Mike Huckabee

===Music===
[[File:Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee play bass guitar with recording artist Ayla Brown in 2015.jpg|thumb|300px|Huckabee plays [[bass guitar]] with recording artist [[Ayla Brown]] in 2015]]

Huckabee plays the [[electric bass guitar]] in his classic-rock cover band, [[Capitol Offense (band)|Capitol Offense]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Capitol Offense MySpace Profile |url=https://www.myspace.com/capitoloffense |access-date=December 12, 2007}}</ref> The group has played for political events and parties, including entertaining at unofficial inaugural balls in Washington, D.C., in January 2001.<ref>{{cite news |last=Collins |first=Glenn |title=He Knows a Little Rock |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 2, 2004 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/02/politics/campaign/02pink.html |access-date=December 12, 2007 }}</ref>

In 2007, Huckabee was given the Music for Life Award by the [[National Association of Music Merchants]] (NAMM) for his music education advocacy.<ref name="harvard">{{cite web|date=2014|title=Mike Huckabee|url=http://www.iop.harvard.edu/mike-huckabee|access-date=January 9, 2015|website=[[Harvard Institute of Politics]]}}</ref>