San Diego Music Awards

The 28th annual San Diego Music Awards will take place in March, 2019. To submit music for consideration, San Diego artists should mail a physical copy of your albums to:                                                        
San Diego Music Awards
4876 Mt Royal Place, San Diego, CA 92117

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
2018 SAN DIEGO MUSIC AWARDS WINNERS

The following are the winners of the 2018 San Diego Music Awards, presented on Monday, March 19, 2018 at House of Blues San Diego. 

Best Singer/Songwriter - Lindsay White 
Best Jazz - Danny Green 
Best Jazz Album - Rebecca Jade & Peter Sprague - Planet Cole Porter 
Best Blues - Whitney Shay 
Best Blues Album - Robin Henkel - Slippery Like a Watermelon Seed 
Best Country or American - Sara Petite 
Best Country or Americana Album - Trouble in the Wind - Pineapple Moon 
Best Hip Hop/Rap - Vokab Kompany 
Best Hip Hop or Rap Album - 1019 The Numberman - Solus Superstes 
Best Indie/Alternative - Authentic Sellout 
Best Indie/Alternative Album - Grizzly Business - Spanish Old Fashioned 
Best Pop - Birdy Bardot 
Best Pop Album - Marie Haddad - Stories from Atlantis 
Best Rock - The Farmers 
Best Rock Album - Mittens - Endlessly 
Best World Music - B-Side Players 
Best World Music Album - Marujah - Marujah Rising 
Best Local Recording - Wish & the Well - Darling Darling 
Best Live Performer - The Creepy Creeps 
Best New Artist - Jumbotron 
Artist of the Year - Trouble in the Wind 
Song of the Year - Ariel Levine - Sunshine Part 2: On My Color TV 
Album of the Year - Little Hurricane - Same Sun, Same Moon 

Lifetime Achievement Award – The Paladins
 

Proceeds from the San Diego Music Awards help to purchase guitars for San Diego County schools, via a partnership between the San Diego Music Foundation and El Cajon's Taylor Guitars.  Over the life of the program, 2,978 guitars have been placed into 85 schools from San Onofre to San Ysidro and over 55,000 K-12 students have been impacted by the program.