Australia’s Kasey Chambers has won the Grand Prize in International Songwriting Competition.
Kasey won the prestigious US-based award for her song ‘Beautiful Mess’.
Kasey also won first prize for the Americana Award for ‘Devil On Your Back’ and second prize for Performance for ‘Little Bird’.
Judges for the International Songwriting Award included Robert Smith from The Cure, Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel, Ben Harper, Jeff Beck, John Mayall and Kings of Leon.
Other Aussie winners included Basement Birds ‘Bus Stop’ for AAA (with Megan Washington in second place for ‘How To Tame Lions’); Kimbra won Pop/Top 40 for ‘Settle Down’ and Alistair McRae won ‘Unsigned Only’ for ‘All Fall Down’.
Other notable Aussie were:
Paul Dempsey second place in Adult Contemporary for ‘Bats
Jonah’s Road third place in Country for ‘If I Was Him’
Anna Weatherup third place in Gospel/Christian Music for ‘Miracle’
Sierra Finn second place for Instrumental with ‘Death By Alarm Clock’
Glenn Richards third place for lyrics for ‘Barfly Prometheus’
The Chemist second prize for Rock for ‘Lullaby #1’
Children Collide third prize from Rock for ‘Jellylegs’
My Fiction third prize for ‘Every June’
VIDEO: Kasey Chambers performs at Undercover for uSessions:
