The 2021 Music Victoria Awards were the 16th Annual

Music Victoria Awards The Music Victoria Awards (previously known as The Age EG Awards and The Age Music Victoria Awards) are an annual awards night celebrating music from the Australian state of Victoria. They commenced in 2006 and are awarded in Melbourne Music W ...

. The ceremony took place on 9 December 2021 at the Melbourne Recital Centre. The 2021 awards featured a number of changes, including a brand new category for Best Pop Act and the inaugural Arts Access Victoria Amplify Award (for deaf and disabled musicians). All genre categories will now be assessed on the act rather than album, with the requirement that nominees have released at least multiple recordings between 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021. New CEO Simone Schinkel headed up the event for the first time this year, taking over from Music Victoria founder, Patrick Donovan. Schinkel said "As part of our commitment to continual improvement we have refined our Awards criteria, categories and judging processes which we believe will more accurately reflect and reward the diverse music community in Victoria."

Hall of Fame inductees

The Hall of Fame inductees were announced on 7 October 2021 *

Kylie Minogue Kylie Ann Minogue (; born 28 May 1968) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time, having sold over 80 million records worldwide. She has been recognised for reinve ...

Pierre Baroni Pierre Baroni (30 October 1955 – 9 March 2021) was an Australian radio broadcaster, artist, and musician. Career Pierre Baroni was born in Kew, Victoria in 1955, and grew up in Glenroy. He was a member of Melbourne pub band Carmine in the ...

Pierre Baroni was a musician and a member of ''The Pony'', an artist-designer at

Mushroom Records Mushroom Records was an Australian flagship record label, founded in 1972 in Melbourne. It published and distributed many successful Australian artists and expanded internationally, until it was merged with Festival Records in 1998. Festival Mu ...

, a producer and presented the Soulgroove '66 show on

3PBS PBS 106.7FM (call sign: PBS FM), also known as the Progressive Broadcasting Service, is a cooperatively owned community radio station in Melbourne, Australia, that broadcasts on 106.7FM, Digital radio and online. PBS celebrated its 40th year of ...

106.7FM from 2003 until his death from cancer in March 2021.

Performers

Emma Donovan Emma Donovan (born 1981) is an Aboriginal Australian singer and songwriter. She is a member of the renowned musical Donovan family. She started her singing career at age seven with her uncle's band, the Donovans. In 2000, she became a founding m ...

& The Putbacks *

Kerryn Fields Kerryn or Keryn is a given name, popular in Australia. Notable people with the name include: *Kerryn Manning (born 1976), Australian horse trainer/driver *Kerryn McCann (1967–2008), Australian athlete. *Kerryn Phelps (born 1957), Australian medic ...

Maple Glider Tori Zietsch known professionally as Maple Glider, is an Australian pop singer-songwriter from Melbourne, Australia. Maple Glider released her debut album in June 2021. Early life In 2020, Tori Zietsch said "I was raised from birth in quite ...

Mindy Meng Wang Mindy is an English feminine given name, originally a diminutive of Melinda. Notable people with the name include: People *Mindy Aloff, American editor, journalist, essayist, and dance critic * Mindy Baha El Din (1958-2013), American-born Egyptian ...

Tim Shiel Tim Shiel is an Australian radio announcer and electronic musician, best known for hosting the radio shows ''Something More'' on Triple J, and ''Arvos'' on Double J. Shiel has been releasing music since 2005 and has been used for film, televisio ...

Award nominees and winners

Winners indicated in boldface, with other nominees in plain.

General awards

The general award are nominated by an expert industry panel and open to public voting in October.

Genre Specific Awards

Voted by a select industry panel

Industry Awards

Voted by a select industry panel.

References

External links

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