BEST of 2012 Whatzup READERS POLL
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BEST OF 2012 whatzup READERS POLL BEST ROCK PERFORMER/ ORIGINALS ❏ Thunderhawk/The Final Hurrahs VOTE ONLINE AT WWW.WHATZUP.COM ❏ Fair Fjola BEST JAZZ PERFORMER BEST CD RELEASE (ROCK) BEST JAZZ/BLUES CLUB BEST CASUAL RESTAURANT ❏ Valhalla ❏ Todd Harrold Band ❏ The Final Hurrahs/Numéro One ❏ Club Soda (Locally owned; non-franchise) ❏ Elephants in Mud ❏ End Times Spasm Band ❏ Fair Fjola/No One Gets Any ❏ Philmore on Broadway ❏ Henry’s Restaurant ❏ Exterminate All Rational Thought ❏ Jamie Simon Trio ❏ I, Wombat/Cry Like a Man ❏ Skip’s Party Place (Angola) ❏ Casa’s ❏ Unlikely Alibi ❏ Mark Maxwell ❏ Kevin Hambrick/Turtle Wagon Other: ________________________ ❏ Dash-In Other: ________________________ ❏ ❏ Autovator/Drive-In Revolution ❏ Phil Schurger BEST COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB Mad Anthony Brewing Company ❏ House of Bread/Hypnic Jerk ❏ BEST ROCK PERFORMER/COVERS Other: ________________________ ❏ Rusty Spur Saloon CS3 Other: ________________________ ❏ 816 Pint ‘n’ Slice ❏ Cougar Hunter BEST OLDIES ROCK PERFORMER ❏ Neon Armadillo Other: ________________________ ❏ Brother ❏ Pop ‘n’ Fresh BEST CD RELEASE (NON-ROCK) ❏ Captain Ron’s Corral ❏ Freak Brothers ❏ Spike & The Bulldogs ❏ Freak Brothers/Volume 1 Other: ________________________ BEST ETHNIC RESTAURANT ❏ Phil’s Family Lizard ❏ Biff & The Cruisers ❏ Illegitimate Sons/American Music (Locally owned; non-franchise) BEST KARAOKE CLUB ❏ Grateful Groove ❏ Heartbeat City ❏ Megan King/Lionheart ❏ Taj Mahal ❏ Latch String Inn ❏ KillNancy Other: ________________________ ❏ Ty Causey/False Faces ❏ Asakusa ❏ Office Tavern ❏ Kill the Rabbit Other: ________________________ ❏ Baan Thai BEST SINGER/SONGWRITER ❏ North Star Bar & Grill Other: ________________________ ❏ Caliente! ❏ Sunny Taylor BEST EP/SINGLE RELEASE Other: ________________________ ❏ Cebolla’s BEST METAL/HARD ROCK ❏ Lee Miles ❏ Exterminate All Rational Thought/ BEST SPORTS BAR ❏ Koto PERFORMER ❏ Mark Hutchins Lining the Streets ❏ Duty’s Buckets Sports Pub & Grub Other: ________________________ ❏ Valhalla ❏ Kevin Hambrick ❏ Valhalla/Deathless ❏ Wrigley Field Bar & Grill ❏ Brother ❏ Ivory West ❏ Heaven’s Gateway Drugs/CPF FAVORITE RADIO PERSONALITY ❏ Kaysan’s 5th Down ❏ I, Wombat ❏ Will Certain Cassette ❏ JJ Fabini (WXKE) ❏ Arena Bar & Grill ❏ Exterminate All Rational Thought Other: ________________________ ❏ Big Money & The Spare Change/ ❏ Doc West (WXKE) Other: ________________________ ❏ Beneath It All God Dammit, Danny ❏ Julia Meek (WBOI) BEST KARAOKE HOST ❏ Kill the Rabbit Other: ________________________ BEST COFFEE HOUSE ❏ Chilly Adams (WXKE) ❏ Michael Campbell (Shut Up & Other: ________________________ ❏ The Firefly Coffee House ❏ Rich Lee (WBOI) Sing) BEST NATIONAL CONCERT ❏ Dash-In ❏ John (The Mexican) Arroyo BEST BLUES PERFORMER ❏ Bucca Fisher (Bucca Karaoke) ❏ Bob Dylan/Parkview Field ❏ Old Crown Coffee Roasters (WBYR) ❏ G-Money & The Fabulous Rhythm ❏ Barbie Brown (Shooting Star) ❏ Joe Bonamassa/Embassy Other: ________________________ Other: ________________________ ❏ Left Lane Cruiser ❏ Jay Clibon (American Idol) ❏ Elton John/Memorial Coliseum ❏ Taj Maholics ❏ Josh Henry (Ambitious Blondes) ❏ Jason Aldean & Luke Bryan/ BEST NEIGHBORHOOD TAVERN FAVORITE TV PERSONALITY ❏ Todd Harrold Other: ________________________ Coliseum (FORT WAYNE) ❏ Melissa Long (INC) Other: ________________________ ❏ Fear Factory/Piere’s ❏ Henry’s Restaurant ❏ Curtis Smith (INC) BEST LIVE PERFORMER/BAND ❏ Murder by Death/CS3 ❏ Deer Park Irish Pub ❏ Heather Herron (WANE) BEST HIP-HOP/RAP PERFORMER ❏ Valhalla Other: ________________________ ❏ Acme Bar & Grill ❏ Tommy Schoegler (INC) ❏ Sankofa ❏ Thunderhawk/The Final Hurrahs ❏ State Bar & Grill ❏ Eric Olsen (INC) ❏ Third Frame ❏ Brother BEST NATIONAL CONCERT VENUE ❏ The