Hey JJ - Aengus Finnan won the 2002 New Folk Songwriting award at Kerrville.
http://www.borealisrecords.com/r_finnan.html
At the 2002 Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, his yeoman work on the a cappella "O'Shaughnessy's Lament" was honoured with the New Folk Songwriting Award.
http://www.jimdirden.com/kerrville_2...2_cd7_7976.htm