Registration for the Madison Area Music Awards 2010 is now open at www.themamas.org. The 7th Annual Madison Area Music Awards will be held May 8th at the Capitol Theater in the Overture Center.

All musicians who make music in the greater Madison area are encouraged to enter. Last year, over 50 awards were given to artists in Album, Song, Live Performance and Instrumentalist categories. This year the MAMAs have added a Hard Rock/Punk genre to the award roll. The finalists and winners are determined by peer and fan voting.

Broadjam.com, an international music website, will sponsor all Album entries submitted to the MAMAs. In addition, Good ‘n Loud Music, a local music instrument retailer, will sponsor all Instrumentalist and Youth award registrations. Eligible artists will receive one free entry in these categories. All other registration fees are $10 per entrant per category. The annual $5 membership in the MAMAs is required to submit and vote. Below are the key dates:

• October 5, 2009 – Open registration
• January 15, 2010 – Registration ends
• February 1, 2010 – First voting round begins
• March 18, 2010 – First voting round ends
• March 28, 2010 – Final round of voting starts
• April 28, 2010 – Final voting ends

May 8, 2010 – 7th Annual Madison Area Music Awards – Overture Center, Capitol Theater
Past winners of MAMAs include a virtual who’s who in the Madison music scene. To qualify artists need to live in or play more than half of their gigs in Dane County.

For more information or for interviews, contact:

Rick Tvedt
rick@themamas.org
608-250-2565

Roy Elkins
roy@broadjam.com
608-271-3633

MAMAs MISSION STATEMENT

MAMAs, Inc. is organized and operates exclusively for charitable or educational purposes, as defined in Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

The mission of the MAMAs is to support the preservation and expansion of all forms of music education in the Madison area, and to encourage and promote the artistic advancement of our emerging musical youth.

MAMAs VISION STATEMENT

In furtherance of our charitable purpose, MAMA, Inc. has created and presents the annual Madison Area Music Awards ceremony, with the purpose of (1) raising public awareness of the need to preserve and support the existence of music education in our public schools and other community institutions, (2) encourage and promote the advancement of musicians and others in the Madison area by recognizing their musical achievements as well as the achievements of outstanding music students and music educators, and (3) provide promotional support for the Madison music economy as a whole. MAMA, Inc. seeks to establish three other annual events to further carry out its charitable mission and to keep the awareness of the need for music education in the public eye year-round.

MAMA, Inc. also seeks to carry out the following:

• Provide opportunities for professional, semi-professional and student musicians who are interested in pursuing careers in music to learn about the music industry
• Provide forums for young musicians and others in the Madison area to participate in live performances
• Become advocates for music education by working cooperatively through the Madison School Board and with others
• Establish a school instrument repair program
• Create, support and fund music education events presented in the schools in the form of assemblies
• Create an endowment fund to provide music education scholarships

The MAMAs will host their Second Annual MAMAs on the Terrace event on
Saturday, July 25th at the Memorial Union.

Performing at this year’s show (in order of appearance):

• Gladstone (New Artist of the Year & Pop Album of the Year)
• Danielle Brittany & Band (Female Vocalist of the Year)
• Sunspot (Video of the Year)
• VO5 (Cover Band of the Year)

The fun begins at 8 PM and this is a free show.

Stay tuned to the MAMAs; there are many announcements forthcoming.

Thank you to everyone who came out to the MAMAs last night, and congratulations are in order for those who won! We also wants to thank everyone for showing so much support last night! There was much excitement about the return of Rick’s Cafe as Local Sounds Magazine and the debut of Local Sounds TV! We were impressed with how many artists were in line for TV interviews! We hope to have the coverage up on localsoundstv.com as soon as we can!

The Madison Area Music Awards will once again be hosting a series of after-parties featuring several different genres.  The parties will take at various clubs around Madison after the 6th Annual Madison Area Music Awards ceremony on May 9th at the Barrymore Theatre.  They start roughly around 10:00/10:30pm.

One of those parties is the Hip-Hop After-party at the Majestic Theatre on King Street.  The party will be headlined by Madison’s own Know Boundaries, along with dumate, Stink Tank.  Lucha Libre will start the evening off.

There is a $7.00 cover at the door.  It’s an all ages show.

Other after-parties include Rising Gael at the Alchemy, The Blueheels and Jentri Collelo at the Cafe Montmartre, Whore du Jour at the Frequency, Baghdad Scuba Review at Mr. Roberts, Glass Ghosts and Cemetery Improvement Society at the Inferno, and DJ Amos Smith and DJ Mike Carlson at the Great Dane Hilldale.  More details can be found on the MAMAs website at http://www.themamas.org/2009_awards_show.php.

Local Sounds is proud to announce that it will once again have a presence at this year’s Madison Area Music Awards on May 9th, 2009 at the Barrymore Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin.

As usual we will be set up in the lobby near the doors to the theatre.  For those of you who have been to the MAMAs in the past, you’ll know right where we are!  Feel free to stop by and say hi!  There will be a handful of Local Sounds representatives on hand to provide information, sell MAMAs merchandise, and answer your questions.

This year we will have a few announcements to make!  The Madison Area Music Awards has become a sort of staple location for Local Sounds to unveil new services and announcements to the public.  This year looks to be one of the best yet.

We look forward to seeing you there!