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Golden Guitar Award Awarded for Outstanding achievements in the Australian country music industry Presented by Country Music Association of Australia Country Australia First awarded 1973 Official website The Country Music Association of Australia awards (commonly known as the golden guitar Music Awards or CMAA Awards) is an annual awards night held in January during the Tamworth Country Music Festival, in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia that celebrates the Australian country music industry. They are put on by the Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA). The awards are hosted at night time at the Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre on the saturday night of the Australia day longweekend and have been held annually since 1973. The awards attract an audience of 5000 people from the media, the music industry and the public. Australian country music is a vibrant part of the music of Australia. ... The largest recorded congregation of aboriginal australians apart from yothu yindi concerts and the tamworth pcyc weekly pool competition. ... Tamworth is a city in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. ... Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 50  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $305,437 (1st)  - Product per capita  $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006)  - Population  6,817,100 (1st)  - Density  8. ... Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre is an Australian arena located approximately 5km south of the Tamworth Central Business District in the suburb of South Tamworth. ... [edit] Golden Guitars The Golden Guitars are cast in solid bronze on a base of polished Tasmanian Blackwood. They are 325 mm tall and weigh 1.5 kilos. Music of Australia [ v • d • e ] Timeline Genres classical · hip-hop · indigenous Australian music · immigrant music · jazz · country · rock (pub rock · indie · punk · metal) Organisations ARIA · APRA Awards ARIA Music Awards · Country Music Awards of Australia · The Deadlys · Australian Music Prize · J Award · WAMi Awards · NT Indigenous Music Awards · Perth Dance Music Awards Charts Kent Music Report · ARIA Charts · Triple J Hottest 100 Festivals Big Day Out · Livid · Homebake · Falls · Tamworth Country Music Festival · Womadelaide · National Folk Festival Media Countdown · Rage · Triple J · ABC · Community Radio National anthem Advance Australia Fair Cities and regions Adelaide · Brisbane · Canberra · Melbourne · Sydney · Perth · Hobart The earliest music of Australia was the folk music of the Australian Aborigines. ... The trends of Australian music have often mirrored those of the United States and Britain. ... Subcategories There are 3 subcategories to this category. ... ‹ The template below (Australian Music Portal) is being considered for deletion. ... Indigenous Australian music includes the music of Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, who are collectively called Indigenous Australians; it incorporates a wide variety of distinctive traditional music styles practised by Indigenous Australian peoples, as well as a range of contemporary musical styles both derivative of and fusion with European... Australia is home to several large immigrant communities, including the Vietnamese, Indonesians, Filipinos and others. ... Jazz is an American musical genre largely originated by African Americans but the style was rapidly and enthusiastically taken up by musicians all over the world, including Australia. ... Australian country music is a vibrant part of the music of Australia. ... Australian rock and pop musicians have produced a wide variety of music. ... Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and still influencing contemporary Australian music today. ... Australian indie rock is part of the overall flow of Australian rock history but has a distinct history somewhat separate from mainstream rock in Australia, largely from the end of the punk rock era onwards. ... Australian musicians played and recorded some of the earliest punk rock. ... Australian heavy metal music has its roots in the both the Australian hard rock and pub rock tradition of the 1970s and the American and British heavy metal scenes. ... The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry. ... The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) is a copyright collecting society representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers. ... The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual awards night celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA). ... The Deadlys are an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... The J Award logo. ... WAM Logo The Western Australian Music Industry Awards (commonly known as WAMis) are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc (WAM). ... NT Indigenous Music Awards are part of the Darwin Festival and are run by Music NT in association with the Northern Territory Government’s Indigenous Arts Development Unit. ... This article refers to an Australian award show. ... Kent Music Report front cover 11 October 1976 The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by a music enthusiast, David Kent from the early 1970s through to 1998. ... The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. ... The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual music poll, based on the votes of Australian youth radio station Triple J listeners, in order to determine their favourite song of the year. ... This is a list of music festivals in Australia. ... The Big Day Out (BDO) is an annual music festival that tours Australia and New Zealand which originated in Sydney in 1992. ... Livid was an Australian alternative rock music festival, which was held annually from 1989 to 2003. ... Homebake is an annual Australian rock festival, featuring an all-Australian lineup (with the occasional artist from New Zealand). ... The Falls Festival is a New Years Eve music festival, held annually in Marion Bay, Tasmania and Lorne, Victoria Australia since 1993. ... The largest recorded congregation of aboriginal australians apart from yothu yindi concerts and the tamworth pcyc weekly pool competition. ... First held in 1992, WOMADelaide is an annual world music and dance festival held in Botanic Park, Adelaide, South Australia as part of the Womad series of music festivals. ... The National Folk Festival is a festival celebrating Australian folk culture, first held in Melbourne in 1967. ... Countdown was a long-running popular weekly Australian music television show broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from late 1974 until July 19 1987. ... Rage is an all-night Australian music video program that is broadcast on ABC TV on Friday and Saturday nights. ... Triple J (JJJ) is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ... The Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC is Australias national non-profit public broadcaster. ... Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by more powerful broadcast groups. ... A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is evoking and eulogizing the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nations government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people. ... Advance Australia Fair is the official national anthem of Australia. ... Adelaide is a city in South Australia. ... Queensland Conservatorium of Music Brisbane is a city in Queensland, Australia, home to many regionally important music institutions and venues. ... Canberra is the capital city of Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. ... Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ... the Sydney Opera House can be seen on the far left Sydney is a city in Australia, and a major center center for music. ... Perth is a city in Western Australia, known for having produced a number of very famous performers. ... Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. ... [edit] External links Australian music Portal Categories: Australian music awards | Australian country music | Australian music festivals Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...

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