Nominees have started rolling out for this year’s ARIA Awards, with the Fine Arts, Artisan and Comedy categories coming first out of the gate this morning. With the winners to be revealed at ARIA’s annual nominations event at the National Gallery in Sydney on October 10th, the countdown to the 2017 ARIA Award celebrations will officially be on.
Across categories including Engineer of the Year, Best Cover Art and Producer of the Year, records from the likes of Paul Kelly, D.D Dumbo, Gang of Youths and A.B Original have all been represented. As an indicator of how this year’s ARIAs are set to roll out, these Fine Arts and Artisan awards may be clever ones to keep an eye on.
Check out the nominees below!
2017 ARIA AWARD NOMINATIONS
FINE ARTS, ARTISAN & BEST COMEDY RELEASE
BEST COVER ART
Lee McConnell
DUNE RATS’ The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit
Nathan Cahyadi
GANG OF YOUTHS’ Go Farther In Lightness
Nick McKinlay
JULIA JACKLIN’s Don’t Let The Kids Win
Mitchell Storck
MIDNIGHT OIL’s The Overflow Tank
Peter Salmon-Lomas
PAUL KELLY’s Life Is Fine
ENGINEER OF THE YEAR
Oliver Hugh Perry and Fabian Prynn
D.D DUMBO’s Utopia Defeated
John Castle
DEAN LEWIS’ Lose My Mind
Adrian Breakspear
GANG OF YOUTHS’ Go Farther In Lightness
Bob Scott
KATE MILLER-HEIDKE & SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s Live At The Sydney Opera House
Steven Schram
PAUL KELLY’s Life Is Fine
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
Daniel Rankine
A.B. ORIGINAL’s Reclaim Australia
Tom Iansek
BIG SCARY’s Animal
Oliver Hugh Perry & Fabian Prynn
D.D DUMBO’s Utopia Defeated
Gang of Youths & Adrian Breakspear
GANG OF YOUTH’s Go Farther In Lightness
Steven Schram
PAUL KELLY’s Life Is Fine
BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM
Grigoriyan Brothers
Songs Without Words
Jayson Gillham, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Northey
Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 1 | Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Kate Miller-Heidke & Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Live at the Sydney Opera House
Slava Grigoryan
Bach: Cello Suites Volume I
Tamara-Anna Cislowska
Elena Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters – Meditations on Erik Satie
BEST JAZZ ALBUM
Australian Art Orchestra
Art Pushes Sand
James Morrison & James Morrison Academy Jazz Orchestra
James Morrison With His Academy Jazz Orchestra
James Morrison, BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockheart, Harry Morrison & William Morrison
The Great American Songbook
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Sketches of Brunswick East
The Vampires
The Vampires meet Lionel Loueke
BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK or MUSICAL THEATRE CAST ALBUM
Australian Cast Recording ft. David Campbell
Dream Lover
Cezary Skubiszewski
Red Dog: True Blue OST
Jessica Mauboy
The Secret Daughter (Songs from the Original TV Series)
Nigel Westlake & Sydney Symphony Orchestra with Joseph Tawadros, Slava Grigoryan and Lior
Ali’s Wedding
Richard Tognetti & Australian Chamber Orchestra
Mountain
BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM
Joseph Tawadros
Live at Abbey Road
Katie Noonan & Karin Schaupp
Songs of the Latin Skies
Melbourne Ska Orchestra
Saturn Return
Slava Grigoryan & Australian String Quartet
Migration
Xylouris White
Black Peak
BEST COMEDY RELEASE
Arj Barker
Get In My Head
Buddy Goode
More Rubbish
John Clarke
Clarke’s Classics
Kitty Flanagan
Seriously?
Rhys Nicholson
Rhys Nicholson Live at The Eternity Playhouse
The 2017 ARIA Awards will be held at The Star Event Centre in Sydney on November 28th, broadcast on the Nine Network.
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