David Campbell top finalist in the 20th Australian Bush Laureate Awards
Poet David Campbell from Beaumaris, Victoria, leads the finalist list for the 20th Australian Bush Laureate Awards to be staged in Tamworth in January.
The all Australian Awards, also one of the nation's peak bush poetry events, started in 1995 and have become one of the headline events of the annual Tamworth Country Music Festival.
David is a finalist in four categories... Book and Album of the Year with his works titled "Riders On The Wind" and in Single of the Year for "My Son" and Published Poem of the Year for "The White Man's Way".
He also editied "Award Winning Bush Verse & Stories 2013" which is also a finalist for Book of the Year.
Robyn Sykes, from Binalong, NSW, is another prominent among finalists with three places... for Album of the Year with "Voices Of The Fire"
and Single of the Year with "Old Bill's Regret" and also Published Poem of the Year with "Lovely Lies".
Laurie McDonald from the ACT and Greg North from the Blue Mountains, NSW, are among multiple finalists in the 2014 Awards with two each, both in Album and Single of the Year.
Greg is a finalist in both categories for his works titled "Frackin'
Fricker" while Laurie is a finalist for Album of the Year with "Laurie McDonald... Live At The Murrumbateman Pub" and Single of the Year with "Cabaret CafÉ".
Joining the bush poets are Golden Guitar winners Lee Kernaghan, Colin Buchanan, Allan Caswell, Drew McAlister, Norma O'Hara Murphy, Luke O'Shea, Garth Porter, Graham Rodger and Tamara Stewart - all finalists in the two Australian Song Lyric categories. Lee, Garth and Colin's tribute to Slim Dusty - "Flying With The King" - is a finalist in Contemporary Song Lyric of the Year.
In additiion to the judged categories, a special award - the Judith Hosier Heritage Award - will be presented to honour a person or organisation for a significant contribution to Australian bush poetry.
The 2014 Australian Bush Laureate Awards had one of the most competitive fields ever seen for the 20th year with almost a hundred individual nominations from poets and lyric writers from all over Australia.
A gala Awards presentation and concert with many celebrity guests and artists will salute the winners of the prized Golden Gumleaf trophies in the famous Tamworth Town Hall on Tuesday January 21 from 2pm.
Tickets are available via the Tamworth Country Music Festival website www.tcmf.com.au -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BobKirchnerCons ... 515ba87345 or by telephone 02 6767 5300.
A full listing of finalists follows this release.
For more media information, email info@bushlaureate.com.au or telephone 0438 667 314 or 0419 998 386
20TH AUSTRALIAN BUSH LAUREATE AWARDS
Tamworth, 2pm Tuesday January 21, 2014
THE FINALISTS
BOOK OF THE YEAR
Award Winning Bush Verse & Stories 2013
Bronze Swagman Book of Bush Verse 2012
Candlelight Reflections - Will Moody (Bellingen, NSW) Lawson Country - Kevin Pye (Mudgee, NSW) Riders On The Wind - David Campbell (Beaumaris, Vic)
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Frackin' Fricker - Greg North (Sydney, NSW) Listen! - Maggie Murphy (Heathcote, Vic) Laurie McDonald... Live At The Murrumbateman Pub - Laurie McDonald (Watson, ACT) Riders On The Wind - David Campbell (Beaumaris, Vic) Voices Of The Fire - Robyn Sykes (Binalong, NSW)
SINGLE RECORDED PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Cabaret CafÉ - Laurie McDonald (Watson, ACT) Frackin' Fricker - Greg North (Sydney, NSW) My Son - David Campbell (Beaumaris, Vic) Old Bill's Regret - Robyn Sykes (Binalong, NSW) The Water Of The Wells - Jack Drake (Stanthorpe, Qld)
PUBLISHED POEM OF THE YEAR
A Snowy Mountain Holiday - Tom McIlveen (Port Macquarie, NSW) Curio - The Legend Will Survive - Brenda Joy (Coochiemudlo Island,
Qld)
Lovely Lies - Robyn Sykes (Binalong, NSW) The White Man's Way - David Campbell (Beaumaris, Vic) Your Shout! - Allan Goode (Beechmont, Qld)
TRADITIONAL SONG LYRIC OF THE YEAR
A Farming Man - Grant Luhrs (Wagga Wagga, NSW) The Bushranger & His Lady - Graham Roger (Paterson, Qld) Celtic Blood - Shaza Leigh (Tamworth, NSW) Chimney In The Paddock - Diane Lindsay (Newcastle, NSW) Gilbert, O'Meally & Hall - Norma O'Hara Murphy (Bony Mountain, Qld)
CONTEMPORARY SONG LYRIC OF THE YEAR
Dreamtime Cathedrals - Manfred Vijars (Morningside, Qld) Flying With The King - Lee Kernaghan, Garth Porter, Colin Buchanan (Sydney, NSW) Lady Of The Land - Luke O'Shea/Drew McAlister (Sydney, NSW) Survive - Kate Cook (Toowoomba, Qld) You Can't Get Good Help these days - Allan Caswell/Tamara Stewart (Sydney, NSW)
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