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MUSIC VICTORIA
reveal Industry Awards, Winners,
HALL OF FAME
Inductees +

2021 Music Victoria Awards
Date and Nominees
with Public Voting
now open

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Hall Of Fame Inductee Kylie Minogue – image courtesy of Darenote

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Music Victoria is excited to present the winners of last night’s Industry Awards and unveil the 2021 Hall Of Fame inductees. The second ever live-streamed Industry Awards event was broadcast live on Channel 31 and the web last night to award the industry-voted winners for Victoria’s best producers, venues, festivals and women in music, and reveal the shortlisted nominees for all remaining categories to be presented at the 2021 Music Victoria Awards in December.

Last night’s debut Industry Awards hosts, Emma Peel (PBS 106.7FM) and Daniel James (3RRR 102.7FM) were thrilled to announce the 2021 Music Victoria Awards Hall Of Fame inductees, Kylie Minogue and Pierre Baroni. The internationally acclaimed pop megastar and the late great legend of the Melbourne airwaves will respectively be inducted into the Music Victoria Hall Of Fame at the official Music Victoria Awards ceremony taking place Thursday 9 December at the Melbourne Recital Centre. Melbourne artist, June Jones paid tribute to Kylie by covering her hit song ‘Come Into My World’ live for those lucky enough to have tuned in last night, while PBS 106.7FM Program Manager, Owen McKern praised Pierre on behalf of the station for his posthumous induction.

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Hall Of Fame Inductee Pierre Baroni – image courtesy of PBS

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“PBS is truly thrilled to learn that Pierre Baroni will be inducted into the Music Victoria Awards Hall of Fame. An extraordinary broadcaster, Pierre programmed and presented Soulgroove’66 on PBS from 2003 until his death from cancer in March 2021. Pierre had been broadcasting on PBS since 1997 and his shows became unmissable weekly content for those discovering soul music and classic rhythm and blues. Beyond PBS, Pierre had been a musician, a producer, a photographer and a long-time artist and designer for the Mushroom Group. For all of us here at PBS he was a friend, a cherished colleague and a revered music collector. We still miss him dearly but are delighted that his memory and his legacy will live on through his place in the Music Victoria Awards Hall of Fame.” – Owen McKern, PBS 106.7FM Program Manager

Music Victoria would like to congratulate last night’s winners of the 2021 Industry Awards. First up, is this year’s Outstanding Woman In Music recipient, Charlotte Abroms who will receive $3,500 cash courtesy of the City Of Melbourne. Charlotte is an acclaimed artist manager, APRA/Songhubs board member, and highly sought after mentor and industry panelist. She is an ongoing collaborator with Victorian youth program The Push and is regularly invited to speak at major music institutions and festivals such as Collarts, RMIT, JMC, RaRa Records, Girls Rock!, YWIM, Women in Music, AIR and BIGSOUND. In 2020, Charlotte raised over $50K for Support Act through her Facebook fundraiser and assisted in the early days of livestreamed festival, Isol-Aid to get the platform online, using her extensive contacts in the digital agency world. A previous winner of the Lighthouse Award (2017), Fast Track Fellowship (2018), and Angie McMahon’s 2019 SXSW Grulke Prize, Charlotte can now add 2021 Outstanding Woman In Music to her extensive list of music industry accolades.

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Outstanding Woman In Music Award winner Charlotte Abroms

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The 2021 Best Producer, Eilish Gilligan has taken out a huge prize including $2000 cash thanks to VMDO, a ​​Music Market co-work package and a $1000 voucher to spend on Yamaha gear. First-time virtual festival winner, Isol-Aid has been awarded 2021 Best Festival, taking home a year’s subscription to festival management software loadin.com, while Metropolitan venue winners, Northcote Social Club and Melbourne Recital Centre – Elisabeth Murdoch Hall have each scored Brick Lane Brewing tinnies packages. Finally, reigning Regional venue champions, Theatre Royal, Castlemaine and first time nominees, first time winners, Vine Hotel, Wangaratta have won their respective Outer Suburban/Regional venue categories, each receiving $3000 cash thanks to Bendigo Bank.

