Australian Folk Music Award 2021 winners The Weeping Willows are embarking on a multi-date tour of the UK and Switzerland in June and July, showcasing their latest album You Reap What You Sow.
The pair has also won Golden Guitar and Music Victoria Awards.
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Join members of your folk music community and be inspired with ideas that are outside the box that will support you to grow your music.
Folk Alliance Australia (FAA) INVITES YOU TO JOIN US FOR 3 INSPIRING SESSIONS:
Tuesday 12 July – GET MORE GIGS
Tuesday 9 August – GET MORE MONEY
Tuesday 13 September – GET MORE AUDIENCE
A panel of speakers will provide inspiration and practical advice specifically for the folk music industry. Followed by a Q&A session and networking.
To register for the first on-line session GET MORE GIGS, click below.
This session includes presentations by Festival Artistic Directors and an artist who thinks outside the box. You will learn about creating unique venues , livestreaming and connecting to education to GET MORE GIGS!
GET MORE GIGS is presented free of charge but you must register in order to receive the participant link.
Presented by Folk Alliance Australia
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The FAA’s Contribution to Folk Award 2022:
Last year’s recipient for this recognition was David De Santi, a founder of one of the country’s most successful bush bands Wongawilli, long-term service to the Illawarra Folk Club and the Illawarra Folk Festival, a key role in the Pioneer Performer Series, publisher and producer, and more.
Assessment
Nomination Fee
Nomination for AFMA Contribution to Folk Award
Proudly presented by the Folk Alliance Australia Board
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Nominate for 2022 AFMA
Folk Alliance Australia follows its successful launch of the Australian Folk Music Awards (AFMAs) in 2021 with the announcement of details of the 2022 Awards. The 2022 AFMAs introduces one new award – ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ category.
We invite nominations from artists, performers, venues, festivals and projects to showcase and highlight the talent and diversity of the Australian folk music scene. We welcome nominations from first nations and culturally diverse artists in the 2022 AFMAs to fully reflect the range of folk music being played in Australia.
The 2022 AFMA Awards will celebrate and recognise the musical and cultural talent, vibrancy, richness, diversity and community nature of the Australian folk music sector and will be presented at the AFMA Awards Concert/Gala event at
The Brunswick Ballroom, Melbourne
Wednesday 26 October
as a lead-in to the Maldon Folk Festival. The AFMA Awards event will also be live-streamed as an Online event.
Nine Awards will be presented in 2022:-
(See link below for Information and the Nomination Forms for each award)
The aim of the Australian Folk Music Awards are to:
Folk music covers a lot of musical ground ranging from World and Ethnic, Roots, Americana, Bush, Celtic, acoustic Blues and many acoustic styles, both traditional and contemporary. The Folk music scene is comprised of many communities and brings this richness to the musical diversity that is folk music. Folk music/traditional music is the ground spring of many contemporary music genres with many talented artists, organisations, communities and cultures represented. We have over fifty Australian folk festivals which are vibrant parts of city and especially regional arts and culture scenes giving them their creative identities and involvement with music and the arts. Folk music crosses over into mainstream arts and cultural events, festivals and recordings.
AFMA Nominations are on-line and now open, closing midnight Sunday 31 July (EST).
Media enquiries:-
Keith Preston (President FAA) – afmas@folkalliance.org.au or 0418 839 264
Nominate for 2022 AFMA
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Folk Alliance International has announced the recipients of the International Folk Music Awards 2022 for Song, Album and Artist Of The Year.
Other recognitions were:
The Clearwater Award – presented to a festival that prioritizes environmental stewardship and demonstrates public leadership in sustainable event production – Planet Bluegrass
Lifetime Achievement Awards – Flaco Jiminez (Living), Nanci Griffith (Legacy) and Swallow Hill Music (Business/Academic)
The People’s Voice Award – Jason Mraz
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NOMINATIONS OPEN JUNE 6
FOR THE 2022
AUSTRALIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS (AFMAS)
The 2022 AFMA awards will celebrate and recognise the musical and cultural talent, vibrancy, richness, diversity and community nature of the Australian Folk Music sector and will be presented at a live-streamed Live Music Awards Concert/Gala event at The Brunswick Ballroom, Melbourne in October. Nine Awards will be presented in 2022:
· Folk Album of the Year – Traditional
· Folk Album of the Year – Contemporary
· Folk Artist of the Year – Solo
· Folk Act of the Year – Duo/Group/Ensemble
· Instrumentalist of the Year
· Folk Act of the Year – People’s Choice (by public voting)
· Folk Community/Cultural Project of the Year
· Youth Artist of the Year
· Contribution to Folk
Nominations open 6 June and close 31 July
FULL DETAILS WILL BE POSTED ON JUNE 6 ON THIS SITE
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2022 AFMAs – The Australian Folk Music Awards
Folk Alliance Australia will be presenting the AFMAs in Melbourne in October 2022.
Details will be released soon and nominations will open in late May 2022.
The AFMAs will feature live music, awards presentations and will also be an online event.
Two new Awards will be offered (for instrumental folk music) making 10 Awards in total
The AFMAs nominations are for performance achievements and music recordings covering the period June 2021 – June 2022
As well as awards for ‘Project of the Year’ and ‘Contribution to Folk’ awards
If you know someone who you think should nominate or be nominated please let them know that the AFMAs open in late May
Full details in forthcoming FAA newsletters and social media
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Australian Folk Music Award winning duo Charm of Finches are heading overseas on a substantial tour that will provide terrific exposure to the talents of the pair.
The details for their shows April to July 2022 are below. TICKET INFO HERE
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| Dear Members & Friends Please join Folk Alliance Australia at the National Folk Festival this Easter weekend for two special events |
Saturday 1.20pm Folk Forum – Imagining the future of Folk Sunday 5.00pm FAA Annual General Meeting |
| For those who wish to join us online at these events here is the ZOOM Link (for both events) |
Meeting ID: 859 8986 9230
Passcode: 2020
| Saturday 16 April 1.20pm – 2.30pm (Eastern Standard Time) FOLK FORUM ‘Imagining The Future of Folk’ Venue: Old Trocadero Introduction/Welcome by Folk Alliance Australia Forum Convenor – Therese Virtue – FAA Board Member & Chair The Boite Melbourne Panelists: Parvyn Kaur / Zulya Kamalova / Miriam Leiberman / Luke Plumb / Pauline Maudy / Bruce Watson / David Gilks (NFFestival) |
| Sunday 17 April 5.00pm – 6.00pm (Eastern Standard Time) ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Venue: Old Trocadero Members & friends are invited for our financial and artistic reports, plans for the 2022 Australian Folk Music Awards, other important updates and welcome new and existing Board members |
Meeting ID: 859 8986 9230
Passcode: 2020
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Held each year on June 21 around the globe, to celebrate all things music, Make Music Day encourages both amateur and professional music making, and empowers individuals to seek out ways to celebrate and express music in their community.
All of it is free and open to the public. Every kind of musician —young and old, amateur and professional, of every musical persuasion — gathers indoor and outdoor, in venues, streets, parks, plazas, paddocks and verandas to share their music with friends, neighbours, and strangers.
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