Queensland Music Awards Unveils New Category To Celebrate Innovation

The Queensland Music Awards (QMAs) have announced a new award category for this year’s proceedings, unveiling the Innovation Award ahead of the May 5 ceremony.

The new award, which will "highlight the impressive and diverse work of individuals and businesses across the music industry who have risen to the challenge of 2020 with notable resilience, purpose and innovation”, is open now to public and self-nominations via the QMAs website.

The news arrives as QMusic confirms over 100 industry professional judges and a record number of artist submissions, with almost 1,000 artist song submissions and directors sending in more than 100 music video submissions.

“The quantity and high-calibre of song and music video submissions that have been submitted for this year’s QMAs is testament to the talent, resilience and relentless passion of Queensland musicians and their teams,” QMusic CEO Angela Samut said

“We are so proud to see the level of artistry, storytelling and music that our industry has continued to create over the past 12 months where most have experienced, and continue to experience, unprecedented hardship.

“QMusic has introduced the Innovation Award as acknowledgement to artists and businesses that have managed to create new ways of doing business to not only survive, but thrive in 2020 and beyond.”

Another new category announced for this year is the Contemporary Classical Award, while the Children's Music Award and Emerging Artist Of The Year make a return.

The QMAs winners will be unveiled at Brisbane's Fortitude Music Hall on May 5 with more details to come alongside information on the People’s Choice Awards voting, which will once again take place via theMusic.com.au.

For more details, head to the QMAs website.