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Music Victoria Awards of 2017
Music Victoria Awards of 2017
Date	22 November 2017
Venue	170 Russell, Melbourne, Victoria
Hosted by	Chris Gill and Lyndelle Wilkinson
Most awards	A.B. Original & King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (3)

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The Music Victoria Awards of 2017 are the 12th Annual Music Victoria Awards and consist of a series of awards, presented on 22 November 2017.^[2] For the first time this year, the Best Regional Venue award was separated into of over and under 50 gigs per year.

Music Victoria CEO, Patrick Donovan commended this year's impressive talent saying, "Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees. We are very proud that many of these winners haven't just made an impact in Australia over the last 12 months, but acts such as Jen Cloher, The Teskey Brothers, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and A.B. Original have been flying the Victorian flag overseas."^[1]

Hall of Fame inductees

Tony Cohen

Outstanding Achievement Award

Zo Damage

Zo Damage is music photographer. Her 365 Day Live Music Photography Project and book The Damage Report whereby she photographed a band or more daily for a year, wrapping it up with a sold-out exhibition and book launch at Arts Centre Melbourne.^[1]

Award nominees and winners

All genre Awards

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

Best Album	Best Song
A.B. Original - Reclaim Australia Big Smoke – This is Golden Cable Ties - Cable Ties Jen Cloher – Jen Cloher RVG – A Quality of Mercy	King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – "Rattlesnake" A.B. Original – "January 26" Cable Ties – "Say What You Mean" RVG – "A Quality of Mercy" The Smith Street Band – "Death to the Lads"
Best Male	Best Female
Paul Kelly D.D Dumbo Dan Sultan Remi Tim Rogers	Jen Cloher Ali Barter Freya Josephine Hollick Meg Mac Tash Sultana
Best Band	Best Emerging Artist
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard A.B. Original Cable Ties RVG The Teskey Brothers	The Teskey Brothers Alexander Biggs Amyl and the Sniffers Cable Ties RVG
Best Live Act	Best Festival
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard A.B. Original Cable Ties Cash Savage and the Last Drinks The Peep Tempel	Meredith Music Festival Boogie Festival Golden Plains Laneway Sugar Mountain
Best Venue (Over 500 Capacity)	Best Venue (Under 500 Capacity)
Corner Hotel, Richmond 170 Russell The Croxton Bandroom Forum Theatre, Melbourne Melbourne Recital Centre	The Tote, Collingwood The Curtin The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood The Old Bar, Fitzroy Howler
Best Regional Venue (Over 50 Gigs a Year)	Best Regional Venue (Under 50 Gigs a Year)
Workers Club, Geelong Baha, Rye Barwon Club, Geelong The Eastern Hotel, Ballarat Karova Lounge, Ballarat	Theatre Royal, Castlemaine The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine Meeniyan Town Hall, Meeniyan Music On The Hill, Red Hill Pier Bandroom, Frankston
Best Regional Act
Cosmic Psychos Benny Walker Coda Chroma D.D Dumbo Freya Josephine Hollick

Genre Specific Awards

Voted by a select industry panel

Best Blues Album	Best Country Album
Fiona Boyes – Professin' the Blues Benny & The Fly By Niters – Watch Yourself Dan Dinnen – Keep on Stirrin' the Pot Lloyd Spiegel – This Time Tomorrow White Lightning – Mongrel Blood	Raised By Eagles – I Must Be Somewhere Big Smoke – Time Is Golden Freya Josephine Hollick – The Unceremonious Junking of Me Matt Joe Gow – Seven Years Small Town Romance – Small Town Romance
Best Soul, Funk, R'n'B and Gospel Album	Best Jazz Album
The Teskey Brothers – Half Mile Harvest Cookin' on 3 Burners – Lab Experiments Vol 1 Lance Ferguson – Raw Material The Meltdown – The Meltdown” Silver Linings – So Good to You	Brenton Foster – The Nature of Light Fem Belling – Now Then Paul Grabowsky/Mirko Guerrini/Niko Schäuble – Torrio! Senegambian Jazz Band – Senegambian Jazz Band Speedball – We Have Moved
Best Hip Hop Album	Best Electronic Act
A.B. Original – Reclaim Australia Birdz – Train of thought Must Volkoff – Aquanaut Pez – Don't Look Down Remi – Divas & Demons	Client Liaison Dom Dolla Harvey Sutherland The Journey KLLO
Best Heavy Album	Best Aboriginal Act
Divide and Dissolve – Basic Batpiss – Rest in Piss Clowns – Lucid Again Dødknell – Hatred. Absolute Mammoth Mammoth – Mount the Mountain	A.B Original Archie Roach Benny Walker Birdz Dan Sultan
Best Global or Reggae Album	Best Experimental/Avant-Garde Act
Lamine Sonko and the African Intelligence – Afro Empire Amaru Tribe – Amaru Tribe The Bombay Royale – Run Kitty Run George Telek, David Bridie & Musicians of the Gunantuna – A Bit Na Ta Papa Chango – The Lost Moon of Bellaris	Winter Sound School / Bridget Chappell Byron Scullin James Hullick Miyuki Jokiranta Nat Grant
Best Folk Roots Album
The Mae Trio – Take Care Take Cover Jed Rowe – A Foreign Country Jordie Lane and The Sleepers – Glassellland Leah Senior – Pretty Faces Sophie Koh – Book of Songs

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "The Age Music Victoria Winners 2017". amnplify. November 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
^ "The Age Music Victoria Awards 2017". eventfinda. 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
^ "Previous Nominess". Music Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
^ "Previous Winners". Music Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2020.

External links

Official website

[amnplify-1] "The Age Music Victoria Winners 2017". amnplify. November 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2020.

[2] "The Age Music Victoria Awards 2017". eventfinda. 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2020.

[3] "Previous Nominess". Music Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2020.

[4] "Previous Winners". Music Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2020.

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