CONGRATS! View Magazine's 2017 Readers' Choice Award Winners!

Results from the 2017 View Magazine Readers' Choice were unveiled in their Oct 19th issue.  Their fans helped vote for the best of everything Hamilton (and the surrounding areas) has to offer.

A special shout-out to one of our sponsors, Judy Marsales Real Estate for winning Gold in the Real Estate Office category

Here are the music-related winners:

Please not that it goes from Gold (top) to Silver (middle or bottom if only two winners) and Bronze (third).

Band

• Arkells
• Walk Off the Earth
• Monster Truck

Female Artist

• Terra Lightfoot
  
  
  
  Links: Terra Lightfoot, More Terra Lightfoot Stories, Video above courtesy of Sonic Unyon Records
  
• Ginger St. James
• Laura Cole 

Male Artist

• Tom Wilson aka Lee Harvey Osmond
  
  
  
  Links: Lee Harvey Osmond, More Lee Harvey Osmond Stories, Video above courtesy of Latent Recordings 
  
  
• Steve Strongman

Cover Band

• Freedom Train
  
  
  
  Links:  Freedom Train, More Freedom Train Stories,Video above courtesy of Freedom Train
  
  
• Monkley Cascade
• The Camel Tones

Band Most Likely to Make it Big

• The Dirty Nil
• Dead Tired

Live Venue

• Stonewalls
• This Ain't Hollywood
• Masque Wine Bar

Country Bar

• Dirty Dog Saloon
• Big Texas (Niagara)

Jazz and Blues Venue

• Masque
• Bay City Music Hall
• Cat N Fiddle

Open Stage

• Lazy Flamingo
• Carrigan Arms
• Rebel's Rock

Festival

• Festival of Friends
• Supercrawl
• It's Your Festival

Free Event

• Supercrawl
• It's Your Festival
• Artcrawl

Coolest Instrument to Play 

• Drums
• Guitar

Independent Music Label

• Hidden Pony
• Sonic Unyon

Recording Studio 

• Grant Avenue Studio
• B-Town Sound
• Studio 410

Producer 

• Bob Doidge (Grant Avenue Studio)
• Justin Koop (B-Town Sound)

Rehearsal Space

• SoundCheck
• The Jam Zone

Musical Instrument Store

• Long and McQuade (Burlington)
• Mountain Music
• Tundra Music

Buying New Music

• Dr. Disc
• Cheapies

Buy Used Music

• Beat Goes On
• Stardust Records
• Cheapies

Radio Station

• KX94.7 FM
• Y108
• CFMU

Radio Personality

• Matt Hayes 102.9 K-Lite
• Mike Alfano 95.3 Fresh

Local Show Promotor

• Brodie Schwendiman
• Ben Rispen
• Ken Inouye

Music School

• Hamilton School of Music
• Long and McQuade
• The Music Stand

Blast from the Past: Last Year's Winners

Links: View, More from the View's Readers' Poll

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