This year’s Syracuse Area Music Award nominees were announced in 14 categories via livestream Wednesday morning with 95X’s Scott Dixon hosting.
Despite a global pandemic that saw the entire live entertainment industry shuttered for the majority of 2020, Central New York musicians proved prolific during this time. A record number of 166 recordings released during 2020 were submitted for the 2021 SAMMY Awards.
The SAMMY Awards show will be live-streamed on Friday, March 5 on the Syracuse Area Music Awards and SubCat Studios Facebook pages starting at 7:00 p.m. The show will feature live performances from Byron Cage, Cam Caruso, Sophistafunk, Stephen Phillips, and Vaporeyes.
SAMMYS will be awarded to winners among the 14 music categories as well as awards for the Jack O. Bocchino Spirit of the SAMMYS, the Brian Bourke Best New Artist Award and the Community Spirit Award, and the four People’s Choice winners.
Voting in the People’s Choice Awards is open until Feb. 28. Fans can vote each day in categories that include: Favorite Artist or Band, Favorite Livestream Event, Favorite Academic Organization, and Favorite Venue.
Below is the list of the 2021 SAMMY nominiees.
Best Alternative
Chuck Schiele
Love Letters
Major Player
Upset City
Mattydale Music Collective
No Thief, However Skillful
The Exploding Flowers
Strangers
Zach Blaszak
Homebrew
Best Americana
Chocolate BonBon
Book of Names
Harmonic Dirt
Live At The Ridge
J. Schnitt
A Compass of Stars (The Quarantine Singles)
Kid Roscoe
…And The Horse You Rode In On
The Dart Brothers
Strangest Wavelength
Best Blues
JunioR
This’ll Hurt
Tas Cru
DRIVE ON
Best Country
Brandon Scott
North Country
Tink Bennett & Tailor Made
Hate The Game
Whiskey Hollow Rush
Life, Love, Whiskey
Best Electronic
Asael
We Believed
Empires in Orbit
Rave of the Damned
Mazedude
MazeQuest 3 Original Soundtrack
Shitnuts
Final Frontier
The Stranger
Soundtrack for a Movie Not Yet Written
Best Hard Rock
Brand New Sin
Live At The Lost
Caustic Method
No Retribution
Cleansed In Embers
Misery
Junexa
Lifeless
MOTORLORD
Motorlord
Best Hip-Hop or Rap
Big Nate MG
The Story of MG
Christenelle Diroc
Christenelle Diroc
Def One
04/20 Vision
MBK Richy
Throwaways
Young Dellz
Riana’s Father
Best Jam Band
Ben Blujus
Believe In Music
Chiggin
THXGVNG
The Z-Bones
Sweet Misery
Vaporeyes
Cantrips
Best Jazz
London McDaniel
Anatural Aphrodisiaca
Stan Colella Orchestra
Just For Fun
Best Other Style
Amanda Rogers
Winter Butterfly
DiCosimo/Pagán
Con Moto
Letizia
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Lonnie Park and The Earth Band
My Earth Songs
Redeemer Church Worship
Be Enthroned
Best Pop
Coughlin
Unlatch Diary
DESTYNEE
Love&Art
Jess Novak Band
Standing Now
Nick + Noah
Fall
Pat Tato
Good Grief
Best R&B
Chels
After Midnight
Jaquiel
Summer Nights in the Southward
Liam Alone
Liam Alone Live
Sean McLeod
Freedom (Sean McLeod’s “A Soundtrack for Harriet Tubman”)
Wavy Vibez
Only One (The Ep)
Best Rock
Atkins Riot
Couch Potato
Krix Wiechmann and the Pallbearers
3 Hits From Hell
Otherworldly Entity
Cataclysm
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Fantastic Invasion
The Kiwis
Still Life – EP
Best Singer-Songwriter
Amanda Rogers
The Hallow
Colleen Kattau
Besos Kisses
Just Joe
Breakdown
Sydney Irving
Relax With Fiends
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