The remaining 16 industry-voted award categories and the seven public-voted award categories will be presented at the 17th annual Music Victoria Awards in December, with all nominees now revealed and public voting open.

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Best Producer winner Eilish Gilligan

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This year, Arts Access Victoria are proud to be sponsoring a brand new award category for deaf and disabled artists with a $3000 cash prize for the inaugural Arts Access Victoria Amplify Award, and long-time Awards sponsors, The Archie Roach Foundation have increased their support of the Archie Roach Foundation Award for Emerging Talent in 2021 to match this. New media prizes have also been added for the winning artists in the public-voted categories with Plakkit sponsoring the winner of the Best Album category with a $5000 media package, and Civic Outdoor providing the winner of Best Live Act with a $3000 outdoor billboard package.

Be sure to check out the full list of nominees below and head to the Music Victoria website to cast your vote for Victoria’s best releases and artists of the year. Get your votes in before midnight Friday 5 November and automatically enter into the prize draw to win a prize pack valued at $550 containing goodies from 3RRR 102.7FM, PBS 106.7 FM, Noisy Ritual, Brick Lane and Yamaha.

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2021 Music Victoria Awards

Thursday 9 December
Melbourne Recital Centre
7.00pm
To be broadcast on Channel 31 and live-streamed
via Music Victoria’s Youtube Channel

Music Victoria
Industry Awards Winners:

BEST VENUE UNDER 500 CAP

(prize: tinny package from Brick Lane Brewing)

Winner: Northcote Social Club, Northcote
Nominees:
Brunswick Ballroom, Brunswick
LOOP Project Space & Bar, Melbourne
The Night Cat, Fitzroy
The Substation, Newport

BEST VENUE OVER 500 CAP

(prize: tinny package from Brick Lane Brewing)

Winner: Melbourne Recital Centre – Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Southbank
Nominees:
Corner Hotel, Richmond
Forum Melbourne*
Hamer Hall, Southbank
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne

BEST REGIONAL/OUTER SUBURBAN VENUE UNDER 50 GIGS/yr

(prize: $3000 from Bendigo Bank)

Winner: Vine Hotel, Wangaratta
Nominees:
Halls Gap Hotel, Halls Gap
The Macedon Railway Hotel, Macedon
The Sound Doctor Presents, Anglesea
Tom Katz! @ Sorrento Portsea RSL, Sorrento

BEST REGIONAL/OUTER SUBURBAN VENUE OVER 50 GIGS/yr

(prize: $3000 from Bendigo Bank)

Winner: Theatre Royal, Castlemaine
Nominees:
The Barwon Club Hotel, South Geelong
The Eastern, Ballarat
Piano Bar, Geelong
Sooki Lounge, Belgrave

BEST FESTIVAL

(prize: 1 year subscription to festival management software loadin.com)

Winner: Isol-Aid
Nominees:
Brunswick Music Festival
Melbourne Music Week – Extended
MPavilion 2020
The Secret Garden Gig Gathering

OUTSTANDING WOMAN IN MUSIC

(prize: $3500 from City of Melbourne)

Winner: Charlotte Abroms
Nominees:
Andrea Keller
Emily Ulman
Emma Donovan
Sarah Blaby

BEST PRODUCER

(prize: $2,000 from VMDO + Music Market co-work package + $1000 voucher for Yamaha gear)

Winner: Eilish Gilligan
Nominees:
Alice Ivy
Anna Laverty
Becki Whitton
River Boy

HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Kylie Minogue
Pierre Baroni

Music Victoria Awards
Nominees (industry-voted)

BEST BLUES ACT

Nominees:
Aaron Pollock
Anna Scionti
Blues Roulette
Dan Dinnen & Shorty
Josh Teskey and Ash Grunwald

BEST COUNTRY ACT

Nominees:
Ben Mastwyk & His Millions
Georgia State Line
James Ellis & The Jealous Guys
Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes
The Weeping Willows

