Nominations for the 11TH AIR Awards are in. Acknowledging Australia’s best independent recording artists, the 2017 AIR Awards ceremony will offer an added height of excitement as it settles into its new home at Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide on Thursday 27th of July 2017. The AIR Awards have evolved from a small gathering of people at the inaugural Awards in 2006 to become a key event in the Australian music industry calendar. The event showcases and pays tribute to hundreds of Independent artists and labels, delivering performances from some of Australia’s finest acts. Over 100 individual Awards have been presented to date and for many winners it has been the first industry recognition they have received, serving to help springboard them to national and international attention, recognition and success. With genres crossing jazz, classical, blues and roots, country, hip hop, hard rock/punk and dance/electronica,The 2017 AIR Awards nominees are…
BEST INDEPENDENT ARTIST D. D. DUMBO FLUME A.B. ORIGINAL ALEX LAHEY ALI BARTER BEST INDEPENDENT ALBUM OR EP NGAIIRE – BLASTOMA A.B. ORIGINAL – RECLAIM AUSTRALIA ALEX LAHEY – B GRADE UNIVERSITY D. D. DUMBO – UTOPIA DEFEATED BIG SCARY – ANIMAL BEST INDEPENDENT SINGLE FLUME – NEVER BE LIKE YOU (FEAT. KAI) D. D. DUMBO – SATAN A.B. ORIGINAL – JANUARY 26 FEAT. DAN SULTAN BIG SCARY – THE OPPOSITE OF US ALEX LAHEY – YOU DON’T THINK YOU LIKE PEOPLE LIKE ME BREAKTHROUGH INDEPENDENT ARTIST OF THE YEAR – PRESENTED BY PPCA JULIA JACKLIN D.D. DUMBO A.B. ORIGINAL CAMP COPE ALEX LAHEY BEST INDEPENDENT HIP HOP ALBUM REMI – DIVAS AND DEMONS A.B. ORIGINAL – RECLAIM AUSTRALIA L-FRESH THE LION – BECOME HAU – THE NO END THEORY MILWAUKEE BANKS – DEEP INTO THE NIGHT BEST INDEPENDENT COUNTRY ALBUM WILLIAM CRIGHTON – WILLIAM CRIGHTON HENRY WAGONS – AFTER WHAT I DID LAST NIGHT BIG SMOKE – TIME IS GOLDEN BILL CHAMBERS – COLD TRAIL HALFWAY – THE GOLDEN HALFWAY RECORD BEST INDEPENDENT BLUES AND ROOTS ALBUM ARCHIE ROACH – LET LOVE RULE THE WAIFS – BEAUTIFUL YOU RUSSELL MORRIS – RED DIRT RED HEART JULIA JACKLIN – DON’T LET THE KIDS WIN THE WILSON PICKERS – YOU CAN’T CATCH FISH FROM A TRAIN BEST INDEPENDENT HARD ROCK, HEAVY OR PUNK ALBUM DEAD LETTER CIRCUS – AESTHESIS VIOLENT SOHO – WACO LUCA BRASI – IF THIS IS ALL WE’RE GOING TO BE HELLIONS – OPERA OBLIVIA TWELVE FOOT NINJA – OUTLIER BEST INDEPENDENT DANCE/ELECTRONICA ALBUM FLUME – SKIN JAGWAR MA – EVERY NOW & THEN ELIZABETH ROSE – INTRA FRIENDSHIPS – NULLABOR 1988-1989 RAINBOW CHAN – SPACINGS BEST INDEPENDENT DANCE, ELECTRONICA OR CLUB SINGLE FLUME – NEVER BE LIKE YOU (FEAT. KAI) NICK MURPHY – STOP ME (STOP YOU) STARLEY – CALL ON ME BEST INDEPENDENT JAZZ ALBUM VINCE JONES & PAUL GRABOWSKY – PROVENANCE KELLER MURPHY BROWNE – TRAVELLERS JAMES MORRISON & DON BURROWS – IN GOOD COMPANY BEN WINKELMAN TRIO – THE KNIFE BEST INDEPENDENT CLASSICAL ALBUM AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA – BRANDENBURG CELEBRATES SLAVA GRIGORYAN – BACH: CELLO SUITES VOL 1 AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA/RICHARD TOGNETTI – MOZART’S LAST SYMPHONIES GENEVIEVE LACEY & JAMES CRABB – HEARD THIS AND THOUGHT OF YOU
With the full list of artist nominations now announced, stay tuned for the AIR Award nominations for Best Independent Label to be revealed soon.
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