Listen Up Awards

After much anticipation, the Listen Up Awards is returning March 26th, 2023 with a new location! This year’s Capital Region music award ceremony/appreciation will take place at the historic Cohoes Music Hall in Cohoes, NY.

For those un-aware of the Listen Up Awards, it is a peoples choice music award ceremony celebrating local talent in the Capital Region created by Mirth Films and Radio Radio X. Your Vote, Your Choice. The inaugural Listen Up Awards was hosted on June 17th at Lark Hall in Albany, NY opening the doors to hundreds of fans and musicians. Out of fairness, any one who won a Listen Up Award last year will not be eligible to win one this year. There will also be multiple live performances artists throughout the ceremony.

Last year, over 130 Capital Region acts were nominated with winners in 27 categories. The goal of the Listen Up awards is to celebrate all the local talent we have throughout the region in a fun manner. The nomination process for 2023’s Listen Up Awards at the Cohoes Music Hall begin November 25th. Stay tuned for more information.

Our categories our as follows:

• Favorite Solo/ Duo
• Favorite solo/duo- covers
• Favorite party band
• Favorite country/ bluegrass artist
• Favorite Country cover band
• Favorite rock cover band
• Favorite Americana artist
• Favorite Rock/ pop band
• Favorite hard rock band
• Favorite Alt/Indie band
• Favorite Folk artist
• Favorite Jazz artist
• Favorite Punk/ garage band
• Favorite metal band
• Favorite jam band
• Favorite blues artist/band
• Favorite R&B/Soul/Funk artist/band
• Favorite Electronica Artist
• Favorite performing/ recording DJ
• Favorite Irish artist/ Band
• Favorite Hip-Hop Artist
• Grateful Dead cover act of the year
• Former Rocker turned blues guy or Irish artist
• Best hair and make-up
• Best dressed

Mirth Films is a music news/entertainment outlet that specializes in live music coverage, original video content and podcasting. We are based out of New York State with news coverage ranging across the whole United States. Head over to Mirth-Films.com to stay up to date with all things live music.

Since we have a wide variety of topics we cover, it reflects in a diverse original video catalogue and news topics we can cover. Our video content consists of live music videos, artist interviews, documentaries, podcasts, video/photo tips, sketch comedy and festival recaps and of course, original series. Our article content is more than just your standard news articles. We also have exclusive interviews, recaps of the latest concerts including high resolution photo galleries and much more.

RadioRadioX.com is an online radio station that has been around for 4 years now and has become the #1 favorite with the People’s Choice Awards for three consecutive years now. Xperience is a monthly print publication that focuses only on music, art and culture.

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