MUSICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Awards, Recognitions and Albums Recorded
2025 SYRACUSE AREA MUSIC AWARDS "SAMMY"
Tink's new CD "It Is What It Is" was nominated once again for the "Best Country Album" category! With 8 new songs, be sure to check this album out by going to the Tailor Made Music Page on this website!
"Nominated for "Best Country Album"
2023 SYRACUSE AREA MUSIC AWARDS "SAMMY"
"Nominated for "Best Country Album"
Tink's CD "Collaborations" with other well known Central NY musicians was nominated once again for the "Best Country Album" category! With 8 new songs, be sure to check this album out by going to the Tailor MAde Music Page on this website!
2021 SYRACUSE AREA MUSIC AWARDS "SAMMY'S"
2021 SAMMY Award for "Best Country Recording"
Tink Bennett & Tailor Made's "Hate The Game" CD release won out over some tough competition to garner this prestigious award. This category is voted on by members of the music and radio industry from all over the region! All original songs written by members of the group and produced and mastered at Barn Castle Studios by owner Lonnie Park. We appreciate and honor this recognition of our efforts!
INTERSTATE MUSIC AWARDS
National Video Contest Winner
Runner Up - 2021
This contest, sponsored by Interstate Music Company accepted videos from groups all over the U.S. in all genres. Afterhundreeds of entries, Judges named Tink Bennett & Tailor Made finalists in this National Contest. Thank you to Interstate Music for this honor and opportunity!
SYRACUSE AREA MUSIC AWARDS 2018 to 2024
People's Choice Awards
Tink Bennett and Tailor Made have finished in the top 16 acts in the "People's Choice" categories EVERY YEAR since 2018! This award is voted on social media by fans and is not a musical award, but a popularity award contest conducted each year by the SAMMYS. We are very grateful for our loyal fans who voted and kept us in this category for all these consecutive years!
NEW YORK STATE COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION
Tink and the band competed and came out on top in the annual NYS CMA association awards for best country group.
Band of the Year 1987
NEW YORK STATE COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION
Tink Bennett was voted by the association at the annual award ceremony as the "Instrumentalist of the Year".
Instrumentalist of the Year 1987
TRUE VALUE COUNTRY SHOWDOWN NATIONAL TALENT CONTEST
Tink Bennett and his band "Mason Dixon" won the local, NY State and Regional finals in this national contest. They finished runner up in the National Semi-Finals, ranking in the top 6 acts in the country that year
National Semi Finalists 1986
ALBUM LIBRARY
1998 to 2021
Tink and Tailor Made have recored and distributed six CD's since 1998. They are:
"We'e Here" - 1998
"It Never Ends" - 2000
"Burnin The Playhouse Down" - 2006
"Hate The Game" - 2021
"Tailor Made Christmas" - 2021
"Collaborations" - 2023
"It Is What It Is" - 2024
N1M NATIONAL INTERNET MUSIC
Independent Internet Music Streaming Site
Tailor Made has more than 69,000 plays on the N1M Internet Music site, and has had numerous songs staying in the top 25 in New York State as well as the top 100 in the United States for many years, and continues to have a strong following and hundreds of plays each week.