BMAde Betterz
Hump Day News helps the 2023 Boston Music Awards do Best Singer-Songwriter better.
Didja see? The Boston Music Awards nominations started rolling out in September.
BMA Nominating CommitteeWhat are the BMAs? Well, the annual music awards ceremony is presented by the whiskey drink Jack Daniels. It’s held at Big Night Live on December 20th. Tickets are sold for seats you sit in. And the logo looks like Paul Revere on a horse, carrying a boombox?
The website says the nominations were pinned down by September 18th.
If you have the time and prolific output, do what Pile did this year: release a killer album (All Fiction) earlier in the year, reap the extra attention won in a relatively quiet time of the year for album announcements, then drop a short & sweet EP (Hot Air Balloon) in the last quarter to remind everyone that you’re still alive and you’re awesome.
Evil genius!
If you want to vote, vote here.
SINGER/SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
What a great list! Worth your time investigating each of these artists.
The “singer-songwriter” tag is weird code for musicians who do all the essential stuff under their own powers and through the lens of their own personality.
When you listen to these artists, you really feel like they’re sharing a part of themselves rather than, say, participating in genre exercises.
Here’s the list of BMA nominees:
Alisa Amador, Anjimile, Chrysalis, Ezra Furman, Jill McCracken, Maeko, Prateek, Savoir Faire, Senseless Optimism, and Sidney Gish.
Hump Day News wrote up the music of Anjimile, Jill McCracken, caught Maeko live, and did all of the above with Senseless Optimism and Sidney Gish. Plus, we were in the general vicinity of a Prateek gig at a ONCE festival at Boynton Yards. That counts as coverage!
We don’t have too many adds. There are vast musical worlds charted out by the above artists, plenty to track.
But how about Grace Givertz?
The folk/country guitarist is a regular gigger around town, top notch songwriter, with a voice like a coal miner’s daughter. Recency bias will count her out, but the embers are still burning white hot from 2019’s Year of the Horse.
Music Publication Of The Year