Green Frog Inn ❏ Linda Jackson (INC) ❏ U.R.B. ❏ Cougar Hunter ❏ Embassy Theatre ❏ Mad Anthony Brewing Co. Other: ________________________ Other: ________________________ ❏ Fair Fjola ❏ C2G Music Hall ❏ ❏ Other: ________________________ BEST R&B PERFORMER Unlikely Alibi Piere’s BEST THEATRICAL PRODUCTION ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏ Ty Causey Elephants in Mud Memorial Coliseum BEST NEIGHBORHOOD TAVERN Will Rogers Follies (University of ❏ ❏ ❏ Fatima Washington Freak Brothers The Brass Rail (OUTSIDE FORT WAYNE) St. Francis) ❏ ❏ ❏ Todd Harrold Band Other: ________________________ Other: ________________________ Trion Tavern (New Haven) The Nutcracker (Fort Wayne ❏ Beamer’s Sports Grill (Allen Co.) Ballet) ❏ Freak Brothers BEST LIVE PERFORMER/DUO BEST LOCAL MUSIC VENUE ❏ Rack and Helen’s (New Haven) ❏ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ❏ Urban Legend ❏ Left Lane Cruiser ❏ CS3 ❏ Martin’s Tavern (Garrett) (First Presbyterian Theater) Other: ________________________ ❏ Afro-Disiacs ❏ The Brass Rail ❏ The Wet Spot (Decatur) ❏ A Few Good Men (Fort Wayne ❏ The J Taylors ❏ Latch String BEST FUNK/WORLD MUSIC Other: ________________________ Civic Theatre) ❏ Robbie V. & Heidi ❏ Columbia Street West PERFORMER ❏ Jane Austen’s Emma (all for One ❏ Freak Brothers Other: ________________________ Other: ________________________ BEST OVERALL CLUB ❏ Productions) ❏ Afro-Disiacs CS3 BEST LIVE PERFORMER/SOLO BEST ROCK CLUB ❏ ❏ Legally Blonde (Fort Wayne ❏ U.R.B. ❏ ❏ The Brass Rail Sunny Taylor The Brass Rail ❏ Summer Music Theatre) ❏ Mimi Burns Band ❏ ❏ Columbia Street West Lee Miles CS3 ❏ ❏ The Miser (IPFW) Other: ________________________ ❏ ❏ Rusty Spur Mike Conley Checkerz Bar & Grill ❏ ❏ You Can’t Take It With You (First ❏ ❏ Piere’s BEST PUNK PERFORMER Will Certain Columbia Street West Presbyterian Theater) ❏ ❏ Other: ________________________ ❏ Flamingo Nosebleed Hubie Ashcraft 4D’s Bar & Grill Other: ________________________ Other: ________________________ ❏ Berlin Music Pub BEST FINE DINING RESTAURANT ❏ All theDeparted PERFORMER OF THE YEAR ❏ The Dead Records Other: ________________________ (Locally owned; non-franchise) BEST NEW PERFORMER ❏ ❏ Fair Fjola Other: ________________________ ❏ Paula’s Seafood Fair Fjola BEST DANCE CLUB ❏ ❏ Allan & Ashcraft ❏ ❏ Baker Street ❏ BEST FOLK/AMERICANA Taylor Fredricks After Dark ❏ Lee Miles/Illegitimate Sons ❏ ❏ Club Soda ❏ PERFORMER Valhalla Babylon ❏ Freak Brothers ❏ ❏ Catablu ❏ ❏ Lee Miles/Illegitimate sons Heaven’s Gateway Drugs Early Birds House of Bread Other: ________________________ ❏ ❏ Possum Trot Orchestra Other: ________________________ Other: ________________________ Thunderhawk/The Final Hurrahs ❏ ❏ Sunny Taylor Valhalla ❏ ❏ Fair Fjola 3. No reproductions of this ballot will be accepted. Cougar Hunter Other: ________________________ THE RULES 3. Information requested on the back of this ballot Other: ________________________ BEST COUNTRY MUSIC (or on the online form) must be completely filled VISUAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR ❏ PERFORMER READ CAREFULLY out. Terry Ratliff ❏ ❏ Allan & Ashcraft 1. Vote only once in each category (you may skip 4. Only one entry per household will be accepted. Diane Groenert ❏ ❏ Sugar Shot Multiple ballots from the same household or indi- Donny Manco as many categories as you wish). ❏ ❏ Marshall Law Nick Fabini 2. Only votes for local venues and artists are count- vidual will be disqualified. ❏ ❏ Joel Young Band 5. Completed ballots must be received by no later Jerrod Tobias ed (“local” refers to the whatzup distribution area; ❏ Julia Meek ❏ Staci Stork & Scarlett see website for additional information). than Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Other: ________________________ Other: ________________________ January 3, 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.