When Fans Have Their Say:
7th Annual IMA Vox Populi
Winners Announced
This year over 37,000 votes from around the globe were cast in the Vox Populi “people’s choice” component of the IMAs for all music, video, art & swag categories. Since art, like most everything, is subjective differences of opinion are accepted, even welcome.
After the votes were tallied, fans & industry only agreed on 7 music winners, 1 design winner, and 1 special category winner. Who got it right?
IMA VOX POPULI SONG WINNERS:
**ALT. COUNTRY: Yarn (NY, USA)
“No Future Together”
AMERICANA: Spring Creek Bluegrass Band (CO, USA)
“High Up in the Mountains”
BLUES: Elam McKnight (TN, USA)
“Devil Minded Woman”
CHILDREN’S MUSIC: Lanny Sherwin (CA, USA)
“Stinky Feet”
CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN: Katy Kinard (CO, USA)
“Worth the Love”
COUNTRY: Chris Gray (TN, USA)
“Stop & Drink It Over”
DANCE/ELECTRONICA: Palanke Soultribe (CA, USA)
“Tropic N' Heaven”
**FILM/ TV / MULTIMEDIA SOUNDTRACK: Jennifer Kreisberg (CT, USA)
“Have Hope” from Unnatural & Accidental
FOLK/SINGER-SONGWRITER: Amit Erez (Tel Aviv, Israel)
“Postcard”
GOSPEL: Ladd Bogdonoff (CA, USA)
“God Will Make a Way”
**HARD ROCK/METAL: Plok (Odense, Denmark)
“I Do NOT Live in a Condo”
JAM: Wassabi Collective –(BC, Canada)
“Blues On My Mind”
JAZZ: Samson Trinh (VA, USA)
“I Can't Believe I'm Addicted To The O.C.”
LATIN: Pepe Alva (FL, USA)
“A Querer”
NEW AGE: Akiko/Firebird 999 (CA, USA)
“Tea Drops from the Skye”
POP/ROCK: The Dollyrots (CA, USA)
“Because I’m Awesome”
PUNK: Scott & Aimee (CA, USA)
“Miss America”
R&B: Mae Gee (CA, USA)
“Can’t Let Go”
**RAP/ HIP-HOP: Animate Objects (IL, USA)
“El Dorado”
SOCIAL ACTION: Dean Murray (Levin, New Zealand)
“Gas is Gone”
**WORLD FUSION: Luca Mundaca (OH, USA)
“Ha Dias”
WORLD TRADITIONAL: Jamie Laval and Ashley Broder (NC, USA)
“Levantine's 'Spinning' Barrel”
ALBUM WINNERS
ALT. COUNTRY (Tie): Jan Bell & The Cheap Dates (NY, USA)
Songs for Love Drunk Sinners and
Jo Kelly Stephenson (Victoria, Australia) I See Flowers, You See Cars
AMERICANA: Hope Nunnery (NY, USA)
Wilderness Lounge
BLUES: Big Pete Pearson (AZ, USA)
I’m Here Baby
CHILDREN’S MUSIC: Ben Rudnick & Friends (MA, USA)
Grace’s Bell
CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN: Canterbury Cross Roads (AL, USA)
Listen
COUNTRY: Jonah’s Road (NSW, Australia)
Counting Down the Days
DANCE/ELECTRONICA: Wax Tailor (NY, USA)
Hope & Sorrow
FOLK/SINGER-SONGWRITER: Julia Joseph (NY, USA)
Hush
GOSPEL: Temeka Thompson (MD, USA)
Bow Down
HARD ROCK/METAL: Unexpect (QC, Canada)
In a Flesh Aquarium
JAM: Foxy Moon Baby (PA, USA)
Dreamer
JAZZ: The Hot Club of San Francisco (CA, USA)
Yerba Buena Bounce
LATIN: La Excelencia (NY, USA)
Salsa Con Conciencia
LIVE PERFORMANCE: Zikrayat (NY, USA)
Live at Lotus
NEW AGE: Lawrence Blatt (CA, USA)
Out of the Woodwork
**POP/ROCK: No More Kings (FL, USA)
No More Kings
R&B: Will Miller (NJ, USA)
Be Here For You
RAP/HIP-HOP: Rasi Caprice (DC, USA)
Taxation Without Representation
WORLD FUSION: Dadawa (CA, USA)
Seven Days
**WORLD TRADITIONAL: Alasdair White (Scotland)
An Clar Gael (The White Album)
DESIGN CATEGORIES
ALBUM ART PHOTOGRAPHY: Denson Baker (NSW, Australia) for
Amanda Baker’s “Superstitious Woman”
ALBUM PACKAGING: Valley Hennel/ John Mclachlan (BC, Canada) for
Pumkids’ “Tuneful Tales for Kids & Kin”
**BAND VENUE POSTER: Michael Wrycraft (ON, Canada) for
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
BAND WEB SITE: Mackenzie Cauley (NY, USA) for
www.davidberkeley.com
INDIE RECORD LABEL WEB SITE: Mackrosoft (WA, USA)
www.mackrosoft.com
SWAG: Denson Baker (NSW, Australia) Hail Mama to the Queen t-shirt
SPECIALTY CATEGORIES
**MUSIC VIDEO: Val Emmich (NJ, USA) “The Only One Lonely” directed by Matt Schuman, Freshhead Films
COLLEGE RECORD LABEL: University Of Colorado, Denver,
CAM Records, “Put Your Ear To The Ground: Colorado Cuts Vol. 2”
