2022 Music Victoria Awards

The 2022 Music Victoria Awards are the 17th Annual Music Victoria Awards. The ceremony is scheduled to take place in December 2022.

2022 Music Victoria Awards
Date	13 December 2022[1]
Venue	The Edge, Federation Square
Most awards	Baker Boy (3)
Most nominations	Baker Boy (4)
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The list of industry-voted nominees was announced on 27 October 2022^[2] and the public voted nominees announced on 10 November 2022.^[3]

Music Victoria CEO Simone Schinkel said of the awards "Last night's Music Victoria Awards ceremony was bursting at the seams with the community, camaraderie, and solidarity that we have seen from the music community throughout the Music Victoria Awards campaign. It was an honour to witness three generations in attendance, alongside the full spectrum of the industry involved in contemporary music."^[4]

Hall of Fame inductees

• Deborah Conway (AM)^[5]
• Helen Marcou (AM) and Ian McLean (AM) - founders of Bakehouse Studios
• Best Musician - Xani Kolac

Award nominees and winners

Winners indicated in boldface, with other nominees in plain.^[2][3][4]

Public Voted Awards

Best Album	Best Song
Baker Boy – Gela Harvey Sutherland – Boy JAZZPARTY – Nobody Gets Away Kerryn Fields – Water thndo – Life in Colour	Baker Boy – "Survive" Black Cab – "Rotsler’s Rules" Courtney Barnett – "Rae Street" Guthrie – "Dickhead Song" Julia Jacklin – "Lydia Wears a Cross"
Best Group	Best DJ
Emma Donovan & The Putbacks Camp Cope Dorsal Fins Ramona Sky Telenova	MzRizk and Jennifer Loveless (tie) Memphis LK Reptant Simon TK
Best Solo Artist	Best Regional Act
Julia Jacklin Baker Boy IJALE Kerryn Fields Mo'Ju	Baker Boy Alice Skye Bones and Jones DEAD Jess Parker
Best Metro Festival	Best Regional Festival
Brunswick Music Festival (Wurundjeri) Melbourne Music Week (Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung) Peninsula Summer Music Festival (Boonwurrung) Reunion Park (Wurundjeri) Rising (Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung)	Port Fairy Folk Festival (Gunditjmara) CresFest in Creswick (Dja Dja Wurrung) Meadow in Bambra (Gulidjan, Gadubanud and Wadawurrung) OK Motels in Charlton (Dja Dja Wurrung) Riverboats Music Festival in Echuca-Moama (Yorta Yorta)
Best Large Venue (Metro)	Best Small Venue (Metro)
Forum Melbourne (Wururdjeri and Boonwurrung) Melbourne Recital Centre (Wurundjeri) Palais Theatre (Boonwurrung) Sidney Myer Music Bowl (Wurundjeri) The Night Cat (Wurundjeri)	Brunswick Ballroom (Wurundjeri) Northcote Social Club (Wurundjeri) Shotkickers – Thornbury (Wurunjderi) The Gasometer Hotel – Collingwood (Wurundjeri) The Jazzlab – Brunswick (Wurundjeri)
Best Regional Venue/Presenter (Established)	Best Regional Venue/Presenter (under 50 gigs a year)
Caravan Music Club in Archies Creek (Boonwurrung) Palais Hepburn (Dja Dja Wurrung) The Barwon Club Hotel in Geelong (Wadawurrung) The Taproom – Shedshaker Brewing in Castlemaine (Dja Dja Wurrung) Theatre Royal Castlemaine (Dja Dja Wurrung)	Daylesford Hotel (Dja Dja Wurrung) Ballarat Mechanics' Institute – Minerva (Wadawurrung) Golden Vine Hotel – Bendigo (Dja Dja Wurrung) Hotel Warrnambool (Pheek Whurrong) Music on the Hill (MOTH) – Mornington Peninsula (Boonwurrung)

Industry Voted Awards

Arts Access Amplify Award (for Deaf and Disabled acts)	The Archie Roach Foundation Award for Emerging Talent
Evelyn Ida Morris Batts Between Mirrors Nat Bartsch Saint Ergo	Bumpy Carissa Nyalu Jess Hitchcock MpathSoul – Monica Jasmine Karo Pirritu
Best Blues Work	Best Country Work
Checkerboard Lounge Damon Smith High Ace The Black Sorrows The McNamarr Project	Georgia State Line Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes Michael Waugh Sherry Rich The Weeping Willows
Best Electronic Work	Best Experimental Act or Avant-Garde Work
Harvey Sutherland OK EG Papaphilia Puscha Various Asses	The Amplified Elephants Cat Hope Female Wizard Nina Buchanan Rama Parwata
Best Folk Work	Best Heavy Work
Kerryn Fields Above The Bit Austral Charm of Finches Ruby Gill	Outright Diploid ISUA Jalang Rinuwat
Best Hip Hop Work	Best Jazz Work
MAMMOTH. & Silentjay Jaal Nomad SO.Crates Yung Shōgun	Barney McAll Claire Cross Johannes Luebbers Dectet Peter Knight Sam Anning
Best Pop Work	Best Reggae and Dancehall Work
The Stroppies Confidence Man June Jones Mug Telenova	JahWise Jah Tung Nicky Bomba Shottaz
Best Rock/Punk Work	Soul, Funk, RNB & Gospel Work
Pinch Points Dr Sure's Unusual Practice Jaala King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever	Mo'Ju Kutcha Edwards Lance Ferguson Nikodimos Zretro
MAV Diasporas Award (previously Best Global/Intercultural)	Best Producer
Charles Maimarosia Ajak Kwai Black Jesus Experience Hand to Earth Vanessa Estrada	Alice Ivy Gab Strum Oscar Dawson Stuart Mackenzie Tim Shiel

References

1. "Nominees Announced For 2022 Music Victoria Awards". Music Feeds. 27 October 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
2. "Music Victoria Awards 2022 Nominees for Industry-Voted Categories Announced". Music Victoria. 27 October 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
3. "2022 Music Victoria Awards Reveal Public Voting Categories Nominees". The Music Network. 10 November 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
4. "Music Victoria Awards 2022 Winners". Scenestr. 13 December 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
5. "Music Victoria Awards Unveil 2022 Hall of Fame Inductees". The Music Network. December 2022. Retrieved 11 December 2022.

External links

• Official website