Music Victoria Awards of 2020

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Music Victoria Awards of 2020
Date9 December 2020 (2020-12-09) [1]
Hosted byLyndelle Wilkinson and Chris Gill [1]
Most awards Sampa the Great (4)
Most nominations Sampa the Great (8)
Television/radio coverage
Network PBS 106.7FM, 3RRR & Channel 31 [2]
←  2019  · Music Victoria Awards ·  2021  →

The Music Victoria Awards of 2020 are the 15th Annual Music Victoria Awards and consist of a series of awards, presented on 8 December 2020. For the first time, an Outstanding Woman in Music Award and Best Producer Award will be awarded. [1]

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Hall of Fame inductees

Mary Mihelakos has worked the across the entire spectrum of the industry – running her own PR company, booking a wide range of venues, music editor of Beat, the Sticky Carpet columnist for The Age and running the Music Victoria Awards for a number of years. Mihelakos mortgaged her home to co-deliver the first Aussie BBQ showcases at SXSW – an initiative now adopted for industry events around the world to spotlight Australian acts. [2]

Chris Wilson is a blues singer, harmonica player, guitarist and saxophonist. After his beginnings in Sole Twister, Harem Scarem and Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls, Chris Wilson went on to front his own bands as Crown of Thorns and released a series of acclaimed albums. Wilson died on 16 January 2019, aged 63, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. [2]

Award nominees and winners

General awards

Voted on by the public. Winners indicated in boldface, with other nominees in plain. [3] [4]

Best Victorian AlbumBest Victorian Song
Best BandBest Breakthrough Act
Best MusicianBest Solo Artist
  • Amy Taylor (Amyl and The Sniffers)
    • Erica Dunn (Tropical Fuck Storm, Palm Springs, Mod Con)
    • Gareth Liddiard (Tropical Fuck Storm)
    • Gordon Koang
    • Jen Cloher (Dyson Stringer Cloher)
    • Romy Vager (RVG)
    • Sampa Tembo (Sampa The Great)
    • SilentJay (Sampa The Great, Mandarin Dreams)
    • Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard)
    • Tom Iansek (Big Scary, #1 Dads)
Best Live Act
  • Amyl and The Sniffers
    • Cable Ties
    • Gordon Koang
    • Sampa The Great
    • The Teskey Brothers

Genre Specific Awards

Voted by a select industry panel

Best Blues AlbumBest Country Album
  • Tracy McNeil & The GoodLife – You Be the Lightning
    • The Cartwheels – Self-titled
    • Lost Ragas– This Is Not a Dream
    • Michael Waugh – The Weir
    • Mitch Dean – Holding Back the Levee
Best Electronic ActBest Experimental/Avant-Garde Act
  • Robin Fox
    • Bridget Chappell
    • James Rushford
    • Maria Moles
    • Natasha Anderson
Best Folk or Roots AlbumBest Heavy Album
  • Fiona Ross & Shane O'Mara – Sunwise Turn
    • Charm of Finches – Your Company
    • Liz Frencham – Love and Other Crimes
    • Louisa Wise – All of These Things
    • Ruth Hazleton – Daisywheel
  • Diploid – Glorify
    • Carcinoid – Metastatic Declination
    • Dead – Raving Drooling
    • Internal Rot – Grieving Birth
    • Sithlord – From Out of the Darkness
Best Hip Hop ActBest Intercultural Act
  • Birdz
    • DRMNGNOW
    • Jordan Dennis
    • Nomad
    • Sampa The Great
Best Jazz AlbumBest Reggae or Dance Hall Act
  • Vanessa Perica Orchestra – Love is a Temporary Madness
    • Andrea Keller - Life Is Brut[if]al
    • Horns of Leroy – Big Night
    • JK Group – The Young Ones
    • ZEDSIX – The Shape of Jazz
Best Rock/Punk AlbumBest Soul, Funk, R'n'B and Gospel Album
  • Cable Ties – Far Enough
    • Nuada – Beneath the Swamp
    • Pseudo Mind Hive – Of Seers and Sirens
    • RVG – Feral
    • Shepparton Airplane – Sharks
  • Sampa The Great – The Return
    • Karate Boogaloo – Carn the Boogers
    • Surprise Chef – All News Is Good News
    • The Teskey Brothers – Live at The Forum
    • Various Artists – Over Under Away Volume 1: 10 Years of Hopestreet Recordings

Other Awards

Voted by a select industry panel

Best Small Venue (under 500 capacity)Best Large Venue (Over 500 capacity)
  • The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood
Best Regional/Outer Suburban Venue (Over 50 Gigs a Year)Best Regional/Outer Suburban Venue (Under 50 Gigs a Year)
  • Barwon Club Hotel – Geelong
    • The Bridge Hotel – Castlemaine
    • The Eastern – Ballarat
    • Torquay Hotel – Torquay
    • Sooki Lounge – Belgrave
  • Theatre Royal – Castlemaine
    • The Blues Train – Queenscliff
    • The Sound Doctor Presents – Anglesea
    • Volta – Ballarat
    • Daylesford Cider – Daylesford
Best Regional/Outer Suburban ActBest Festival
  • The Teskey Brothers (Warrandyte)
    • Benny Walker (Echuca)
    • Bones and Jones (Geelong)
    • Freya Josephine Hollick (Ballarat)
    • The Kite Machine (Geelong West)
Best ProducerOutstanding Woman in Music
  • Joelistics for Mo'Ju & Joelistics Ghost Town (EP)
    • Annika Schmarsel aka Alice Ivy: Sunrise', "Don't Sleep", "Better Man" (singles)
    • Anna Laverty: Milk on Milk (Milk! Records compilation)
    • Damien Charles: Coda Chroma Inside the Still Life (Album)
    • Tom Iansek: #1 Dads – Golden Repair (Album)
  • Sarah Hamilton (One of One)
    • Anna Laverty (Music Producer)
    • Charlotte Abroms (Support Act Fundraiser, Music Management)
    • Coco Eke (Bad Apples, Barpirdhila Foundation and Ngarrimili)
    • Emily Ulman (Isol-Aid, Brunswick Music Festival)
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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Music Victoria Awards head online with new format for 2020". themusicnetwork. 29 September 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Mary Mihelakos, Chris Wilson set for Music Victoria hall of fame". The Music Network. 9 October 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  3. ↑ "Industry Awards Winners And Hall Of Fame Inductees Revealed + 2020 Music Victoria Awards Nominees Announced With Public Voting Now Open!". Music Victoria. 9 October 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  4. ↑ "Sampa The Great Walks Off With a Stack of Music Victoria Awards". noise11. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
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