Country Music Awards of Australia

CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia
Awarded for	Outstanding achievements in the Australian country music industry
Presented by	Country Music Association of Australia
Country	Australia
First awarded	1973
Official website	http://www.country.com.au
Television coverage
Network	Network Ten CMC

The CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia is an annual awards night held in January during the Tamworth Country Music Festival, in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia celebrating recording excellence in the Australian country music industry. They are wholly owned and staged by the Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA). The awards are hosted at night time at the Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre (TRECC)on the Saturday night of the Australia Day long weekend and have been held annually since 1973. These prestigious Awards attract a live audience of 5000 people from the media, the music industry and the public and are broadcast on free to air and pay tv, as well as through ABC Radio and other commercial and community radio stations.

Golden Guitar trophy

The Golden Guitar trophies are cast in solid bronze on a base of polished Tasmanian Blackwood. They are 325 mm tall and weigh 1.5 kilos.

References

External links

Australian music portal