| Music Victoria Awards | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | An annual Awards night celebrating Victorian music. |
| Location | Melbourne, Victoria |
| Country | Australia |
| Presented by | Music Victoria |
| First award | 2006; 19 years ago (2006) |
| Final award | Current |
| Website | musicvictoriaawards |
TheMusic Victoria Awards (previously known asThe Age EG Awards andThe Age Music Victoria Awards[1]) are an annual awards night celebrating music from the Australian state of Victoria. They commenced in 2006 and are awarded in Melbourne Music Week between October and December. The awards were initially an exclusively online public voted awards, changing in 2013.[2]
From 2020, to be eligible, all nominations must be taken from music released between July of the previous year to June of the current year, to bring the awards in line with the past financial year.[3]
Since 2022, the event has occurred at the Edge atFederation Square, Melbourne.[4]
Patrick Donovan started the awards in 2006 to celebrateThe Age Entertainment Guide's 21st anniversary. The2006 awards were a retrospective ceremony and winners came from the past 21 years. The event occurred at the Prince Bandroom, St Kilda.
Donovan ran the awards for six years asThe Age EG Music Awards before leaving The Age in 2011.Mary Mihelakos ran them in 2012 and 2013, and Belinda Collins from 2014. In2018, Laura Imbruglia produced the event and a range of new changes were introduced, including significant category changes. 2018 was the final year of the partnership with The Age. Since 2019, the awards continue titledMusic Victoria Awards.
To be eligible, at least 50% of the act has been living in Victoria for the last two years, or uses Melbourne as a home base. Solo artists must reside in Victoria to be eligible (residency of backing band is not considered).[5]
Award categories have changed over the years, and consist of public voted, industry voted awards and Legend/Hall of Fame inductions.
From 2012 to 2014, the genre specific categories were awarded in October and the public voted awards in November, however, these have been merged into one event since the 2015 event.[6] In 2021, The Awards will introduce a new category to represent the achievements and contributions of disabled and deaf musicians.[7]
The event was held at Prince Bandroom, St Kilda (2006-2011),[1] Billboard (2012-2013),[1] 170 Russell (2014-2017)[8] and The Melbourne Recital Centre (2018–2021) and the EdgeFederation Square (2022 to present).[8]
To see the full article for a particular year, please click on the year link.[9][10]
| The Age Entertainment Guide Awards | |||
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| Year | Best Album | Best Song | Legend / Hall of Fame Inductee |
| 2006[11] | Crowded House -Woodface (1991) | The Church - "Under the Milky Way" (1988) | TISM |
| 2007[12] | Silverchair -Young Modern | Silverchair - "Straight Lines" | Kim Salmon |
| 2008[13] | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | unknown | Died Pretty |
| 2009 | unknown | unknown | Painters and Dockers |
| 2010[14][15] | The Holidays -Post Paradise | Little Red - "Rock It" | Paul Kelly |
| 2011[16][17] | The Wagons -Rumble, Shake & Tumble | Gotye withKimbra - "Somebody That I Used to Know" | Hoodoo Gurus, Stephen Walker |
| 2012[18] | AlpineA is for Alpine | Tame Impala - "Elephant" | Weddings Parties Anything, Ian Rumbold |
| Music Victoria Awards | |||||
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| Year | Best Album | Best Song | Best Group | Best Solo Act | Hall of Fame Inductee |
| 2022 | Baker Boy –Gela | Baker Boy – "Survive" | Emma Donovan & The Putbacks | Julia Jacklin | Deborah Conway |
| 2023 | Cash Savage and the Last Drinks –So This is Love | Julia Jacklin – "Love, Try Not to Let Go" | Cable Ties | Jen Cloher | Kutcha Edwards and Kirsty Rivers |
| 2024 | Angie McMahon-Light, Dark, Light Again | Jess Ribeiro - "Summer of Love" | Gut Health | Maple Glider | Ollie Olsen and The Push (Australian youth music organisation) |
| 2025 | no awards in 2025[19] | ||||
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