Sampa The Great Leads 2020 Music Victoria Awards Winners

Some of the best acts, albums, songs and musicians Victoria has to offer took the spotlight tonight as part of the 2020 Music Victoria Awards.

The 16th annual event was live-streamed from Melbourne Recital Centre, with seven public-voted winners and 14 industry-voted winners announced, including Sampa The Great, who won Best Album, Best Solo Artist, Best Soul, Funk, Gospel or RnB Album and Best Song, the latter of which was accompanied by a $3000 cash from APRA AMCOS.

Rockers Amyl & The Sniffers were awarded Best Band and Best Live Act with vocalist Amy Taylor named Best Musician, while Kee’ahn picked up the coveted Archie Roach Foundation Award for Emerging Talent, Paul Kelly inducted the late Chris Wilson into the Music Victoria Hall Of Fame and more.

The evening also featured performances from Alice Skye, Elizabeth, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever and Simona Castricum.

Check out the full list of winners below.

THE 2020 MUSIC VICTORIA AWARD WINNERS

PUBLIC-VOTED WINNERS

Best Album

Sampa The Great – The Return

Best Band (Prize $2000 voucher from Yamaha)

Amyl & The Sniffers

Best Song (Prize $3000 cash from APRA AMCOS)

Sampa The Great – OMG

Best Solo Artist (Prize $1000 voucher from Yamaha)

 Sampa The Great

Best Musician (Prize $1000 voucher from Yamaha)

Amy Taylor (Amyl & The Sniffers)

Best Breakthrough Act (Prize $1000 value in custom made merch from Sound Merch)

Pinch Points

Best Live Act

Amyl & The Sniffers

INDUSTRY-VOTED WINNERS

Best Regional/Outer Suburban Act (Prize $3000 cash from Bendigo Bank)

The Teskey Brothers (Warrandyte)

Archie Roach Foundation Award for Emerging Talent (Prize $2000 cash from Archie Roach Foundation)

Kee’ahn

Best Blues Album

Lloyd Spiegel – Cut And Run

Best Country Album

Tracy McNeil & The GoodLife – You Be The Lightning

Best Electronic Act

Sleep D

Best Experimental or Avant-garde Act

Robin Fox

Best Folk Album

Fiona Ross & Shane O'Mara – Sunwise Turn

Best Heavy Album

Diploid – Glorify

Best Hip Hop Act

Birdz

Best Intercultural Act

Black Jesus Experience

Best Jazz Album

Vanessa Perica Orchestra – Love Is A Temporary Madness

Best Reggae and Dancehall Act

Dub FX

Best Rock/Punk Album

Cable Ties – Far Enough

Best Soul, Funk, Gospel or RnB Album

Sampa The Great – The Return

INDUSTRY AWARDS WINNERS

Best Small Venue (under 500 capacity)

The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood

Best Large Venue (over 500 capacity)

Forum Melbourne

Best Festival

Golden Plains

Best Regional/Outer Suburban Venue (Over 50 gigs per year)

Barwon Club Hotel – Geelong

Best Regional/Outer Suburban Venue (Under 50 gigs per year)

Theatre Royal – Castlemaine

Outstanding Woman In Music

Sarah Hamilton (One Of One)

Best Producer (Prize $1000 voucher from Yamaha)

Joelistics: Mo’Ju & Joelistics - Ghost Town EP

HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Mary Mihelakos (industry)

Chris Wilson (musician)

Sampa The Great

Amyl & the Sniffers

Kee'ahn

Simona Castricum

Alice Skye

Elizabeth

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever