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Western Music Association Hall of Fame

In August 1988, a group of Western Music performers and fans met in Las Vegas, Nevada to organize an association and present a festival.  They incorporated the Western Music Association as an Arizona non-profit corporation in 1989 and the organization has had an annual gathering every November since then.  Since its inception, the WMA has expanded to include twelve state and regional chapters, and it’s been among the forces that are responsible for the current popularity of Western Music around the world.

The Western Music Association is an organization that encourages and supports the preservation, performance and composition of historic traditional and contemporary music and poetry of The West

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The inductees for the Western Music Association Hall of Fame by year:

1989
Roy Rogers
Dale Evans
Sons of the Pioneers
Rex Allen
Patsy Montana
Gene Autry
Tex Ritter
Marty Robbins

1990
Eddie Dean
Cindy Walker
Johnny Bond
Elton Britt

1991
Wilf Carter
Andy Parker and the Plainsmen
Jimmy Wakely
Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage

1993
Rosalie Allen
Hi Busse and the Frontiersmen
Riders In The Sky

1994
Bob Nolan
Tim Spencer

1995
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys

1996
Ray Whitley
Cass County Boys

1997
Herb Jeffries
Stan Jones
Wesley Tuttle

1998
Billy Beeman
Smiley Burnette
The Reinsmen

1999
Stuart Hamblen
Billy Hill
Jim Bob Tinsley

2000
Slim Clark
The Beverly Hill Billies
Frankie Laine

2001
Johnny Western
Monte Hale
Carolina Cotton
Carson Robison

2004
Rusty Richards
Dmitri Tiomkin
The Jimmy Wakely Trio
Michael Martin Murphey

2005
Don Edwards
Red Steagall
Ken Maynard
Jack Elliott

2006
Carl T. Sprague
Sons of the San Joaquin

2007
Fleming Allan
Rex Allen Jr.

2008
Bing Crosby
Tommy Doss
Lloyd Perryman
Dale Warren
Ian Tyson

2009
John Lomax
Rich O'Brien
Flying W Wranglers

2010
Frankie Marvin

2011
R. W. Hampton
Vaughn Monroe

2012
Ken and Nora Griffis
Dick Foran

2013
Johnny Cash
Louise Massey & The Westerners
Jimmy Kennedy & Michael Carr

2014
Glenn Spencer
The Farr Brothers
Joey Miskulin

2015
Bob Atcher
Chris LeDoux

2016
Pat Brady
Dave Stamey

2017
Eddy Arnold
Slim Dusty
Johnny Marvin & Fred Rose

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