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DT Award nominations 2020

Voting is open Monday, January 4 through Friday, January 8, 2021

Dan Ray January 5, 20211 Comment
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Raised by a single mother in the suburbs of Detroit, Dan discovered an early passion for singing, songwriting, and the arts as a whole. She got her BA in English and music at the University of Michigan, where she reported for the school’s paper, The Michigan Daily. She worked as a Senior News Reporter on the government beat, transitioned to arts writing, and eventually became the managing editor of the social media department. She moved to Seattle in 2017. After losing her job during the COVID-19 pandemic and discouraged about the lack of press surrounding Seattle’s music scene, Dan made the decision to turn Dan’s Tunes, a fully fledged music journalism website focused on showcasing the Seattle area’s musicians, into its own startup. There’s so much music happening in the city that spawned Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Jimi Hendrix — among others — and Dan’s Tunes is determined to find and expose those outstanding acts. The goal is to have satellites in every major US city, uplifting diverse and compelling voices and helping music communities thrive. In 2020, Dan was featured in the Seattle Times’s year-end music critic poll. Other than her musical endeavors (singing, playing ukulele, and auditioning for American Idol four times before the age of 24) Ray is passionate about food and education around the American food system, and she’s also a large proponent of eliminating the stigma around mental health. Ray loves cats, especially her own, who is named Macaulay Culkin (but she’s a lady).

Well, we made it to the end of 2020. It was a hard year, but 2020 also brought us a lot of good, like the invigoration of the Black Lives Matter movement, more quality time with people we love, and a whole bunch of new music. From livestream shows to socially-distanced studio time, musicians figured out new ways to keep performing and creating in the midst of stay-at-home orders. Not even a national pandemic, a burning summer, and potentially the most contested, stressful election cycle ever could stop the Seattle music community — and we think that’s worth celebrating. So, in honor of the year that took us all by surprise, we have a surprise in return: the inaugural Dan’s Tunes Awards.

We’ve got your standard categories like Best Album, Best EP, and Best Single, but it wouldn’t be 2020 awards season without Best Festival that Never Happened, Most Missed Venue, or Best Quarantine Hustle. Pick from our favorites, or write in your own. Voting is open now through Friday, January 8, and we’ll announce the winners with a special video drop on January 27.

Listen to the playlist of nominations below, and then vote for all of your favorites here.

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Raised by a single mother in the suburbs of Detroit, Dan discovered an early passion for singing, songwriting, and the arts as a whole. She got her BA in English and music at the University of Michigan, where she reported for the school’s paper, The Michigan Daily. She worked as a Senior News Reporter on the government beat, transitioned to arts writing, and eventually became the managing editor of the social media department. She moved to Seattle in 2017. After losing her job during the COVID-19 pandemic and discouraged about the lack of press surrounding Seattle’s music scene, Dan made the decision to turn Dan’s Tunes, a fully fledged music journalism website focused on showcasing the Seattle area’s musicians, into its own startup. There’s so much music happening in the city that spawned Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Jimi Hendrix — among others — and Dan’s Tunes is determined to find and expose those outstanding acts. The goal is to have satellites in every major US city, uplifting diverse and compelling voices and helping music communities thrive. In 2020, Dan was featured in the Seattle Times’s year-end music critic poll. Other than her musical endeavors (singing, playing ukulele, and auditioning for American Idol four times before the age of 24) Ray is passionate about food and education around the American food system, and she’s also a large proponent of eliminating the stigma around mental health. Ray loves cats, especially her own, who is named Macaulay Culkin (but she’s a lady).

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