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NEWS RELEASE MAC'S MUSIC ***************************** Nominate Rusty McCarthy for the Maple Blues Awards! Local bluesman needs your vote! With a deadline looming at midnight this Friday, December 5, local grassroots blues and music enthusiasts a

NEWS RELEASE

MAC'S MUSIC

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Nominate Rusty McCarthy for the Maple Blues Awards! Local bluesman needs your vote!

With a deadline looming at midnight this Friday, December 5, local grassroots blues and music enthusiasts are asking the Sault Ste Marie community to help them nominate local bluesman, guitarist, producer and songwriter Rusty McCarthy for the Toronto Blues Society’s 18th Annual Maple Blues Awards.

McCarthy is best known in the Sault as the organizer and driving force behind Blues Night at Algoma's Water Tower Inn & Suites Pub, as well as events at many other musical venues in and around Sault Ste Marie.

He has been instrumental in supporting the independent music community, through his supportive role as a recording engineer and producer for other artists.

He has also recorded and released several CDs of his own original compositions.

But McCarthy’s musical world extends far beyond the Sault.

He has performed with many notable talents, including Alannah Myles, Tom Cochrane, Bare Naked Ladies, The Blues Brothers and the late, great Jeff Healey.

Rusty has travelled far with his musical career, often as bandleader and guitarist with Mary Margaret O'Hara, and shared the stage in that ensemble with musical icons such as Sting, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithful, Steve Earle, and Elvis Costello.

Sault Ste. Marie is incredibly lucky to have a musician of McCarthy’s calibre and experience so active on the local scene, and his fans are hoping the community will step up and show their appreciation by nominating him for for the Toronto Blues Society’s 18th Annual Maple Blues Awards.

Supporters need to register to vote at mapleblues.ca.

They can then proceed to the “Electric Act of the Year” category, choose “Other” and then type in “Rusty McCarthy”.

Find out more about Rusty and his music here.

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