{"id":591,"date":"2009-02-26T16:19:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/vote-for-the-dove-awards-who-d.html"},"modified":"2009-02-26T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T16:19:30","slug":"vote-for-the-dove-awards-who-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/vote-for-the-dove-awards-who-d.html","title":{"rendered":"Vote For The Dove Awards &amp; Who Do You Wish Was Nominated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DoveAwards2009.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/118\/import\/DoveAwards2009.JPG\" width=\"250\" height=\"270\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>Fan voting opens today for the 40th Annual Dove Awards, which honor the best in Christian and gospel music This year, fans are invited to vote in the categories of Artist of the Year and New Artist of the year. The cumulative fan vote will count for 1\/3 of the total votes for these two categories, and GMA member voting will count for the other 2\/3 of the total vote.<br \/>\nThe nominees are:<br \/>\n<strong>ARTIST OF THE YEAR<\/strong><br \/>\nCasting Crowns<br \/>\nSteven Curtis Chapman<br \/>\nFireflight<br \/>\nMarvin Sapp<br \/>\nThird Day<br \/>\nTobyMac<br \/>\nChris Tomlin<br \/>\n<strong>NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR<\/strong><br \/>\nAddison Road<br \/>\nFrancesca Battistelli<br \/>\nFee<br \/>\nJonathan Nelson<br \/>\nRemedy Drive<br \/>\nChris Sligh<br \/>\nTenth Avenue North<br \/>\nHead over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gospelmusicchannel.com\/dovesvoting\" target=\"_blank\">Dove Awards website to cast your vote<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>The big question, though, is who would you vote for if you could pick from any Christian music artist not on the list?<\/strong> You can check out the entire list of Dove nominees in this post, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/dove-award-nominations-voting.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dove Award Nominations; Fans Vote For Artist Of The Year.<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Get the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Soundcheck <\/a>headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. 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