WAM Song of the Year returns with $45k worth of prizes

WAM Song of the Year 2017/18, the search for the best songs from West Australia, opened this morning until Monday February 12.

There are 16 diverse award categories. They cover genres as Blues/Roots, Country, Electronic, Experimental, Folk, Jazz, Metal/Heavy, Punk/Hardcore, Pop, Rock, Urban/Hip Hop and World.

There are extra categories for Schools (14 Years & Under), Schools (15-17), Outstanding Indigenous and Outstanding Regional.

The winner of each gets $500 cash, studio time, a double pass to WAMCon 2018 and an entry to be in the running for the Grand Prize.

Winners will be announced at the Awards Party at the Fly by Night Club in Fremantle on Wednesday May 16.

Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt commented, “We’re so excited to welcome the WAM Song of the Year Awards to Fremantle once again.

“Many successful and emerging musicians call Fremantle home and the City is proud to support this event and WAM, an organisation that showcases our local talent to national audiences.

“As a council we put a huge amount of value in arts and culture and strive to support up-and-coming artists in every way we can.”

The grand prize package includes:

• $3,000 cash

• A two-day recording and production session with award winning engineer and producer Andy Lawson of Debaser Studios

• The opportunity for a publishing & sync licensing deal with Perfect Pitch Publishing, plus a tutorial in publishing and licensing, and ongoing industry mentoring

• 100 x 7 inch records, on black vinyl with a full colour sleeve and sticker, pressed by Rhubarb Records and XVinylX

• A national media servicing campaign for a single or release through Firestarter Distribution

• The new RØDE AI-1 complete home studio recording microphone package worth over $1,000

• $1,100 towards your next CD pressing plus one year’s worth of digital distribution from Diskbank

• A Happy Mag online partnership campaign which includes editorial, banner advertising, newsletter inclusion and lots more, worth $1,360

• Two-week radio ad campaign from Perth community radio station RTRFM

• Expert branding and digital marketing assessment and consultation from renown Sydney-based publicist Vanessa Picken from Comes With Fries

• A state-of-the-art Headphonic headphones package

• Cool Perth Nights golden ticket which offers access to all Cool Perth Night’s shows for two months

• A guaranteed prime spot on the 2018 WAMFest line-up

• Four passes to WAMCon 2018 (which also provides access to all WAMFest Live paid showcases, plus the infamous QuayNote boat party networking event.

Full details at the Official Website.