The FBi SMAC (Sydney Music and Arts Culture) Awards have. unveiled their nominees for 2021!
Celebrating all the artists and creatives that keep the Sydney arts and music community poppin’, the FBi SMAC Awards have been running since 2008. Nominated across categories including Best Artist and Record of the Year are the likes of NGAIIRE, Tasman Keith, Marcus Whale and Serwah Attafuah.
NGAIIRE is up for two SMACs – Best Video and Record of the Year – marking another run of nods for her much-praised record, 3.
Throughout the nominations, we can see an exciting wave of artistry coming through; not just with the likes of NGAIIRE, Tasman Keith and Marcus Whale, but also in the dynamic Milan Ring, 1300 and Shady Nasty.
The FBi SMAC Awards are open for public voting until 5pm on December 10th – you can sling your votes over for your favourites here. Check out the full list of nominees below.
2021 FBi SMAC Award Nominees
BEST ARTIST
Serwah Attafuah
Natali Caro
Jazz Money
EJ Son
Demon Derriere
Akil Ahamat
BEST ARTS PROGRAM
Time Pass (Bankstown Arts Centre)
Unsettled
Supper Sessions
Art Write Light (Story Factory)
Soft Power (Firstdraft)
Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner
BEST EATS
Yod
Maiz
Cafe Freda’s
Lucky Myanmar
Amah
Baba’s Place
BEST LIVE ACT
1300
Tasman Keith
SPVRROW
Milan Ring
Black Dahlia
ARSE
BEST VIDEO
Shady Nasty – ‘PRETTYB0YZ’ (dir. Luca Watson & Harry Welsh)
Ngaiire – ‘Closer’ (dir. Adam Kiers)
Manu Crooks – ‘Top’ (dir. Maddy King)
Indigo Sparke – ‘Everything Everything’ (dir. Mia Lethbridge)
Glo – ‘Transmute’ (dir. Matthew Gode)
IMBI x Slim Set – ‘Heatsink’ (dir. Sonder and Slim Set)
NEXT BIG THING
Skenzo
Mi-Kaisha
JamarzOnMarz
Glo
Babitha
700 Feel
SONG OF THE YEAR
Moody Beach – ‘Why Not’
Moktar – ‘Silk’
B Wise – ‘Ezinna’
Becca Hatch – ‘Please U’
Barkaa – ‘King Brown’
1300 – ‘No Caller ID’
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Ngaiire – ‘3’
Marcus Whale – ‘The Hunger’
Low Life – ‘From Squats to Lots: The Agony and XTC of Low Life’
Indira Elias – ‘Songs from a Moon // Songs by the Sun’
Caitlin Harnett & The Pony Boys – ‘Late Night Essentials’
Blessed – ‘Music is the Medicine’
