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A.B. Original & King Gizzard Dominate The 2017 Music Victoria Awards

The 2017 Music Victoria Awards have been dominated by rap duo A.B. Original and relentless psych-rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.

Taking place at Melbourne’s 170 Russell last night, the awards saw Victoria’s best acts, releases, venues and festivals take out awards, with A.B. Original snagging Best Album, Best Hip Hop Album and Best Aboriginal Act.

King Gizzard, meanwhile, took home Best Band, Best Song and Best Live Act, and The Teskey Brothers claimed two awards for Best Emerging Act and Best Soul, Funk, RnB And Gospel Album.

This year’s publicly-voted awards came from a pool of over 73,000 tallied votes. Late music producer Tony Cohen was also inducted into The Age Music Victoria Hall Of Fame.

Catch the full list of this year’s winners, below.

The Age Music Victoria Awards 2017

Genre Award Winners

BEST BLUES ALBUM

Fiona Boyes – Professin’ The Blues

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM

Raised By Eagles – I Must Be Somewhere

BEST SOUL, FUNK, RNB, AND GOSPEL ALBUM

The Teskey Brothers – Half Mile Harvest

BEST JAZZ ALBUM

Brenton Foster – The Nature of Light

BEST HIP HOP ALBUM

A.B. Original – Reclaim Australia

BEST ELECTRONIC ACT

Client Liaison

BEST HEAVY ALBUM

Divide and Dissolve – Basic

BEST ABORIGINAL ACT

A.B. Original

BEST GLOBAL OR REGGAE ALBUM

Lamine Sonko and The African Intelligence – Afro Empire

BEST FOLK / ROOTS ALBUM

The Mae Trio – Take Care, Take Cover

BEST EXPERIMENTAL / AVANT-GARDE ACT

Winter Sound School / Bridget Chappell

Publicly Voted Winners

BEST FESTIVAL

Meredith Music Festival

BEST REGIONAL VENUE (UNDER 50 GIGS PER YEAR)

Theatre Royal (Castlemaine)

BEST REGIONAL VENUE (OVER 50 GIGS PER YEAR)

Workers Club (Geelong)

BEST VENUE (UNDER 500 CAPACITY)

The Tote

BEST VENUE (OVER 500 CAPACITY)

The Corner Hotel

BEST REGIONAL ACT

Cosmic Psychos

BEST LIVE BAND

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

BEST EMERGING ACT

The Teskey Brothers

BEST MALE ARTIST

Paul Kelly

BEST FEMALE ARTIST

Jen Cloher

BEST SONG

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Rattlesnake

BEST BAND

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

BEST ALBUM

A.B. Original – Reclaim Australia

Hall Of Fame

Tony Cohen – Aria-Award Winning Producer & Engineer

Outstanding Achievement Award

Zo Damage – 365 Day Live Music Photography Project

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