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List of 2008 Tamworth Winners THE LATEST TAMWORTH NEWS Australasian Country Music News Country Music Association of Australia Country Music Bulletin 2008 TAMWORTH AWARDS etc as Announced Saturday, January 19, 2008 2008 COUNTRY MUSIC ROLL OF RENOWN Inductees Jean STAFFORD & Geoff MACK 2008 HANDS OF FAME Inducteers Mick ANTONIO, Kevin KNAPP, Karen LYNNE, Jim MUIR, Wally SPARROW and Warren H WILLIAMS 2008 COUNTRY MUSIC BROADCASTERS HALL OF FAME Inductees Terry HARKINS & Max THORBURN Sunday, January 20, 2008 2008 STAR MAKER Talia Wittmann from Verdun SA Monday, January 21, 2008 2008 A.B.B.A STAR QUEST Rachel Richards from Brisbane Qld www.bushballadeers.com.au Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2008 AUSTRALIAN BUSH LAUREATE AWARDS Winners in the 2008 Australian Bush Laureate Awards were announced before a capacity audience in the Tamworth Town Hall this afternoon. BOOK OF THE YEAR, for the best original Australian work in book form, the winner was "TOUCHING TALES" by Carol Heuchan. From the NSW Hunter Valley, Carol's first book "Horseplay" led her to the world of bush poetry and success followed success, to the point where now she has won numerous awards and is acknowledged as one of the foremost writers and performers of bush poetry in Australia. ALBUM OF THE YEAR, the winner was "COWPOKES AND INDIANS" by Marco Gliori. For 10 years, Marco has travelled Australia with his original poetry and comedy performances. He is a record four times winner of the Tamworth Country Music Festival Poetry Performance Award and has completed more than 2000 shows for young Australians by courtesy of both the Queensland and Victorian Arts Councils Artists in Education Program. SINGLE RECORDED PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR, the winner was "RAIN FROM NOWHERE" by Murray Hartin. For years, Murray has been making audiences laugh, cry and visualise the spoken word with his unique style of Australian storytelling Through his extensive travels around Australia, he has met a vast and varied collection of remarkable Australians who are the inspiration for his stories. "Rain From Nowhere" addresses the issue of rural suicide and has touched the hearts of people Australia-wide. It is already being spoken of as one of the most significant pieces of Australian verse in recent memory. CHILDREN'S BOOK OR ALBUM OF THE YEAR was "YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING" by Kym Eitel. Describing herself as a typical horse-crazy female, Kym spent most of her youth on horseback. Following a bout with cancer, she wrote "Wild Horse Rain" and has since won many awards for her work. JUDITH HOSIER HERITAGE AWARD, for outstanding achievement in nurturing Australia's heritage of verse, went to the Frank Daniel, for his many years of work and dedication to the bush poetry cause. Frank is recognised as one of Australia's greatest exponents of bush poetry. He has appeared at all the major festivals nationally and has also won many awards and accolades. The Australian Bush Laureate Awards were first staged in 1997 to recognise excellence in published and recorded Australian bush poetry. The 14th Australian Bush Laureate Awards will be held in Tamworth on Tuesday 20th January, 2009. 2008 TELSTRA ROAD TO TAMWORTH 2008 Telstra Road To Tamworth winner is Jasmine Rae from Fawkner Vic Mark Wells from Merewether in Newcastle will also head to Nashville after being named winner of the Telstra Road to Tamworth Songwriters Award www.beinvolved.telstra.com/countrymusic 2008 TIARAS FEMALE VOCAL AWARD Leanda O'Brien - "Fields Of Gold" MALE VOCAL AWARD Rob Wilson - "Real Deal" MICHAEL COWDROY MEMORIAL SONGWRITING AWARD Gail Smith - "Storybook" GENTLEMAN GEOFF BROWN MEMORIAL AWARD David Delle-Vergin - "Waiting Here" STAN COSTER MEMORIAL BUSH BALLAD AWARD Sarah McMonagle - "Our Old Queenslander" VOCAL COLLABORATION AWARD Rose Carleo / Drew McAllister - "Sometimes You Just Know" GROUP AWARD Jetty Road - "Real Smooth Cowboy" BARRY THORNTON MEMORIAL INSTRUMENTAL AWARD Steve Passfield - "Stump Jumpin'" DUO AWARD Jaxonville - "Ready For Us" RECORDING TIME Harmony James ALBUM OF THE YEAR "Heatwave" - Tom Curtain