The finalists in each category have been announced. The top 3 - 5 (depending on category) nominations will be announced on the night, along with the category and specialist category winners.

The finalists for each category are:

Adult Contemporary

• Anousha Victoire - Icarus
• Emily Sorensen - Free
• Gian - Over
• Harmonie Harris - Night Air
• Julie Wilson - I’m Not Sorry
• Kangarun - I Wonder Why
• Mark Wells - Be Your Lover
• Maureen O’Brien - A Little Fresh Air ‘n’ Exercise
• Phil Tweed - Guilty
• Scott Fiddes - Love Is In The Air
• The Good - Say It Now

Alternative

• Amy Vee & The Virtues - Searching For Somnia
• Bright Yellow - Please
• Cadence - Far Too Long
• Coral - The Way You Wanted Too
• Emily Sorensen - Blind
• Limerick - Waitress
• The Hauntingly Beautiful Mousemoon - Cry Baby Cry
• Tim Sheumack - Big Plans
• The Zeal Room - Code Red
• Half Shot - Growing Old

Blues and Roots

• Dr Goodvibe - Holding Diamonds
• Eric Collier - Turn Your Light On
• Jenny Marie Lang Band - Uneven Ground
• Limerick - Someone’s Dead
• Maureen O’Brien - Grandma Boogie
• Michael Wilks - Since You Left Me Baby
• Newbery/Yates - Behind You
• Pat Eyre - How I Told My Baby
• Pete Schillert - Throwin’ Your Life Away
• The JT Recipe - Weathered
• The Karl Kennedy Affair - Susan’s Fury

Classical

• Andre Vikas - In Red
• Benjamin Ward - Samuel’s Song
• Jonathan Dower - Jetstream 11 Going Down
• Swinks - Fugue in A Major
• The Jess Redwood Trio - Bach 2 Part Response

Dance

• Bubkiss - Sky Dancing
• Captain Headbin - I Love You Baby
• Dhopec - Runaway
• Gregg Telian - Spirit Shout
• Junksion - X-Xpanded
• Meta Music - Western Love Rough
• No Excess - Far & Away
• Pucko & The Gunnies - Funk Me Do
• Ryan Hornby - One More Time
• Twyce Daily - Rom Pom Push

Country

• Bob Corbett - Every Second Word
• Bob Pigott - Back Verandah
• Ghostwood Estate - So C’mon
• Hudson & Higginbotham - Movin’ On
• Jonathan Dower - Burnin’ Man
• Ken Jones - Another Cup Of Water In The Soup
• Lenore Bower - Experimental Nature
• Nick Cesta - Past and Future
• The Firks - White Collar Cowboy
• Twyce Daily - Gypsy In My Heart

Rock

• Big City Exile - The Triangle Song
• Bright Yellow - Funny Bone
• Cadence - Something More
• Cotton Sidewalk - The Awakening Of Intelligence
• Dangerfield - Love My Way
• Helen ‘Dusty’ Shannon - You’ve Never Been So
• The Humm - Going Nowhere
• The Karl Kennedy Affair - 23 Years
• The Seabellies - @ The Airport
• Tigermoth - Wait n See

Folk

• Anousha Victoire - Light Of Heart
• Ben Riddle - Numb
• Coral - Along The Breakwall
• Joe Hamilton - Twenty/Four
• Lenore Bower - Child In Iraq
• Maureen O’Brien - Magpies
• Niksta - Change My Life
• Peter Dixon Band - Sunrise Sonfall
• Swig - Homeward Bound
• The Good - Working Class Hands
• The Humm - Butter

Instrumental

• Adam Miller - Directions
• Amalgam - Amalgam
• Fumi Boca - The Mini Bar Is Not Complimentary
• Gian - Tambor
• Gregg Telian - Orion
• Junksion - Ni-San
• Kieran Egan - Goblin Wetland Rise
• No Excess - Cruisin’
• Peter Graham - Christmas Song
• Phil Tweed - Cascade

Heavy Rock

• Black Asylum - Shadows
• Bunson - Down Days
• Cadence - First Time
• Child Of Stone - A Prayer For The Honest
• The Hauntingly Beautiful Mousemoon - The Mire

Jazz

• Adam Miller - For The Best
• Christian Marsh - Coaster’s Retreat
• Damien Higginbotham - Duck’s Delusions
• Festivus - Nemesis:Nemesis
• Fish Fry - Swimming In The Rhythmic Sea
• Fumi Boca - The Sleazy Song
• Junksion - Beat 3
• Kable and Koo - Avaritia
• Limerick - Dave
• Pat Capocci Combo - Back Door Daddy

Pop

• Amy Vee & The Virtues - Say Goodnight
• Bob Corbett - Song (Part 1)
• Dangerfield - Lamb
• Dean Kyrwood - My Friends
• Dusty Shannon - Don’t Give A Damn
• Gian - Just Believe
• Niksta - A Picture Without A Heart
• Ron_E - Foreplay
• The Good - Get On Stage
• The Seabellies - Day Of The Bees

R’n'B

• Ann Maree Bowdler - It’ll Come
• Domestiques - Keep Walking
• Marissa Saroca - Away From You
• Ron_E - All I Got

Hip Hop

• Dhopec - Sharx
• Emcee Dr Fruit featuring DJ Wasabi - Zombie Plankton
• Lefta Centa - The Game

Other

• Andrew Feeney - No Other Way
• Anousha Victoire - Her Love Will Not Return
• Damien Higginbotham - A Midsummer’s Night Dream
• Declan Egan - Mystical Picture
• Fish Fry - (I Want To Go Back To) Cuba
• Hudson & Higginbotham - Country Story, Country Law
• Jonathan Dower - Crooked Highway
• Ryan Hornby - Daybreak

For Further information contact Kat Holloway - (02) 4922 1200 - or visit the 1233 ABC Newcastle Music Awards Website