1. Baroque Betty (Bettreena Jaeger), Instagram.com/baroque_betty .

2. Halie Loren , HalieLoren.com .

3. Amiia Nectar , Instagram.com/amiianectar .

After landing in the top three for many years, Bettreena “Betty” Jaeger takes first place in the Best Singer-Songwriter category, and if you’ve ever heard her darkly beautiful indie folk songs, you know the honor is a long time coming. Over the years, she’s lent her haunting voice to several projects in town, mostly recently Baroque Betty, featuring Jaeger’s singing voice against acoustic guitar and luxuriant string arrangements. Jaeger’s lyrics, she says, “are written with the whimsy of literary antiquity, with themes of grief, grit and dreamlike dissociation from a sordid reality.” And she describes her sound ranging from “organic

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