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KDNK Dinky Awards 2025

Dinky Awardees:

Patty Griffin - Crown of Roses (Featured Song: All The Way Home) Awarded by Luke Nestler & Cody Lee

Jesse Welles - Devil's Den (Featured Song: Red) Awarded by Annie McIntosh

Shawn Camp - The Ghost of Sis Draper (Featured Song: Cornmeal Waltz) Awarded by Luke Nestler

Muireann Bradley - I Kept These Old Blues (Featured Song: Richland Woman Blues) Awarded by Chef Mike

Haley Heynderickx & Max Garcia Conover - What of Our Nature (Featured Song: In Bulosan's Words) Awarded by Creme Brulee

Charlie Musselwhite - Look Out Highway (Featured Song: Ghosts in Memphis)
Samantha Fish - Paper Doll
Awarded by Big Daddy

Wild Flight - Home is Just a Memory (Single) Awarded by the 'Bonedale Kid

Andrew Duhon - The Parish Record (Featured Song: Almost Forever) Awarded by Hannah Childe

Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble - Groove in the Face of Adversity (Featured Song: This Is My Country) Awarded by Ken Jones

People Museum - Live From Marigny Opera House (Featured Song: Time) Awarded by NOLA J

Galactic & Irma Thomas - Audience With The Queen (Featured Song: Peace In My Heart) Awarded by DJ Sugar Monkey

Grace Potter - Medicine (Featured Song: Medicine) Awarded by Luke Nestler & Chris Hassig

Queens of the Stone Age - Alive in the Catacombs (Featured Song: Suture Up Your Future) Awarded by Son of a Gumbo

Geese - Getting Killed (Featured Song: Taxes) Awarded by DJ Francis

Nilufer Yanya - Dancing Shoes (Featured Song: Kneel) Awarded by DJ Warhammer

Brian Jackson ft. Black Thought - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Single) Awarded by Brandon "Thunderbunny" Jones

Jon Batiste - Big Money (Featured Song: Pinnacle) Awarded by Cody Lee & Chris Hassig

Adrian Quesada (ft. Hermanos Gutierrez) - Boleros Psicodelicos II (Featured Song: Primos) Awarded by DJ MegaSpark

Wet Leg - Moisturizer (Featured Song: Mangetout)
Awarded by DJ CalenDula

Trey Anastasio Band - Live from the Mission Ballroom (Featured Song: Simple Twist of Dave)

David Byrne - Who Is The Sky? (Featured Song: She Explains To Me) Awarded by Modern Marty

Dead & Company - Fire on the Mountain - Live at Golden Gate Park Awarded by Grateful Ed

Rio Kosta - Unicorn (Featured Song: Ancients) Awarded by DJ Francis, Gavin Dahl - KRCL (&Ex-KDNK) GM, & Lady Drea Castillo - KVNF Music Director (& Ex-KDNK DJ)

Jahzzy Dubz - Tribute to Benjamin Vaughan Midnite (Featured Song: Pagan Paygon) Awarded by Professor YaYa

De La Soul - Cabin In The Sky (Featured Song: Sunny Storms) Awarded by Jeeradoe S

Say She She - Cut & Rewind (Featured Song: Cut & Rewind) Awarded by DJ Simple Cook

Leisure - Welcome to the Mood (Featured Song: Sundown) Awarded by Leslie of Les is More

Cut Copy - Moments (Featured Song: More Alive) Awarded by DJ Mamabird

Zebbler Encanti Experience - Data Seance (Featured Song: Contrabandwidth) Awarded by Jero

Silvana Estrada - Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Featured Song: Como Un Pajaro) Awarded by Alejandra

Handmade Moments - Pickles in a Jar (Live In-Studio at KDNK) Awarded by Cody Lee & Chris Hassig

Chris listened to KDNK growing up in Carbondale throughout the nineties and aughts and began DJing in 2016. He hosts "Jazz After Art" every other Tuesday night at 9pm and co-hosts "The Deep..." with MD Cody Lee on Fridays at noon. After many years of volunteering with events and on the KDNK Board of Directors, Chris joined the staff as Membership Coordinator in 2024. When not at KDNK, Chris is a visual artist, seasonal bread maker at Bonnie's on Aspen Mountain, and a member of the Town of Carbondale Board of Trustees.
Cody Lee has had a lifelong love for community and public radio. First as a baby, with KPFT Houston, then KUT Austin, followed by KGNU Denver/Boulder, KMNO Maui and finally KDNK Carbondale. Cody has DJed at KDNK since 2009 and served as the Music Director since 2019.