The Schizophonics and Trouble in the Wind are the leading contenders to win multiple honors at the 2018 San Diego Music Awards with three nominations each.
Led by husband-and-wife guitarist and drummer Pat and Lety Beers, the garage-rock-championing Schizophonics are nominated in the Best Rock, Best Live Performer and Artist of the Year categories.
Trouble in the Wind, whose music draws from rock, country and folk, is also nominated for Artist of the Year and Best Live Performer, as well for Best Country or Americana Album.
Close behind, with two SDMA nominations each, are jazz keyboard dynamo Joshua White, singer-songwriters Sara Petite and Ariel Levine, and the bands Little Hurricane, Buckfast Superbee and B-Side Players.
The winners will be announced at the 27th edition of the annual awards show on March 19 at downtown’s House of Blues, the event’s home for the second consecutive year. Confirmed performers for the show include P.O.D., Trouble in the Wind, Berkley Hart, Whitney Shay, Surefire Soul Ensemble and Parker Meridien.
The list of all of the nominees can be viewed below and online at sandiegomusicawards.com/nominees. Votes can be cast online through Feb. 23 at dosd.com/p/sandiegomusicawards.
The public can vote online in a majority of the 23 SDMA categories. Votes for the Album of the Year categories — which include jazz, blues, rock, hip-hop and other categories — can only be voted on by the 28 members of the San Diego Music Academy, which includes concert promoters, talent buyers, radio station veterans and other industry professionals
Tickets for the March 19 awards show are available online at ticketmaster.com, at the House of Blues box office and by phone at (800) 745-3000.
Proceeds from the awards fete will benefit the nonprofit San Diego Music Foundation’s Taylor Guitars for Schools program, which over the past three decades has provided free instruments and lessons for more than 55,000 students across San Diego County. The previous 26 editions of the show have raised $595,600, according to SDMA founder Kevin Hellman.
Artist of the Year
Casey Hensley Band
Parker Meridien
Gilbert Castellanos
The Redwoods Collective
The Schizophonics
Trouble in the Wind
Album of the Year
Cindy Lee Berryhill, “The Adventurist”
Jack Tempchin, “Peaceful, Easy Feeling”
Joshua White, “13 Short Stories”
Ariel Levine, “Let the Machine Get It”
Little Hurricane, “Same Sun, Same Moon”
Parker Meridien, “Fists Like Gott”
Song of the Year
Ariel Levine, “Sunshine Part 2: On My Color TV”
Aviator Stash, “Lazy Summer Days”
Buckfast Superbee, “Sex It Sells”
Little Hurricane, “OTL”
P.O.D., “Soundboy Killa”
Switchfoot, “If the House Burns Down Tonight”
Best New Artist
Belladon
Jumbotron
Sights & Sages
Well Well Well
Stephanie Brown & the Surrealistics
The Goldettes
Best Singer-Songwriter
Grampadrew
Jimmy Ruelas
Lindsay White
Sarah Rogo
Lee Coulter
Shane Hall
Best Jazz
Danny Green
Euphoria Brass Band
Jason Hanna
Montalban Quintet
Nathan Hubbard
Sue Palmer & Her Motel Swing Orchestra
Best Blues
Bill Magee Blues Band
Black Market III
Mercedes Moore
Missy Andersen
Stoney B Blues Band
Whitney Shay
Best Country or Americana
Berkley Hart
Morgan Leigh Band
Nena Anderson
Sara Petite
Shawn Rohlf
The Moves Collective
Best Hip-Hop/Rap
DJ Pnutz
Odessa Kane
C-Hecc
Riston Diggs
TC Doe
Vokab Kompany
Best Indie/Alternative
Authentic Sellout
Bad Kids
Buckfast Superbee
The Bassics
The Heavy Guilt
The Verigolds
Best Pop
Birdy Bardot
Ki
The Ordeal
Tolan Shaw
The Phantoms
The Midnight Pine
Best Rock
Bossfight
Earthless
The Farmers
The Oxen
The Routine
The Schizophonics
Best World Music
B-Side Players
Doornob Collective
Hirie
Split Finger
Todo Mundo
Tribal Theory
Best Live Performer
Joshua White
Mrs. Henry
Surefire Soul Ensemble
The Creepy Creeps
The Schizophonics
Trouble in the Wind
Artist of the Year
Casey Hensley Band
Parker Meridien
Gilbert Castellanos
The Redwoods Collective
The Schizophonics
Trouble in the Wind
Best Jazz Album
Dave Scott, “One Big Beautiful World”
Lori Bell & Ron Satterfield, “Blue(s)”
Matt Smith Neu Jazz Trio, “I Am Calm”
Patrick Yandall, “A Journey Home”
Rebecca Jade & Peter Sprague, “Planet Cole Porter”
Wayne Riker, “Soulfully Sliding”
Best Blues Album
Chickenbone Slim, “The Big Beat”
Fuzzy Rankin, “The Blues”
Robin Henkel, “Slippery Like a Watermelon Seed”
John January & Linda Berry, “Chemistry 101"
Mohavi Soul, “Hometown Blues”
Nathan James, “What I Believe”
Best Country or Americana Album
Jeff Berkley, “Whore House, Hot Sauce & Souvenirs”
Nancarrow, “Hot Chicken”
Ryan Hiller, “Big Medicine”
Sara Petite, “Road Less Traveled”
Tim Flannery, “Last of the Old Dogs”
Trouble in the Wind, “Pineapple Moon”
Best Hip Hop/Rap Album
1019 The Numberman, “Solus Superstes”
Audio Cord, “Stanz the Six 9teener”
Biggie Babylon, “Hash Tag Hip Hop N Dance”
Bloodstone, “Rapolutionary”
No1MC, “Conditional Struggle”
Saviorself, “Nasty City”
Best Indie/Alternative Album
Aviator Stash, “Aviator Stash”
Grizzly Business, “Spanish Old Fashioned”
Imagery Machine, “Skydriver”
Sights & Sages, “Double Plus”
Skyterra, “Over the Edge”
Splavender, “Hallucinations & Hospitalizations”
Best Pop Album
Marie Hadad, “Stories From Atlantis”
Nina Francis, “Between Dreams”
Astra Kelly, “Chasing the Light”
Michael Tiernan, “Love & a G”
Sister Speak, “The Stand”
Steven Ybarra, “The American Dream”
Best Rock Album
Electric Mud, “Dangerous Promises”
Mittens, “Endlessly”
Superunloader, “Twice in Half”
Taken by Canadians, “Taken by Canadians”
The Paragraphs, “It’s Always Never”
Dirty Sweet, “Once More Unto the Breach”
Best Local Recording
Ambassadors of Soul, “Just Make It Funky”
Comanche Moon, “Derailed”
Sham Saints, “Out of Tune”
The G. Burns Jug Band, “The Fever”
Veronica May, “Awakened”
Wish & the Well, “Darling Darling”
Best World Music Album
B-Side Players, “California Brown”
Mango Habanenro, “Live”
Marujah, “Marujah Rising”
Mike Pinto, “Hotel Rendezvous”
Strictly Skunk, “Strictly Skunk”
Tribal Seeds, “Roots Party”
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