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2023 Music Victoria Awards
The 2023 Music Victoria Awards are the 18th Annual Music Victoria Awards. The ceremony took place on 31 October 2023. The nominees were announced on 14 September 2023 Public voting was open from 14 September until 13 October. Hall of Fame inductees * Kutcha Edwards * Kirsty Rivers Award nominees and winners Winners indicated at the top and in boldface, with other nominees in plain. Public Voted Awards Industry Voted Awards References External links * {{Music Victoria Awards 2023 in Australian music 2023 music awards Music Victoria Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federation Square
Federation Square (colloquially Fed Square) is a venue for arts, culture and public events on the edge of the Melbourne central business district. It covers an area of at the intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets built above busy railway lines and across the road from Flinders Street station. It incorporates major cultural institutions such as the Ian Potter Centre, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the Koorie Heritage Trust as well as cafes and bars in a series of buildings centred around a large paved square, and a glass walled atrium. History Background Melbourne's central city grid was originally designed without a central public square, long seen as a missing element. From the 1920s, there had been proposals to roof the railway yards on the south-east corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets for a public square, with more detailed proposals prepared in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s, the Melbourne City Council decided that the best place for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adalita
Adalita Srsen (, born 25 February 1971) is an Australian rock musician who is a founding member of the rock band Magic Dirt and a solo artist. She released her first solo album, ''Adalita'' in 2011 and her second solo album, ''All Day Venus'', in September 2013. She is known simply as Adalita. Early life Adalita was born in Geelong, Victoria on 25 February 1971. She told Triple J's Richard Kingsmill in 2000 that she made her first guitar out of cardboard and wool, before she bought her first acoustic guitar. "I learnt a few chord progressions from a "how to" guitar book and then started writing and recording my own compositions, using two tape decks and layering guitar parts and vocal harmonies." Adalita told ''Australian Guitar'' magazine (when she became the first female to grace the magazine's cover) in 2005 that she "was 18 or 19 when I bought my first A$90 acoustic (guitar) for whatever strange reason I bought it for, on a whim. Then I got an electric maybe six months la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Teskey
Sam Teskey (born 1989) is an Australian blues musician, best known for his work with the Teskey Brothers. Sam won the ARIA Award for Engineer of the Year in 2019. His debut studio album, ''Cycles'', was released on 8 October 2021 via Ivy League Records. Life and career 1989–2007: Early life Sam Teskey was born in 1989 at his parents home in Warrandyte, Victoria, in the room above what is now their studio. He attended a local primary school with no year levels. He was close to his brother Josh, with Josh saying in 2021, "We had these bird calls we'd do so we could always find each other in bush near where we lived. We also used them at parties when we were teenagers. I'd do the call and Sam would materialise out of the crowd." The two started playing music together after moving to a Steiner high school when Josh was 15 and Sam 13. Josh said "I jumped straight into singing and then played guitar, but Sam focused on the guitar". 2008–present: The Teskey Brothers In 2008, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirritu
Pirritu (Brett Lee) is an Ngiyampaa musician. His debut album was released in 2021. He is based in Melbourne, Australia. Career Pirritu was adopted by a non-Aboriginal couple as a newborn, and grew up in Bourke, New South Wales. He was able to later reconnect with his culture when he was 14. His name Pirritu means Brett in the Ngiyampaa language. He had represented Australia as a junior triathlete, but after an injury forced him to take time away from sports, Pirritu taught himself music theory. In 2021, Pirritu released his debut album as part of the Fast Forward festival in Melbourne. ''Pirritu Part 1'' was pressed on vinyl and released by Heavy Machinery Records, with support from City of Melbourne. He followed this with another album ''Pirritu Part 2: Fire When the Sun Goes Down'' in March 2023 Outside of music, he volunteers with the Ngiuyampaa Language Project, to make the language more accessible, and also deepen his own understanding. Discography Albums Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Dey
Katie Dey is an Australian experimental pop musician. Career Dey released her first album, ''Asdfasdf'', in 2015 with the label Orchid Tapes. Dey attracted the attention of Orchid Tapes founder Warren Hildebrand after Mat Cothran of Elvis Depressedly discovered Dey's blog. Pitchfork rated the album with a 7 out of 10. In 2016, Dey released her second full-length album, ''Flood Network'', this time with the label Joy Void. Pitchfork gave the album a 7.8 out of 10 rating. In 2018, Dey collaborated on an album with musician Devi McCallion of Black Dresses, titled ''Some New Form of Life''. In May 2019, Dey surprise released her third full-length album titled ''Solipsisters'', on Run for Cover Records. Pitchfork rated the album a 7.9 out of 10. In July 2020, Dey released her fourth full-length album titled ''Mydata'', which received a 7.5 out of 10 from Pitchfork and was chosen as Album of the Week by Stereogum. Dey then released a sequel collaboration album to ''Some New Form of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corner Hotel
