Below is the list of the 2018 Syracuse Area Music Awards Recipients and Hall of Fame Inductees. Winners in each category are highlighted below. A complete list of all previous SAMMY winners can be found on our Past Recipients page.
Best Pop
All Poets & Heroes
Where We Lived and What We Lived For
Nate
Summer is the Cure
Sera Bullis
The Road to Marcellus
Ben Mauro
Good Day
BEA
Old Habits
Best Jazz
Peter Allen Alt Jazz
It Was Just About That Time
Tim Herron
Thinquisition
Robert Holz
Visions: Coast to Coast Connection
E.S.P.
Zero Gravity
Best Hip-Hop or Rap
Sophistafunk
Real Vibration
Seth Dollar
Vanity
Wigs
No Turning Back
Steve Cook
M.I.D. Twenties
Suppa Satty
Who You Thought It Was?
Best Americana
Mark Wahl
Circadia
Austin MacRae
Keeper
Jane Zell
Almost Real
Harmonic Dirt
Anthracite
Ruddy Well & The Region Legion
Common Ground
Best Alternative
The Action!
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Goodnight Forever
Dim Lit Motivation
Mattydale Music Collective
Dreamwyld
Phantom Chemistry
Everything’s Great
Against The Giants
Harden Your Heart
Best Rock
Flashcubes
Forever
The Alpha Fire
Embers
Tommy Gunn
Talk of the Town
Jess Novak Band
Fireworks
The Penetrators
Legacy
Best Hard Rock
Ecliptic Vision
Omphalos of the Void
Sampere
World of Illusion EP
Jeremiah’s Razor
Jeremiah’s Razor
Breaking Solace
The Stand
Between Hope and Fear
With the Water
Best Other Style
Answer the Muse
Now
Leo Crandall
The Art of Swimming
A Cast of Thousands
The Fifth
John Harris
Wake the Dead
Harriet Tubman Freedom Music Festival
Music for Freedom: Harriet Tubman Freedom Music Festival Live! Vol 2
Best Jam Band
Late Earth
The Prevail
Barroom Philosophers
Barroom Philosophers
John McConnell
By Design
Chris Eves & the New Normal
Find Your Way
Old Deer Ensemble
Festival
Best Singer/Songwriter
Amanda Rogers
Heavy Blue
Alex Gideon
Know Different Than Before
Cam Caruso
On the Other Side
Sydey Irving
Hello Stranger
J. Schnitt
How to Be Happy About the End of the World
Best Blues
Bad Mama’s Blues Band
There Goes the Rent
Matthew Black and the Blues Dragons
S/T
Moon Dog Howlers
One Track Mind
Best R&B
Skunk City
Sparked
Kings of the Fall
The Ascension
Diana Jacobs Band
Good Metticine
Best Country
Floodwood
Till I Die
Matt Dunn Band
I Am this Road
Best Electronica
Leper Pony
White Savior
Mazedude
American Pixels
Man Woman Machine
Ultra-Xenosonic
People’s Choice
Best Artist:
Infinity
Best Festival or Music Series:
Taste of Syracuse
Best Venue:
Wildcat Pizza Pub
Hall of Fame
DOVE
Stacey Waterman
Maryjo Spillane
John Cadley
Music Educator:
Monk Rowe
Lifetime Achievement:
Dave Frisina