Winners / 25th Annual Great American Song Contest
Grand Prize Winner
Love of a Good Man
Cassidi Hesdon & Cara Anderton
Fredericksburg VA
First-Place Category Winner
Adult Contemporary
I Love You, Dangerous
Marina Sneider
Hartsdale NY
Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting
Please Don't Look Down
Larry Hamlet
Rockville MD
Website
My Own Worst Enemy
Celeste Newman/Kiersten Nyman/Cameron Taylor
Melbourne Australia
(My) Heart's in Your Bag
Robin Yukiko
Arlington MA
Be Brave, Be Bold
Matt Glickstein/Karen Mitchell/James Kocian
Lanai City HI
First-Place Category Winner
Pop/Top 40
Happy for You
Ava Della Pietra
New York
Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting
Different Colors
Elyse Jewel Butterman & Myah Marie Langston
Mansfield TX
Website
Self-Sabotage
Kacey Fifield
Burbank CA
Website
Deep End
Ilana Held
Fort Collins CO
Website
Gaynor Moran & Sean Timms
Outta This World
Adelaide Australia
First-Place Category Winner
Singer/Songwriter
Lonely
Shannon Beel
Nashville TN
Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting
Show Me A Sign
R.X. Bertoldi
Everett WA
I Am Not Hamas (Song for Gaza)
Nicolette Aubourg
El Segundo CA
Depend On Me
Ava Della Pietra
New York NY
Papa Loves You
Louis Apollon
Brooklyn NY
First-Place Category Winner
Folk/Americana
Blaze of Glory (Ball of Fire)
Steve Farber
Lenexa KS
Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting
My Supermarket Friend
Curt Joa
Kohler WI
Weight Of the Ink
Keri Edwards & Rhonda Gessow
Woodside CA
Big Long Ass Time
Scott Ireland
Willits CA
If I Was A Rock
Ace Parkhurst
Albany NY
Website
First-Place Category Winner
Special Music
Can I Have My Guitar Back?
Graham Mizen
Lincolnshire UK
Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting
Tex-Mex Ex
Allan Corby
Edgewater NJ
One Less Kitty
Carol Teal
Newmarket ON Canada
The Chili Song
Mike Young
Omaha NE
The Insurrection
T C Urquhart
Las Vegas NV
First-Place Category Winner
Rock/Alt
Seeds Will Grow
Nerijus Glezekas
Algonquin IL
Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting
Our Last Day
London Iken
Fenton MO
End Of War
Meagan Allen
Springhill TN
Website
Indie Girl
Shane Lee
Castaic CA
Dangerous Curves
Rex Pearce/T. Duncan/N. Blanchard
Mandeville LA
Website
First-Place Category Winner
Instrumental
Lackadaisical
Chris West
Goodlettsville TN
Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting
For Lois (Saxophone Quintet)
Tony LaVorgna
Wilton CT
Until It's Gone
Will Herrington
Nashville TN
Website
Flying
R. D. King
Quincy MA
Bat Sheva (The Daughter of 7even)
Tomer George Cohen
Pardes Hana Israel
Website
First-Place Category Winner
Country
Dawns On Us
Ben Wagner/Page Mackenzie/Emily Ortego
Cincinnati OH
Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting
Pretty in Pink
Mary Hartman
Riverview FL
Website
Hard and Fast Rule
Mark Stepakoff
Wayland MA
Website
A Simple Man
Frank Renfordt
Hagen, Germany
Drink to You, Morgan Wallen
Michael Sion
Santa Rosa CA
First-Place Category Winner
Christian/Inspirational
Meryem Ana
Susan Kane
Mount Kisco NY
Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting
Matthew 25
David Mathewes
Cumming GA
Waves
Shalom Malee Owens / Tyler Moody / Kolby Koloff
Cleveland OH
Testimony
Emmanuel Carlos St. Omer
St. Lucia
When Jesus Comes Again
Charles N Cook
Aberdeen, NJ
Website
First-Place Category Winner
HipHop/R&B
Sour
Celeste Newman & Chymes
Melbourne Australia
Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting
Red Lights
Elena Izquierdo / Ryan O’Rourke / Kaden Zimmerman
Buffalo NY
While You Are Young
Brazil Malik
New York NY
Because I Feel
Larry Hamlet
Rockville MD
Overcast Outcast
Tyler Manzardo
Ypsilanti MI
First-Place Category Winner
Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting
Slingshot At The Moon
Michael R. J. Roth
Panama City FL
Numbers
Stuart Kabak
Parksville NY
I Don't Want To Wake Up
Archie Brodsky
Panama City FL
Website
I'm Not As Ugly As I Look
Michael R. J. Roth
Panama City FL