The Corner Hotel in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, Victoria, Australia, is a remodelled 19th-century pub which has been a live music venue since the 1940s and, since 1995, a popular rock music venue and rooftop bar.Johnston, Chris. "Corner–House of Rock" in ''The Age'' magazine, issue 13, November 2005. Text available atCorner: 15-year Anniversary Page 31, on official website. Accessed 24 August 2015 History 1871-1983 In 1871, the premises was licensed to David and Jane McCormick. Business thrived because of the close proximity to the Richmond railway station. In 1881 it was renovated by William Malone, who improved both the accommodation and the liquor quality. Malone was the licensee until 1895. Between 1895 and 1929 the hotel changed hands seven times. From 1929 to 1935 it was operated by Nelly O'Connor and her husband. The pub is thought to have begun presenting live music during the 1940s jazz era. During the 1950s it was owned by the Melbourne Cooperative Brewing C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palais Theatre
The Palais Theatre (originally Palais Pictures) is a historic picture palace located in St Kilda, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. With a capacity of nearly 3,000 people, it is the largest seated theatre in Australia. Replacing an earlier cinema of the same name destroyed in a fire, the new theatre, designed by Henry Eli White, opened in 1927. Sitting adjacent to Luna Park, it helped to establish the St Kilda beach foreshore as an entertainment precinct, and remains an iconic landmark in the area. Over time, it became known primarily as a music venue, and has also hosted ballet performances, operas and stand-up comedy shows. The Palais is included on the Victorian Heritage Register, and in 2015, it was inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame. History The Palais Theatre was developed by the Phillips brothers (Leon, Herman and Harold), who hailed from Spokane, Washington. Their first venture here, with fellow American showman James Dixon Williams, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Recital Centre
Melbourne Recital Centre is a venue for live music in Melbourne and welcomes over 200,000 visitors each year. The organisation programs and presents more than 500 concerts and events a year across diverse range of musical genres including classical and chamber, contemporary, pop, folk, rock, electronica, indie, jazz, cabaret and world music. It was opened in 2009, as part of the Melbourne Recital Centre and Melbourne Theatre Company Southbank Theatre complex designed by Ashton Raggat McDougall, and is located on the corner of Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, Southbank. It is Melbourne's second largest auditorium for classical music (after Hamer Hall in Arts Centre Melbourne). Facilities The centre features two auditoria, the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, and a smaller Salon. The former, a "modified shoe box" shaped music venue, is named after Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. It has seating for 1000 on two levels and was designed by Ashton Raggatt McDoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forum Theatre
Forum theatre is a type of theatre created by Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal. It is one of the techniques under the umbrella term of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO). This relates to the engagement of spectators influencing and engaging with the performance as both spectators and actors, termed "spect-actors", with the power to stop and change the performance. As part of TO, the issues dealt with in forum theatre are often related to areas of social justice, with the aim of exploring solutions to oppression featured in the performance. History In the 1960s, Augusto Boal and his theatre company the Teatro de Arena de São Paulo travelled through some of the poorest places in Brazil, staging productions which urged action against various injustices and oppressors. These performances often ended with the actors exhorting their audiences of peasants to spill their own blood in this struggle. This continued until an encounter with a peasant who extended an invitation to the actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Fairy Folk Festival
The Port Fairy Folk Festival is an annual four-day music festival based in the historic fishing village of Port Fairy in Victoria, Australia. History The festival began on 2 December 1977 under the theme of "Australian and Irish Traditional Music" exploring traditional music and culture. The festival was founded by Jamie McKew leading a small group of folk music performers and supporters from Geelong and Melbourne. It was with a sense of social justice, that led Jamie to create the festival. “Folk songs were socially significant, they had meaning to them. The songs were fun, but they also had a purpose. I wasn’t marching on the streets, but I’d always had a strong sense of social justice.” The focus moved to "World Roots and Acoustic Music" in the early 1980s and has subsequently broadened to include a diverse range of genres, styles and influences. The 40th edition of the festival was held in March 2016 with McKew as festival director. The leadership transitioned to C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Jazz Festival
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz music festival first held in Melbourne, Australia in 1998. The Festival takes place in concert halls, arts venues, jazz clubs and throughout the streets of Melbourne. The 2021 Festival is scheduled to be held from 15–24 October, the 2020 Festival's physical events having been cancelled. History The Melbourne International Jazz Festival was first held in 1998. Adrian Jackson was the artistic director from 1998 until 2004; this run was interrupted in 2002, when the withdrawal of funding by Arts Victoria and the City of Melbourne in November 2001 meant that the program planned for January 2002 had to be canceled. However much of the planned festival still went ahead, the City of Melbourne contacted Bennetts Lane Jazz Club founder Michael Tortoni to ask him if he was interested in taking control of the Festival. Tortoni agreed and effectively rescued the festival using his club's staff and infrastructure. Tortoni was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
