Voting in European Blues Awards 2019 will be due to start later this weekend and as usual will be open to all and last a full week. Please follow the #BluesHour forum on Mondays from 21.00 CET/20.00 GMT and twitter account @BluesHour for more information and updates as well as checking on this site. EBA Team
Winner of Best Musician (Performance) 2018 Susan Santos of Spain with her award
Beth Hart (USA) and Ribs en Blues Festival (NL) who were both 3rd time European Blues Awards Winners in 2018 have now been added to the growing list of names who share the honour of Hall of Fame status. Beth, who has previously won for Best Album with Fire on the Floor in 2016 once again added a Best Vocalist vote win in 2018 and Ribs en Blues were voted Best Event/Festival for the third time.
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The Great British R&B Festival, Colne, Lancashire will be celebrating their 30th anniversary from 23rd – 25th August. Featuring headliner and European Blues Awards Best Musician winner 2017 Anthony Gomes, the twice award winning event also lists former finalists Paul Lamb, Sari Schorr and Danny Bryant on the bill. With 170 gigs on 22 stages this year’s festival promises to be the biggest yet. There will be a special ’30 years of Colne’ show in a brand new Town Hall venue by Bluesman Mike Francis and Friends and all programme and booking information can be found on the festival website; https://www.bluesfestival.co.uk/
Latest European Blues Awards presentations took place on 2nd weekend of June. Ribs en Blues Festival celebrated their 3rd win for Best Event/Festival in recent years and are now members of the Hall of Fame.
During the Festival King King received their award for Best Band 2018. Guitarist Alan Nimmo seen here on stage with the award.
The same weekend Eddie Martin was presented his Best Solo/Acoustic Award for 2018 by Iain Ballamy in Bath UK
For information and updates on the European Blues Awards please follow #BluesHour forum on twitter @BluesHour every Monday from 21.00 CET/20.00 GMT/15.00 EST
As announced during European Blues Awards 2018 vote a special Hall of Fame category has been introduced for 3 times or more category winners since introduction of the digital voting system. The first recipients of this accolade are Paul Jones, Ryan McGarvey, Ian Siegal and Matt Andersen.
There will also be a European Blues events feature added during 2019 along with specific tour reports from performers from their travels across Europe. For all information and updates keep following @BluesHour on twitter every Monday from 21.00 CET/20.00 GMT using the forum hashtag #BluesHour. Presentation news regarding 2018 award winners will also be posted very soon.
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The winners of another record public vote were announced on Sunday 25th November from Dublin Ireland on City FM Radio Show Blues Train by finalist Charlie Hussey. If you missed the results here they are together with a link to listen back to the show.
Best Magazine/Publication – BLUES MATTERS UK
Best Radio Show – CERYS MATTHEWS BLUES SHOW BBC RADIO 2
Best Festival/Event – RIBS EN BLUES RAALTE
Best Album/Session – THE DIVINE AND DIRTY by KRIS BARRAS BAND
Best Musician (Performance) – SUSAN SANTOS
Best Solo/Acoustic – EDDIE MARTIN
Best Vocalist (Male) – JOE BONAMASSA
Best Vocalist (Female) – BETH HART
Best Guitarist – JOE BONAMASSA
Best Band – KING KING
There was also a Lifetime Contribution Award for KEITH RICHARDS of the Rolling Stones decided by the followers of the weekly Monday #BluesHour forum on twitter.
Here is the mix cloud link for the European Blues Awards 2018 Results Show on the Blues Train
https://www.mixcloud.com/TheBluesTrain/the-blues-train-november-25/
Please follow and join in with @BluesHour world Blues forum every Monday from 21.00 CET/20.00 GMT/15.00 EST to share the latest news on the Blues using the tag #BluesHour and get updates and information regarding the European Blues Awards. The Awards are decided solely by public vote, are non sponsored by charter and now the longest running and biggest genre accolade outside the USA.
We are pleased to report that 38th European Blues Awards 2018 results announcement will be made in Ireland for the very first time. There will be a Special Edition of Blues Train on Radio Dublin City 103.2 FM from 23.00 CET/22.00 GMT/17.00 EST on Sunday 25th November 2018 hosted by finalist Charlie Hussey. The results will also be posted during #BluesHour twitter forum 21.00 CET/20.00 GMT on Monday 26th November 2018
Website and listen-live link for Blues Train Dublin City 103.2 FM is
https://www.dublincityfm.ie/programmes/music/jazz-blues-soul/blues-train
Voting has now closed in 38th European Blues Awards. Very big thank you to everyone who voted and all the wonderful finalists in this year’s process. Early indications looking like it has been another record vote and the awards remain the longest running and biggest genre accolade outside the USA. Updates and information regarding the upcoming international results announcement will be posted during #BluesHour forum on twitter 21.00hrs CET/20.00hrs GMT/15.00hrs EST Monday 12th November 2018 and also posted on website http://www.europeanbluesawards.net
Here is a list of the finalists for 2018 and there will also be a Lifetime Contribution Award that was decided this year by followers of #BluesHour
Best Band
Malone Sibun Band – King King – Band of Friends
Best Guitarist
Joe Bonamassa – Erja Lyytinen – Kris Barras
Best Vocalist (Female)
Beth Hart – Layla Zoe – Elles Bailey
Best Vocalist (Male)
Alan Nimmo – Marcus Bonfanti – Joe Bonamassa
Best Solo/Acoustic
Bex Marshall – Eddie Martin – Dave Arcari
Best Musician (Performance)
Susan Santos – Paul Lamb – Lisa Mann
Best Album
Carolina Confessions – Marcus King Band – Almost Transparent Blues – Wliy Bo Walker -High Cost of Low Living – Nick Moss Band – The Divine and Dirty – Kris Barras Band -Never Say Never – Sari Schorr
Best Event/Festival
Ribs en Blues Festival Raalte – Rawa Blues Festival Katowice – Great British R & B Festival Colne – Notodden Blues Festival
Best Radio Show
Cerys Matthews Blues Show – Charlie Hussey Blues Train – Amy Rose Atkinson Bluenotes
Best Magazine/Publication
Blues Matters (UK) – Blues Magazine (NL)
Voting in the 2018 European Blues Awards will begin at the end of October and last for 7 days. There will be 10 Categories this year that comprise of Best Band, Best Guitarist, Best Musician (performance), Best Male Vocalist, Best Female Vocalist, Best Solo/Acoustic, Best Festival/Event, Best Album/Recorded Session, Best Radio Show and the Lifetime Contribution Award. All nominees must have played in Europe since November 2017 and no team members/associates or 3 times previous winners are eligible.
In the meantime we encourage followers of the weekly online Blues twitter forum #BluesHour to post their opinions especially with regard to the extremely broad choice option of Best Album/Recorded Session. There is also the option of emailing a suggestion but as this is not yet the voting process we request that a single message will do. At this time of year we also stress we cannot reply to all individual emails but everything sent will be read and taken into consideration by the team. We look forward to another fantastic vote and thank everyone for their continued and highly valued support.
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Amongst an extremely full programme of current and former awards finalists were Lisa Mills who performed on the Main Stage Saturday 25th August
Along with Marcus Malone and Innes Siburn also on Saturday 25th August
Then Elles Bailey took the stage on Sunday 26th August during the multi award winning event
(photos courtesy Bluesman Mike Francis)
