When Jefferson Jay launched the San Diego Music Hall of Fame eight years ago, he was inspired by the San Diego Music Awards – but he also wanted his event to be nothing like it.

“The San Diego Music Awards – who we are occasionally conflated with because of both of our goals of honoring San Diego music and doing an annual event – they have kind of a party, a big huge raucous, fun party every year to give away the awards,” Jay said. “It’s a very social event.”

“I wanted to do something more serious and more museum-like,” he told Times of San Diego. “So our whole event is almost designed as kind of a counterpoint to the Music Awards.”

The Hall of Fame ceremony, Jay said, is one day a year where the San Diego music community can “come together and honor its legends, its heroes, share its h

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