The 19th Annual East Coast Blues and Roots Festival is up for the Robert Helpmann Award for Best Contemporary Festival again.
The Byron Bay event has now been nominated 4 years in a row in the category and won the award in 2005 aqnd 2006.This year, the festival is competing with Womadelaide, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival and Big Day Out 2008.
In other contemporary music categories, the nominess are:
Best Australian Contemporary Concert:
The Frontier Touring Company for Crowded House
Maiden Australia and QPAC for Broad
Andrew McManus Presents for Kate Ceberano Nine Lime Avenue tour
Sydney Symphony for The Whitlams with the Sydney Symphony
Best International Contemporary Concert:
Dainty Consolidated Entertainment for Bon Jovi The Lost Highway tour
Sydney Festival for Bjork on the Steps of the Sydney Opera House
Frontier Touring for Justin Timberlake
Chugg Entertainment and Perth International Arts Festival for Rufus Wainwright
Best Performance in an Australian Contemporary Concert:
Guy Sebastian - The Memphis Tour
David Campbell - The Swing Sessions 2
Kate Ceberano - Nine Lime Avenue Tour
Tina Arena in concert
