THANK YOU TO ALL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS FOR THEIR NOMINATION SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS.
The Eligibility Period for the Eleventh Annual Native American Music Awards is from January 1, 2008 to January 31, 2009. All recordings must be nationally released between that period and available to the general public for sale.
To submit an eligible recording, you must be a registered advisiory member and submit a Nomination Submission Form no later than
March 31, 2009.
Click below for a NAMA 11 Nomination Submission form
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IMPORTANT DATES
Eligibility Period January 1, 2008 thru January 31, 2009
Submission Entry Deadline March 31, 2009
Nomination Selection Process/Membership Voting May 31, 2009
Open Voting/General Public July 31, 2009 thru October 3, 2009
Eleventh Annual Awards Show - TBA
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ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Jim Boyd
Blues To Bluegrass
BEST BLUES RECORDING
Deep Downtown
Jimmy Wolf
BEST COMPILATION RECORDING
Old Style Round Dance Songs
Various
BEST COUNTRY RECORDING
No Lies
Tracy Bone
DEBUT ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Cheryl Bear
The Good Road
DEBUT GROUP OF THE YEAR
Injunuity
Unconquered
BEST FEMALE ARTIST
Nicole
Deep Dreams
BEST FOLK RECORDING
Where The Green Grass Grows
The Crow Girls
FLUTIST OF THE YEAR
Jan Michael Looking Wolf
Unity
BEST GOSPEL/INSPIRATIONAL RECORDING
Precious Memories
Cherokee National Youth Choir
GROUP OF THE YEAR
Native Roots
Celebrate
BEST HISTORICAL RECORDING
Chief Seattle Speaks 1854
Red Hawk
BEST INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING
Mirror Lake
Golana
BEST MALE ARTIST
Edmund Bull
Follow Your Dreams
BEST NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH RECORDING
New Beginning
Janelle Turtle
BEST NEW AGE RECORDING
Homeland Security
Carroll Medicine Crow
BEST POP RECORDING
Phoenix
Fara Palmer
BEST POW WOW RECORDING
Hear The Beat
Blackfoot Confederacy
BEST PRODUCER
Adrian Brown, Tim Sampson, Jonathon Joss, Charles Button
Still No Good
BEST RAP HIP HOP RECORDING
Native American Hustle
Dago Braves
RECORD OF THE YEAR
(Silence) Is A Weapon
Blackfire
BEST ROCK RECORDING
The Sun & The Earth
Stevie Salas
SONG/SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Broken Dreams
Nightshield
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Star Nayea
Silenced My Tongue
BEST SPOKEN WORD RECORDING
The Story Tellers
Ken Quiet Hawk
BEST TRADITIONAL RECORDING
Traditional Navajo Shoe Songs
Gilbert Begay Sr
BEST SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO
The Enlightened Time
Jana
BEST LONG FORM MUSIC VIDEO
Live At Mt Rushmore
Brule’ & AIRO
BEST WORLD MUSIC RECORDING
Celebrate
Native Roots
NATIVE HEART
Ed Stasium
(Silence) Is A Weapon
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The Native American Music Awards Online Voting is open to both Advisory Board members and the general public.
All Advisory Membership voting consisted of 100% of all votes in the Nomination selection process. A maximum of 35% of the total online votes was weighed against Advisory membership votes in the final voting stage when voters select one winner for each category. Voting deadline is October 4, 2008.
Music Tracks will be posted on the website in the audio players in each appropriate category. We strongly urged everyone to listen to the music before casting their vote.
In order to have participated in our public voting, you must first have registered as a E-member on our website. Then you must have selected one winner for each featured Awards category on the following pages. You may listen to select music tracks of each featured entry on the music player at the bottom of each voting page. You may also register as an Advisory member which requires your annual membership dues and your registration as an industry member.
Note: Native Heart, Lifetime Achievement, and Hall of Fame Awards will be reserved for the N.A.M.A. Advisory committee selections.
Thank you for supporting the World's Leading Resource for Contemporary and Traditional Native American Music Initiatives & the largest Native American Music Library in the World featuring a collection of over 7000 audio and video recordings in all formats housed in our national archives since 1990!
Return to the Official Native American Music Awards website
www.nativeamericanmusicawards.com
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