On Nov. 14, PhanArt launched the Virtual PhanArt show, an experience that will feature its largest gathering of artists yet from Phish and jam communities.
Lineup for The Virtual PhanArt Show.
The show is set to run through mid-January so that fans could connect with artists, while browsing and shopping at small businesses, just in time for the holidays.
The show starts at Noon ET on Saturday, starting off with a live-stream kickoff party via Launchglobal.tv that will go until 5 p.m. Sweeping Views and DJ Raphael25 will perform live, plus interviews with PhanArt Pete and the Launch Global Team. Where there’s “Phans,” there’s trivia. The show will hold a Phish trivia game that includes a VIP package of prizes and more.
At a normal in-person PhanArt show, Phish enthusiasts could acquire one-on-one personal interactions with vendors and artists. Each vendor showcases their one of a kind items, while music plays through the venue. Virtually, that doesn’t change. Instead of entering the show room, fans will enter the ‘event space’ on the PhanArt website. Everyone will have the same perks as a regular show and even receive exclusive items through drops handled by artists and vendors directly.
With over 30 artists, the virtual show possesses an array of activities that will be sure to host your inner Phish obsession.
PhanArt Show 2019
The Virtual PhanArt Show Lineup features Maria D. Designs, Wookles & Co., The Art of Ryan Kerrigan, Girl Tour, MYFE. Designs, The Goddess Revival, GratefuLegos, Tripp, BB Denim Co., Super Rad Cape Company, Hang Loose Creations, Shop Cadillac Rainbows, Party Time Design, The Overhead View, New Springfield Boogie, Lizzy Layne Art & Design, Fred Sutter, California Ave Artworks, Jamie Lee Meyer, Rude Judy Designs, Fat Karr Studios, Groovesafe, Jeremiah Merrill, Appalachian Alchemy, Wook Chic, La Placa Pottery, Mittyart, Josean Rivera, Babacool LLC, AZN Media, Phan Gear, Phrames, All in this Together, Trixy Starr and many more to come
Nominees for the 2020 Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Awards were announced this week. NYS Music is honored to be nominated for Art Publication of The Year, along with the numerous other creatives from the local music community, including two photographers who go their start with NYS Music, Dave DeCrescente and Frankie Cavone.
About 100 members of the music community have been invited to vote on the nominees. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony – 6 p.m. Sunday, April 5 on the MainStage at Proctors in Schenectady. Several local artists will perform including special collaborations just for the event. Performers are expected to be announced in March.
Rachel Hamlin, administrator for the 2020 awards said,”the nomination process took over two months during which 40 members of the music community met 25 times to discuss who should be domination.” Among these discussions was the decision to change the 34 categories included in this year’s awards.
Feedback received from last year’s awards ceremony saw requests from the local music community to eliminate several categories while replacing them with six new ones including: Metal/Hard Rock Artist of the Year, Country Cover Band of the Year, On The Verge Presenter of the Year, Best Hang, Music Recording Studio of the Year and Record Label of the Year.
Jim Murphy, co-founder and co-organizer of the event, stated: “Adding the country cover band category allowed us to separate and nominate more country artists, and we separated metal and hard rock music from punk and hard core for similar reasons. The absence of recording studio and record label categories last year was an oversight we had to fix.”
Erin Harkes: Musician, comedian and host of the 2019 The Eddie’s Music Awards Show.
“The Best Hang category was something this year’s judges mulled over and favored. It represents the favorite hangouts of people in the local music community when they are off duty,” according to Sal Prizio, co-founder and co-organizer.
The Thomas Edison Musical Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held on a night separate from the Eddies Music Awards this year. On March 9 at Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs a dinner and induction ceremony will take place. Recently announced was the six Class of 2020 inductees including; The Accents, Blotto, The Fidelitys, Hal Ketchem, Lena Spencer and John Sykes.
