Charles (Chuck) T. Campbell of the Campbell Brothers "Sacred Steel Guitars," gospel musicians, has received a National Heritage Fellowship Award for 2004, given annually by the National Endowment for the Arts; the nation's highest honor in the traditional and folk arts.

Quoting from a brief bio- "Sacred steel" music originated in the House of God, a Holiness-Pentacostal church founded in 1903 by a Tennessee street preacher named Mary Magdalene Lewis Tate. In the 1930s, a number of these churches began using the electric steel guitar as the central musical instrument of the religious service. Campbell is recognized as an innovator and teacher in the tradition.

Joe Derrane, a master of Irish-American button accordion music, also received the Fellowship Award.

Derrane first recorded in the 1940s, and "changed the course of Irish-American accordion music." After a long hiatus, Joe Derrane performed at Wolf Trap in 1994. Since then, he has made numerous recordings, toured internationally, and was named "the Best Male Musician of the Decade" (1990-2000) by the Irish-American News. He conducts instructional workshops all over the country.