Four Alligator Artists Win Five Blues Music Awards
For Immediate Release – MAY 8, 2009
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Koko Taylor, Lil’ Ed And The Blues Imperials and Marcia Ball Receive Awards
Soul and blues vocalist Janiva Magness received the coveted Entertainer Of The Year award at the Blues Foundation’s 2009 Blues Music Awards held on Thursday, May 7, 2009 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, TN. Magness also took the statue for Contemporary Blues Female Artist Of The Year. Houserocking blues band Lil’ Ed And The Blues Imperials won Band Of The Year. Queen Of The Blues Koko Taylor received the award for Traditional Blues Female Artist Of The Year (her 29th career award, more than any other blues artist), and pianist/vocalist/songwriter Marcia Ball won the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Of The Year award.
The Blues Music Awards are recognized as the highest honor given to blues artists. This year, Sirius XM Satellite Radio's B.B. King's Bluesville channel broadcast the event live. In addition, The Blues Music Awards were shot in HD for a DVD to be released in 2010.
Alligator Blues Music Award winners are as follows:
JANIV
A MAGNESS
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Contemporary Blues Female Artist Of The Year
KOKO TAYLOR
Traditional Blues Female Artist Of The Year
LIL’ ED AND THE BLUES IMPERIALS
Band Of The Year
MARCIA BALL
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Of The Year
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