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News.com.au
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
NSW musicians finally get their own awards and it's the biggest cash prize in Australia
NSW musicians will finally get their own awards after decades of being ignored as other states celebrated their local artists. And it's the biggest music prize in Australia, with the state government offering $80,000 to the major NSW Music Award winner for the single or album judged to have 'the most significant impact.' The winners of the First Nations Music Award and Breakthrough Artist of the Year will each score $40,000. 'Despite the fact NSW is the engine room of Australia's music industry, we were one of the only states that didn't have a music prize. I thought that was a travesty, so the arrival of the NSW Music Prize will right that wrong,' Minister for Music John Graham said. While the eligibility criteria is to be finalised, there are a raft of contenders for the inaugural awards open to NSW solo artists or groups who have released new work between July 1, 2024 and June 30 this year. Sydney born and raised global rap star The Kid Laroi is a frontrunner to score a nomination, having released his new single 'How Does It Feel?' just before the June 30 cut off. Indie duo Royel Otis who have taken the world by storm have been strong favourites with awards judges over the past two years. Alternative rockers Lime Cordiale, who have been playing to record crowds in America opening for Tash Sultana, are also in the running with last year's No.1 record 'Enough of the Sweet Talk.' Established artists also vying for the major prize include electronic superstars Rufus Du Sol, acclaimed singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko, hip hop heroes Bliss N Eso, Menangle rockers The Rubens and Angus Stone with his Dope Lemon side project. There is a wealth of First Nations artists from the State making noise on the airwaves and stages also up for the inaugural gongs from proud Nowra rapper Nooky and western Sydney rhyme queen Barkaa to soulful northern NSW singer Budjerah. Emerging acts to keep an eye out for on the nominations list for the awards to be held in Sydney in November during Ausmusic Month are alternative pop chameleon Grentperez, r&b goddess Becca Hatch, Barnesy's grand-daughter Ruby Rodgers and Cronulla all-women indie rockers The Buoys. Graham said the awards were overdue to address the identity crisis suffered by NSW music-makers. 'For a lot of NSW citizens, I don't think they know who their NSW artists are, they would think of them as Australian artists,' he said. 'We just want them to have that second thought to realise how local they are so that deepens the connection between the fan and the artists.' NSW has a long and illustrious roll call of musicians who have claimed global success over the decades from AC/DC, INXS and Midnight Oil to Flume, 5 Seconds of Summer and Dean Lewis. The Breakthrough award will prove a profile-boosting game-changer for emerging talent who struggle to get airplay or cut through on streaming services against top tier international acts. The struggle for local artists can be seen on the ARIA charts where streaming has shut out homegrown releases from the top 50. 'The thing that really worries me is our artists getting locked out of the international music system at the moment as streaming really narrows the chances of our artists taking off,' Graham said. 'Every global success has got to start locally somewhere. And we've got to recognise how important the local scene is and when our local artists do succeed, either on the national or the international stage, we've got to claim them and celebrate them. We've singly failed to do that until now.' Other states are huge on blowing the trumpet for their local acts with long-standing gongs via the Music Victoria Awards (paused for 2025), Queensland Music Awards and SA Music Awards. Respected promoter, indie record label owner and Australian music champion Michael Chugg agreed the awards are long overdue. 'I think nationally we need to get more Aussie kids into Australian music, and these things help,' he said. 'With streaming now, to make it in your own country, you pretty much need to have a big hit in America or England. 'There has been a disconnect here and a lot of people don't even know those artists doing really well overseas are Australian.' The government is now calling for Expressions of Interest to join the nominations committee and judging panels via Sound NSW.
West Australian
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Ord Valley Muster ends on a high note with Lime Cordiale
After 10 days of art, food, laughter and first-class Aussie music, it's time to shake out the picnic blankets and fold up the camping chairs as the sun sets on another successful Boab Metals Ord Valley Muster. The seminal cultural festival for the East Kimberley dry season wrapped up with an electric Kimberley Moon Experience concert on Saturday night headlined by Spotify chart-toppers Lime Cordiale, Thelma Plum and Aussie music legend Mark Seymour and his band The Undertow. It seemed the biggest fans of the Muster were those on stage, with Oli Limebach from Lime Cordiale saying his trip to the East Kimberley had been epic. 'We've had a chopper flight to a secluded waterfall and swum in water so clear you can see fish, we've been hiking and trekking, and we've only been here two days, but it feels so much longer. I want to come back and stay for six months,' he said. Meanwhile, Mark Seymour said his Aviair scenic flight to Purnululu National Park was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. 'The Bungle Bungles are some of the strangest land formations I've ever seen,' he said. 'They look like stone mountains millions of years old, and horizontally striped with different coloured rock, like beehives, rising out of the desert, something like science fiction, incredible, miraculous landforms you won't see anywhere else. If you only do one thing, visit the Bungle Bungles.' Thousands of people attended events throughout Kununurra and its surrounds for the Ord Valley Muster which attracts 1,500 tourists and raises $6 million for the local economy each year. Festival favourites such as Art In The Park, the rodeo, Corroborree Under The Stars and the free event, Party In The Park were all well attended. There were also new events by local tourism operators including the Lake Argyle Cliffside Dinner, Bottomless Brunch at Emma Gorge, Cultural Tour at El Questro, Explore with Lamparangana Fishing Adventures, and Art, Culture and Cuisine by Blak Tapas. Organised by not-for-profit Ord Valley Events Inc, the muster is in its 24th year. Ord Valley Events Inc chair Sophie Cooke said the festival has been built on big decisions. 'Recent years gave us a glimpse of what life without events looks like, the emptiness, a gap in the cultural rhythm of our community because moments of connection, celebration and shared experience are what stitches us together, giving us pride of place and a feeling of honour to be able to share with those that visit,' she said. COVID caused the festival to be cancelled in 2021 and 2022. The 2023 Fitzroy River flood also created challenges when a major bridge was destroyed, cutting off the East Kimberley from the rest of the State. Last year ticket sales from the Kimberley Moon Experience were down 60 per cent, putting the future of the festival in jeopardy. But with funding support from Tourism WA, the muster appears to have bounced back. Dates for next year's festival are set to be announced soon.
