TOP DUO / TRIO
LANA-HUND
TOP BLUES GUITARIST
TOMMY Z - TOMMY Z BAND
TOP FEMALE VOCALIST COVER
LANA HERGERT BLACK WIDOW
TOP ROCK MALE VOCALIST
MARK VALENTINO HIT N RUN
TOP BLUES FEMALE VOCALIST
KATE ENGLER
KATE ENGLER BAND
TOP SOLO PERFORMER
GREGG SANSONE WITH
BOB LUTEREK & BOB SILVESTRI OF BESTOFWNY.COM
TOP BLUES KEYBOARDS
JIMMY WOZNIAK
BITTERSWEET ROSE
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2005 BUFFALO MUSIC AWARDS
CLUB PARADISE
Reprint Buffalo News – Gusto
November 2005
Byline: Jeff Miers
News Pop Music Critic
TOP 40 and GROUP VOCALS
THE BOYS OF SUMMER
SINGING PRAISES
BUFFALO MUSIC AWARDS
RECOGNIZE THE BEST FROM COVER TO ORIGINAL
The 25th annual Buffalo Music Awards took place Thursday evening inside Hamburg’s Club Paradise. Musicians in a broad range of idioms, from original rock and alternative, to blues, R&B and Top 40 cover bands, were honored through 65 awards.
Since its inception, the awards ceremony has evolved considerably as more categories were added and original artists began to share the spotlight with the considerable population of journeymen making their living on the cover band circuit. At this point, the awards seek to be inclusive, reflecting the fairly vast musical landscape in Buffalo and its surrounding environs.
The awards noted the contributions to the musical community of both individual instrumentalists/performers and ensembles. There were some familiar names, some new additions to the roster, and a few surprises as well.
Distributed awards were essentially split down the middle between cover artists and original acts, with various blues and R&B performers – where the distinction between “original” and “cover” is less important – filling in the difference….
Incomplete list of winners from the Buffalo News article follows:
NEW ORIGINAL BAND
The Corrections
ORIGINAL ALTERNATIVE BAND
Last Conservative
ORIGINAL ROCK BAND
Alison Pipitone Band
ORIGINAL MALE VOCALIST
A.D. Lewis - Klear
ORIGINAL FEMALE VOCALIST
Alison Pipitone – Alison Pipitone Band
ORIGINAL GUITARIST
Charlie Quill – Steam Donkeys
ORIGINAL BASS PLAYER
Leo McDonald – Klear
ORIGINAL DRUMMER
Denny Pelczynski - Klear
ORIGINAL ACOUSTIC SOLO
Dee Adams
ROCK BAND
Black Widow
HARD ROCK BAND
That 80’s Hair Band
TRIBUTE BAND
Coda
CLASSIC ROCK
Route 66
POP ROCK
Hit N’ Run
TOP 40
Boys of Summer
MALE VOCALIST HARD ROCK
Mike Maguire – Coda
FEMALE VOCALIST COVER
Lana Hergert – Black Widow
HARD ROCK GUITARIST
Justin Kubiak – Strictly Hip
ROCK GUITARIST
Geno McManus – The Ifs
ROCK KEYBOARDIST
Nelson Starr – Party Squad
ROCK BASSIST
Tom Herr – Hit N’ Run
POP ROCK BASSIST
Jim Wynne – About Face
POP ROCK DRUMMER
Pat O’ Connell – Boogie Monsters
ROCK DRUMMER
Shannon Street – Mark Stanley Band
MALE VOCALIST BLUES
Rod Nickson – Rod Nickson
FEMALE VOCALIST BLUES
Kate Engler – Kate Engler Band
BLUES GUITARIST
Tommy Z – Tommy Z Band
BLUES BASSIST
Jim Whitford - Mark Winsick Band
BLUES KEYBOARDIST
Jimmy Wozniak – Bittersweet Rose
BLUES DRUMMER
Rob Lynch – Scratch / Lo Blue Flame
The following are categories not listed in the Buffalo News article. We have entered the results for categories we could confirm.
If you have information on the winners for any of these categories please forward to us. We will consolidate the results after additional categories are confirmed.
ALTERNATIVE ROCK - Suckerpunch
NEW GROUP -
SHOW BAND – Terry Buchwald
AMERICANA / COUNTRY – Bareback Jack
SOLO – Gregg Sansone
DUO / TRIO – Lana / Hund
GROUP VOCALS – Boys of Summer
R&B GROUP -
R&B MALE VOCALIST -
R&B FEMALE VOCALIST -
R&B GUITARIST -
R&B BASSIST -
R&B KEYBOARDIST -
R&B DRUMMER-
JAZZ GROUP -
TRADITIONAL BLUES BAND -
CROSSOVER BLUES BAND-
ROCK MALE VOCALIST – Mark Valentino
BLUES HARMONICA -
BLUES SAX PLAYER - Jack Prybylski
