Awards and Recognitions
 
AGQC New Nation Award - 2006
Stellar Award Nomination - 2005
Stellar Award Nomination - 2002
12th Annual AGQC Awards - January 2004
Blockbuster Gold Cup Award - 1996 & 2000
AGQC Best Song of the Year - 1995 & 2004
AGQC Tape/CD of the Year - 1996, 1999 & 2004
AGQC Producer of the Year - 2002 & 2004
AGQC Male Vocalist of the Year - 2002, 2003 & 2004
AGQC Group of the Year - 2003 & 2004
AGQC Website of the Year - 2002, 2003 & 2004
AGQC Johnson/Blair Award
The Golden Drum Pioneer Award
 

Congressman James E. Clyburn – May 2, 2004
The South Carolina Senate – May 2, 2004
The State of South Carolina – May 11, 2007
The South Carolina House of Representative – May 2004
Mayor Larue Alford of the City of Lake City, South Carolina – August 2002
 


Proclamations
 
Lake City, SC celebrates
Doc McKenzie and the Hi-Lites
every first Friday in August
 

OTHER Honors

Special recognition and award from the SC Quartet Awards Banquet - 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007
 
1980 Recorded with James Cleveland at Symphony Hall, Newark, New Jersey – Savoy Records
 
In 1981 toured 33 countries; Turkey, Argentina, Spain and Europe to name a few.
 
1983 Smithsonian Institute World Festival in Washington, DC
 
1984 toured with the Battle of the Giants (Quartet Tour)
 
1985 Cooling Water Festival (Nassau, Bahamas)
 
1986 West Coast Tour (Texas, Arizona, Nevada and California)
 
1987 Bobby Jones Show (three consecutive years)
 
2004 Soul Liberation Tour
sponsored by Pious Ventures (Arkansas, Mississippi and Georgia)
 
2004 & 2006 New Artist Development Symposium (Lake City, SC and Columbia, SC)
 
2005 Martin Luther King Special Kroger Center in Columbia, SC
sponsored by the University of South Carolina
 
2005 – 2006 Chicago Music Festival in Chicago, IL
 sponsored by Pam Morris and the City of Chicago
 
2005 Stu Gardner Benefit Concert hosted by Bill Cosby at the Landmark Theater in Richmond, VA
 
2006 The Three Rivers Festival in Columbia, SC
sponsored by the City of Columbia, SC
 
2006 Sickle Cell benefit concert in Louisville, KY
sponsored by Jesse Harris and the Sickle Cell Foundation
 
2006 Sheilah Belle and the Belle report Father’s Day concert in Richmond, VA
 
Doc McKenzie and the Hi-Lites have hosted the stage with James Cleveland, Shirley Caesar, The Hawkins Family, The Clark Sisters, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, The Williams Brothers, The Canton Spirituals, Lee Williams and the Spiritual QC’s, Fred Hammond, Men of Standard, John P. Kee, Dottie Peoples, The Caravans, The Mississippi Mass Choir, Chicago Mass Choir, Tony Terry, Byron Cage, Kurt Carr, Mary Mary, and the Soul Seekers to name a few.