[Winners are in red.]
Bluegrass
Comet Bluegrass Allstars
Taylor Farley
Ma Crow
Rumpke Mountain Boys
Country
Brothers First
Straw Boss
The Sidecars
Dallas Moore
Folk/Americana
Jake Speed and the Freddies
Messerly and Ewing
Maurice Mattei
Chris Haubner and the Roanoke Ramblers
World Music
Bodhi Fannin & Anam Cara
Mohenjo Daro
Roger Drawdy & the Firestarters
Me Or The Moon
Rock
Viva La Foxx
Paperback
Thee Shams
Moth
Hard Rock/Metal
Soul Casket
Jackass
Croatan
Black Tractor
Singer/Songwriter
Chuck Cleaver
Ali Edwards
Kim Taylor
Tristen Shields
Blues
Big Joe Duskin
Pearlene
Ricky Nye
Natalie Wells
Alternative/Indie
Culture Queer
Wolverton Brothers
The Sundresses
Ruby Vileos
Punk
The Socials
Death in Graceland
Bottom Line
Caterpillar Tracks
R&B/Funk
Freekbass
Derrick Sanderson’s Soul Expression
P. Ann Everson Price
The Ropers
Jazz
Shawn Elsbernd
Steve Schmidt
Kathy Wade
William Menefield
Jam
Ray’s Music Exchange
Michael John Mollo
Grand Oversoul
Traveling Barefoot
Hip Hop
Watusi Tribe
Abiyah
Iswhat?!
djdq
Experimental/Electronic
Burning Star Core
Roesing Ape
Lesniak
Realicide
New Artist Of The Year
Chocolate Horse
Le TechnoPUSS13s
The Thirteens
The Cathedrals
patientZero
Caterpillar Tracks
Album Of The Year
Supersize It Under Pontius Pilate by Culture Queer
A Better Place by Wolverton Brothers
The Light Wires by The Light Wires
Please Yourself by Thee Shams
When Bullfrogs Croak by Zak Morgan
Part One by Promenade
Artist Of The Year
Heartless Bastards
Zak Morgan
Culture Queer
Thee Shams
The Sundresses
Ruby Vileos
This article appears in Oct 28 – Nov 3, 2009.