Biography
Sara Landymore, a singer and songwriter based in the Washington, D.C., region, has collected a range of regional honors across her career. She received the Washington Area Music Award for Songwriter of the Year in 1997, an honor shared with Tom Prasada-Rao. Her debut release, Corner of the World, earned nominations for Best Contemporary Folk Album, Best Debut Album, and Album of the Year, while she herself was nominated for Best Female Vocalist in Contemporary Folk. The Washington Post placed the recording on its list of the year’s Top 20 releases and likened the strength of her songwriting to the work of John Prine. Although Corner of the World marked her first CD, she had earlier issued two cassettes, A Choice of Days in 1989 and Tattoo in 1990. Over the course of the 1990s she gathered eight Washington Area Music Award nominations and seven prizes from the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest. Because her material resists simple categorization, she has received recognition in multiple genres that encompass alternative rock, country, and folk. Her engineering work in the local music scene has also drawn attention, resulting in two consecutive wins for Live Sound Engineer at the Washington Area Music Awards. One of her compositions, “Little Visions,” became the title track of a regional compilation. Festival performances include five straight years at the WAMA Crosstown Jam in the capital beginning in 1991, seven consecutive years at Maryland’s Takoma Park Folk Festival beginning in 1990, and appearances at the Washington Folk Festival in 1993 and 1995.
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