Year after year, our website is very privileged to reward those talented artists that have particularly impressed worldwide audiences either through their live performances or through the release of a hugely inspired studio record.
Our Awards are, as usually, split into two different categories, Artist Of The Year and Best Live Act, with an additional Career Award aimed to recognize and reward the outstanding career of an artist that has been highly inspirational and influential throughout the decades on an international level.
The nominees for 2024 for Artist Of The Year are the following:
Shemekia Copeland
Judith Hill
JJ Grey & Mofro
The nominees for 2024 for Best Live Act are the following:
Nomadic - Canto Per La Biodiversita'
Erja Lyytinen
Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse
The winners of both categories will be announced on 27th November on our website and through the major Social Network's platforms.
The winner of the Lifetime Career Award for this 2024 goes to a living legend of Soul, Funk and Blues music, the American singer/songwriter Billy Price. Among the many accolades received in Price's outstanding career, he was the 2016 Blues Music Award (BMA) winner and frequent BMA nominee. Price first attracted national attention during his three-year association with guitarist Roy Buchanan. Since then, with the Keystone Rhythm Band, the Billy Price Band, and solo projects, Price has recorded and released a total of 20 albums, CDs, and DVDs. Price’s album This Time for Real, with Chicago soul singer Otis Clay, received a 2016 BMA for best soul blues album. He received BMA nominations in 2019 (Reckoning) and 2020 (Dog Eat Dog) for best soul blues album, and in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024 for best male soul blues artist. He was also nominated in 2024 for a BMA for instrumentalist - vocals.
Very well done to all the hugely talented artists part of this year's Nominees of the Bluebird Reviews Awards.
