The answer is Teenage Joans.

The South Australian Music Awards were held at the Old Adelaide Gaol on Thursday, 19 November, and young pop-punks Teenage Joans absolutely cleaned up.

The duo formed in 2018 and took out Triple J’s Unearthed High competition in 2020, and this year took home seven SAM Awards – the most ever awarded to a single recipient.

Along with Best Song, Best New Artist, Best Group, Best Release, Most Popular Punk Artist and Best Cover Art, Teenage Joans also took home the inaugural City of Adelaide Exceptional Live Music Performance Award.

CityMag once again sponsored the Best Innovation Award, which this year went to Northern Sound System and WOMADelaide for their NSS Academy collaboration.

There were a tonne of other winners too, so read on for the full rundown of the 2021 South Australian Music Awards results.

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MAJOR/INDUSTRY VOTED AWARDS

Best Studio
Chapel Lane Studios & Wundenberg’s Recording Studio

 

Best Studio Engineer/Producer
Kiah Gossner

Best Live Technician
Lisa Lane Collins 

Best Major Festival/Event
WOMADelaide

Best Small Festival/Event
Space Jams South Coast Tour

Best Venue
Jive

Best Cover Art
Samuel Graves & Eve Burner (Teenage Joans – Taste of Me)

Best Manager
Rachel Whitford

Best Music Video
Harry Nathan (Glowing – ‘Poppy’)

Best Song
Teenage Joans – ‘Something About Being Sixteen’

Best New Artist
Teenage Joans

Best Group
Teenage Joans

Best Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Artist
Tilly Tjala Thomas

Best Solo Artist
Motez

Best Release
Teenage Joans – Taste of Me

Best Music Educator
Alison Hams

Best Innovation (presented by us!)
WOMADelaide x NSS Academy

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PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS WINNERS

Blues & Roots
Cal Williams Jr

Country
Ricky Albeck & The Belair Line Band

Electronic
Motez

Experimental
Sons of Zöku

Folk
Siberian Tiger

Heavy
Kitchen Witch

Hip Hop
Boffa

Jazz
Chelsea Lee

Pop
G-Nat!on

Punk
Teenage Joans

Rock
TOWNS

Soul/Funk/R&B
Mum Thinks Blue

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2021 SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS

City of Adelaide Exceptional Live Performance Award
Teenage Joans

Adelaide UNESCO City of Music Best International Collaboration
Lazaro Numa

Emily Burrows Award
Tilly Tjala Thomas

Rosanna and Neville Clark Award
Ryan Martin John and Aidan Cibich

Music SA Community Achievement Award
Mick Wordley

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