The Illinois Times have finally released their results from their Best Ofs poll earlier this fall. The Best Ofs feature a wide range of categories such as Springfield local businesses, restaurants, bands, people, and more. You can find all of the results in this weeks publication of The Illinois Times which you can pick up for free at numerous local businesses around town. You can also find the results online in two parts: Part 1 and Part 2. We will mention some of the winners for the music related polls here!

First off we would like to congratulate the Curve Inn for winning the category of the best music venue! The runner up was the Hoogland Center for the Arts.

As far as local bands go, the best new band of 2012 got awarded to Brushfire.  The runner up for that one was Big Daddy Jasper. For best local rock band, first place went to KFD, and the runner up was Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters.  The Debbie Ross Band won best jazz group, and the runner up was Dave Littrell. Hipbone Sam won best blues artist, and runner up was the Debbie Ross Band. And finally for the best country band Still Kick’n won first and Brushfire was the runner up.

We would also like to mention that our neighbors at Clay’s Popeye’s Barbecue won best soul food! Great job everybody!