BEST ELECTRONIC ACT

Nominees:
Alex Albrecht
Female Wizard
Jennifer Loveless
Reptant
SaD

BEST EXPERIMENTAL OR AVANT-GARDE ACT

Nominees:
Aarti Jadu
Candlesnuffer
Deborah Cheetham, Byron Scullin, Tom Supple
Red Wine and Sugar
Thembi Soddell

BEST FOLK ACT

Nominees:
Charm of Finches
Erica Bramham
Kerryn Fields
Lucy Wise
Maple Glider

BEST HEAVY ACT

Nominees:
Divide and Dissolve
Dr. Colossus
Faceless Burial
Growth
Nicolas Cage Fighter

BEST HIP HOP ACT

Nominees:
Agung Mango
Briggs
Drmngnow
Man Made Mountain
Pookie

BEST INTERCULTURAL ACT

Nominees:
Ajak Kwai
Amaru Tribe
Black Jesus Experience
Gelareh Pour’s Garden
Tio

BEST JAZZ ACT

Nominees:
Australian Art Orchestra
Andrea Kellar
Audrey Powne
Menagerie
The Rookies

BEST POP ACT

Nominees:
Alice Ivy
Alice Skye
Geoffrey O’Connor
Gregor
June Jones

BEST REGGAE AND DANCEHALL ACT

Nominees:
Disun Future
Jah Tung
JahWise Productions
Marvin Priest
Monkey Marc

BEST PUNK/ROCK ACT

Nominees:
Blake Scott
Civic
Mod Con
Plaster of Paris
Tom Lyngcoln

BEST SOUL, FUNK, R’N’B OR GOSPEL ACT

Nominees:
The Bamboos
Emma Donovan & The Putbacks
Hiatus Kaiyote
Izy
Kee’ahn

BEST REGIONAL/OUTER SUBURBAN ACT

Nominees:
Baker Boy
Bones and Jones
D’Arcy Spiller
Fenn Wilson
The Teskey Brothers

ARCHIE ROACH FOUNDATION AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT (FOR FIRST NATIONS ACTS)

Nominees:
Allara
Bumpy
Madi Colville Walker
The Merindas
River Boy

ARTS ACCESS VICTORIA AMPLIFY AWARD (FOR DEAF AND DISABLED ACTS)

Nominees:
Eliza Hull
Gordon Koang
Kerryn Fields
Nat Bartsch
Rudely Interrupted

Music Victoria Awards
Nominees (public-voted)

BEST ALBUM

Nominees:
Alice Ivy – Don’t Sleep
The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You
Emma Donovan & The Putbacks – Crossover
Gordon Koang – Unity
Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant

BEST GROUP

Nominees:
The Avalanches
Emma Donovan and The Putbacks
Hiatus Kaiyote
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Mildlife

BEST SONG

Nominees:
Alex Lahey & Gordi – Dino’s
Alice Skye – Party Tricks
The Avalanches – Wherever You Go
Geoffrey O’Connor & Jonnine – For As Long As I Can Remember
Hiatus Kaiyote – Red Room

BEST SOLO ARTIST

Nominees:
Alice Ivy
Baker Boy
Blake Scott
G Flip
Gordon Koang
Kylie Auldist
Liz Stringer
Maple Glider
Mia Wray
Sampa the Great

BEST BREAKTHROUGH ACT

Nominees:
Ashwarya
Blake Scott
Cry Club
Maple Glider
Shouse

BEST MUSICIAN

Nominees:
Amanda Roff (Time For Dreams, Harmony)
Andrea Keller
Davey Lane (Solo, You Am I)
Emma Donovan
Erica Dunn (Tropical Fuck Storm, MOD CON)
G Flip
Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos)
Mindy Meng Wang
Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote)
Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard)

BEST LIVE ACT

Nominees:
Amyl and The Sniffers
Cable Ties
Kee’ahn
Mildlife
RVG

Voting is open until midnight Friday 5 November
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Music Victoria thanks Major Partners Bendigo Bank, City Of Melbourne, Creative Victoria and Melbourne Recital Centre and Event Partners Brick Lane, Channel 31 and Moshtix for their ongoing support of the Music Victoria Awards.

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