Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver nominated for Dove Award‏

Arden, NC (Crossroads) February 22, 2011 - The Gospel Music Association (GMA) has honored Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver with a Dove® Awards nomination. The nomination was in the Bluegrass Album of the Year category, honoring the Horizon / Crossroads release Light on my Feet, Ready to Fly.

Doyle Lawson, winner of The National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, has garnered no less than 14 International Bluegrass Music Awards, 4 Grammy nominations, and 4 previous Dove Award Nominations. "We, at Crossroads, certainly believe that this is the year Doyle will win his first Dove®", says Mickey Gamble, President of Crossroads Entertainment.


Doyle Lawson comments: "I am honored to be nominated in the Bluegrass Gospel Category of the prestigious Dove® Awards."


The nomination was announced in a February 16th press conference at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. The 42nd Annual GMA Dove® Awards Ceremony will be at the same venue, on April 20th. GMC will televise the show at 8:00 P.M. EST on April 24th, Resurrection Sunday.


Watch the show on GMC (http://www.watchgmctv.com/). GMC can be seen in over 47 million homes on various cable systems around the country, on DIRECTV on channel 338 and on Verizon FiOS on channel 224.