Blues Music Award
The Blues Music Awards are presented by the Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization set up to foster blues heritage. The awards were started in 1980, and are widely regarded as the highest honor for blues artists in the United States.
The awards were formerly known as the W. C. Handy Awards (or "The Handys"), however, they were renamed in 2006 in an effort to increase public appreciation of the significance of the awards.
The Awards had been presented annually in Memphis, Tennessee, where the Blues Foundation is located, but the 2008 award ceremony was held in Tunica, Mississippi.
Read more about Blues Music Award: Blues Music Awards 2011
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