See the full list of artists and industry heads nominated for the 2022 SAM Awards.

The 2022 SAM Awards are but a week away, and this year’s finalists have finally been revealed.

Kenyan-born and Adelaide-raised artist Elsy Wameyo, who released her debut EP Nilotic this year, is nominated across six categories, including Best Song, Best Release, Best Solo Artist, Best Music Video, People’s Choice Hip Hop Artist of the Year and Best Studio Engineer/Producer.

Other multi-category nominees include Tilly Tjala Thomas, Electric Fields, The Empty Threats, TOWNS, Lola and the seven-time winners from last year’s awards, Teenage Joans.

The South Australian Music Awards will this year take place at the Hindley Street Music Hall, on Thursday, 17 November.

If you’d like to join in on SA Music’s night of nights, grab a ticket at the website.

To see if your mate’s band, or your mate’s mate’s band has made it into the nomination round, read on below.

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Major finalists

BEST SONG   

Teenage Joans – Terrible
Horror My Friend – Devotion
Tilly Tjala Thomas – Ngai Yurlku Nhiina
TOWNS – Season 5 (Break My Fall)
Elsy Wameyo – River Nile
WANDERERS – Nothing in This World

 

BEST NEW ARTIST  

Ethanol Blend
Molly Rocket
LOLA
The Vains
Twine

 

BEST REGIONAL ARTIST     

Ella & Sienna
Germein
Tilly Tjala Thomas
Ellen Tefanis
PTL

 

BEST ABORIGINAL OR TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ARTIST     

MARLON X RULLA
Tilly Tjala Thomas
Electric Fields
Rob Edwards
DEM MOB

 

BEST GROUP 

Slowmango
SONS OF ZÖKU
The Empty Threats
Electric Fields
TOWNS

 

BEST SOLO    

Elsy Wameyo
Tilly Tjala Thomas
Jess Day
Motez
Lucas Day

 

BEST RELEASE       

LOLA – Don’t Tell My Mum
The Empty Threats – The Empty Threats
Elsy Wameyo – Nilotic
WANDERERS – WANDERERS
SONS OF ZÖKU – SÜN

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Industry finalists

BEST STUDIO

Wundenberg’s Recording Studios
Cactus Cactus Sound
Matrix Recording Studio
Palomino Sound Recorders
Songbird Society

 

BEST STUDIO ENGINEER/ PRODUCER      

Elsy Wameyo
Lewis Wundenberg
Mario Späte
Kiah Gossner
Ryan Martin John

 

BEST LIVE TECHNICIAN   

Lachlan Sheehan
Nathan D’Agostino
Michael Wickens
Ryan Martin John
Luke Hancock

 

BEST MAJOR FESTIVAL / EVENT   

Froth & Fury Fest
Day Dance
Spin Off Festival
Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival

 

BEST SMALL FESTIVAL / EVENT   

Half Strange Festival 5
PAK Music Live at Wundenbergs
SALT Festival
Space Jams
Skate Daze – On The Flip Side

 

BEST MANAGER    

Alexandra Karatassa (Five Four Entertainment)
Sian Walden (Little Acorn Music)
Sue Germein
Rachel Whitford (27 Music)
Sebastian James (27 Music)

 

BEST VENUE 

Grace Emily Hotel
Lion Arts Factory
UniBar ADL
Jive
The Wheatsheaf Hotel

 

BEST REGIONAL VENUE / ACTIVATION   

Adelaide Guitar Festival
Big Easy Radio
Space Jams – Robe
The Three Brothers Arms
Nautilus Arts Centre – SALT Stage

 

BEST COVER ART     

Paloma Ellery (SONS OF ZÖKU – SÜN)
Kyle Woodman (The Vains – Pussy Power)
Zinia King (The Cortex Shift – Magic Bearded Chicken Subverts The System)
Harrison Tomlian (Olyan – Outer)
Tobin Lush (Jen Lush – Let Loose The Beating Birds)

 

BEST MUSIC VIDEO 

Elsy Wameyo & Richard Coburn (Elsy Wameyo – ‘Nilotic’)
Conor Mercury/House of Spaghetti (The Empty Threats – ‘K’)
Lemonade City (Teenage Joans – ‘Terrible’)
Jack Bielby (Electric Fields – ‘Catastrophe’)
Jed Newton (LOLA – ‘What’s The Point’)
Tobin Lush (Jen Lush – ‘Let Loose The Beating Birds’)

 

BEST INNOVATION  

Adelaide Guitar Festival – The Backstage Sessions
Andrew Muecke – Happy Ghosts
Porch Records
Rebel Yell

 

BEST MUSIC EDUCATOR     

Adelaide Youth Orchestras
Robert Taylor aka DJ RAGZ
Hayley Wedding
Jenna Miltenoff
Leena Regan

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People’s choice finalists

BLUES AND ROOTS

Cal Williams Jr.
Dojo Rise
Stormhorse
Sue Baker
The Danger Dolphins

 

COUNTRY

Ella & Sienna
Ellen Tefanis
Matt Ward
Very Jane
Workhorse

 

ELECTRONIC

Happy Ghosts
Jethro
Motez
Pines
The Lunar Society

 

EXPERIMENTAL

Adam Page
Slowmango
SONS of ZÖKU
The Empty Threats
Travis Cook

 

FOLK

Anya Anastasia
Diamond Skies
Kaurna Cronin
Loren Kate
Ukulele Death Squad

 

HEAVY

Dirty Pagans
KEYAN
Outsider
Scott Reed’s String Theory
SwordfishTrombone

HIP HOP

Ironic
INFINITIES
Elsy Wameyo
DEM MOB
We Move Like Giants

 

JAZZ

Alexander Flood
Mike Stewart Big Band
Sam Cagney
Soylent Green
The Shaolin Afronauts

 

POP

Ebony Emili
Electric Fields
Estée
Germein
Mum Friends

 

PUNK

Agapanther
Church Moms
Lickity Split
LOLA
Teenage Joans

 

ROCK

Lucas Day
Molly Rocket
Mums Favourite
TOWNS
Wolf & Cub

 

SOUL/FUNK/RNB

Dino Jag
Lauren Greco
Mum Thinks Blue
Natasha Bianca
Wanderers

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