For Immediate Release: June 29, 2014 Washington Blues Society 2014 Best of the Blues Awards (“BB Awards”) Winners Announced! The Washington Blues Society’s annual Best of the Blues Awards (“BB Awards”) was held at the Kirkland Performance Center on Sunday, June 29th to honor musicians and artists nominated by blues society members in 29 award categories. Brian Lee and the Orbiters received awards in the Best Blues Act and the Little Bill and the Blue Notes Traditional Blues Act categories, and guitarist Mark Riley was honored for Slide Blues Guitar and Lifetime Achievement. Riley joins a select group of musicians in the Washington Blues Society Hall of Fame, and Alice Stuart and the Formerlys is the first band inducted in the Hall of Fame. Bandleader CD Woodbury received Blues Songwriter and Electric Blues Guitar awards, and the CD Woodbury Band received the BB Award for Washington Blues Recording (“Monday Night”) and band-mate Mike Marinig won for Best Blues Horn. The Stacy Jones Band was honored in the Chris Leighton Blues Drummer (Rick Bowen) and Blues Female Vocalist (Stacy Jones) categories. Bowen also picked up his second plaque as Best Blues Writer. The August 2014 Bluesletter will have complete coverage of the awards; a list of BB Award winners is attached to this announcement. “The BB Awards is a signature event of the Washington Blues Society and we are pleased to have returned to the Kirkland Performance Center,” said Washington Blues Society President Tony Frederickson. “It was an outstanding night of music that honored the past, the present and the future of blues music in the Pacific Northwest. The evening featured many nominees performing live and our after-party at Hector’s in downtown Kirkland with our Best New Blues Band nominees was amazing!” The 2015 BB Awards will return to the Kirkland Performance Center for the third straight year on Sunday, April 12th. Advance tickets are $20 for Washington Blues Society members, $30 for non-members, and $25 for seniors. Youth 15 and under free. Tickets: kpcenter.org The Washington Blues Society is an all-volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to promoting, preserving and advancing the culture of blues and roots music in Washington State and is affiliated with the Blues Foundation (blues.org) in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2009, the Blues Foundation awarded the prestigious Keeping the Blues Alive Award to the Washington Blues Society for its achievement as a blues society, and in 2012, the blues society’s entry into the International Blues Challenge, The WIRED! Band, took home first place honors in the world’s largest gathering of blues talent. Attached: 2014 Washington Blues Society BB Award Winners 2014 Washington Blues Society Best of the Blues (“BB Awards”) Winners Category Award Recipient Mark DuFresne Blues Male Vocalist Sammy Eubanks Blues Female Vocalist Stacy Jones Electric Blues Guitar CD Woodbury Slide Blues Guitar Mark Riley Blues Bass Polly OKeary Chris Leighton Blues Drummer Rick Bowen Blues Horn Mike Marinig Paul Green Blues Harmonica Jim McLaughlin Blues Piano/Keyboards Arthur Migliazza Acoustic Blues Guitar Rod Cook Blues Act Brian Lee & the Orbiters Little Bill & the Blue Notes Traditional Blues Act Brian Lee & the Orbiters Solo/Duo Blues Act Son Jack, Jr. & Michael Wilde New Blues Band Jesse James & the Mob Blues Performer James King Blues Songwriter CD Woodbury Blues Recording Monday Night by the CD Woodbury Band Blues Club Highway 99 Blues Club Blues Writer Rick Bowen Blues Image Patti Allen Bluesletter Cover (Photo by Tom Hunnewell) Blues Graphic Artist Dennis Hacker Blues DJ Jonathan Oogie Richards Keeping the Blues Alive Paul Quilty & Willow Stone Lifetime Achievement Award Mark Riley Hall of Fame Mark Riley Hall of Fame Band Alice Stuart & the Formerlys Non Festival Blues Event Washington Blues Society Blues Bash at the Red Crane (Shoreline, WA) Blues Festival Sunbanks Open Blues Jam The Madison Pub
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 06:43:53 +0000
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