The 26th Annual San Diego Music Awards will take place at House of Blues TONIGHT! Doors open at 6PM, with a pre-show TV taping of Tonight in San Diego! Proceeds from the San Diego Music Awards help to purchase guitars for San Diego County schools, via a partnership between the San Diego Music Foundation and El Cajon's Taylor Guitars. Over the life of the program, 2,978 guitars have been placed into 85 schools from San Onofre to San Ysidro and over 55,000 K-12 students have been impacted by the program. It's going to be a great night in San Diego, so mark your calendars! To purchase tickets, or for more information, click here! HERE ARE THE JAZZ AND BLUES NOMINEES...
2017 San Diego Music Awards "Country Dick Montana" Lifetime Achievement Awards Winner
- Wayne Riker
Best Jazz
- WINNER! Gilbert Castellanos
- Ian Tordella
- Joshua White
- Patrick Yandall
- Peter Sprague
- Allison Adams Tucker
Best Blues
- Chet & the Committee
- Mercedes Moore
- Michele Lundeen
- Robin Henkel
- WINNER! Whitney Shay
- Tomcat Courtney
Artist of the Year
- Andra Day
- Gilbert Castellanos
- Little Hurricane
- Steph Johnson
- The Redwoods Collective
- WINNER! Tribal Seeds
Best Live Performer
- Jason Hanna & the Bullfighters
- Joshua White
- WINNER! Rebecca Jade & the Cold Fact
- Schizophonics
- The Creepy Creeps
- The Little Richards
Best Jazz Album
- Danny Green Trio - Altered Narratives
- Lori Bell - Brooklyn Dreaming
- Sue Palmer - The Thunderbird Sessions
- WINNER! Nathan Hubbard - "Furiously Dreaming"
- Natural Sounds Trio - s/t
- Steph Johnson - Music is Art
Best Blues Album
- Give Me Back My Wig Band - Big Wigs
- WINNER! John Meeks - On A Sea Darkly
- The Fremonts - Alligator
- Wayne Riker Brotherhood - Blues Convocation
- The Holla Pointe - Down The Road A Piece
- Chickenbone Slim - Gone
Best Local Recording
- Ass Pocket Whiskey Fellas - Second Pint
- Authentic Sellout - Take Back the Streets
- Euphoria Brass Band - Live & Loud
- Soft Lions - XOXO
- WINNER! Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - Out on the Coast
- The Sleepwalkers - Roots Rockin' with the
- Sleepwalkers
Album of the Year
- WINNER! Andra Day - Cheers to the Fall
- blink-182 - California
- Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
- P.O.D. - The Awakening
- Pierce the Veil - Misadventures
- Switchfoot - Where the Light Shines Through
