After a buzzy launch last spring, the Femmy Awards are scheduled to return to Miami Music Week next month.
Created and produced by Femme House, the nonprofit co-created by LP Giobbi and Lauren Spalding to foster diversity and representation in dance music, the Femmys will again take place at Miami’s Palm Tree Club. The awards event will happen Thursday, March 26, at noon ET.
This year, The Femmys will again honor figures from the scene whose work has helped forge the genre, has expanded representation and has helped elevate others.
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German DJ, producer, radio broadcaster and label owner Anja Schneider will receive the The Pioneer Award, honoring barrier-breaking trailblazers who’ve reshaped the dance and electronic music industries, paved the way for femme, nonbinary and LGBTQ+ artists and left a lasting impact on music, culture and inclusivity. In 2025, this award was given to legendary artists DJ Minx and DJ Lady D.
Iconic singer, songwriter, producer and DJ Ultra Naté will receive the Voice of House award, given to the singers whose voices have defined dance music. Crystal Waters and Barbara Tucker received this award in 2025.
Tokimonsta will receive the producer of the year award, which honors groundbreaking contributions, innovations and influence on the next generation of producers. Sara Landry received this award in 2025.
The Ally Award, honoring the allyship that builds communities and coalitions in impact-driven work, will go to John Summit, whose 2025 Experts Only Festival partnered with PLUS1 to donate $1 of every ticket sold to Femme House. The organization is using this money to support the launch of its first ever DJ focused online course.
The Femmys’ 2026 partners are Palm Tree Club, the resort chain founded by Kygo and his manager Myles Shear, Extraordinary Heroes, a nonprofit that focused on young people, and Insomniac Discovery Project, a talent development program under the Insomniac Records umbrella identifies and elevates emerging dance artists.
The show will happen three weeks after the March 6 release of the third edition of Femme House’s collaborative compilation series with Insomniac Records, LP Giobbi x Insomniac Records Present: Femme House Volume 3, created to spotlight women, gender-expansive, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ artists in electronic music.
To mark the new partnership, Discovery Project and Femme House hosted a contest earlier this year, with the winner, Majesty of Divinity, receiving a featured track featured on the forthcoming compilation, acting as this year’s Femme House Miami Music Fellow, performing as the official Femmys DJ and performing at the Women In Music Brunch being co-presented by Femme House and Her Dancefloor later in the week.
“Holding space for meaningful community and reflection at Miami Music Week has always been at the core of our past activities there, and the FEMMYs are simply a natural extension of that,” says Femme House’s co-founder and head of culture Lauren Spalding, who makes music as Hermixalot. “Being able to honor the work that has been done on our behalf, and the work that continues to get done every day is a real privilege. This will be our biggest Miami Music Week yet, and we’re so excited to come together with our heroes.”
“Our first year of the FEMMYs proved the power of visibility and recognition – uplifting women and LGBTQIA+ creatives isn’t optional, it’s essential to the future we’re building together,” adds LP Giobbi, Femme House’s co-founder and artist in chief. “This year, we return with deeper gratitude, greater momentum and an even bigger commitment to celebrating the artists and leaders who are opening doors and shaping the future of music.”
The inaugural Femmy Awards raised over $30,000 for Femme House’s mostly free educational programming for aspiring producers and DJs.