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2018, 2016, 2011 BMA Nominee "Best Contemporary Female Blues Artist"
2017 Muddy Award Winner "Best National Recording - Fish Outta Water"
2016 Muddy Award Winner "Performance of the Year"
2016, 2011 Blues Blast Nominee "Best Female Vocalist"
2015 Blues411 Winner "Best Contemporary Female Artist"
2014 Muddy Award Winner "Best Female Vocalist"
2010 WINNER, 2nd Place Band, International Blues Challenge

"Lovely’s style begins from sources within such classic blues singers as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, and, like Janis Joplin before her, she has translated those influences into an utterly gripping, contemporary style of her own."- Don Heckman, International Review of Music, Journalist and Critic for the Village Voice, Pop Music critic for The New York Times and two decades as Jazz and World Music Writer for the Los Angeles Times

"stunningly soulful...absolutely one of the standout artists of the past few years at the Waterfront Blues Festival." - Peter Dammann, Artistic Director, Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival

"She and her band took hold of everyone in the crowd, shook 'em to their core and gave one of the best performances in the 16 year history of the Garvin Gate Blues Festival." - Mike Suttles, Co-producer, GARVIN GATE FESTIVAL, Louisville KY

"Karen Lovely is absolutely one of the rising stars of our Blues genre, [she] left the Tempe Center for Performing Arts audience speechless.”
- Kyle Deibler, President & CEO, MEMPHISWEST MUSIC, LLC

“Karen's got a killer voice, amazing stage presence and completely enraptures her audience. She's brilliant.” - Valerie Ing-Miller, JEFFERSON PUBLIC RADIO