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44th CMAA
Country Music Awards Ceremony

2016 Golden Guitar Awards

Saturday, 23 January 2016
Tamworth Regional Entertainment
and Convention Centre (TRECC), NSW

The 2016 Country Music Awards honored country music artists for musical performances and other career achievements during the 2016 calendar year.

Although Lee Kernaghan was nominated for eight Golden Guitars and won 3, it was Troy Cassar-Daley’s night as the big winner. A special award for Producer of the Year was awarded to Troy Cassar-Daley along with 5 more Golden Guitars: Single of the Year, Song of the Year, Heritage Song of the Year, Male Artist of the Year, Album of the Year.

Graeme Connors was the inductee to the Australasian Country Music Roll of RenownDoug Gallacher was presented with a special Musician of the Year award.

The CMAA Awards is a highlight of the ten day Tamworth Country Music Festival. Each year about 50,000 music fans come to the Festival. The Awards is organized by the Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA).

The 75 Country Music Golden Guitar 2016 finalists were selected from over 500 nominations: industry heavy weights and the emergence of newer artists.

Golden Guitar Winners

I will update this page after the Golden Guitars are awarded 23 January 2016.
 

2016 Tamworth
Country Music Festival

The Festival will run from 15 to 24 January 2016. It’s the largest music festival in the southern hemisphere and one of the top 10 in the world.

There will be over 2,200 events and over 800 artists in the 120 venues that make up the Tamworth Country Music Festival.

The Cavalcade community parade on Saturday 23 January will attract thousands of spectators again this year. Cavalcade parade starts at 9am at the corner of Peel & Hill Streets.

The public was invited to come join the fun and see their favourite country music artists on specially decorated floats.

The trophy is 24cm high and weighs 1.5 kilograms. Over 500 Golden Guitar Awards have been given out since the beginning.

Slim Dusty won an amazing 37 Golden Guitar Awards during his career.

Female Artist of the Year

  • Catherine Britt – Boneshaker
  •   Jasmine Rae – Heartbeat
  •   Ashleigh Dallas – Other Side Of Town
  •   Tori Darke – Silver Lining
  •   Beccy Cole – Sweet Rebecca

Male Artist of the Year

  • Troy Cassar-Daley – Freedom Ride
  •   Roo Arcus – Cowboys & Sunsets
  •   Shane Nicholson – Hell Breaks Loose
  •   Lee Kernaghan – Spirit Of The Anzacs
  •   Travis Collins – Wired

New Talent of the Year

  • Christie Lamb – Broken Record
  •   Brothers 3 – Brothers Never Part
  •   Seleen McAlister – She’s Getting Stronger
  •   Caitlyn Shadbolt – Shoot Out The Lights
  •   Mickey Pye – When She’s Drinkin’

Group or Duo of the Year

  • Adam Eckersley Band – The Second Album
  •   Jetty Road – Hearts On Fire
  •   Kevin Bennett and The Flood – Skin
  •   O’Shea – The Famine and The Feast
  •   Mustered Courage – White Lies & Melodies

Album of the Year

  • Freedom Ride – Troy Cassar-Daley
  •   Boneshaker – Catherine Britt
  •   Spirit Of The Anzacs – Lee Kernaghan
  •   Sweet Rebecca – Beccy Cole
  •   The Famine and The Feast – O’Shea

Single of the Year

  • Take A Walk In My Country – Troy Cassar-Daley
  •   Boneshaker – Catherine Britt
  •   Heartbeat – Jasmine Rae
  •   Secondhand Man – Shane Nicholson
  •   Spirit Of The Anzacs – Lee Kernaghan

APRA AMCOS Song of the Year

  • Freedom Ride – Troy Cassar-Daley (feat. Paul Kelly)
  •   Boneshaker – Catherine Britt
  •   Joshua – Aleyce Simmonds
  •   Secondhand Man – Shane Nicholson
  •   Spirit Of The Anzacs – Lee Kernaghan & Special Guests

Video Clip of the Year

  • Spirit Of The Anzacs – Lee Kernaghan & Special Guests
  •   Boneshaker – Catherine Britt
  •   Parade – O’Shea
  •   Secondhand Man – Shane Nicholson
  •   Take A Walk In My Country – Troy Cassar-Daley

Vocal Collaboration of the Year

  • Spirit Of The Anzacs – Lee Kernaghan & Special Guests
  •   Catch You – Luke O’Shea
  •   Precious Times – Beccy Cole
  •   Two Weeks On, Two Weeks Off – Troy Cassar-Daley
  •   You And Me Against The World – Catherine Britt

Bush Ballad of the Year

  • One Last Muster – Allan Caswell
  •   Bundarra Dust – Norma O’Hara Murphy
  •   Just Drift Back In Time – Tom Maxwell
  •   Lorraine – Dean Perrett
  •   Territory Man – Graham Rodger

Bluegrass Recording of the Year

  • Singin’ Shoes – Pete Denahy
  •   Bumcrack – Beccy Cole
  •   Can’t Hide From The Moonshine – Mustered Courage
  •   Lonesome and Blue – Runaway Dixie
  •   Rabbit in a Log – The Hillbilly Goats

Instrumental of the Year

  • Cluck Old Hen – Pete Denahy
  •   Blood Brothers – Tommy Emmanuel
  •   Broken Hill – 8 Ball Aitken & Pete Denahy
  •   Two Time Shuffle – Michael Fix
  •   Unleashed – Mickey Pye

Heritage Song of the Year

  • Freedom Ride – Troy Cassar-Daley
  •   Broken Soldiers – Beccy Cole
  •   Hermannsburg – Shane Nicholson
  •   Teddy Sheean – Forever Eighteen – Lee Kernaghan
  •   Turn My Hand To – Roo Arcus

Alternative Country Album of the Year

  • Hell Breaks Loose – Shane Nicholson
  •   Come On In – James Blundell
  •   Skin – Kevin Bennett and The Flood
  •   The Mountain – Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes
  •   White Lies & Melodies – Mustered Courage

Sanity Top Selling Australian Album of the Year

  • Spirit Of The Anzacs – Lee Kernaghan & Special Guests
  •   Hell Breaks Loose – Shane Nicholson
  •   Sweet Rebecca – Beccy Cole
  •   The Famine and The Feast – O’Shea
  •   Wired – Travis Collins

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