The OffBeat Music and Cultural Arts Foundation’s Best of the Beat Awards 2017 nominations are in. We solicited nominations from musicians and others in the music community. We then gave the results to our writers and editors and with input from both, determined the nominations in each category.

The public started voting on the resulting ballot on December 13. Voting ends on January 12, so if you haven’t voted, you need to before voting closes.

Winners will be announced at the Best of th...