Whitley County native presented Music City Christian Fellowship “Candlelight Award”

Lynn Fox, President of the Music City Christian Fellowship, recently presented Peggy Cooper Inks with the prestigious “Candlelight Award” during the Sunday Mornin’® Country Program held at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, TN.

The Candlelight Award is named like Matthew 5:16 – Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Peggy says she was attending the Sunday Mornin’® Country Progam as a chorale singer and during the Candelight Award presentation she was on stage as a former MCCF board member.

Peggy says she has received many awards over the yeras for her songwriting and singing but the Candlelight Award is one of the most precious. The award says, “For Letting Your Light Shine in a Dark World” and Peggy says as a Christian that is what she tries to do with her singing and songwriting.

Peggy Cooper Inks is a well-known award winning singer/songwriter in the Whitley County area where she and her two sisters, Mary Jo and Ella Jane sang as the Cooper Sisters during the late 40’s, 50s and early 60s. The Cooper Sisters had a weekly radio program which aired on WEZJ and they also sang on the Archie Campbell program in the Mid Day Merry Go Round. The Cooper Sisters were inducted into Williamsburg Gospel Music Barn’s “Gospel Wall of Honor”.

In 1975 Peggy was invited by a producer with a Nashville Record Label and Producer to record several songs she and Jr. Meadors co-authored. This turned out to be the beginning of Peggy’s solo singing career. One of those songs, “Just Over the Next Hill” is one of Peggy’s most requested songs.

You can hear Peggy singing locally at the Williamsburg Gospel Music Barn.
Peggy Inks and her husband, Don live in London, KY. Peggy also opens the Laurel County World Chicken Festival singing her “I Ain’t No Spring Chicken Anymore”, a humorous song she wrote about herself.