Ben Apfelbaum

APRA NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

Not to be confused with the prudential regulator the APRA we are dealing with stands for the Australasian Performing Right Association which handed out its first awards in 1982. The APRA annual music awards celebrate excellence in contemporary music honouring the skills of composers, songwriters and publishers who amongst other things have achieved success in sales and airplay performance.

Unlike many theatrical performances, the APRA awards have transitioned to an online presence. This year’s nominations are:-

2020 APRA MUSIC AWARDS NOMINEES

 

Peer-Voted APRA Song of the Year

Thelma Plum – Better In Blak

Guy Sebastian – Choir

Tones & I – Dance Monkey

The Teskey Brothers – I Get Up

5 Seconds Of Summer – Teeth

Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year

Ruel

Sampa The Great

Thelma Plum

Liam Gough, Brendon Love, Josh Teskey & Sam Teskey, (The Teskey Brothers)

Tones And I

Most Performed Australian Work

Dean Lewis – 7 Minutes

Guy Sebastian – Choir

Tones & I – Dance Monkey

Birds of Tokyo – Good Lord

KIAN – Waiting

Most Performed Alternative Work

The Rubens – God Forgot

Birds Of Tokyo – Good Lord

Matt Corby – Miracle Love

Gretta Ray – Radio Silence

KIAN – Waiting

Most Performed Blues & Roots Work

Tash Sultana – Blackbird

The Teskey Brothers – I Get Up

John Butler Trio – Just Call

Ziggy Alberts – Laps Around The Sun

Busby Marou – Sound Of Summer

Most Performed Country Work

Lee Kernaghan – Backroad Nation

Maren Morris – Girl

Travis Collins – Happy

Seaforth – Love That

Troy Cassar-Daley – Wouldn’t Change A Thing

Morgan Evans – Young Again

Most Performed Dance Work

Hayden James feat. Running Touch – Better Together

PNAU feat. Kira Divine & Marques Toliver – Solid Gold

Peking Duk feat. Jack River – Sugar

Dom Dolla – Take It

RÜFÜS DU SOL – Treat You Better

Most Performed Pop Work

Dean Lewis – 7 Minutes

Amy Shark – All Loved Up

Guy Sebastian – Choir

Tones & I – Dance Monkey

Katy Perry – Never Really Over

Most Performed Rock Work

Polish Club – Clarity

Ruby Fields – Dinosaurs

Slowly Slowly – Jellyfish

Jimmy Barnes feat. Troy Cassar-Daley – Shutting Down Our Town

The Living End – Otherside

Most Performed Urban Work

Butter – Triple One

Baker Boy – Cool As Hell

Hilltop Hoods feat. Illy & Ecca Vandal – Exit Sign

Hilltop Hoods – Leave Me Lonely

Illy – Then What

Most Performed International Work

Marshmello feat. Bastille – Happier

Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus – Nothing Breaks Like A Heart

Calvin Harris & Sam Smith – Promises

Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – Shallow

Post Malone & Swae Lee – Sunflower

The event was scheduled for April 28 at the International Convention Centre in Sydney, but will now be streamed on May 26 on Hyvio – the Aussie-owned platform for on-demand video content.

Featured image Ruel. All pics by Ben Apfelbaum.

 

 

 

 

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborlang. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, United States, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication. To celebrate the opening of a permanent Photography Gallery, the State Library of New South Wales selected 400 shots from its archive of over 2,000,000 images to display in the new gallery. An image of mine was plucked out of the multi million photo archive to be part of the inaugural exhibition.