www.tiara-awards.org Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2008 TAMWORTH SONGWRITERS ASSOC AWARDS TSA SONGWRITERS' SALUTE AWARDS OF AUSTRALIA - 71 CDs with 201 songs entered. TSA/CAPITAL NEWS NEW SONGWRITER AWARD - 25 CDs with 59 songs entered. TSA NATIONAL COUNTRY SONGWRITING CONTEST - 377 songs entered. TSA SONGWRITERS' SALUTE AWARDS OF AUSTRALIA CONTEMPORARY COUNTRY SONG OF THE YEAR "THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE" - DAVID & MERELYN CARTER BUSH BALLAD OF THE YEAR "AN EMPTY PLATE" - TREVOR DAY COUNTRY BALLAD OF THE YEAR "WOMAN ON THE LAND" - GRAHAM RODGER GOSPEL SONG OF THE YEAR "WHEN GOD TAKES A PHOTOGRAPH" - BRENDON WALMSLEY, MERELYN & DAVID CARTER CHILDREN'S SONG OF THE YEAR "WHY DOES A COW GO MOO" - RITA SCHNEIDER COMEDY/NOVELTY SONG OF THE YEAR "THERE'S A HOLE IN THE MOZZIE NET" - GRAHAM RODGER & DEIRDRE WILLMINGTON COUNTRY SONG OF THE YEAR "WOMAN ON THE LAND" - GRAHAM RODGER TSA SONGMAKER AWARD WAVE JACKSON TSA/CAPITAL NEWS NEW SONGWRITER AWARD "OLD BROWN GUITAR CASE" - DIANNE LINDSAY TSA TEX MORTON AWARD The Tex Morton Award will be presented to a person, not necessarily a songwriter, who has made outstanding contributions to the cause of Country Music in Australia. There are no finalists. In 2008 the TSA Committee honours their long-serving President and Vice-President who retire this year after two decades contributing to the work of Australian country music songwriters. Recipient - BEV DANIEL Recipient - RON DANIEL Recipient - ROBYN McINTOSH TSA NATIONAL COUNTRY SONGWRITING CONTEST PROFESSIONAL SECTION "A SADDLE FOR A THRONE" - GRAHAM RODGER AMATEUR SECTION "(VOICE OF) THE BUSH BALLADEER" - HAELWEN SIAN JUNIOR SECTION "RIP IT UP" - CHRISTIE LAMB LYRICS ONLY SECTION "THE SADDLE BY THE DOOR" - MANFRED VIJARS www.tsaonline.com.au Thursday, January 24, 2008 2008 PEOPLES CHOICE AWARDS 2008 People's Choice Awards winners Winners in the 2008 Australian Country Music People's Choice Awards were announced in front of a near capacity audience in Tamworth this afternoon. Beccy Cole won the award for Best Female Vocal while Adam Harvey took out the Male Vocal title. Simply Bushed won two awards for Best Group and Best Bush Ballad with "Cangai Bridge". Steve Passfield was named Most Promising Future Star. Cat Southern won the Best Song award with "Little Miss Understood" (together with fellow writers Jasper Somerville & Jay Collie). Steve Eales won Best Album for his first solo outing, "The Battler". Dan Rennie of radio 98.9 FM in Brisbane won Most Popular Country Music DJ while the Victorian and southern NSW based "Truckin' With Tim" was named winner of the Most Popular Country Music Radio Program award. A number of special awards were announced during the ceremony, including a Career Achievement Award to Greg Champion. Organisers of the Awards were delighted with results and attendance at today's gala presentation and acknowledged the support of sponsors Ayers Guitars, Blade Guitars, Country Music Bulletin, Drayton's Family Wines, KV2 Audio, Electro-Voice, Attitude Productions-Films and Red Rebel Music. The 2009 Australian Country Music People's Choice Awards will be staged in Tamworth, Australia's Country Music Capital, next January during the annual country music festival. Voting is expected to get underway mid year. www.peopleschoiceawards.com.au Friday, January 25, 2008 JAZZA QUEST Finals: Wildcard Grand Finalists win Junior section of Bundy Jazzer Quest 2008 What a perfect venue The Pub's Music Room is for the Bundaberg Rum Jazzer Talent Quest. At this year's Tamworth Country Music Festival more than 100 contestants battled it out for incredible prizes. Six heats, producing Grand finalists, were hotly contested daily at 4pm from Friday 18th January until Wednesday 23rd, followed by the Wildcard heat on Thursday 24th, culminating in the Grand Final on Friday 25th. The performance skills displayed were very high. "The Wildcard heat on the Thursday is a successful innovation we introduced a few years back and it's very well received by the audience and contestants," long-time organiser Greg Williams said. "It allows some of those contestants you couldn't possibly leave out, to get another shot at the Grand Final and the big prize pool, and this year it worked out a treat in