Sara Landymore is a singer/songwriter from the Washington, D.C., area who has won numerous regional honors. She earned a Washington Area Music Award in 1997 as Songwriter of the Year, an honor she shared with Tom Prasada-Rao. Her debut CD, Corner of the World, received nominations in the categories of Best Contemporary Folk Album, Best Debut Album, and Album of the Year, while Landymore also received a nomination in the category of Best Female Vocalist in Contemporary Folk. Both Corner of the World and Landymore received nods of praise from the Washington Post when the newspaper included the recording among the year's Top 20 releases and compared the power of Landymore's songwriting to that of John Prine. Although Corner of the World is the singer/songwriter's first CD, it is not her first recording. She also released a pair of cassettes, A Choice of Days in 1989 and Tattoo in 1990. Throughout the '90s, she accrued a total of eight nominations in the Washington Area Music Awards and seven prizes from the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest. Categorization of her work is sometimes difficult, and she has garnered awards in a host of genres that include alternative rock, country, and folk. Her work as a sound engineer on the local scene has also brought her notice. For two consecutive years, she took top honors in the category of Live Sound Engineer in the Washington Area Music Awards. One of her compositions, "Little Visions," became the title-track of a regional compilation. Her festival appearances include five consecutive years at the WAMA Crosstown Jam in the capital beginning in 1991, seven consecutive years at Maryland's Takoma Park Folk Festival beginning in 1990, and the Washington Folk Festival in 1993 and 1995. ~ Linda Seida, All Music Guide