21st Annual Muddy Awards Tomorrow Night

[Slim Lively]

The Cascade Blues Association will hold the 21st annual Muddy Awards Thursday night, November 5th at The Melody Ballroom (615 SE Alder, Portland) from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. Admission is free!! Open to the public and all ages are welcome.

22 catagories of awards celebrating those artists, venues, events and special people that have made a significant difference in our region this pas year.

Opening the night will be a performance from this year's Journey To Memphis winners who will represent the Cascade Blues Association at the Interntaional Blues Challenge this coming January, the Karen Lovely Band, who have been featured on XM Radio's BB King's Bluesville reaching as high as the #1 spot in picks to click and their CD debuted in Living Blues at #13.

And following the awards presentations there will be an all-star gathering of past & present Muddy Award nominees/winners in a jam led by Muddy Award Hall of Fame members The Strange Tones.

A special raffle will be held for $5/ticket for a chance to win a pair of tickets to next week's BB King or Rick Estrin & the Nightcats shows.

This years nominees are:

Contemporary Blues Act: Boogie Bone, Kevin Selfe & The Tornadoes, The Strange Tones

R&B Act: Curtis Salgado, Lloyd Jones Struggle, Norman Sylvester Band

Traditional Blues Act: Bill Rhoades & The Party Kings, Franco & The Stingers, Kevin Selfe & The Tornadoes

Best New Act: Bridgetown Underground, Karen Lovely, Terry Robb Band, The Troublemakers

Regional Act: Becki Sue & Her Big Rockin' Daddies, Karen Lovely, Ty Curtis Band

The "Duffy Bishop" Female Vocalist: Linda Hornbuckle, Lisa Mann, Rae Gordon

Male Vocalist: Curtis Salgado, Jake Johnson, Phil "Suburban Sim" Wagner

Electric Guitar: Kevin Selfe, Rick Welter, Phil "Suburban Slim" Wagner

Acoustic Guitar: Alan Hager, Mary Flower, Terry Robb

Bass: Allen Markel, Dave Kahl, Lisa Mann

Drums: Jeff Minnick, Jeff "JD Huge" Strawbridge, Jimi Bott

Harmonica: Bill Rhoades, Hank Shreve, Jim Wallace

Keyboards: DK Stewart, Dover Weinberg, Steve Kerin

Horns: Brad Ulrich, Dan Fincher, Joe McCarthy

Venue: Cascade Bar & Grill, Duff's Garage, Trail's End Saloon

NW Recording: Boogie Bone Bone-a-Fied!, The Insomniacs At Least I'm Not With You, Rick Welter I'm All Yours

National Recording: Candye Kane Superhero, Elvin Bishop The Blues Rolls On, Jason Ricci & New Blood Done with the Devil

Best Performance: Boogie Bone at Ilwaco Blues Festival, Karen Lovely at Waterfront Blues Festival, Malford Milligan & Greg Koch at Waterfront Blues Festival

NW Blues Event: CBA Fundraiser "Show Your Love for the CBA #1", Journey To Memphis, Paul deLay Memorial Concert for Ethos, Waterfront Blues Festival

The Hurley Award: Chris Culligan, Jeff Cota, Sheldon Phillips

Back What You Believe In Award: Betsy McBride, Dave Kahl, John Etten, Randy Lilya

Lifetime Achievement: Bill Rhoades, Norman Sylvester, Peter Dammann

Note:

The Hurley Award is presented to the individual behind the scenes in event production (promotion, stage crew, sound, etc.) who consistently goes beyond expectations. This is chosen by stage personal amongst their peers.

The Back What You Believe In Award is chosen by the CBA Board of Directors to honor the individual who has made a significant difference in the blues scene in a non-performer capacity.

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I'll be there, I'm giving out the Regional Act Award!!

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Here's the results of tonight's Muddy Awards in Portland, Oregon:

Contemporary Blues Act: Kevin Selfe & the Tornadoes
R & B Act: Curtis Salgado Band
Traditional Blues Act: Bill Rhoades & The Party Kings
New Act: Karen Lovely Band
Regional Act: Ty Curtis Band
Duffy Bishop Female Vocalist: Lisa Mann
Male Vocalist: Curtis Salgado
Electric Guitar: Phil "Suburban Slim" Wagner
Acoustic Guitar: Terry Robb
Bass: Lisa Mann
Drums: Jimi Bott
Harmonica: Hank Shreve
Keyboards: DK Stewart
Horns: Brad Urich
Venue: Duff's Garage
NW Recording: The Insomniacs - At Least I'm Not With You
National Recording: Elvin Bishop - The Blues Roll On
Best Performance: Karen Lovely Band @ the Waterfront Blues Festival
NW Blues Event: The Waterfront Blues Festival
The Hurley Award: Sheldon Phillips
The Back What You Believe In Award: tie - John Etten & Betsy McBride
Lifetime Achievement Award: Peter Dammann
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Congratulations to all the winners and the nominees

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Here's BBFer Kevin Selfe who raked in a bunch of Muddy Awards tonight.



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Here's BBFer Fangers of Boogie Bone!

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Slim Lively hisself, who put the Muddy Awards together this year!
GREAT JOB SLIM!!

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The opening act was the Karen Lovely Band who we are sending to Memphis for the IBC this year ... look out IBC ... Karen can sing and her band is tight!

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Here is Kolvane, formerlly of the Rose City Kings who won best New Act a few years ago and also went to Memphis for the IBCs.

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Betsy McBride and Jane Manning. Jane has the blues radio show on KMHD on Friday's at 6 pm. Betsy tied with John Etten for the Back What You Believe In Award.

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Jeff Cota and Sheldon Phillips. They were both up for The Hurley Award, given to the technicians, stage crew and managers by their peers. Jeff was stage manager of the Miller Stage at the Waterfront Blues Festival and has worked stage crew for years as has Sheldon. Sheldon was Stage Manager for the Front Porch Stage at the Waterfront Blues Festival. Sheldon was the winner.

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Tie Die Terry with his new tie die Jerry Garcia tie!!

It was a great night, the Muddy All Stars were led by the Strangetones this year and featured alot of guests. My camara through a fit so I didn't get any pictures of them so I hope Slim Lively did.

Slim Lively did a great job organizing this event this year!!

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[Blues Boss]

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CONGRATS to all the winners.............(Kevin, will you need a bigger hat now??? :D )







Slim buddy.......a few "push aways"................ :lol:

[SonJackJr]

Congratulations to the winners!!!

[BoogieKing]

Big CONGRATS to all that were nominated and those that won!! COOL!! [{::] ::^ (z!)

[Slim Lively]

Yeah Bluesslave, I know all about camera fits, still working with my little pocket camera, so don't expect too much out these.

The host for the awards was Shel Bailey, bass player and vocalist for the band The Big Package and also a radio DJ on Charlie FM in Portland, where she is known as The Charlie Girl. I thought Shel did a really nice job of ad-libbing and keeping the show moving.

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