| 30th
Annual Blues Music Awards |
 30th
Annual Blues Music Awards confirmed for May 7 in Memphis, Tennessee.
MANNISH BOYS TOP NOMINATIONS WITH SIX; OTHERS NOMINATED INCLUDE BUDDY
GUY, B.B. KING, ELVIN BISHOP, MAGIC SLIM
For a complete list of the 30th Blues Music Awards Nominees,
click here.
WHAT: The Blues Music Awards
WHEN: Thursday, May 7, 2009
WHERE: Cook Convention Center, 255 N. Main, Memphis,
TN
TICKETS: $125; (Tables of 10 are $1200) available
here or 901.527.2583 xt 10.
The Blues Foundation has confirmed the thirtieth annual Blues Music
Awards, a seven-plus hour throw-down featuring dozens of incredible
musicians and honoring the best of the blues world. Blues Foundation
members will be able to vote starting today, through March 1, with
the results determining the winners. Click here to vote.
West coast-based group The Mannish Boys lead the pack this year with
six nominations, including band, traditional album and album of the
year in addition to individual nominations for band members Richard
Innes (drums), Kid Ramos (guitar), and Larry Taylor (bass). Tied with
four nominations each are slide guitar legend Elvin Bishop, pianist
Eden Brent, songstress Janiva Magness, soul man Curtis Salgado, and
former truck driver Watermelon Slim. Buddy Guy is nominated for three
awards and B.B. King for two.
The Mississippi-based Homemade Jamz Blues Band are the youngest nominees
at 9, 14, and 16 years of age. Sadly, Sean Costello received two posthumous
nominations while Jeff Healey received one. Chicago elder statesman
and torch bearer Magic Slim earned three nods. Lurrie Bell earned
two nominations for an album he made while grieving the loss of his
wife and his father, harp man Carrie Bell.
The Blues Foundation has added a Rock Blues category for the first
time in 2009, with nominations going to Gary Moore, Jeff Healey, Michael
Burks, Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King, Sonny Landreth, and Walter
Trout.
The presenting sponsor for the 2008 Blues Music Awards was once again
The GIBSON Foundation. The 2008 Blues Music Awards were also sponsored
by BMI, Casey Family Programs, Eagle Rock Entertainment, FedEx, Legendary
Rhythm & Blues Cruise and the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company.
Performers have not yet been confirmed for the 2009 show but all nominees
are invited to take the stage, showing a broad range of blues styles
from solo resonator fingerpicking to soul-blues shouters. For the
blues fan, it's the only way to see a lineup like this and it annually
threatens to rage well into the night.
The awards ceremony and concert will be broadcast live by Sirius XM
Satellite Radio's B.B. King's Bluesville channel. The Blues Music
Awards will be shot in HD for a DVD to be released in the fall of
2009.
The Blues Foundation has 3,000 individual dues-paying members around
the world and 160 affiliated grassroots, member-based local blues
societies in a dozen countries.
For more information on The Blues Foundation and the Blues Music Awards,
please contact Nick Loss-Eaton [nlosseaton@shorefire.com]
or Matt Hanks [mhanks@shorefire.com]
at Shore Fire Media, 718.522.7171. www.shorefire.com
Jay Sieleman
Executive Director
The Blues Foundation
49 Union Avenue
Memphis, TN 38103
901.527.2583 xt 12
jay@blues.org
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