Boston songwriter Jabe Beyer, frontman for the Locomotive Folk-Rock band, JABE, has won the 2000 Abe Olman Scholarship Award for Excellence in Songwriting.

Provided by the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the National Academy of Popular Music (NAPM), Jabe Beyer has been chosen by performing rights organization SESAC, out of New York City, to win this prestigious award.

The award, named after late songwriter/lyricist Abe Olman, is given each year to the most promising new songwriters in the music community.

Jabe will receive this award on Feb 1st, 2000, at the Friaršs Club in New York City.

JABE, whose album "Twenty Point Turn" was released in November of 1998 on Woodeye?Records, is currently in negotiations with a number of independent labels.