Steve's Portland Music Awards Synopsis

The quick, brief synopsis:

Likes:
A. Daniel Balwin hosting. Let him do most of the show next time.
B. Deen Castronovo, Drummer for Journey, Bad English, Hardline as a presenter.
C. The variation of genres for the actual performances.
D. The fact that (some of) Portland's musicians get recognized.
E. Some quality nominations for the Jazz and Blues categories and the Legends awards.

Dislikes:
A. The voting process.
B. The sponsor and lack of vendors.
C. The lack of winners to claim their awards. A lot of them weren't even there!
D. Repetition of winners from previous years.
E. Not enough appropriate categories and equality among the nominees.


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