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Blues Foundation’s 2006 Blues Music Awards to Air on BET J 2007 Awards set for May 10 draw stars from music and Hollywood Our Time After Awhile: Blues Music Awards get Hollywood twist on gritty music The Blues Foundation's 2006 Blues Music Awards will be aired on Viacom's BET J Network. Show dates are: April 24 at 4pm and May 8 at 4pm. Last year's show was filmed by Jazz Alley TV, the longest running Blues and Jazz series on television.
The Blues 2007 Blues Music Awards will be on Thursday, May 10 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis.
The event brings together Blues performers, industry representatives and fans from all over the world to celebrate the best in Blues recordings and performances from the previous year. Each year, the Foundation presents The Blues Music Awards to the artists selected by its members. They are universally recognized as the highest honor given to Blues artists. This year, the musical weekend is capped off by a Hollywood twist with The 2nd Annual Delta Groove Blues Revue on May 11 at the Gibson Beale Street Showcase. Music fans will recognize Blues Foundation board member Randy Chortkoff’s Delta Groove record label. Film fans will recognize Chortkoff as the Executive Producer & Music Supervisor of the new film “What Love Is” starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Gina Gershon and Anne Heche.
Link to article with full list of nominees on Blues Foundation's news page:
http://www.blues.org/about/news.php4?Id=394
Link to info on Blues Music Awards:
http://www.blues.org/bluesmusicawards/index.php4
About the Blues Music Awards:
The 2007 show will follow the format of the sold-out and critically acclaimed shows of recent years which featured appearances and performances by more than 40 nominees in a dinner table setting in the Convention Center's new ballroom. Attendees are treated to a dinner seated with the nominees and will enjoy unique artist performances and pairings only seen at the Blues Music Awards.
As always, a pre-party will immediately precede the Awards and feature the 2007 International Blues Challenge winners.
The Blues Foundation
49 Union Avenue
Memphis, TN 38103-2492
+1-901-527-2583
www.blues.org
Jay Sieleman, Executive Director
email: jay@blues.org |