This Sunday, the 21st Annual Cincinnati Entertainment Awards (CEAs) are happening at Memorial Hall! It is truly the best party of the year and a chance to mix and mingle with the coolest people in Cincinnati!

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This year prepare for an epic night of music with Over The Rhine, Freekbass, Ampline, Triiibe, Physco, Knotts, and Lung playing! Plus CityBeat has a special surprise in store for us at the end of the evening? Who is it?! We have no clue but are dying to find out.

And the nominees are…

Bluegrass
Chelsea Ford & The Trouble
Slippery Creek
Comet Bluegrass All-Stars
Hickory Robot
Rumpke Mountain Boys

Country
Jeremy Pinnell
Joe’s Truck Stop
90 Proof Twang
Dallas Moore Band
Noah Smith

Folk/Americana
Maria Carrelli
Arlo McKinley and the Lonesome Sound
Wonky Tonk
The Tillers
Young Heirlooms

World Music/Reggae
Baoku
Jennifer Simone
Queen City Silver Stars
Elementree Livity Project
The Cliftones

Rock
Freak Mythology
Smoke Parade
Wussy
All Seeing Eyes
Heavy Hinges

Metal/Hard Rock
Electric Citizen
Dear Agony
Lift the Medium
Go Go Buffalo
Life After This

Indie/Alternative
Knotts
A Delicate Motor
Daniel in Stereo
PUBLIC
The Ophelias

Punk
Leggy
Vacation
Swim Team
The Pistol Mystics
The Z.G.s

Blues
Noah Wotherspoon
Ricky Nye
J Dorsey Band
Ben Levin
Johnny Fink and the Intrusion

R&B/Funk/Soul
Lauren Eylise
Freekbass
JSPH
Ernie Johnson From Detroit
Audley

Jazz
Brad Myers
Dan Karlsberg
The Hot Magnolias
The Faux Frenchmen
Blue Wisp Big Band

Hip Hop
Patterns of Chaos
Sons of Silverton
Raised X Wolves
Devin Burgess
Triiibe

Electronic
Flocks
Passeport
Fritz Pape
Moira
Moonbeau

Best Live Act
Lung
Lauren Eylise
Triiibe
Go Go Buffalo
Ernie Johnson From Detroit

Best Music Video (Watch Here)
The Tillers – “Riverboat Dishwashing Song” (produced by Even Hand, Nola Lee, Alex Hand and Eli Bedel)
Lung – “Butcher” (directed by Kate Wakefield)
Triiibe – “Gossip” (directed byMarcus Measimer)
Passeport – “Blood” (directed byTyler Billman and Kelsey Wing)
Wonky Tonk – “I Don’t Mind” (directed by Rich Tarbell)

Singer/Songwriter
Arlo McKinley
Lauren Eylise
Noah Smith
Wonky Tonk
Audley

Critical Achievement Awards (determined by the CEA nominating committee)

Album of the Year
The Tillers –The Tillers
Us, Today –Computant
Moonbeau –Moonbeau
A Delicate Motor -Fellover My Own
Wussy –What Heaven is Like

New Artist of the Year
Oids
Patterns of Chaos
Knotts
Flocks
Passeport

Artist of the Year
The Tillers
Lung
Triiibe
Moonbeau
Wussy