The nominations are flowing in for the Music Victoria Awards 2021.

Don't miss out! There's less than two weeks left to get your nomination together. Nominate yourself or your favourite Victorian music act, venue, producer, woman in music or festival of the year now.

There are loads of categories available including a brand new category for Best Pop Act. There's also a bunch of cash prizes up for grabs in excess of $12,000!

Submissions are open until midnight Tuesday 20 July. Shortlists will be published in September with nominee announcements to follow soon after.
 

Eligibility Criteria

• For music categories – at least 50% of the act has been living in Victoria for the last two years or uses Melbourne as a home base. If you are performing under a solo artist name, you must reside in Victoria to be eligible (residency of backing band is not considered).
• All genre categories will now be assessed on the act rather than album, with the requirement that nominees have released at least multiple recordings (ie: songs, works, pieces) between 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021
• For the producer category – Must have created or produced multiple recordings (ie: songs, works, pieces released between 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021
• For venues and festivals categories – Must have ran a music festival or active music venue in Victoria between 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021
  For the Music Victoria Awards 2021, in light of the COVID-19 crisis, the Best Venue and Festival categories include live streaming activity in the eligible time period.

Categories open for nomination:

• Archie Roach Foundation Award for Emerging Talent (for First Nations acts) 
• Best Blues Act
• Best Country Act
• Best Electronic Act
• Best Experimental or Avant-Garde Act
• Best Folk Act
• Best Heavy Act
• Best Hip Hop Act
• Best Intercultural (previously Global) Act
• Best Jazz Act
• Best Pop Act
• Best Producer 
• Best Reggae and Dancehall Act
• Best Rock/Punk Act
• Best Soul, Funk, R’n’B or Gospel Act
• Best Regional/Outer Suburban Act 
• Outstanding Woman In Music
• Best Producer
• Best Venue (over 500 cap)
• Best Venue (under 500 cap)
• Regional/Outer Suburban Venue (under 50 gigs/year)
• Regional/Outer Suburban Venue (over 50 gigs/year)
• Best Festival

You need to be a paid Music Victoria member to nominate so make sure you sign up here. 

On Monday, 19th of July, City of Yarra (in partnership with Music Victoria) are staging an Industry Day in appreciation of the work that musicians, small businesses, and freelancers do to keep the live music sector playing. This free event will be catered by Le Bon Ton and Young Henrys, and will feature a Qi Gong session with Rich Moffat.

Music Victoria will be hosting the morning session with a panel of experts unpack the Covid-19 issues of the day, from understanding the current restrictions to navigating the funding opportunities available. The panel will also shed light on the advocacy work taking place behind the scenes and how we can collectively forge the road ahead to enable the live music sector to reopen safely and effectively.

For more information on the topics of conversation and to register, click here.