the Junior section." The Junior section's 3 Grand Final top placings were by 3 Wildcard winners! First prize was taken out by the very talented NSW teenager Jessie Fairweather, a popular crowd choice. As well as winning $1000 from Bundaberg Rum and a fabulous Fender acoustic/electric guitar, Jessie won Axiom Entertainment Agency's scholarship to Tamworth Camerata 2008 - Australia's own youth Country Music school staged annually in Country Music Capital. Second place in the junior section was won by Dana Hassall from Queensland, while Kiera Smith from Victoria took out third place. Second and third junior placegetters received wonderful prizes - $500 and $300 from Bundaberg Rum. The Open section winner, Krystal Donnelly from North Queensland, won $2000 cash from Bundaberg Rum, and a fabulous Fender acoustic/electric guitar, arranged by Cheapa Music, Tamworth. Second place was won by Queenslander Lance Coassin, who impressed the judges just ahead of New Zealander Kaylee Bell. Second and third open section placegetters received substantial cash prizes of $800 and $400 from Bundaberg Rum. Thanks to The Pub, all contestants had the option of utilising the Bundaberg Rum Jazzer Quest band throughout the quest, composed of wonderful musicians Alwyn Aurisch on guitar, Glen Skarratt on bass, and sharing drumming duties, Terry Phillpot and Glenn Wilson. This years MC was Radio personality Aleta Tulk, who kept the whole show running smoothly. Judges for this year's Bundaberg Rum Jazzer Quest came from a wide cross section of the country music industry. Entry fees collected from contestants, amounting to more than $500, were directed to the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute in Melbourne, in memory of the quest's namesake - the late Jazzer Smith. This has been the custom each year as Jazzer was treated at Peter Mac with kindness, love and respect, during his 17-year battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. This quest is now 26 years old, an ongoing icon of the Tamworth Country Music Festival, now firmly established at The Pub, in Tamworth. Strongly supported by wonderful sponsor Bundberg Rum, this quest not only maintains the standard, it raises it! Bundaberg Rum Jazzer Quest winners 2008 KRYSTAL DONNELLY Open winner LANCE COASSIN Open second KAYLEE BELL Open third JESSIE FAIRWEATHER Junior winner DANA HASSALL Junior second KIERA SMITH Junior third Tiffney and Paige win Cutting Edge Music Talent Search with Bree & Lance taking a place The 2008 Cutting Edge Music Talent Search has been won by Tiffney Stroh and Paige Jeffrey. Tiffney won the open section in a tight contest with runner-up Haelwen Sian and third place-getter Lance Coassin. Paige took out the youth section with Bree De Rome in second place and Tiah Guillot third. Lance Coassin was the Highest Point scorer at the CCMA and runner up champion at Jazzer Bree De Rome was grand finalist in the Coke a Cola Talent quest and also grand finalist in the Aristocrat Talent Quest. Saturday, January 26, 2008 2008 GOLDEN GUITARS 36th CMAA COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS OF AUSTRALIA WINNERS VOCAL COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR Lee Kernaghan, Adam Brand & Steve Forde - "Spirit Of The Bush" INSTRUMENTAL OF THE YEAR Steve Passfield - "Stump Jumpin'" SINGLE OF THE YEAR Sara Storer - "Land Cries Out" GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR The McClymonts - "Save Yourself" VIDEO CLIP OF THE YEAR Lee Kernaghan, Adam Brand & Steve Forde - "Spirit Of The Bush" BUSH BALLAD OF THE YEAR Amos Morris - "Sign Of The Times" - Written by Ian Quinn HERITAGE SONG OF THE YEAR Sara Storer - "Land Cries Out" - Written by Sara Storer MATON NEW TALENT OF THE YEAR Kirsty Lee Akers - "Little Things" APRA SONG OF THE YEAR "Land Cries Out" - Written by Sara Storer FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Dianna Corcoran - "Then There's Me" MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Troy Cassar-Daley - "Everything's Going To Be Alright" ALBUM OF THE YEAR "I'm Doin' Alright" - Adam Harvey - Produced by Rod McCormack Winners were announced in Tamworth on Saturday January 26, 2008. www.country.com.au
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