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Blues Music Awards – Nominee Showcase
Our friends from Fo’Reel will kick things off at 1:00pm with their funky mix of New Orleans Blues and R&B.- They’ll be featuring songs from their debut album Heavy Water, nominated for Best New Artist Album in this year’s awards.
At 2:00pm, our own “Little Boogaloo”, Eden Brent, will demonstrate why she’s been nominated eleven times for Blues Music Awards, this year for Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year and Acoustic Album of the Year.- Eden is always a crowd favorite and she’s looking forward to catching up with all her out-of-town friends.
It all goes down at BB King’s at 143 Beale Street.- It’s free and open to the public so please stop by, say hello, and enjoy the music!
Asylum Street Spankers and Eden Brent claim three Independent Music Award nominations
The good thing about streaks is that they tend to keep on going. Ours for example: now EIGHT straight years with an Independent Music Awards nomination! These things tend to come in bunches for us, and this year is no exception. Asylum Street Spankers have been nominated for Live Performance Album (“The Last Laugh”) and Eden Brent has brought home two nominations: Jazz with Vocals Song (“Tendin’ to a Broken Heart”) and Holiday Song (“Valentine”).
Thanks for keeping our streak — and great American roots music — alive, Eden and Spankers. The general public is invited to vote in these categories for the IMA’s “Vox Populi” award — visit the links below to check out these songs and albums… and don’t forget to vote!
UPDATE (07/15): Congratulations are in order for both Eden Brent and the Asylum Street Spankers! Eden has won for Holiday Song (“Valentine”) and the Asylum Street Spankers have won for Live Performance Album (“The Last Laugh”) at the 14th annual Independent Music Awards. We’re mighty proud of both these highly decorated artists!
Eden Brent Debuts new “Jigsaw Heart” Video
Telling a tale of broken hearts and fresh starts, Eden’s new video arrives with perfect timing: on Valentine’s Day.
Eden Brent has already earned a heap of praise for her latest album Jigsaw Heart: two Blues Music Award nominations (including Acoustic Album of the Year), several months on the blues radio charts and rapturous quotes like “It smoked a hole in our soul” (Blues Music Magazine). She’s about to do the same with her brand-new video for the album’s title track, a beautiful little film mostly shot in front of the church at Mont Helena, a 19th-century plantation home near Rolling Fork, Mississippi.
The video was produced by Mississippi filmmaker Robbie Fisher, creator of the award-winning documentaries “Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound” and “Delta 180: Changing Lives in the Mississippi Delta,”- and was directed by Aaron Phillips, also a Mississippian.- Mississippi actors and musicians star alongside Eden in the Jigsaw Heart video, too, making this a Magnolia State affair from top to bottom.
Love, like everything else on Earth, is impermanent. That old church still standing in Eden’s new video? “It collapsed, three months after we shot the video,” says Eden. Watch her soul-stirring new video (and probably the last footage of that old Mississippi church as it premieres today on The Boot.
