We provided the gig. You provided the bands.

Based on your voting in the sixth annual Roanoke Times music poll, you have two nights of good local music coming Jan. 9 and 10.

Jordan Harman Band, with 107 votes, is the winner of the best local group category, by only one vote. Electric Chameleon is second. Monkey Fuzz finished third, and we have a tie for fourth, between Half Moon and Barefoot West.

You can hear them all on that Friday and Saturday night, with one minor snag: Jordan Harman Band already had weekend shows booked. Fortunately, there’s a remedy. After you hear Half Moon and Monkey Fuzz play at Kirk Avenue Music Hall on Friday, head over to Blue 5 to hear JHB. On Saturday, Barefoot West opens for Electric Chameleon at Jefferson Center’s recital hall.

That’s two shows with your favorite local acts, for only $5 a night. The bands will get paid, and what’s left over will go to the Music Lab at Jefferson Center — Harman said he and his band will “pass the hat” at Blue 5 for music lab donations.

In a year that saw you much more interested in local music than the national scene, Electric Chameleon and Monkey Fuzz dominated the other categories. EC’s “Dreamin’ On” was the clear winner for best album, followed by TK-421’s “Disengaged” — a record released in 2005. Electric Chameleon also won the best concert category, for its much-hyped and super-fancy CD release party Oct. 4 at Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill. Martin’s, by the way, destroyed the competition for best place to hear live music.

Electric Chameleon’s singer, Mohamed Bhana, was also a clear winner in best male vocalist category.

Elsewhere, Monkey Fuzz made its mark. Guitarist Mike Maycock won our first-ever best musician honor, but what a lot of Monkey Fuzz fans might not know is that he is more than a party-time guitarist — he has a deep knowledge of a lot of styles. Bandmate Lisa Martin easily won the best female singer category, for the third consecutive year.

There was only one obvious upset. WROV had won each of the previous five polls for best local radio station. This year, WZZI (The Planet) won with a 20-vote edge.

One newcomer, a podcast, slipped into the local radio voting with a handful of votes — Whiskey N’ Waterbeds, with Joey Camp and Brian Muncy, is a wild mix of punk rock, garage, psychobilly and the hosts’ own alcohol-guzzling antics. The show also got four ballots in the best Internet radio station category. While Whiskey N’ Waterbed’s numbers weren’t that big, it’s the first time a podcast has shown up anywhere in our polls.

There were 1,119 votes cast in the local polling — at least 300 more than last year, and the most ever — but only 143 cast for the national scene. Based on the relatively few national votes, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Metallica and Coldplay were favorites, while many categories didn’t register enough interest to prevent five-way ties for such categories as song of the year (two votes for each of the tunes) and male performer (again, two votes apiece). Even artist of the year produced a three-way tie, with Swift, John Mayer and Metallica each getting three votes.

And of course, you still hate Britney Spears.

THE WINNERS

Local Band
Jordan Harman Band — 107
Electric Chameleon — 106
Monkey Fuzz — 92
Barefoot West — 81
Half Moon — 81

Local Album
“Dreamin’ On,” Electric Chameleon — 98
“Disengaged,” TK-421 — 55
“Shine On,” Jordan Harman Band — 37
“This is the Part Where We Kill You,” SOUL — 36
“Crush That Man, He’s Thinking,” Affliction Kid — 13

Female Singer
Lisa Martin (Monkey Fuzz) — 76
Christy Bowles (Seven Mile Ford) — 55
Sally Williams (Groova Scape) — 51

Male Singer
Mohamed Bhana (Electric Chameleon) — 95
Chuck Johnson (TK-421) — 75
Will Farmer (Monkey Fuzz, Blue Moonshine) — 59
Jordan Harman (Jordan Harman Band) — 53
Eric Scott (SOUL) — 38

Best Musician
Mike Maycock (Monkey Fuzz) — 45
Chuck Johnson (TK-421, Najee) — 30
Troy Winemiller (TK-421) — 29
Corey Hunley (Barefoot West, solo)— 22
Ben Trout (Ben Trout Band, solo) — 22
Brian Green — 22

Best Concert
Electric Chameleon, “Dreamin’ On” CD release party, Oct. 4, Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill — 71
Styx with TK-421, Aug. 15, Mariner’s Landing Summer Concert Series — 46
Perpetual Groove, Feb. 9, The Mix (formerly Mix One6) — 35
Metal Ink Hell Raisers Ball, Nov. 1, Coffee Pot — 23

Best Festival
FloydFest, July 24-27, near Floyd — 138
Festival in the Park, May 22-25, downtown Roanoke — 38
Mariners Landing Summer Concert Series, weekends in August — 33
Metal Ink Fest ’08, July 6, Coffee Pot —  23

Best Place to Hear Live Music
Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill — 152
Coffee Pot — 40
Awful Arthur’s, Towers Shopping Center — 40
202 Market — 34
Blue 5 Restaurant — 32

Best Local Radio Station
WZZI The Planet, 101.5 FM Vinton/Lynchburg — 113
WROV The Rock of Virginia, 96.3-FM, Roanoke — 93
WXLK K92, 92.3 FM Roanoke — 69
WBRW The Bear, 105.3 FM Blacksburg — 23
WSLC Star Country, 94.9 FM Roanoke — 20

Go to blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/cutnscratch for national poll results