Eden Brent - Awards - Nominations - Recordings
Awards and Nominations
Eden is a renowned songwriter, performer and recording artist, and has received numerous awards and nominations. She is a former Mississippi Arts Commission Folk Arts Fellowship recipient, is included in the Mississippi Touring Artist Roster, and was apprentice to Abie “Boogaloo” Ames in a 1994 Folk Arts Apprenticeship. In 2011 she received the Popular Music Award from Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters for her album Ain’t Got No Troubles. In addition, she has a dozen nominations in the Living Blues Awards, and she won the International Blues Challenge in 2006.
Blues Music Awards:
Winner – 2010 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year
Winner – 2009 Acoustic Artist of the Year
Winner – 2009 Acoustic Album of the Year (Mississippi Number One)
Nominee – 2022 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year
Nominee – 2015 Acoustic Album of the Year (Jigsaw Heart)
Nominee – 2015 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year
Nominee – 2012 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year
Nominee – 2011 Album of the Year (Ain’t Got No Troubles)
Nominee – 2011 Koko Taylor Traditional Female Artist
Nominee – 2011 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year
Nominee – 2009 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year
Independent Music Awards:
Winner – 2015 Holiday Song (“Valentine” Jigsaw Heart)
Nominee – 2015 Jazz with Vocals Song
Nominee – 2011 Blues Album
Nominee – 2011 Adult Contemporary Song
Nominee – 2009 Blues Album
After six years of studio silence, Eden Brent emerges with
Getaway Blues, her bluesiest album to date.
Eden Brent – Getaway Blues (Official Music Video)
Recordings
Eden is a Yellow Dog Records recording artist and there are six solo albums in her catalogue: Something Cool (2003); Mississippi Number One (2008); Ain’t Got No Troubles (2010); Jigsaw Heart (2014); An Eden Brent Christmas with Bob Dowell (2018), and Getaway Blues (2024). She boogies on Kern Pratt’s 2019 release Greenville, MS and sings the duet “Southern Honey” with bluesman Johnny Rawls on his 2016 Tiger in a Cage album. In 2012 she recorded Party Dress, an album of songs written by their late mother, Carole Brent, with her sisters, Jessica and Bronwynne, both songwriters.
Event Information:
This is a Southwest Florida Blues Society Event, produced in appreciation for your membership and our volunteer supporters. These special events usually showcase acts that aren’t often routing through Southwest Florida. Providing a special opportunity to see award winning National and International Acts in an intement setting. This performance is open to the public and “free to attend”, the Southwest Florida Blues Society will be offering half-price memberships and renewals during this show.
Hosted by “the Buckingham Blues Bar”, 5641 Buckingham Rd, Fort Myers, FL 33905 – ph 239-693-7111 , (2 sets) from 8:00 – 11:00 pm