Don’t Miss Your Chance to Mix With The Top LGBT Music Stars At Outmusic Awards Tonight

The OutMusic Awards are being held tonight (8th December) at the Grand Ball Room Of  Webster Hall in New York.

Presented by the LGBT Recording Academy, the OUTmusic Awards are the LGBT equivalent of the Grammy awards, and act to celebrate achievement from those in the community in the music and entertainment sector. The evening will see a number of different celebrity presenters handing out the awards, and will include a Lifetime Achievement Award for Kevin Aviance, the Heritage Award for Toshi Reagon, the Visionary Award for Dan Martin and Michael Biello and the honouring of the late Willie Ninja with the OUTMusic Icon award.

Performances include “There You Are” by Christine Martucci which will open the show, as well as numbers by Jason Walker, Toshi Reagon, R&B crooner Nhojj, Rachael Sage, Jasper James, Levi Kreis, Deepa Soul and Kevin Aviance. Also, a Gay Hip-Hop Evolution segment will feature Tori Fixx, J.R., Soce The Elemental Wizard,Mack Mistress and Da Fresh Geex.

Nominees for the awards are:

OUTSTANDING ROCK SONG 2009 NOMINEES
Stewed Tomatoes  – Leather Daddy
Athena Reich -  Love is Love
Jen Urban & the Box -  Let’s Ride
Josh Zuckerman – Got Love?
Phil Putnam  – I’m No Prize

OUTSTANDING POP SONG 2009 NOMINEES
Athena Reich – Love is Love
Billie Myers -  I Hope You’re Happy Now
Ellen Rosner -  Ready, Steady, GO
Heiskell – Sick Of Nothing
Rachael  – Sage Too Many Women (from the FAME Soundtrack)

OUTSTANDING HIP HOP/RAP SONG 2009 NOMINEES
baron. -  Feel Like Fashion
Jasper James -  ROCKET
Mack Misstress – Make it Bounce
Soce, The Elemental Wizard -  Grossed Out
Tori Fixx – I’m the Same

OUTSTANDING R & B/SOUL SONG 2009 NOMINEES
Kalup Linzy Presents –  Asshole
Nhojj – Love
Robert Anton – Bigger Than Me

OUTSTANDING ELECTRO/DANCE SONG 2009 NOMINEES
Ari Gold – Where The Music Takes You
Brian Kent -  Breathe Life
Christian Andreason – Running Back to You – HITPLAY Mix
Jason Walker -  Can’t Stop (Joey Negro Remix)
Lori Michaels – Meet Me At The Partay

OUTSTANDING FOLK/COUNTRY SONG 2009 NOMINEES
Blair Hansen & Vicci Martinez Break Away – (HANNAH FREE Soundtrack)
Crooked Willow – Fall Away (Reprised)
Julie Clark – Growin’ Up
Nick Granato – Who I Am
Rachael Sage – Hunger In John

OUTSTANDING JAZZ SONG 2009 NOMINEES
Avi Wisnia – No Scrubs
Lucy Smith – You Pause – (HANNAH FREE Soundtrack)
Rachael Sage  – Site-Seeing
Steven Franz -  Skins & Shirts

OUTSTANDING INSTRUMENTAL/SOUNDTRACK SONG 2009 NOMINEES
HANNAH FREE, Starring Sharon Gless – Goodby Rachel
HANNAH FREE, Starring Sharon Gless  – On the Lake
HANNAH FREE, Starring Sharon Gless – Meadow Waltz
Jon Gilbert Leavitt  – Lullaby Valkyrie (Lullaby (Walkure)
Jon Gilbert Leavitt – Love Theme from “Heels”

OUTSTANDING CHORAL SONG 2009 NOMINEES
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus – Make Your Own Kind Of Music / New World Coming
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus – We Looked To The Future
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus – U.S.S. Metaphor Highlights
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus ensemble -  The Lollipop Guild
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus with Joan Baez – Swingin’ With The Saints

OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUAL SONG 2009 NOMINEES
Christian Andreason - I Belong to You
Deepa Soul  – Stand Together
Levi Kreis – Stained Glass Window
Sir Ivan – Kumbaya

OUTSTANDING THEATRE/CABARET/COMEDY SONG 2009 NOMINEES
Brian Wilbur Grundstrom Pepe! The Mail Order Monkey Musical – Bridge Club
D. C. Anderson – What’s Happened Since
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus  – My Gallant Crew
Terese Genecco – The Man I Love
Vontanner – A Shangri-las Girl

OUTSTANDING INTERNATIONAL SONG 2009 NOMINEES
Caera  – Suantrai (Seothin Seotho)
Isle of Klezbos/Metropolitan Klezmer Miracle Medley: Hasidic Nign/Poor Man’s Tune
Lee Adam Wilshier – Last Of The Secret Agents
SONiA of disappear fear – Shorashim
Sugarbeach  – Mama I Love Her

OUTSTANDING PRODUCER 2009 NOMINEES
Jon Gilbert Leavitt  – Pride 2009
Rachael Sage -  Vertigo
Scott Free – Equal
Soce, The Elemental Wizard  – Slippin Away
Tori Fixx -  CoExist (DJNB’s Club Video Mix)

OUTSTANDING SONGWRITER 2009 NOMINEES
Athena Reich – Love is Love
Dudley Saunders  – Love Song for Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Altergott – Balloons
Julie Clark – Jacket
Rachael Sage -  Chandelier

OUTSTANDING SINGLE OF THE YEAR 2009 NOMINEES
Athena Reich – Love is Love
Brian Kent – Whatcha Doin’ To Me
Jasper James – ROCKET
Julie Clark -  Courage of Our Convinctions
Kristi Martel -  Photophobia

OUTMUSICIAN OF THE YEAR (Music + Activism) 2009 NOMINEES
Ari Gold – Transport Me
Good Asian Drivers – Queer Nation
Linq  – Change the Picture
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus  – Gabi’s Song – Will It Always Be Like This?
Scott Free -  Free

OUTSTANDING VIDEO 2009 NOMINEES
Stewed Tomatoes – Leather Daddy
Amanda Lepore – Cotton Candy
Jasper James -  ROCKET
Jeffery Straker – Hypnotized
Matt Alber -  The End of The World

OUTSTANDING ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2009 NOMINEES
Athena Reich – Little Girl Dreams  – Little Girl Dreams
Brian Kent-  Breathe Life  – Breathe Life
Dudley Saunders -  Seventeen -  The Emergency Lane
Julie Clark – Courage of Our Convictions  – Change Your Mind
Telling on Trixie/ Derek Nicoletto  – Shooting in 60  – Ugly, Broke & Sober

Online ticket sales and phone sales have now closed, but you can still buy tickets at the door, with a portion of the money raised from ticket sales going to the Reciprocity Foundation that acts to help homeless youth build a successful future for themselves.

Prices for tickets are $40.00 each with the After Party tickets being an additional $20.00.