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Legendary Mandolin virtuoso Sam Bush, joined by rising star Phoebe Hunt—member of the hot young band the Belleville Outfit—read the list of award candidates to a crowd of industry executives, artists and tastemakers.


Buddy Miller received five nominations in the six member voted categories; Justin Townes Earle received three and Alejandro Escovedo, the Flatlanders and Australia’s Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson each received two nominations.


“These nominations reflect the vibrancy and diversity of the ever-growing popularity of Americana Music,” said Americana Executive Director Jed Hilly. “Our Honors & Awards show will again be filled with legends and the next generation of stars; it’s going to be a musical night to remember.”

NEW & EMERGING ARTIST
Band of Heathens
Belleville Outfit
Justin Townes Earle
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We started this trip in Pittsburgh, PA, back with our friend Eilen Jewell and her band. We love hanging out with these guys, and they're on tour all the time, so it's nice to commiserate with them about life in the van. Great show, hung out with our friend Yvonne, and our pals from WYEP. It poured rain during the van loading at the end of the night. It made me realize that as bad as I think the van smells during the dry day, it smells worse wet at night.

We moved on to Danville, IN, a suburb of Indianapolis, the next day. It was our first show in Indiana ever, we're quickly closing in on having played every one of the contiguous 48. The Royal Theater was beautiful, and there was a nice apartment above it for us to stay in. Weather started to look threatening just at show time, and by the time we started it was a serious downpour. We thought that the reason the electricity went out during the show (3 times) was because of the storm, but it was actually just a wiring issue. The sound guys fixed it right quick, and on with the show. Sometimes things like that are good; overcoming adversity in front of an audience goes a long way toward winning them over:)

We'd heard a lot about our next show, Summerfest Milwaukee, when we were there at the Pabst Theater in February opening for Carrie Rodriguez. So we were excited to come back. It's quite an undertaking, 11 days, multiple stages. It's like a little city unto itself, and I was glad to have not fallen off the golf cart being shuttled from the van to the stage, which was not close by.

All this buildup, and then...it rained. Thunder and lightning. In case you're wondering, in the realm of summer festivals, when it comes to weather the rule is 'show goes on unless lightning happens'. I can see the whole electrocution hazard thing, but what about damage to hair and makeup in the rain? Isn't anyone concerned about that?

The lighning stopped just in time for us to play, but it seriously hurt the audience size, everyone having taken cover and needing time to come back out.

Still a fun show, the Old 97s and Carrie Rodriguez were on the bill, we all had a ball hanging out.

We had three days off on this tour, which we never like because we spend money and don't work, and because we get lazy and grouchy. But we luckily holed up in Madison, WI with our friend Kiki. She's got an awesome place, huge music library, and ping pong in the basement. I love ping pong. Rob is the reigning champion of our band because he plays dirty, spiking the ball etc., and Binky and I are pretty well matched. Mike hasn't ever ponged, to the best of my knowledge. We went swimming at a pond with some of our friends from Blueheels, who we've played with a bunch. Basically we just pretended we were on vacation, and got eaten by a lot of mosquitoes. They're huge in Wisconsin. Maybe they eat a lot of good fresh dairy and get strong, I don't know, but they're positively Biblical.

We moved on to Chicago, to FitzGerald's American Music Festival. It rained (no kidding). But we played inside, and got to see Geno Delafose, from Louisiana, who's poisitively great. We got a nice notice in Time Out Chicago about the show, a quote from which is on the front page of this website.

After Chicago, 4 sets on a Thursday, lunch and dinner time in Kenosha, WI. Beautiful there, nice people, and as soon as we were done playing we started the drive home. Got back at midnight on the Fourth, just in time for last call and to hear everyone recount what a good time they had all day while we were in the van. And guess what, it didn't rain!]]> http://sarahborges.com/news.html#78 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles - Sarah Borges and Broken Singles - News http://sarahborges.com/news.html#80

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It's here, the SBBS Euro tour family album! Click on the picture below to see all we saw and did.

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