Mess of Blues (Stony Plain) * Artist: Jeff Healey* Producers: Jeff Healey & Alec Fraser

Ramblin' Son (Electro-Fi) * Artist: Julian Fauth* Producers: Andrew Galloway, Alec Fraser & Julian Fauth

Blues With A Feeling Award (Lifetime Achievement Award) - Alec Fraser

Bassist Of The Year - Alec Fraser (Jeff Healey Blues Band & Brokenjoe).

Alec would like to thank the blues community for their continued support and Electro-fi Records and Stony Plain Records for the opportunity to produce such fine artists.

For further information on this years collection of excellent canadian nominees and how to vote for them, go to http://www.mapleblues.ca/nominees.aspx

-Monday October 6, 2008. Biggiola Records is happy to announce that the New Dirk Beck CD " Insomnia " is finished and will be available for radio and media very soon. Stay tuned for the release date.

Dirk Beck is a fine Canadian songwriter with deep powerful vocals surrounded by some of the country's finest. Wendell Ferguson, Al Cross, Burke Carroll, Denis Keldie, Christie Gray, Steve Strongman, Colleen Hodgson, Joe Toole and Alec Fraser all join Dirk for this long awaited all original release. Check out Dirk's video on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl2QokkA-Ic directed by David Rendall

- Biggiola Records would like to thank all who were part of an excellent turn out at the Cameron House for Colleen's CD release party. A special thanks to Publicist Louis Michel for all his hard work and for being the entertaining MC of the show. Colleen Hodgson's new CD "Songs of Maggie" will go out to radio September 9th 2008.

- Brokenjoe have written a new record and will commence recording in October 2008. They would like to thank Chuck Jackson of the Port Credit Blues and Jazz Festival for their yearly return to the Fram Slokker's Southside Shuffle portion of this great event. Saturday, September 6th, 2008, 3:00 to 7:00pm
Downtown Port Credit www.southsideshuffle.com/home.htm