Nominees Announced For 2024 AAM Awards

Behind every great artist is a manager that truly believed in them, and primed them to hit the milestones they have. To celebrate these industry legends, the Association of Artist Managers have today (April 17) unveiled the nominees for this year’s AAM Awards.

The prestigious awards will be handed out at an invite-only ceremony in Sydney (Eora) on Wednesday May 1, kicking off at noon for industry professionals attending (at the Crowbar) before it streams online for the public an hour later. The event will be hosted by Myf Warhurst, with a press release promising “special guest performances on the day”.

As always, this year’s finalists were selected by a committee of judges comprising “highly respected representatives from different areas of the Australian music industry”.

We already know who’s receiving the AAM’s Legacy Award for 2024 – Jodie Regan of Spinning Top Music, who we have to thank for the wild global successes of acts like Tame Impala, Haiku Hands and Pond – while the recipients of the APRA AMCOS Lighthouse Award and AAM Patrons Gift Award will remain a mystery until the ceremony itself.

There are ten nominees up for the flagship Manager Of The Year award (presented this year by Oztix), including Ashleigh Hills and Dan Nascimento of the UNIFIED Music Group (nominated separately), the duos of Jamie-Rose Fowler and Charlotte Ried (of Powerhouse Management), Nathan Farrell and Adam ‘Weez’ Booth (Calibre Music Management), and Simone Ubaldi and Andrew Parisi (Sundowner Artists), and solo stalwarts Andrew Klippel (Ourness), James Fava (Intergalactic Fantastic Worldwide), Jeremy Furze (Applejack Music), Leigh Treweek (Handshake MGMT) and Nicholas O’Byrne (Look Out Kid).

Australia’s best up-and-coming managers will also share the spotlight, with five nominees vying for the title of Breakthrough Manager Of The Year (as presented by DMT Law Firm): Ali Tomoana of Soul Has No Tempo, Darcy O’Brien of Wildfire Music, Elise Naismith of Lemon Tree Music, Udaravi Widanapathirana of SemaphoreMGMT, and the duo of Megan Rasmussen and Harry White of Future Classic.

Last, but certainly not least, are the nominees for this year’s Community Engagement Award, presented by Live Event Logistics, for which there are also five nominees: Hayley-Jane Ayres of 360 Artist Logistics, Jannah Beth of Offbeat Collective, Kerry Kennell of Kennell & Co, Tim Levinson of Elefant Traks, and Zac Abroms of Viceroyalty.