SHORT CUTS: The 2009 CJAM Jammy Awards are nigh - VOTE NOW!

Now that everyone can breathe a little easier knowing that CJAM has avoided the chopping block and will be saved via a re-location to 99.1 FM from its current location (still at 91.5 FM), it's on to the next order of business.

The 2009 CJAM Jammy Awards. What is the Jammy Awards you ask? Well, lucky for you, I have the answers!

Every year, CJAM has an awards show, sort of like The Grammy Awards or the Oscars, but instead of celebrating ridiculous things like who was a better actor in a crappy movie, who had the best rental jewelry or who's album sold the most copies to pre-pubescent children, the Jammy Awards celebrates excellence in broadcasting at CJAM 91.5 FM.

Now here's where you come in. As the listeners, CJAM wants to hear from YOU as to who has been setting those gold standards at CJAM.

You can vote now at their website on various categories, including Best New Show, Best Special Interest Show, Best Urban Show, etc. and every CJAM program is up for awards, so make your voice heard. There's also a few non-CJAM awards, such as Best Live Venue and Best Local Band.

Voting closes on April 15, so get your vote in today!

The 2009 edition of The CJAM Jammy Awards takes place on Friday April 24th this year, at The FM Lounge (formerly The Old Fish Market, 156 Chatham St. West, beside Pogo's). The awards ceremony (closed to the public) begins at 8pm. The doors open to the public at 10pm, with live music from 2008's Jammy Award winner for Best Local Band, The Locusts Have No King.

As a four-time Jammy Award winner (1999 Best Special Interest Show "Ear Gravy", 2004 Best New Show "The Windsor Scene", 2006 Best Special Interest Show "The Windsor Scene", 2007 Best Club DJ), I can say the Jammies are a great annual event for all those involved with CJAM. It really brings out the comraderie of the staff and volunteers and really exposes one another to what a diverse array of voices and ideas CJAM houses. If you're a member of CJAM now (or alumni) check out the awards show, it's a great event. If you're a fan and supporter of CJAM, swing by after and join in the celebration of a great Windsor music and community institution that has been supporting Windsor's grass roots since day one, twenty five years ago.

Oh, and I hear Miley Cyrus is coming to the Jammys this year. Apparently she wants to ruin Yellow Wood, because Adam Rideout snubbed her in ustream...