The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) has announced the nominees for it’s annual Bluegrass Music Awards Show which happends during the annual SPBGMA convention and festival held Jan. 31 - Feb. 3 at the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville Tenn.

Below is a partial listing of this years nominees. For a complete list of all the 2008 SPBGMA Awards Show Nominee’s please visit the SPBGMA website. More details on the convention can be found here.

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The Charlotte (NC) Music Awards will host a Country Showcase at Puckett’s Farm Equipment at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29.

Performers will include David Cody, Greg Griffin, David Lambert and the Smokey Joe Show.

The Charlotte Music Awards showcases all aspects of music in Charlotte and the Carolinas. The initiative supports local music and local artists. Showcases are hosted at different venues across a variety of genres, leading up to an annual Awards Ceremony, the first of which was held in September.

Here’s a glimpse of the Nov. 29 performers.

David Cody of Swannanoa, N.C., recently released “The Dale Earnhardt Tribute Album.”

Although numerous songs have honored Earnhardt, Cody says there are “none with more thought and love than these 12 songs.”

A Cow Skeleton Records recording artist, Cody’s previous CDs include “Pieces of My Heart, Livin’ Low” and, as Cody & Webb, “Until My Train Rolls In.”

Greg Griffin ,who hails from Huntersville, is a contender in Country Music Television’s current Music City Madness.

Griffin says that music is inside him and it’s got to come out. “Melodies and lyrics pop in my head and I need to write them down and sing them out loud so they won’t stay stuck there,” Griffin says. “Most of my songs are about people finding a place in this world.”

Spartanburg-based David Lambert is not your typical musician. A retired Army colonel, his musical commitment shifted into high gear after seeing singer-songwriter Chris Knight perform in Charlotte.

The devotion paid off when Lambert was named the best Male Horizon Country/Pop Vocalist 2007 at the Entertainment Indie-Association (EIA) Awards Ceremony. His debut CD is titled “By the Carolina Moon.”

The Smokey Joe Show offers homegrown original music. The band consists of “Smokey Joe” Peoples (songwriter, rhythm guitar and vocals), Chelsea Goodman (vocals and egg shaker), Tom Rogers (harmonicas), Darryl Goodman (electric bass), Lonny Finley (lead guitars, mandolin and vocals) and George Brasington (drums).

The band has just released a new CD, “Little Buildings.”

Puckett’s Farm Equipment is located at 2740 W. Sugar Creek Road in the heart of historic Derita, N.C. The venue has long been home to the finest roots music, bluegrass (every Wednesday), country, alt-country and Americana acts on the regional scene.

Supporters of the Charlotte Music Awards include Amps 11, Carolina Promoter, the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, Consolidated Press, /Creative Loafing, Digital Bliss, Extra Medium, Extravaganza Events, Flavor Fruit Entertainment, 4WARD Promotions, High Timberline Media, John St. Graphics, Leigh Rose Marketing, Media Evolved, Pyramid Printing, Shoeshine Boy Design, Starbucks Coffee, Succession Records, The Wadsworth House, WGWG and WSGE.

More information can be obtained via e-mail info@charlottemusicawards.org.

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And stopping at points in between.

The Brigade is the annual bus tour with a final destination of the annual Society for the Preservation of Blue Grass Music in America convention in Music City.

The event, marking the 34th annual SPBGMA awards show and 25th annual SPBGMA convention, will be held Jan. 31-Feb. 3, 2008, at the Sheraton Music City Hotel.

Reservations are now being taken for the Bluegrass Brigade, which will depart the Kansas City area at 6:15 a.m. Jan. 31 and arrive in Nashville at about 5:30 p.m. the same day, just hours away from the convention’s first concert.

Pick-up points will be at the MFA-Warrensburg junction of Interstate 70 and Missouri Highway 13, the Marshall junction on I-70, Columbia Mo., and Mount Vernon, Ill.

Round-trip rates include four nights lodging at the Sheraton Music City Hotel, bus fare and tickets to all Bluegrass shows for the weekend, starting with Friday evening’s show. Rates run from $840 for a single adult to $440 for a group of five sharing one room.

Package prices include general admission tickets; reserved seating is an additional $20 per person charge.

Deposits of $50 per person are due by Nov. 15.

Information about the brigade is available by contacting Chuck Stearman, PO Box 271, Kirksville, MO, 63501, or calling 1-660-665-7172.

A flier about the brigade as well as other fliers for SPBGMA-sponsored events and activities is available on the organization’s Web site, www.spbgma.com.

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