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Awards and Bursaries: Performing- Music
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Below is a list of organisations which offer awards or bursaries in crafts. Click on the title for more details.
See also Competitions and Prizes: Performing: Music
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Americas
Billboard Latin Music Awards
The Billboard Latin Music Awards, which honors the biggest and brightest stars in the industry. There will be presentation and performances and red carpet appearances by Latin music's hottest artists. The Billboard Latin Music Conference & Awards is part of Billboard's long-standing editorial commitment to Latin music coverage
Latin Grammy Award
The Latin GRAMMY Awards aim to recognize artistic and technical achievement, not sales figures or chart positions, with the winners determined by the votes of their peers — the qualified voting members of The Latin Recording Academy
Asia
MTV Asia Awards
Official site of the music award ceremony held in Singapore. Features international and Asian nominees with artist profiles.
Canada
Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards
The Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards are coordinated by Executive Producers Catherine Cornelius and Amos Key Jr.,, along with an advisory commitee of nine distinguished members of the Aboriginal music community across Canada. The mission is to acknowledge and honour the keepers, teachers, promoters, creators and performers of Aboriginal music; to continue to develope and promote the diversity of all Aboriginal music and celebrate the excellence of Aboriginal music and to recognize the unique vision of Aboriginal musicians and encourage this rich cultural voice.
Juno Awards
The origins of the awards date back to 1970. In that year, Stan Klees and Walt Grealis, publishers of weekly trade publication RPM, organized the Gold Leaf Awards, held at the St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto
National Jazz Awards
Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the National Jazz Awards recognizes contributions to jazz excellence in Canada. The nominees selected by a committee of industry leaders honour outstanding Canadian achievements
EU
MTV European Music Awards
Awarded to comtemporary music artists.
Polar Music Prize
The Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989 by the late Stig Anderson, one of the true greats in the music life. As the publisher, lyricist and manager of ABBA, he played a key role in their enormous success. Anderson donated a large sum of money to The Royal Swedish Academy of Music, The Stig Anderson Music Award Foundation in The Royal Swedish Academy of Music, with the aim of creating what was to become known as the Polar Music Prize
International
World Music Awards
Presented annually to the world's top-selling artists.
Pacific
ARIA Music Award
The ARIA Awards recognise excellence and innovation across all genres of Australian music.
Dance Music Awards
The official website including information about the ceremony, list of
nominees and the background of the awards.
New Zealand Music Awards
New Zealand’s first awards for recorded music were co-founded by the NZBS and Reckitt and Colman, a soap powder manufacturer.
Tui Awards
Information
on the New Zealand Music Awards including the artists, the competition and
the winners.
UK
BRIT Awards
Various awards given to British artists.
Classical BRIT Awards
Mercury Music Prize
Champions UK music by highlighting 12 albums
MOBO Awards
Offers information on the U.K. awards that recognise music of black origin.
Ivor
Novello Awards
Awards for British songwriters and composers,
presented annually by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
Radio 3 World Music Awards (UK)
In the years since winners have ranged from veterans like Orchestra Baobab, Khaled and Ibrahim Ferrer to emerging acts like Warsaw Village Band, DJ Dolores and Lhasa. More traditional genres have not been neglected, with winners including Djemilady Tounkara, Chango Spasiuk, Kaushiki Chakrabarty, and the Ensemble Kaboul.
UK Online Music Awards
Music Week Awards categories are decided in a variety of ways. Professionals are invited to submit entries for our judged awards, and to encourage their clients and contacts to vote for them in the voted awards.
USA
Academy of Country Music Awards
Dedicated to Country Music artists
American Music Awards
Winners of the American Music Awards are selected by the public. A national sampling of approximately 20,000, taking into account geographic location, age, sex and ethnic origin
BMI Awards
BMI Songwriters are awarded each year by category. Winners are selected from the entire BMI catalog, based on the amount of performances during the award period. Choose an event below for the winners lists, news, and photos.
Billboard R & B Music Conference Awards
The Billboard R&B Hip-Hop Conference is the premiere event for the industry's who's who to network, share knowledge and discover new talent! The 7th Annual Conference & Awards Show will return to Atlanta, & feature savvy speakers, must-attend panels, skills-sharpening workshops, artist showcases, a stellar Awards Show line-up and more
Blues Music Award
The event brings together Blues performers, industry representatives and fans from all over the world to celebrate the best in Blues recordings and performances from the previous year. Each year, the Foundation present The Blues Music Awards to the artists selected by its members. They are universally recognized as the highest honor given to Blues artists.
California Music Awards
Celebrating the Golden State's outstanding musical talent.
Cammy Awards
The celebration of the CBMA Awards (Carolina's Magic Music Years) began in 1995 as an exciting party of performers and fans of Carolina Beach Music. Fourteen bands entertained at the first awards show held in Salisbury, NC. Those in attendance will never forget the memorable event
Country Music Awards
Website includes
organization, history, and press releases from the Country Music
Association.
Detroit Music Awards
The Detroit Music Awards are presented by the Motor City Music Foundation (MCMF).
Dove Awards
GMA's Dove Awards is Christian and gospel music's biggest night of the year, where top artists from every style of gospel music come together for a national night of music and celebration as the GMA bestows the industry's highest honor -- the Dove Award.
East Coast Music Awards
Music industry professionals from across the country will join Atlantic Canadian jurors to adjudicate awards categories. National jurors will be limited to one juror in genre or industry categories and two jurors in general categories
Grammy Awards
The GRAMMY Foundation was established in 1989 to cultivate an awareness, appreciation and advancement of the contribution of recorded music American culture from the artistic and technical legends of the past to the still unimagined musical breakthroughs of the future generations of the music professionals. The GRAMMY Foundation works in partnership with its founder, the Recording Academy, to bring national attention to important issues such as the value and impact of music and arts education and the urgency of preserving our rich cultural legacy.
Gramophone Awards
Often called the Oscars of the classical music world, these awards are the most significant honours bestowed on the classical record industry.
My VH1 Music Awards
Native American Music Awards
Annual event for Native American music artists.
PLUG: Independent Music Awards
PLUG is about the independent community coming together to recognize and celebrate its own
Radio Music Awards
Rhythm and Blues Foundation Awards
Founded in 1988, The Rhythm & Blues Foundation has been the only independent nonprofit service organization solely dedicated to the historical and cultural preservation of Rhythm & Blues music. The Foundation provides financial support, medical assistance and educational outreach through various grants and programs to support R&B and Motown artists of the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s
Shortlist Music Prize
Honours unique talent across the spectrum of popular music.
Soul Train Music Awards
The long established, overall, Soul Train Music Awards voting body includes active professionals in the fields of radio station programming, retail sales and management and recording artists with records that reach one or more music trade publication charts during the past one year eligibility period
The Source Hip Hop Awards
The Source 5 Mic Council is comprised of the most influential, most listened to on-air radio djs and personalities in the nation. Along with a select group of long-time subscribers to The Source magazine, and on-line voters at thesource.com, The Source 5 Mic Council was hand-picked and organized to help determine the winners of The Source Hip-Hop Music Awards 1999.
Stellar Awards
Annual event honouring the best of the gospel music industry.
TEC Awards
Founded in 1985, the Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards is the foremost program recognizing the achievements of audio professionals. Presented annually by the Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio, the TEC Awards honor the individuals, companies and technical innovations behind the sound of recordings, films, TV shows and live performances.
Vibe Awards
Annual hip-hop and R & B awards
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