larry Cordle and Larry Shell
• Gospel Recorded Performance: Winding Through Life, by Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, produced by Doyle Lawson for Sugar Hill Records
  Album: The Grass Is Blue, by Dolly Parton (produced: Steve Buckingham) Sugar Hill Records
• Instrumental Album & RecordedEvent: Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza
  (by David Grisman, Ronnie McCoury, Sam Bush, Frank Wakefield, Bobby Osborne, Jesse McReynolds, Ricky Skaggs & Buck White)
  produced: Ronnie McCoury & David Grisman (Acoustic Disc)
• Bluegrass Event: The 34th Annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, Indiana, produced by Dwight Dillman

1st Dec 2000