Asbury Park Music Awards

The Asbury Park Music Awards is an Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA annual award ceremony that recognizes musicians for their work.

Asbury Park's musical history includes a strong Blues tradition and the Jersey Shore sound. Artists associated with the town include Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Bon Jovi, and many others. To recognize musicians and others associated with the local and regional music scene, Scott Stamper, founder of the Wave Gathering Music Festival, and Pete Mantas founded the annual Asbury Park Music Awards (also called the Asbury Music Awards) in 1993. The awards were originally titled "The Golden T-Bird Awards."

They held the first award ceremony in 1993, at a small club on Main Street in Asbury Park called the T-Bird Cafe, owned by Stamper. The awards ceremony later moved to The Saint and, in 1995, the organizers renamed it The Asbury Park Music Awards. Attendance quickly exceeded The Saint's capacity, and the ceremony began to rotated among larger venues, including The Fastlane, The Tradewinds, and The Stone Pony. In recent years, the ceremony has been held at The Stone Pony.