Madison Area Music Association Awards

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K.I.L.O aka SkitL'z leaping with a clutch of MAMAs.

K.I.L.O aka SkitL'z

The Madison Area Music Association is keeping its annual awards show in the virtual world for a third year. Hosted by P. C. Allen (a musician and host of WORT-FM's One Fine Morning), the program again features music by local artists filmed in advance by M.O.D. Media Productions; performers announced so far include Lords of the Trident, Ellen Zhou, K.I.L.O aka SkitL'z, The Jimmys and Old Oaks. The performances double as a highlight for professional recording studios, including Warm Glow, Audio for the Arts, Media 22, virtual venue The Spaceship, and WORT-FM. Find the livestream at facebook.com/madisonareamusicassociation, and make donations at themamas.org.

press release: Have you marked your calendar yet? Sunday, November 13, is the date for the 2022 MAMA Awards Show.

We are "IN THE LAB", and you will be too! Your host PC Allen is READY to guide you through the ins and outs of how music and SOUND work!

This year, we celebrate what happens "in the lab" by featuring 10 different local artists performing in 10 unique Madison professional recording studios, which include:

The Spaceship is a a "video and audio hub designed to provide the Madison area a dedicated, personalized space to showcase live content across several mediums, with an emphasis on live music." We just filmed Lords of the Trident there and faces were duly melted. Thank you to all the studios, engineers, performing artists, and finalists. We look forward to celebrating with you at this year's show!

Warm Glow Studios, featuring a performance by Old Oaks.

K.I.L.O. aka SkitL'z is a multi-award-winning hip hop artist, including multiple MAMA awards. For this year's show, she brought back legendary all-star band Weapons of Mass Defunktion, and we can't wait for you to see their performance! We taped it at Media 22, a multimedia company focused on high-quality DJ services, internet radio, and audio engineering/instruction. They even have podcast space rental.

Ellen Zhou (rhymes with 'wow') is a junior at Middleton High and this year's Final Forte winner. She took first prize in the 2021 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Stars of Tomorrow Competition and the 2019 Interlochen Intermediate Concerto Competition, and is a scholarship fellow at the Academy of Music Institute of Chicago.

We taped Ellen's performance at Audio for the Arts, a full-service recording and audio production company offering audio expertise and friendly, professional services to a wide variety of clients.

WORT is a MAMA-award-winning Madison radio station, and our IN THE LAB studio choice for recording another multi-MAMA-award winner, The Jimmys. In fact, The Jimmys have won so many times for Blues Performer of the Year that they're in the MAMA Hall of Fame. See their performance at the WORT FM studio as part of this year's show. WORT is just one of the studios we highlight this year as we feature 10 unique Madison professional recording studios recording 10 different local artists.

Between the performances, DJ Trichrome will be setting the mood as he lends his DJ skills to our big show. We filmed DJ Trichrome at The Spaceship, a "video and audio hub designed to provide the Madison area a dedicated, personalized space to showcase live content across several mediums, with an emphasis on live music." If this looks familiar, it's because we filmed another stellar performance, Lords of the Trident, there as well.  

Ladyslipper is an indie folk band that just formed this year. The Bur Oak says Ladyslipper's vocals "will lead you through a jungle of emotion with untamed hearts keeping time." Ladyslipper filmed at Paradyme Productions. Paradyme is a full-service audio and video production facility and recording studio, and 3-time MAMA winner for Recording Studio of the Year.

Sam Ness has won a MAMA or two, and is one of our featured artists to perform this year for the awards show. We recorded Sam at Studio Gusto, Beth Kille's studio. Beth is another multi-award-winning singer/songwriter and the music director for Girls & Ladies Rock Camp Madison.

Sponsored by Dane Arts, M.O.D Media Productions, Broadjam, Heid Music, Full Compass Systems.