Nashville Music City Los Angeles Singer-Songwriter Fawn Wins Both JPF Awards For Dance Music By Junior V September 7, 2009 It was a good night for singer-songwriter and recording artist Fawn whose album “Body, Soul and Mind” and dance/pop single “Wish U Love” won in the Best Dance Album and Best Dance Song Category for the 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards. The awards show was held at the legendary Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville with pre-award performances at BB Kings the night before. Both shows were webcast live on the internet through SyncLive. Fawn was nominated out of a whopping 560, 000 single songs and 41,000 albums recommended. She shared the Dance Music nominations with 30 other nominees, surviving 6 rounds of judging and making it past 10,000 judges in the final round alone in order to win in both of her Dance music nominated categories. Just Plain Folks (JPF) is the world’s largest Music Awards of any kind and encompasses a community of almost 52,000 Independent Songwriters, Recording Artists and Music Industry Professionals. Brian Austin Whitney created the organization in order to provide a network of cooperation and inclusion for musicians from all over the world. The JPF Music Awards were started in 1999 as a simple way to recognize the best independent music in the world. Founder Brian Austin Whitney felt the music made by the "other 98%” of the music world often ignored by the mainstream televised music awards shows deserved its own recognition. Brain states “We can't control the industry politics and business barriers, but we can judge and recognize music based on true musical merit which is what our judging criteria is built around - one basic concept: ‘Does the music move you?’ ” This one encompassing criteria has since been adopted across much of the mainstream music industry to measure the very best quality of the best music being made today. He says, “I do think it's a fair process which takes in the widest array of opinions and tastes in the industry. When you allow all viewpoints to be represented, often unexpected results occur.” Unexpected indeed. The onstage performances both nights were nothing short of stellar, with a variety of world-class styles delivered, ranging from spoken word to jazz, novelty songs to folk, and rock to hip hop. All ethnic groups, religious backgrounds, political persuasions and a wide array of nationalities were represented as well. Among the American Nominees performing, were musicians who traveled from Denmark, Thailand and Ireland to perform, driving home the JPF motto of “we’re all in this together.” Just when you thought you had heard and seen the best performance of the night, another talent would step up onstage and blow you away. Fawn summed it up best, during her tearful and moving acceptance speech, stating that she was “honored and humbled” to be nominated in the midst of such incredible talent. She thanked Brian Austin Whitney for creating Just Plain Folks, and to this we say a resounding, Bravo Brian Austin Whitney, Bravo! Top Photos: Fawn poses with her JPF Awards for Best Dance Album 2009 and Best Dance Single “Wish U Love” 2009. Bottom: Fawn Performs for JPF Music Awards ©2009 FFD Images