2012 Golden Guitar winners

Monday, 30 January 2012

APRA wishes to congratulate all of the winners at the 40th Jayco CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia, which took place on Saturday night.

The APRA-presented Song of the Year award went to Shane Nicholson for "Bad Machines", while Catherine Britt won Single of the Year for "Sweet Emmylou" - a song that was also runner-up at last year's Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition.

Congratulations to all of the winners, as listed below!

ALBUM OF THE YEAR Falling Into Place - Adam Harvey, produced by Rod McCormack (Sony Music)
SANITY TOP SELLING ALBUM OF THE YEAR Get Closer - Keith Urban (EMI Music Australia)
MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Keith Urban - Long Hot Summer (EMI Music Australia)
FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Beccy Cole – Waitress (Core Music)
GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR Jetty Road - Serves You Right
VOCAL COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR Millionaires - Beccy Cole & Kasey Chambers (Core Music)
TELSTRA NEW TALENT OF THE YEAR O'Shea – Smash (Sony Music)
APRA SONG OF THE YEAR Bad Machines - Written & recorded by Shane Nicholson (Liberation Music)
VIDEO CLIP OF THE YEAR Children Of The Gurindji - Sara Storer & Kev Carmody, directed by Duncan Toombs (ABC Music)
SINGLE OF THE YEAR Sweet Emmylou - Catherine Britt (ABC Music)
TOYOTA HERITAGE SONG OF THE YEAR I Am Australian - The Bushwackers
FENDER INSTRUMENTAL OF THE YEAR OMFG - Davidson Brothers
BUSH BALLAD OF THE YEAR Channel Country Ground - Written by Merv Maltman, recorded by Dean Perrett & Lee Kernaghan
2011 PRODUCER OF THE YEAR Matt Fell
2011 ENGINEER OF THE YEAR Ted Howard
2011 MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR Mark Punch