The nominations are in! The ballot is set and voting begins now! Click the link below to vote.
You may only vote once. Duplicate votes will not be counted. We aren’t looking for a band to get 1,000 votes from the same person. We want you to encourage as many people as possible to listen to and engage with West Virginia music. Share this article. Support WV Music and what we do here at Born & Bred.
VOTING WILL END ON FEBRUARY 9, 2026.
Without further ado:
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ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
This part is very important. To be eligible to be nominated, an artist must have released ORIGINAL music between December 1, 2024 and November 30, 2025. Music that came out in December 2025 will be eligible for the 2026 awards. The other requirement is that the artist must be either from West Virginia or live here now and base their career out of the state. So if an artist was born in Grafton, but now calls Nashville their home and released music in June of 2025 , they meet the eligibility requirements. If an artists was born in Wisconsin, but now calls West Virginia home and released original music in September 2025, they are eligible.
