The 2017 Golden Kayak Awards are here. For nominations see inside. by Scott Stambaugh on The Pipeline at IndieMusicPeople

The 2017 Golden Kayak Awards are here. For nominations see inside.

The 2017 Golden Kayak Awards are here! Please read, everybody..

ok the first thing you need to know about the 2017 Golden Kayak Awards is we're basically doing it identically to how we did it before.

Some of the genres like before are combined due to a smaller amount of songs in their categories and because we don't want the awards show to go on forever. :)

I'll say upfront that just as it is patriotic to participate when your country has a national election, I implore you to do your part for indiekind. It may not be the most pleasant thing for you to contemplate who amongst your peers had good songs in this past year but we ask you to spend a little energy, whatever you can spare, chiming in for this worthwhile cause. As far as we know it's the only indie awards show of this kind and I feel it's the best and most real one because the results are generated by the artists themselves, along with the active listeners, a society we call the IAIA - International Academy of Independent Artists.

Eligibility - Anyone who was a member up to the time this was published/emailed can send one nomination email (and one vote email once the ballot comes out). If you have multiple pages you can still only send one of each. It helps if you use the email listed as your contact email to send so we can verify. We're also sending a bulk email out on this with basically the same info contained in this post.

Songs eligible are those that were uploaded between 11-11-16 and 11-10-17. You can tell if a song is eligible by going to that song's songpage and to the right it will say when the song was created on the site. If you nominate songs that are outside the eligibility period, those songs will not be eligible to make the final ballot. Please take a minute to check this with every song you nominate.

Anyway you can nominate one item in each of 26 categories, Cut and paste the list below and put your member name at the top so we can easily check eligibility. No member name, we don't process. You can't nominate any song you took part in creating and any song I'm involved in is ineligible as well. We ask that you don't fill your nominations with a list of your friends but rather let quality of song be the criteria. Put the name of song and the name of artist in the appropriate genre. In combined categories like Ambient and Classical, you can nominate one song for either category but not both. You can leave some of the categories blank if you want in your nominations email. One thing/stipulation we're adding this year: If we get any of these nomination sheets where somebody basically sent it to nominate one act, we're throwing those out, it's not real participation from our vantage point. People get their friends to nominate all their songs and any super-halfassed effort like this will not be included. This is not about selfish interests but about musical posterity so be true to the music please.

Also if you want to ask folks to nominate you or someone else you're a fan of on the pipeline, you can do that, no problem at all.

Send your nominations email to indiemusicpeople2@gmail.com, they must be in by 12 AM PST 12-11-17.
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Cut and paste this part between the lines

member name (required) -

(no more than one song per genre/category)
Alternative -
Alternative Modern Rock -
Alternative Pop Rock -
Alternative Retro and Psychedelic -
Ambient and Classical -
Blues -
Christian/Spiritual -
Classic and Progressive Rock, and Guitar Instrumental -
Country -
Easy Listening/Soft Rock -
Electronic and Dance -
Folk/Acoustic Rock/Americana -
Hard Alternative - Industrial/Beat Rock - Punk/Emo/Ska -
Hard Rock -
Hip Hop/Rap -
Jazz -
Metal/Hardcore -
Miscellaneous and Comedy -
Pop -
R&B/Soul -
Rock -
World -
Best Band -
Best Male Artist -
Best Female Artist -
Station Manager of the Year -
____________________________________________________________

Send your nominations email to indiemusicpeople2@gmail.com, they must be in by 12 AM PST 12-13-17.

Genres used must be main genres that artist chose. If you see an odd genre, hold cursor over that and you'll see the main genre you're working with.

When nominations are all in (by Dec 13th), a ballot will be created, probably by 1-1-18. Musicology Dept. will help with this as there will be many songs with just one nomination. Each category on the ballot will have 4 to 7 songs in it. Then you will have 2 weeks to vote for whoever.

Simultaneously, there will be a Kayak Song of the Year Tourney, a poll on the front page, between the various songs that have been #1 on Kayak Big 25 since Dec 1st of 2016. That will start this Wednesday we believe.

Any weird shit like songs where the artist changes genres in the middle or ballots we can't verify and so on will be thrown out of the competition.

If there is a final tie in the voting (on final ballot), there's no tie-breaker, both or all 3 songs will get the Kayak.

When competition is done there will be an awards radio show to announce the winners which will also be provided to our affiliate stations. There are no prizes except for a banner on your page and a permanent listing on the Golden Kayak Wall of Fame. The results and radio show will deliver a substantial amount of exposure to the winners. The tentative date for the awards show is January 10th but that is subject to change.

Any questions?

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Bryon Tosoff

11/13/2017 3:46:54 PM

Thanks as always Scott for your considerable efforts,dedication and support in doing this and resurrecting this process in regards to the golden kayaks a few years ago. Much gratitude. great work

bryon

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Psyche's Muse

11/13/2017 6:37:02 PM

Thank You, Scott!

You do endure all of the toils and troubles involved in maintaining this fantastic site! Thanks Again, Scott! -M-

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Richard Scotti

11/13/2017 7:32:32 PM ---- Updated 11/13/2017 7:42:41 PM

On the song page there are two dates. One indicates when the song was created and the other says when the song was last updated. Am I correct in assuming that the first date is the operative one?
(the one that has to be before Oct 11 2016)

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11/13/2017 7:52:44 PM

yes, song created.

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WWMM Michael

11/14/2017 9:57:04 AM

Thanks Scott! So, in other words, all the categories are for songs except for the last four. And those are for humans and one band, correct? I have in mind several nominations already and this will be a ton of fun!!!

Do your mind if I copy/paste just the categories (and later my nominations) to my Facebook timeline? Thanks for all the effort, time, and work you put into this groovy endeavor!

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Father Time

11/14/2017 11:08:56 AM

No, we'll take any free publicity we can get, including Richard's poem and Verity's song!

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WWMM Michael

11/16/2017 12:04:13 AM

For Station Manager, do you want a station's name or the person's name?

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Father Time

11/16/2017 12:09:21 AM

person

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Verity

11/16/2017 7:14:02 AM

But I'm pretty sure if you don't know who the manager is and you think it's a great station you would be allowed to nominate it .... but I could be wrong. I have a few anonymous stations, I think the only one I own up to is "Nothing more than feelings"

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Father Time

11/16/2017 7:34:53 AM

Sure, if you're really fond of one station and don't know the manager of it, nominate th e station.

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WWMM Michael

11/16/2017 8:56:59 PM

bump

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Quizmo

12/1/2017 4:06:05 PM

boink.

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WWMM Michael

12/2/2017 12:17:04 PM

Thanks for re-posting again Scott!

bump (boink) :-)

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WWMM Michael

12/3/2017 9:10:22 PM

bink, bonk, bump

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