Summary of The Kazzies – The Purple Air Guitars – 2022

Hi folks for more information on the nominations etc there is a 6 part full decription of the awards on this blog.

International section:

Female song: Sunny Sweeney – A Song Can’t Fix Everything

Male Song: Ernest: If you were Whiskey

Male album – Randy Houser – Note to Self

Female Album – Sunny Sweeney -Married Alone

Special Event Albums: Rita Wilson – now and forever – duets

Kris Kristofferson – Live at Gilleys

Best EEPs – Female – Already Drank that beer – Ashley Cooke

Male: Leave the Light On – Bailey Zimmerman

Duo/band – song: Midland – Take her off your hands

Band/duo album – Midland – The Last Resort – Greetings from

Male Vocal – Granger Smith

Female Vocal – Jenny Mitchell

Band /Duo – Midland

Australian Section

In no particular order:

Best Video – Beccy Cole – Faded Star

Band Single – The April Family – Matilda

Duo single – The Weeping Willows – Lonesome Now I’m Gone

Collaboration Single: Lynchburg and The Weeping Willows – Until this Song Ends

Male Single- Matt Joe Gow – Til My Whole Heart Bursts

Female Single – Cathy Dobson – Mediocreville

People’s Choice – Male Album – Love, Lies and Dirty Dishes – Andy Penkow

People’s Choice – Female Album – Living for the Highlights – Amber Lawrence

People’s Choice Duo – Lynchburg

People’s Choice Band – Michael Carpenter and The Banks Brothers Mr Goodtime

Cover Art – TC Cassidy Travelling Heart Album

Producer – Angus Gill

Songwriters – Cathy Dobson and Mike Carr

Audrey Auld Courage Awards – Barbara Morison and Matt Joe Gow

Celtic Country Song – Forever is a long, long time – Liam Kennedy- Clark and The Bushwackers

Stan Coster Strayan Song – Pete O’Brien – Butcher of Balmoral

Stan Coster Bush Ballad – Thargomindah Sunset – Kerry Kennedy

Instrumental Song – Bunyip Bounce – Anthony Baxter

Cover Song – Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole – I Don’t Love You Much, Do I?

Musicians of the Year – Kelly Brouhaha and Liam Kennedy-Clark

Humanitarians of the Year – Vanessa and Rick Hart

SuperFan – Kaylene Pittaway

Purple Tonsils – Allison Forbes and Darren Colston

Bob Browne Awards (Radio)

Dynamic Duo – Clem and Dorothy Rook 2GLF

Best Interviewer and Soldier onner – Barbara Morison 2SER

Funniest RP and audience mind reader – Ronnieboy 2RRR

Bloody Legends and Energizer Bunnies – Leonie McClure Connect Fm and Beth Brown Yass FM

Beccy Cole and Amber Lawrence for pulling double duty , superstars and rp’s – SNC ABC

David Prior for Songsmiths program ABC

Evergreens – Gene Bradley Fisk and Ray McCoy

Station -Yass Fm for pulling off some modern miracles this year.

Quirky Song – Old Fiddles – Warren Kearney

Waltz or Slow Dance Song – Fall out of time – The Weeping Willows

Wendy Wood Purple Mic Shower songs:

Dance: Dancing in the kitchen – Ashleigh Dallas

Song – You Fool – Jemma Beech

Drinking Songs – Making up for lost wine – Amber Lawrence and Drunk on that – Donna Fisk

Road/Highway/Travel Song

Take the Wheel – Craig Lloyd

Country Blues song – Tie – A little faith – Cathy Dobson and singing the blues – the weeping willows

Country Pop song – Michelle Gardiner – Things that I don’t have

Karl Broadie more than a song song

The Old Me is Gone – Mike Carr

Nathaniel O’Brien Fresh Faces and Emerging Talent Awards

For song and singer

Southern Sky – Brooke Harvey

For one to watch – Sarah Catania

Collaboration Song – tie – Gareth Leech and The Davidson Brothers – Big Ole Feelings and Lynchburg and The Weeping Willows with Until This Song Ends

Duo Song – Fall out of time – The Weeping Willows

Band Song – watered Down – Jetty Road

Female Song – Lost in Time – Melody Pool

Male Song – Stupid Old Guitar – Mike Carr

EEPs and EPs

Female EEP/EP

Truth – Christie Lamb

Male EP/EEp

Dispatches – Alan Fletcher

Band/Duo EP/EEPs

Bo’Ness – Campfire Stories

Best Of/CoverAlbum/ special Live EEp/album!

Tie – Melody Moko Live

And Brad Butcher The Storyteller

The pointy End –

Traditional Album – Tie – Ashleigh Dallas In The Moment and Tom Curtain – Nothin’s Gonna Stop Us

Australian Band Album

Copperline – Borrowed, Broken and Blue

Duo album – You Reap what you Sow – The Weeping Willows

Australian Female Album – Tie – Wiser – Lyn Bowtell and Grace – Michelle Cashman

Australian Male Album – Love, Lies and Dirty Dishes – Andy Penkow

And finally:

Best Band: Copperline

Duo: The Weeping Willows

Male: Andy Penkow

Female: Lyn Bowtell

Entertainer of the year – Amber Lawrence

For full explanations and nomination lists, please refer to the 6 part presentation posts.

Thank you

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