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The 25th Jammie Awards, hosted by community radio station WYCE (88.1 FM) rolls out Friday evening, Feb. 28, at The Intersection in Grand Rapids, with 18 Michigan acts performing on three stages and awards presented in 18 different categories for the best 2024 releases by Michigan artists.
Dozens of regional acts made the final cut as nominees for a bevy of categories in the annual Jammie Awards.
Festival organizers announced Feb. 8 that after 55 years of “celebrating the arts,” the downtown festival was “ceasing operations effective immediately.”
The up-and-coming band Money Soup released its debut album in 2024 and is among 18 regional groups and solo acts chosen to play this year’s Jammie Awards on Feb. 28 at The Intersection in downtown Grand Rapids.
The band Squatch aims to release its second album in 2025, along with more singles.
Holland’s worship-based band Engedi Music has three separate albums scheduled for digital release by year’s end.
West Michigan alternative indie-rock/pop band Rip Smidgeon gives its original music a New Millennium twist that incorporates much more than that into its songs.
“I’m just in a mood and it’s like the song just comes along. I kind of just see it right before my eyes and it just writes itself.”
With their distinctive approach to rootsy, retro country music, The Bootstrap Boys have bucked a lot of trends and conquered a lot of musical mountains along the way.
