Lots and Lots of SOUL!!!!
I came back from Barbados and found out that 3 of my artists were nominated in the Best New Artist category for the Soultracks Readers Choice Awards 2008.
All three reside in Atlanta. All 3 are friends and all 3 are my clients. Who do I vote for?
Heston is also nominated in the Best Male Vocalist category too.
The other 2 nominees are Liv Warfield from Portland, OR who I’ve seen perform at SHRINE. She’s just fabulous!!!! and Algebra!
The Awards ceremony will be held on Friday, October 3rd at Detroit’s beautiful Max M.Fisher Music Center(the home of the Detroit Symphony).
The event is being produced along with Mosaicthump and Jodine’s Corner and this year’s awards will also be a charity benefit for Cornerstone Schools, a group of 4 schools in Detroit that are among the most successful and innovative urban schools in the nation. 100% of the profits from the Awards show will be donated to the music program at Cornerstone, where every student begins music training in the 3rd grade.
After the Awards show at “The Max,” we will be holding a private, invitation-only “after-party” for nominees and other visiting artists and industry people at the Detroit Music Hall’s Jazz Cafe. And on Saturday, October 4, we will be holding a Detroit Tribute concert at the fantastic Museum of African American History with many visiting artists performing Motown and other songs from Detroit’s rich soul heritage. We’re also planning another event during the day on Saturday. For more information, visit Soultracks.
Voting for the Winners:
Now for the process: There are 5 finalist nominees in each of the following categories: Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Male Vocalist, Female Vocalist, Duo or Group and Best New Artist. You can see the full list of nominees beginning tonight at Soultracks. They will also be awarding a Lifetime Achievement Award at the ceremony to The Dramatics, one of the greatest soul vocal groups of the last 40 years.
Beginning on August 11 and continuing until August 25, they will have an online voting process whereby the readers will choose the winner in each category from the five finalists. For voting security reasons, only subscribers to the SoulTracks email newsletters will be eligible to vote. Ballots will be sent via secure email to our subscribers. If you have fans or friends who would like to vote, please have them sign up for the SoulTracks newsletter. A sign up box is on the top left corner of each page at Soultracks. They will continue to accept new subscribers (and will send out additional ballots to new subscribers) all during the voting period.
The final voting results will be tabulated by Plante and Moran, one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious accounting and professional service firms. The winner in each category will be announced at the October 3rd show.
