{"id":102,"date":"2011-05-06T12:17:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T16:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/?p=102"},"modified":"2011-05-13T23:06:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T03:06:19","slug":"nighthawks-win-bma-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"The Nighthawks win their first Blues Music Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 32 years since the inception of the Blues Music Awards (formerly known as the W.C. Handy Awards), legendary Washington, D.C., band The Nighthawks had never even been nominated before in any category. That all changed when the 2011 nominations were announced late last year, as the group\u2019s <strong><em>Last Train to Bluesville <\/em><\/strong>album, released in February 2010, was nominated for \u201cAcoustic Album of the Year.\u201d And on May 5 in Memphis at the annual Blues Foundation awards presentation, The Nighthawks heard their name read as the winner. Amid whoops and hollers from the packed audience at the Cook Convention Center, Mark Wenner, Paul Bell, Johnny Castle and Mark Stutso proudly bounded to the stage to accept their first-ever Blues Music Award. Later that night, The Nighthawks performed two songs from the album to the Convention Center audience and to listeners of the live broadcast on Sirius XM\u2019s B.B. King\u2019s Bluesville channel. (See press page for full release)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 32 years since the inception of the Blues Music Awards (formerly known as the W.C. Handy Awards), legendary Washington, D.C., band The Nighthawks had never even been nominated before in any category. That all changed when the 2011 nominations were announced late last year, as the group\u2019s Last Train to Bluesville album, released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}