 Stjepko Gut used the name of the festival – Nišville as the title of one of his songs and the whole album was published in the USA (with a big band whose leader was legendary drummer Alvin Queen) during the nineties of the previous century.Furthermore, in 2008, Duško Gojković dedicated to the festival the score “Nišville Jubilation”, which was first performed at Nišville in 2008.These two artists are highly renowned in the world – and are among the winners of the “Nišville Lifetime Achievement Award”, which the festival awards each year to important jazz musicians from Serbia.