Congratulations to Patrick Jaouen for winning the top trifecta of honors from the 2015 All WNY Music Awards.

BMI Recording Artist was awarded the Best Original Male Pop/Indie Vocalist, award, as well as Album of the Year and EP of the Year, showing that the Rochester vote came out strong during the online voting. Jaouen also placed second in the Best Lyricist, Best Lyrics in a Song, Best Folk Band/Act and Best Solo Act/Project, making him the winning-est artist in the 2015 competition.

In the Best Original Male Pop/Indie Vocalist category, Mike Zogaria came in second, while Austin Nova placed third.

Second place in the Album of the Year category is awarded to Finality Complex for “We Are Robots.” Chris Squier took third with “Hail Ye Sinners.

Zak Ward took second place in the EP of the Year category, while Dirty Smile came in third.

Congratulations to Edward Schbauer, who placed first in the Best Lyricist category. Schbauer is joined in accolades by third-place winner Pete Vogt.

Eli Porter won for Best Bassist. Chris Kingston of Metal Militia finished second in the voting, while Dan McPartlan placed third.
Pete Vogt was the winner of the Best Original Male Rock/Metal Vocalist award. The second-place award goes to Edward Schbauer, while third-place goes to Jammer Corbin of DDT.
Grace Stumberg beat all other women for Best Original Female Vocalist. Stumberg edged out second-place winner Megan Brown and third-place contender Katie Ann.
Music is Art won the Best Music Festival award in the 2015 All WNY Music Awards. Second place was awarded to the Buffalove Music Festival, while third place went to the Night Lights Music Festival.

And finally, All WNY Radio won the Best Local Radio/Podcast Show in the 2015 All WNY Music Awards. Second Place goes to Open Tunings with Scott Regan. Noah’s Ark took third place in the category.

Award certificates for all winners are available on the individual posts for those awards at www.AllWNYAwards.com.

Nominations for the 2016 awards will start in just nine days. Check back here for details.

By Scott Leffler

Scott Leffler is the editor of All WNY News, program director of All WNY Radio, maker of All WNY Stuff and usually, the guy who breaks -- and then (hopefully) fixes things at All WNY. Aside from running All WNY, Scott is a professional narrator, voicing radio and TV commercials, audiobooks, phone systems, and a whole lot of YouTube videos.