CONGRATS! 2017 Spectator Readers' Choice Award Winners

The votes have been tallied in the 2017 Hamilton Spectator Readers' Choice Awards. Hammertown has chosen their favourite things in the city.

We'd like to make a special shout out to one of our sponsors, Picks and Sticks Music, who won in three categories (see details below). Also, our blogger's workplace, the St. Charles Adult Education Centre won Gold in the Adult Education category and reached the top ten in the Learning Centre list.

Here are the music related categories and the winners. Click here for a complete list.

Local Musician or Band

• Platinum: Freedom Train
  
  
  
  Links: Freedom Train, More Freedom Train Stories, More Neil Young Covers/Stories, Video above courtesy of Freedom Train
  
  
• Diamond: Carl Jennings (Freedom Train)
  
  
  
  Links: Freedom Train, More Freedom Train Stories, More Yes Covers/Stories, Video above courtesy of Freedom Train
  
  
• Gold: Dave Pomfret
  
  
  
  Links: Dave Pomfret. More Dave Pomfret Stories, Video above courtesy of Hamilton Seen
  

Local Musician or Band (Rest of the Top 10)

• Cootes Paradise
• Ginger St. James
• Justine Fischer
• Lacey Hill
• Laura Cole
• Ludger Bourassa
• The Merge

Festival

• Platinum: It's Your Festival
• Diamond: Supercrawl
• Gold: Festival of Friends/Winona Peach Festival

Live Entertainment Facility

• Platinum: Theatre Aquarius
• Diamond: This Ain't Hollywood
• Gold: Hamilton Place

Live Jazz Club

• Platinum: The Cat 'N Fiddle
• Diamond: Artword Artbar
• Gold: Mattson and Co./The Augusta House

Live Music Bar/Lounge

• Platinum: Stonewalls 
• Diamond: This Ain't Hollywood
• Gold: The Speakeasy

Musical Instrument Store

• Platinum: Long and McQuade/Picks and Sticks Music
• Diamond: The Acoustic Room
• Gold: Mountain Music

Music Instructor

• Platinum: Sotyria Violaris (Intune Music Academy)
• Diamond: Adam Scott (Adam Scott Guitar Lessons)
• Gold: Tim Connolly (Capstone Music)

Music School

• Platinum: Intune Music Academy
• Diamond: Hamilton School of Music/Studio E Inc
• Gold: Picks and Sticks Music

Radio Station

• Platinum: KX 94.7 New Country
• Diamond: 95.3 Fresh FM
• Gold: K-Lite FM 102.9

Record/CD Store

• Platinum: Dr. Disc
• Diamond: Cheapies Record and Tapes
• Gold: Picks and Sticks Music

CONGRATS EVERYBODY!

Blast from the Past: Last Year's Winners

Links: Readers' Choice Awards, More Spec Readers' Choice Awards Stories

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