In honor of and with respect to Dick Blattenberger, the Lehigh Valley Bluegrass Festival and the Dobro® Resonator Guitar Association will award the Second Annual Blattenberger Award. We welcome your participation in the selection. There are three criteria you should consider:

1. The influence that the nominee has had on other players.
2. The personality and stage presence of the nominee
3. The style of playing of the nominee

Please nominate one Dobro® player from the New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland area. Nominations will be open till the end of March.  At that time you will be asked to Vote to narrow the field.    Consider your vote carefully and nominate as many Dobro® players that you feel deserve the award.  As festival time approaches, we will ask you to vote again to narrow the choices and finally about 6 weeks before the festival we will ask you again to vote for the winner.