Our Peer Awards 2026 ceremony in February was an absolute blast!
Huge thanks to our music community! Huge thanks to our presenters! Congratulations to all our awards nominees and winners! And highest of praises to the amazing production team at The Armory and Doug Usher. It was such a thrilling and touching event that won't be soon forgotten! Here’s a photo gallery of all the pics from the “Magic Eye” Marc Leverette at the FoCoMA Peer Awards 2026.
Click the link here to download your photo from that night! (google drive link)
FoCoMA Peer Awards is a special kind of event - each year we make an opportunity to honor the folks in our community who are making a difference in the scene, we take a moment for the musicians we lost this year, and thank the whole community for being tirelessly creative and inspiring each other everyday.
The Peer Awards is actually what FoCoMX sprouted from all those years ago. Thank you for continuing to celebrate local music with us in 2026 and beyond!
This year’s Peer Award winners are:
• Best Venue 2025 - Sound Bar
• Best Production / Sound Engineer 2025 - Matt Mosher
• Best Artwork/ Use of Visuals 2025 - Dead Pioneers
• Coolest Collaboration 2025 - Wolverine Farm Musician in Residence (MUIR)
• Best New Album 2025 - Sugar Britches "Terrified... and Aroused!"
• Best New Band/Artist 2025 - All My Senses
• Best New Video 2025 - Slow Caves - "Periwinkle"
• Best Live Performance 2025 - Los Toms at Mishawaka
• Best Stage Presence 2025 - Jesus Christ Taxi Driver
• People's Choice - Animal Future
• Best Established Band/Artist 2025 - The Poudre Valley Playboys
• Song of the Year 2025 Bitchflower - "Hunger"
• Fort Collins Music Achievement Awards 2025 - Frail Talk
• Fort Collins Music Community Award 2025 - Kyle James Hauser
• Fort Collins Music Community Award 2025 - Hardcore in the Fort
Extra HUGE THANKS to Dennis Bigelow - one of the Co-Founders of FoCoMX and FoCoMA he’s been on our Board of Directors for 20 years!! He’s moving on to focus on other pursuits and we’ll miss Dennis so much!
