Amyl & The Sniffers and Sampa The Great clean up at the 2020 Music Victoria Awards Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - image by Martin Philbey
Words by Tom Williams
Seven publicly-voted and 14 industry awards were announced at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Wednesday night.
The 16th annual Music Victoria Awards have recognised the astonishing achievements of local musicians from the last year. Jointly presented by PBS and Triple R, the in-person event revealed seven winners of publicly-voted awards as well as 14 industry accolades.
Sampa The Great took home four awards including Best Album for The Return, Best Song for her track ‘OMG’ as well as Best Solo Artist. Accepting the Best Solo Artist award via a pre-recorded video, she emphasised the shared effort that went into her releases.
Sampa The Great Walks Off With A Stack of Music Victoria Awards
Sampa The Great has won Music Victoria Awards for Best Song, Best Solo Artist, Best Album and Best Soul Funk Gospel or R&B Album at the 2020 Music Victoria Awards.
Amy Taylor and Amy and the Sniffers won for Best Band, Best Live Act and Amy Taylor won Best Musician when the awards were announced in Melbourne.
Beloved Melbourne music warrior Mary Mihelakos and bluesman, the late Chris Wilson, were added to the Music Victoria Hall of Fame.
THE 2020 MUSIC VICTORIA WINNERS:
PUBLIC-VOTED WINNERS