TAMWORTH singer/songwriter Ashleigh Dallas is a finalist in two categories for the 2014 Golden Guitar awards.
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Dallas will be up against some of Country Music's biggest stars to take home an award in the female artist of the year and Qantaslink new talent of the year categories.
The awards will be held at the Tamworth Regional Entertainment Conference and Centre in January.Others announced as finalists include Tamworth's Aleyce Simmonds, Troy Cassar-Daley, Keith Urban and Sara Storer.
The Leader's Rebecca Belt was there for the big announcement.
See her rolling coverage of the event below.
Sara Storer takes to the stage to conclude the finalist announcement event at the Hard Rock Cafe. #goldenguitars pic.twitter.com/3Iq1SLvTtu
— NDL Festival Hub (@NDL_TCMF) November 12, 2013
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11am:
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Beautiful Noise - Lee, Fuse - Keith Urban, If I Want To - Jasmine Rae , Lovegrass - Sara Storer, The Great Country Songbook - Troy & Adam
MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Keith Urban, Lee Kernaghan, Luke Austen, Pete Denahy, Russell Morris
FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Aleyce Simmonds, Ashleigh Dallas, Dianna Corcoran, Jasmine Rae, Sara Storer
GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR Kaylens Rain, O'Shea, The Greencards, The Sunny Cowgirls, The Wolfe Brothers
TOP SELLING ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Lee Kernaghan, Keith Urban, The Wolfe Brothers, Jason Owen, Troy Cassar-Daley and Adam Harvey
And that's all the finalists, folks. More entertainment to come. #GoldenGuitar
— NDL Festival Hub (@NDL_TCMF) November 12, 2013
10:55am
INTERNATIONAL TOP SELLING ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Charley Pride, Blake Shelton, Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift, Alan Jackson
10:45am
Continued:
VOCAL COLLABORATION: Jayne Denham & Shannon Noll, Troy & Adam, Sara & John, O'Shea & McAlister Kemp, Travis, Luke, Luke & Liam
BUSH BALLAD OF THE YEAR: Dianne Lindsay, Dean Perrett, Jeff Brown, John Smith, Tom Maxwell
INSTRUMENTAL: Mustered Courage, Bob Corbett & The Roo Grass Band, Pete Denahy, Tommy Emmanuel & Martin Taylor and The Greencards
ALTERNATIVE COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Karl Broadie,The Bushwackers, Lachlan Bryan,Mustered Courage and The Greencards
10:40am:
The first finalist announcements are:
CMC VIDEO CLIP OF THE YEAR: Lee Kernaghan, McAlister Kemp, Troy Cassar-Daley & Adam Harvey, O'Shea and The McClymonts
QANTASLINK NEW TALENT OF THE YEAR: Adam Eckersley Band, Ashleigh Dallas, Kaylee Bell, Kaylens Rain and The Wolfe Brothers
HERITAGE SONG: Russell Morris, Lee Kernaghan, Luke O'Shea, Troy Cassar-Daley & Adam Harvey, Sara Storer and John Williamson
10.30am: Kaylens Rain take to the stage to open proceedings of the finalists' announcement
The crowd for the announcement of the finalists. #GoldenGuitars pic.twitter.com/xk9XfFT1wH
— NDL Festival Hub (@NDL_TCMF) November 11, 2013
10am: The stars are starting to arrive for the big finalist announcement.
Hard Rock Cafe is hosting the announcement today of the finalists #GoldenGuitars pic.twitter.com/IwGcKhaR2c
— NDL Festival Hub (@NDL_TCMF) November 11, 2013
EARLIER: COUNTRY Music fans, it's the moment you've been waiting for.
The Leader's reporting team is in Sydney today for the announcements of who's nominated for awards at the 2014 Country Music Awards of Australia to be held in Tamworth in January.
Is your favourite artist up for a Golden Guitar?
The Leader's Rebecca Belt will have all the inside information shortly after 10am.
You can follow the action here, or on twitter @NDL_TCMF
As the anxious wait continues for our artists this morning, here's a tweet from Tamworth's own Ashleigh Dallas who sums up the feeling pretty well.
I thought I may of been Hungry.. But NO it's definitely nerves & butterflies. Goodluck to all.. #CMAA#GoldenGuitarNominationsAnnoucement
— Ashleigh Dallas (@ashleighdallas) November 11, 2013