Here is the full list of 2020 Eddies Music Awards nominees:
Solo or Duo Artist of the Year
The Age
Jocelyn & Chris Arndt
Taina Asili
The Parlor
Sean Rowe
The Sea The Sea
Alt / Indie Artist of the Year
The Abyssmals
Candy Ambulance
Greens
Laveda
Pony in the Pancake
Sky Furrows
Punk Artist / Hardcore Artist of the Year
Blood Blood Blood
Brick by Brick
Eternal Crimes
Mystery Girl
Prince Daddy and the Hyena
Spell Runner
Metal / Hard Rock Artist of the Year
Black Electric
The Clay People
Dirt Church
Drug Church
Greasefire
Johnny Booth
Jam Band of the Year
Ampevene
Annie in the Water
Glass Pony
Hartley’s Encore
Let’s Be Leonard
The Purple Stuff
Rock/Pop Artist of the Year
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt
Bear Grass
Girl Blue
Sirsy
State Champs
Wild Adriatic
Solo or Duo Artist of the Year (Cover)
Chris Dollard
Dos Amigos
PJ Duo
Erin Harkes
Carmen Lookshire
Rich Ortiz
Party Cover Band of the Year
The Accents
The AudioStars
Bad Chaperones
Funk Evolution
New York Players
The Refrigerators
Country Cover Band of the Year
Big Sky Country
The Kyle Bourgault Band
Moonshine Junkies
Red Haired Strangers
Skeeter Creek
Whisky Highway
Country / Bluegrass Artist of the Year
Blind Crow
Dyer Switch Band
Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys
The Gibson Brothers
Three Quarter North
Marty Wendell
Americana Artist of the Year
Eastbound Jesus
The Lazy Suns
The Mckrells
The Nellies
North & South Dakotas
Zan & the Winter Folk
Blues Artist of the Year
Amy Ryan Band
Annie and the Hedonists
The George Fletcher Blues Band
The Resonators
Soul Sky
Wyld Blu
Folk / Traditional Artist of the Year
Drank The Gold
Lost Radio Rounders
Michael Jerling
John Kirk and Trish Miller
The Sea The Sea
Bob Warren
DJ of the Year
DeeJay Element
DJ Ketchup
DJ Siroc
DJTGIF
DJ Trumastr
Intell Hayesfield
Hip Hop/Rap Artist of the Year
JB aka Dirty Moses
Johnny 2 Phones
KATANI
OHZHE
Promise the Unbreakable
Selli Paper
Electronica Artist of the Year
Bare Mattress
Horse Apples
Major Niño
Money Montage
Raisi K. (The Raisin Man)
Soo Do Koo
R&B / Soul Artist of the Year
The Age
Charles O’more
Pink Nois
Lee Reh
Souly Had
Victory Soul Orchestra
World Music Artist of the Year
Taina Asili y La Banda Rebelde
Golfstrom
Heard
Robanic
Sten & Maria Z
Alex Torres & his Latin Orchestra
Classical Artist of the Year
Albany Pro Musica
Capital Region Wind Ensemble
Empire State Youth Orchestra
Musicians of Ma’alwyck
Saint Rose Camerata
Schenectady Symphony Orchestra
Jazz Artist of the Year
Joe Barna
Michael Benedict
Peg Delaney
Chuck Lamb
Dylan Perrillo
Keith Pray
Promoter of the Year
Greg Bell (Guthrie Bell Productions)
Ted Etoll (Step Up Presents)
Mona Golub (Music Haven Concert Series)
Peter Lesser (The Egg)
Margie Rosenkranz (Eighth Step)
“On the Verge” Presenter of the Year
Asylum Albany
Bee Sides Cassettes
Chateau Shows
Little Booking Agency
Place for Jazz
Super Dark Collective
Live Production Crew of the Year
Aces
Albany Audio
Denis Entertainment Group
High Peaks Sound
Live Sound Inc
Specialized Audio-Visual Inc.
Record Label of the Year
Albany Records
Cacophone Records
Equal Vision
Five Kill Records
Magnetic Eye Records
Upstate Records
Best Hang
Chrome
Desperate Annie’s
The Low Beat
Oh Bar
Olde English Pub
Speakeasy 518
Music Recording Studio of the Year
AAA Recording Studio
Blue Sky Recording
Don Fury Recording Studio
Hyland Recording
Overit Studios
White Lake Music & Post
Arts Publication of the Year
The Chronicle
The Collaborative
Nippertown
NYS Music
Preview (Times Union)
The Spot 518
Music Journalist of the Year
Amy Biancolli
Katie Cusack
Michael Hallisey
Indiana Nash
Jim Shahen
Tamani Wooley
Radio DJ of the Year
Brian and Chrissy WGNA
Art Fredette RadioRadioX
Andy Gregory WEXT
Bill McCann WCDB
Jeff Morad WEQX
Chris Wienk WEXT
Radio Station of the Year
RadioRadioX
WCDB
WEQX
WEXT
WGNA
WVCR
Photographer of the Year
Frankie Cavone
Dave DeCresente
Rudy Lu
Andre Pilarczyk
Shannon Straney
Kiki Vassilakis
Music Video of the Year
Jocelyn & Chris Arndt “Outta My Head”
Taina Asili “We Are Rising”
Buggy Jive “Another Song About the Moon”
The Clay People – “GenRX”
Front Biz “Little Mutants”
Joe Mansman and The Midnight Revival Band – “Blood/Grain/Cocaine”
pencildive “Cricket Man”
Prince Daddy & The Hyena “Lauren”
Record of the Year
Brother Hemlock “Good Ol Days”
TJ Foster “You are the Future”
Gibson Brothers “Cool Drink of Water”
Honey Slider “Ghostlighting”
Charles O’more “Nineteen + Won”
Sam Reed ft. The Heavenly Echos “Prophet”
David Tyo “Long Way Home”
Madison Vandenberg “What I’m Looking for”
Album of the Year
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt “The Fun in the Fight”
Taina Asili “Resiliencia”
Bright Dog Red “How’s By you?”
Candy Ambulance “Traumantic”
The Figgs “Shady Grove”
JB!! aka Dirty Moses “Libations”
Jim Gaudet “Real Stories and Other Tall Tales”
Prince Daddy and the Hyena “Cosmic Thrill Seekers”
