The 20th-annivesary edition of CityBeat’s annual program celebrating Cincinnati’s original music scene, the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards (or CEAs), will take place in late November. The event had been moved to January to separate it from the MidPoint Music Festival, which CityBeat also owned and operated for several years. With MPMF changing ownership to MEMI for the 2016 event, the decision was made to return the CEAs to its longtime slot on the calendar around Thanksgiving time.
Because the CEAs essentially “skipped” a year, local artists’ accomplishments from 2016 will be considered for the 2017 program. The event honors artists from a variety of genres and also awards overall trophies for categories like New Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Artist of the Year.
Stay tuned for more information on the ceremony — as well as an open call for public nominations — in the coming months.
Check out last year’s CEA show (featuring performances by Jess Lamb, The Slippery Lips and more) below.
This article appears in Feb 8-15, 2017.