New Music Weekly Announces Winners of 2009 NMA's Los Angeles, CA - New Music Weekly magazine has announced the winners for their 2009 New Music Awards. Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Daughtry and the Black Eyed Peas are among the major label winners while Natasha James, Bruce Sudano, Kevin Lucas Orchestra and Vince Hatfield are among the many independent artists in the winners circle. Radio stations, programmers, labels are also awarded top honors in a process. The list of winners will be featured in their 2010 Music Preview issue:

AC/HOT AC NEW ARTIST: NATASHA JAMES

2010 LOS ANGELES MUSIC AWARDS' MULTIPLE NOMINEE ("FEMALE SINGER/SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR," "COUNTRY ARTIST OF THE YEAR") RETURNS TO SONOMA COUNTY FAIR SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR

James To Be A Judge, Contribute A Song To New Web Documentary, FALL IN LOVE WITH AMERICA  - AGAIN

*Performing Locally: SONOMA COUNTY FAIR - Sunday, August 8*

“On the sophomore album from this remarkably-talented Sonoma County singer-songwriter, James is versatile enough to be comfortable in acoustic Americana styles, minor key blues, story songs, straight-ahead rockers, and, surprisingly enough, even Latin jazz…this is a mature singer-songwriter at the peak of her powers who reminds me of Bonnie Raitt and Susan Tedeschi, but has a style all her own.” PAUL LIBERATORE, MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL

(SANTA ROSA, CA) - Multi-talented Americana/Roots singer/songwriter Natasha James  continues her remarkable radio success, with her CDs TEQUILA TIME and BAD JUDGEMENTS currently being played on the air in Japan (where she is currently at #1), The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, England, France, Spain, Italy and more.  Within two hours of her TEQUILA TIME being uploaded, over 400 radio downloads of her songs had occurred! MUSIC NEWS NASHVILLE  called  "If You Think This Is Love" a "downright Bonnie Raitt blues-y performance...one of (James') best. The song is "a twangy hip shaker guaranteed to grab you by your feet and throw you in a dancing mood."

Natasha James & band return to perform for the second consecutive year at the Sonoma County Fair, Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa, Sunday, August 8. 1:15-4:30 p.m. $9. (13 and over). Info: (707) 545-4200 or log onto www.sonomacountyfair.com.

James will be a judge, as well as write the first song, and perform on "FALL IN LOVE WITH AMERICA - AGAIN," a documentary-style web and mobile-based audio/video/multimedia series launching this September highlighting stories from across America. In addition to being made into a feature-length documentary film, the project includes live web cam updates, a touring exhibit, interactive web sites, and social/networking sites. In her judging capacity, James "will be looking for the next great American song!, and working with some of the selected new songwriters," says Executive Producer, Dennis Gelbaum.

"Sonoma County singer-songwriter Natasha James has been your neighbor since 1986, and you may or may not know her, but she's making a name for herself." DAN TAYLOR/SANTA ROSA PRESS DEMOCRAT

The Sonoma County-based musician is nominated in two categories for the 2010 (20th Annual) Los Angeles Music Awards - "Female Singer/Songwriter of the Year" and "Country Artist of the Year." The LAMA's take place November 18 at Paramount Theater in Hollywood, Calif. James won "Country Album of the Year" at the 19th L.A. Music Awards last November for her critically-lauded TEQUILA TIME.

James and her band recently headlined the three-day 2010 San Felipe Tequila Festival in San Felipe, BC, Mexico. “People are still talking about the Natasha James concert on the Malécon. We'd like to see this Tequila Festival grow and grow and hope Natasha will return for the next one,” said Kat Hammontre, the event’s promoter.(www.sanfelipetequilafestival.com)

As hot as any performer going at the moment, Natasha James won “AC/Hot AC New Artist” at the 2009 NEW MUSIC WEEKLY Awards, joining Kings of Leon, Jakob Dylan, Black-Eyed Peas and others on the prestigious winners’ podium; was chosen a “Hot 100 Artist For 2009” by longtime respected trade publication, MUSIC CONNECTION; and saw TEQUILA TIME selected as a “Best Of the 2000’s/End Of Decade” choice by Live 365/WOMENS RADIO, where it is presently being featured.

Natasha was recently featured in SONGWRITER’s MONTHLY, THAT NASHVILLE SOUND, OUTLAW MAGAZINE and NASHVILLE COUNTRY CLUB.”

TEQUILA TIME was engineered by Ronnie Rivera (Lisa Marie Presley) and mastered by Grammy award winner Gavin Lurssen (Krauss/Plant, “Raising Sand.”)