24th CMAA
Country Music Awards Ceremony
1996 Golden Guitar Awards
Saturday, 27 Jan 1996
Don Willis Arena, Showground, NSW
The 1996 Country Music Awards honored country music artists for musical performances and other career achievements during the 1995 calendar year.
Toyota was the sponsor this year. “Golden Guitar” trophies were given to winners. Highlight of the Tamworth Country Music Festival, the Awards was organised by Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA).
In 1993 the name changed from the Australasian Country Music Awards to its present name Country Music Awards of Australia.
Album of the Year
Lee Kernaghan 1959 (ABC) APRA Song of the Year Graeme Connors The Great Australian Dream (Panama) Top Selling John Williamson Mulga To Mangoes (EMI) Bush Ballad Heritage Song of the Year Graeme Connors The Ringer And The Princess (Panama) Instrumental of the Year Rod McCormack & Mick Albeck Cut To The Chase (ABC) Video Track Of The Year Graeme Connors The Great Australian Dream Directed by Lindsay Frazer (Panama) | Male Vocalist of the Year Troy Cassar-Daley End Of The Road (Sony) Female Vocalist of the Year Gina Jeffreys Didn’t We Shine (ABC) New Talent of the Year Mark O’Shea The Swimming Song (ABC) Vocal Group or Duo of the Year The Wheel I Fell In Love (rooArt) Vocal Collaboration of the Year Rosemary Rae & Graeme Connors Slowly But Surely (Southland) Producer of the Year Garth Porter Roll of Renown Dusty Rankin |