SYRACUSE AREA MUSIC AWARDS, AND THE NOMINEES ARE…

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BEST JAZZ

• London McDaniel – The Christmas Album
• Shawn Seals & SMX – Color
• Test Kitchen – Wings of Dreams

BEST AMERICANA

• Brian and the Beautiful Birds – Brian and the Beautiful Birds
• Christian Parker – Every Passing Mile
• The Dirty Doves – Bumblebee Brandywine
• John Cadley – I Never Knew
• The Rollin’ Rust – Road Rats

  BEST OTHER STYLE

• Jeff Tripoli – Wabi Sabi
• Jim Elenteny – Twelve String Acoustic

  Guitar Music

• Max Scialdone – Christmas Songs
• Tom Rasely – Nylon
• The Turbulents – Stick to the Script

BEST JAM BAND

• Adam Brooks – Ain’t All About You
• Anthony Saturno – Mixed Bag of Beans, Vol. 1 • Master Thieves – Wanderlust

BEST POP

• Amoreena – The Garden
• Cloey Tierno – I Fell in Love with the Rain • DreaMe – Chapter 22 New Beginnings
• Jess Novak – Bad Bitch
• Keith Calveric – Untold

BEST HARD ROCK

• Gainer – A Blackened Embrace
• Head Underwater – It Gets Worse
• No Blush – No Blush
• Our 11th Hour – Of Halos & Hand Grenades • Stone Thrower – This is Permanent

BEST R&B

• FB – For U
• FB – For U Too
• Nate Glyn – Greatest Hits (2017-22)
• Shawn Seals & SMX – Session Files #1

BEST ALTERNATIVE

• Bell & Sgroi – Candy Apple
• The Kiwis – Strange Danger
• Sound Discard – Riptide
• Steven Page – Excelsior
• Trauma Cat – The Truth Doesn’t Live Here

BEST SINGER/SONGWRITER

• Breaking Bones – Sleepyhead
• Cam Caruso – On the Other Side (5 Year Anniversary Edition)
• Gina Holsopple – All the Things I Wanna Hear
• Jason Decker – Fall Under The Sun
• Paul Case – This Love

BEST ELECTRONIC

• AK Kastro – 2009
• C-u-RT – The Yellow Seahorse
• Everett – Alien’s Attempt
• Mazedude – Game Remix, Tracker Homage • The Stranger – Cold Out Here

BEST COUNTRY

• Lisa Gentile – Start Flying
• Mike Gibson – Suburban Hillbilly • Steven Cali – Own Kinda Fix
• Tink Bennett – Collaborations
• Whiskey Hollow Rush – Linda Lu

BEST ROCK

• Ben Wayne – spectator
• Bradford Allen – Selfishly Empathetic
• Glass Image – Mixed Emotions
• Irv Lyons Jr. – What Are We Fighting For
• O T B (Old Tall Buildings) – Lost In The Loud

BEST HIP-HOP OR RAP

• Blackman Preach – 12 Years Gone
• Christenelle Diroc – With Synchronosity & Serendipity
• FB and Exoticz – The Round Table
• Slick Fashionz & Queeto ABF – The World Is Yours • The WiZdom G.O.A.T. – Perseverance

BEST SINGLE

• Adam Brooks – Gone & Forgotten
• All Poets & Heroes – Give It To Me Straight • MániSoul – Run This Back
• The Real RAW Breed – Sun Don’t Shine
• Ryla – Intuition

2023 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

• LARRY HOYT
• CAROLYN KELLY
• DOUG THALER
• KEVIN DORSEY
  Music Educator of the Year
• IRVING KAUFMAN
  Lifetime Achievement