Wild Fiddler

A few songwriting awards won with help from family and friends

2026
Grandma Had a Sayin'
Finalist (open category)  22nd Annual IAMA International Acoustic Music Awards
IAMA Finalist
Winner (novelty)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA1st Place
An Unkindness of Ravens
Semi-finalist (instrumental)  2025 ISC International Songwriting Competition
ISC Semi-Finalist
Finalist (arrangement)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Forty Years and Nothin'
Finalist (bluegrass)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Put Some Bluegrass in Your Blues
Finalist (bluegrass)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
The Fool on the Hill
Finalist (cover)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
2025
Route 66 TV Theme
Winner (Route 66 contest — 3-year runoff)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA1st Place
Nancy Rolled into Texas
Finalist  21st Annual IAMA International Acoustic Music Awards
IAMA Finalist
Semi-finalist (folk)  2024 ISC International Songwriting Competition
ISC Semi-Finalist
Finalist (bluegrass)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Most Likely You Go Your Way
Finalist (cover)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
In the Tempest
Semi-finalist (americana)  2024 ISC International Songwriting Competition
ISC Semi-Finalist
2024
Innocents on the Run
Winner (best overall original song)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA1st Place
I'm an Algorithm
Finalist (best electronica)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Summer in the City
Finalist (best cover song)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
I've Been Loved
Semi-Finalist (country)  2024 Song of the Year Competition
Song of the Year
Plague Doctors
Finalist (instrumental)  2024 Song of the Year Competition
Song of the Year
2023
New Girl In Town
Finalist (bluegrass)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Narrowest of Margins
Finalist (folk)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Before the Name
Finalist (religious/gospel)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Finalist  19th Annual IAMA International Acoustic Music Awards
IAMA Finalist
2022
New Mexico Home
Winner (bluegrass)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA1st Place
Route 66 TV Theme
Winner (Route 66 contest)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA1st Place
Circle of Friends
Finalist (bluegrass)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
New Girl In Town
Semi-finalist (americana)  2022 ISC International Songwriting Competition
ISC Semi-Finalist
Marrakesh Express
Finalist (cover)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
2021
Plague Doctors
Finalist (arrangement)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Finalist (instrumental performance)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Circle of Friends
Finalist (country/bluegrass)  18th Annual IAMA International Acoustic Music Awards
IAMA Finalist
19th Nervous Breakdown
Finalist (cover)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
2020
Best Little Pickup Band
Finalist (novelty)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Feelin Alright
Finalist (cover)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Coming Home To Roost
Finalist (instrumental performance)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Winner (bluegrass)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA1st Place
2019
Best Little Pickup Band
Semi-finalist (comedy/novelty)  ISC International Songwriting Competition
ISC Semi-Finalist
Coming Home To Roost
Semi-finalist (instrumental)  ISC International Songwriting Competition
ISC Semi-Finalist
Day Job
Finalist (country)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Manuela
Finalist (folk)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
Honorable Mention  Woody Guthrie Songwriting Competition
Woody Guthrie
When Old Lovers Dance
Honorable Mention (country)  Songdoor International Songwriting Competition
Songdoor
2018
Baltic Boogie
Semi-finalist (instrumental)  ISC International Songwriting Competition
ISC Semi-Finalist
Fire On The Mountain (Dave & the Biscuit Rollers)
1st Runner-up (country/bluegrass)  15th Annual IAMA International Acoustic Music Awards
IAMA Finalist
Winner (bluegrass)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA1st Place
Honorable Mention (country)  SongDoor International Songwriting Competition
Songdoor
The Road To Blenheim
Finalist (jazz)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
2017
Two More Months 'til Medicare (The Kuncicky Brothers)
Winner (novelty)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA1st Place
Semi-finalist (comedy/novelty)  ISC International Songwriting Competition
ISC Semi-Finalist
The Gates of Haast
Finalist (instrumental performance)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
2016
Walk of Life
Winner (cover song)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA1st Place
Old Stoat
Finalist (bluegrass)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA
A Scandal in Bohemia
Finalist (arrangement)  New Mexico Music Awards
NMMA

Contact the Old Fiddle Guy

David Kuncicky
La Barberia Studios
PO Box 2858, Santa Fe, NM 87504
e-mail: oldfiddleguy at gmail.com