Lexi-Fest 2020!

We decided, even with C-19, that the show must go on.

But we'll be doing it VIRTUALLY! Event page is HERE.

Details are coming soon (artist roster, time slots, etc), but for now, here is the first draft of the flyer!

Devine Carama's Daughter Killed in Crash

ALL OF US here at the Lexington Music Awards want to express our deepest sympathies to Devine Carama (multiple Lexi Award nominee and winner in multiple categories who has performed at both the awards show and several Lexi-Fest events, and whose work in the community - through several initiatives like the Coats for Kids project - is unparalleled) on the loss of his daughter, 18 year old Kamaria Spaulding, in a car accident yesterday on Bluegrass Parkway.

We cannot even imagine the depths of the loss you and your family have suffered.

May the care and love of those around you provide comfort and peace to get you through the dark days ahead......

Virality & Memetic Behavior

“Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.” - Buzzy Trent

From an actual virus to viral behaviors, everyone has quickly and inescapably begun to feel the impact of what the World Health Organization declared, just a few days ago, a "global pandemic".

Locally, we've seen schools close, events cancelled, and panicked stockpile buying at Big Box stores and, unfortunately, a dramatic decrease in attendance at mom-n-pop establishments, from music venues to restaurants to coffee shops to smaller retail outlets....which threatens not only the hourly wage earners, but the owners, performers, sound-techs, and more....and, by extension, the entire community.

Everyone is being effected, but here at the Lexi Music Awards & Lexi-Fest Concert Series, we just want to give solemn nod to our brothers & sisters in the music & arts community (and the entire support structure for that community) as we all figure out how to navigate this swiftly changing landscape.

But it is noted that venues are now doing no-audience streaming concerts; eateries have moved to take-out & curb-side service, individual artists are employing play-by-request videos, live streaming "living room concerts", chat-room based open mics, and the like; music instructors resorting to technology for a platform-various "virtual lessons"; and much more.

So there is a ray of sunshine in this stressful time.

This piece at SD Universe expresses our concerns, and we hope everyone - while traversing the rough waters of our personal struggles in this time - takes time to reach out to our music peers and neighbors who also need a hand.

Stay strong.

The Artists Speak

We're loving these beautiful graphics made by Renee Collins-Cobb (of Listen Locally) of various award recipients! Check them out!

Awards Links

The official Lexington Music Awards website can be found at LexingtonMusicAwards.ORG and LexingtonMusicAwards.COM.

Social media links for following/subscribing are:

Facebook PAGE and Facebook GROUP.

We are also at TWITTER and INSTAGRAM.

And if you're reading this, you are already at the official blog (which you can also "follow").

There is no official YouTube channel, but some awards informational videos will be posted at the YouTube link below (the what, whys, and hows), so be sure to subscribe there.

Lexi Award founder/producer David M. McLean can be found at Facebook profile & Facebook page, Instagram, YouTube, and Skinny Devil Magazine, as well as his webs-site Skinny Devil Music Lab and SDML Academy of Guitar.

Where else should we be?

VIDEO Playlist of 2020 Awards Show

Kailie Settles playing fabulously at the preshow in the lobby!

We're still getting photos and video of the 6th Lexi Music Awards show that took place January 26, 2020 at the historic Lyric Theatre in downtown Lexington, KY.

But our official videographer is Jay Hamon - and Jay has captured the last 2 years on video for us.

Huge thanx to Jay and all his hard work! The entire 13 video playlist is below....

PLAYLIST DIRECT

And the 2020 Winners Are.....(& Wrap Up)

WHAT AN AMAZING EVENING! The flu struck down 4 presenters, one team leader, several guides, and one performer.....so the incredible Chester Grundy opened the show with a few words, Kristy Beers stepped in on hours notice to perform an incredible flute piece in Whit's absence, Caroline & Autumn stepped in to organize the backstage madness, Greg Francis and Kat Green even climbed the rafters (literally) and pulled their best Macyver to hang the banners, the Lyric tech crew did their magic in record time, Teresa Moberly, Marcie Timmerman, & Angelee Feltner took up all my slack, our presenters did double duty....and it all came together!

Dr Everett McCorvey - Lifetime Achievement recipient!

Probably the rowdiest crowd yet - haha! - and the Mojo Tones fed that with their raucous brand of the blues as our house band! We also had stunning performances from Kailie Settles, Phoebe White, Liza Binford & Vanessa Davis, Ivy Rye, Kristy Beers (as mentioned above) the LaFayette HS Drum Line, who marched in from the back of the theater and played in the aisles!

Bill Meck and Angie Beavin of WLEX did an incredible job, as always, giving the event equal parts class and humor, with an array of fabulous presenters (Drew Curtis of Fark.Com fame, Max Corona & Jay Alexander from WBVX & WBTF, David Helmers of Railbird Festival, Deadair Dennis & Beerman, Autumn Barber of Lex Community Orchestra, Pamula Hounchell of Fashionable Measures, Twitch & MJ from Z-103, Leigh Roach & Tamara Schneider of KY Tastebuds) that even saw Drew bringing out his daughter to read the names of nominees!