The ballot to vote for the 2018 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards is now live. The CEAs have celebrated and honored Greater Cincinnati’s original music-makers for the past 21 years.
Leading nominees this year include Hip Hop/Soul/activism troupe Triiibe, Indie Rock/Post Punk duo Lung, Synth Pop twosome Moonbeau and Folk favorites The Tillers.
The 2018 CEAs will be presented at a celebration on Nov. 25 at Memorial Hall, which will feature live performances by local artists (to be announced soon) and much more. Tickets to the event are $20 and will be available soon here.
Check out this year’s CEA nominees below, then click here to cast your votes.
The final three categories — Album, New Artist and Artist of the Year — are determined by the CEA nominating committee, not public voting.
2018 Cincinnati Entertainment Award Nominees
Bluegrass
Chelsea Ford & The Trouble
Slippery Creek
Comet Bluegrass All-Stars
Hickory Robot
Rumpke Mountain Boys
Country
Jeremy Pinnell
Joe’s Truck Stop
90 Proof Twang
Dallas Moore Band
Noah Smith
Folk/Americana
Maria Carrelli
Arlo McKinley and the Lonesome Sound
Wonky Tonk
The Tillers
Young Heirlooms
World Music/Reggae
Baoku
Jennifer Simone
Queen City Silver Stars
Elementree Livity Project
The Cliftones
Rock
Freak Mythology
Smoke Parade
Wussy
All Seeing Eyes
Heavy Hinges
Metal/Hard Rock
Electric Citizen
Dear Agony
Lift the Medium
Go Go Buffalo
Life After This
Indie/Alternative
Knotts
A Delicate Motor
Daniel in Stereo
PUBLIC
The Ophelias
Punk
Leggy
Vacation
Swim Team
The Pistol Mystics
The Z.G.s
Blues
Noah Wotherspoon
Ricky Nye
J Dorsey Band
Ben Levin
Johnny Fink and the Intrusion
R&B/Funk/Soul
Lauren Eylise
Freekbass
JSPH
Ernie Johnson From Detroit
Audley
Jazz
Brad Myers
Dan Karlsberg
The Hot Magnolias
The Faux Frenchmen
Blue Wisp Big Band
Hip Hop
Patterns of Chaos
Sons of Silverton
Raised X Wolves
Devin Burgess
Triiibe
Electronic
Flocks
Passeport
Fritz Pape
Moira
Moonbeau
Best Live Act
Lung
Lauren Eylise
Triiibe
Go Go Buffalo
Ernie Johnson From Detroit
Best Music Video (WATCH HERE)
The Tillers – “Riverboat Dishwashing Song” (produced by Even Hand, Nola Lee, Alex Hand and Eli Bedel)
Lung – “Butcher” (directed by Kate Wakefield)
Triiibe – “Gossip” (directed by Marcus Measimer)
Passeport – “Blood” (directed by Tyler Billman and Kelsey Wing)
Wonky Tonk – “I Don’t Mind” (directed by Rich Tarbell)
Singer/Songwriter
Arlo McKinley
Lauren Eylise
Noah Smith
Wonky Tonk
Audley
Critical Achievement Awards (determined by the CEA nominating committee)
Album of the Year
The Tillers – The Tillers
Us, Today –Computant
Moonbeau – Moonbeau
A Delicate Motor – Fellover My Own
Wussy – What Heaven is Like
New Artist of the Year
Oids
Patterns of Chaos
Knotts
Flocks
Passeport
Artist of the Year
The Tillers
Lung
Triiibe
Moonbeau
Wussy
This article appears in Oct 17-24, 2018.
