Music Victoria Awards Name 55 Genre Nominees

Music Victoria's reborn EG Awards have today announced the nominees across 11 categories, with Dan Sultan, Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Hiatus Kaiyote, Archie Roach and Ooga Boogas picking up nominations amongst many others.

The new-look The Age Music Victoria Awards have had a new drive to better represent the city's music scene, as was indicated upon announcement. Today's nominees have come across the 11 genre award categories and were decided by a range of media and industry representatives. They were broken up into 11 panels for the awards to whittle down lists into top fives. A total of 55 different artists have been recognised.

The public-voted awards, where some of these artists will re-appear, will be announced at a later date.

The awards will take place Wednesday 20 November at Billboard during Melbourne Music Week. Voting for the public categories will open Friday 11 October. Renée Geyer and promoter Michael Gudinski will be inducted into The Age Music Victoria Hall Of Fame on the night.

The full nominations are below:

MBAS Best Blues Album

Chris Russell's Chicken Walk – Shakedown
Chris Wilson & Geoff Achison – Box Of Blues
Nick Charles – Into The Blues
Russell Morris – Sharkmouth
Three Kings – Three Kings

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Best Country Album

Doug Bruce – Made That Way
Nigel Wearne – Black Crow
Raised By Eagles – Raised By Eagles
Sweet Jean – Dear Departure
Dan Waters – La Vita E'Bella

Capi Soda Best Hip Hop Album

Fraksha – My Way
Known Associates – Ashes To Dust
Flu – FluSeason
Must Volkoff – White Russian
Dr. Flea – Keep On Moving

White Sky Best Folk Roots Album

Archie Roach – Into The Bloodstream
The Mae Trio – Housewarming
Tinpan Orange – Over The Sun
The Idle Hoes – Tomorrow Morning
Shane Howard – Other Side Of The Rock

PBS Best Soul, Funk, R'N'B and Gospel Album

Hiatus Kaiyote – Tawk Tomahawk
Judex Rose –Afro Soul Power
Kylie Auldist – Still Life
Sweethearts – Bar Roma
The Cactus Channel – Wooden Boy

Dixons Creek Estate Best Jazz Album

Allan BrowneTrio – Lost In The Stars
Origami – Karaoke 
Murphy's Law – Big Creatures And Little Creatures 
Andrea Keller – Family Portraits
Menagerie – They Shall Inherit

Wifire Music Best Heavy Album

Apart From This – In Gloom
Batpiss – Nuclear Winter
King Parrot – Bite Your Head Off
Ooga Boogas - Ooga Boogas
White Walls – White Walls