February 2009
The 19th Annual Los Angeles Music Awards are proud to announce the first round of nominees for our November 12th event to be held in our permanent home, the Music Box Theater. Artists selected in these categories can be found by clicking on the link on our home page marked 2009 NOMINEES. With the number of musical submissions increasing this year, we have raised our standards higher than they have ever been. To find out the two different ways you can submit your music to us, please click on the link marked SUBMIT MUSIC and follow the instructions.

In other news, the first of 10 LA Music Awards Showcase Series events was held at Life on Tuesday, February 24th and was an overwhelming success. A total of FOUR nomination certificates were handed out with an additional band called Buckfest Superbee picking up two nominations for Live Performance and Rock Album. Congratulations to them. The next Showcase Series event is scheduled for Tuesday, March 31st at Life. www.lifeonwilshire.com. See you there!

Male Singer / Songwriter of the Year
1.Shane Alexander

Female Singer / Songwriter
1. Theresa Flaminio

Rock Single
1. Ruby James: “The Words Good Bye”

Adult Contemporary Single
1. Shane Alexander: “The Sky Below”

Triple A Single
1. Cambria Detken: “Open My Eyes”

Country Single
1. Lisa Kolarich: "I Still Love The Enemy"

Americana Single
1.Carol Ann Ames: “Love Is A Wildfire”

Rock Album (awarded to artist or band )
1. 1 RKO: “ First Round Knockout ”
2. Buckfest Superbee: "Turn of The Radio Age"

Americana Album
1. Allen Morphew: The American Dream”
2. Carol Ann Ames: “ So Long Abilene”

Instrumental Artist
1. Brandon Ruckus

Record of the Year
1. Days Before Tomorrow: “The Sky is Falling” Ron Nevison, producer
2. NITENGALE: "Theaters" Nitengale, Stephen Pettyjohn, producers

Live Performer of the Year
1. Buckfest Superbee

Music Video of the Year
1. Joe Finley “ Keep On Dreamin’ ”
2. The Michael Smith Band: “ Days Of Wonder “

The next list is for PRODUCERS CHOICE categories. Recipients listed below are picked by the producers of all our award show events. They are picked based on the quality of an artists recorded material submitted for consideration of nomination at one or all of our awards show events.

1. Electric Guitar Performance
2. Acoustic Guitar Performance
3. Rock Bassist
4. Rock Drummer
5. Electric Keyboard Performance
6. Acoustic Piano Performance
7. Rock EP of the Year ( must be no more than 5 songs )
8. Punk Band
9. International Songwriter Award
10. Pop Artist
11. World Music Artist
12. Rock Revival Band
13. Inspirational Song
14. Inspirational Album
15. Power Trio of the Year
16. Soul R&B Performer
17. Christian Contemporary Artist
18. Community Service Award
19. Rock Artist
20. Folk Music

 

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