{"id":676397,"date":"2026-09-07T06:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/676397\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T06:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:19:14","slug":"aria-award-for-best-music-festival-returns-for-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/676397\/","title":{"rendered":"ARIA Award for Best Music Festival Returns for Second Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe ARIA Award for Best Music Festival<\/a> will return for a second year, the Australian Recording Industry Association<\/strong> announced Monday, with entries opening the same day and closing at 5 p.m. AEST on Friday, Sept. 18.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeveloped jointly with the Australian Festival Association (AFA)<\/strong>, the award recognizes festivals that put Australian artists in front of the audiences that build their careers, along with the programmers who back local talent on their lineups. <\/p>\n

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\n\tTo be eligible, a festival must feature an Australian headline act or a lineup that\u2019s at least 50% Australian artists, and must hold AFA membership. <\/p>\n

\n\tLaneway Festival won the inaugural award in 2025, beating out nominees Ability Fest, Beyond the Valley, Bluesfest Byron Bay and Yours and Owls Festival. The category\u2019s debut year drew attention as one of the first ARIA honors specifically tied to festival programming decisions rather than individual artist or record achievements.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFestivals are where Australian artists meet the audiences that change their careers,\u201d ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cProgramming Australian talent is a deliberate decision and has a huge impact on the careers of local artists. It is a delight to continue celebrating those who go above and beyond to do this.\u201d AFA chair Adelle Robinson \u2014 who also leads Australian promoter Fuzzy \u2014 added that festivals are \u201ca key part of the music industry\u2019s eco system,\u201d having \u201cplatformed many Australian artists at the beginning of their career,\u201d and called the award a recognition of \u201cthe link between Australian music, fans and a unique live experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe category\u2019s return lands amid a milestone year for the organization. The 2026 ARIA Awards<\/a> will mark the ceremony\u2019s 40th anniversary on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at Sydney\u2019s Hordern Pavilion \u2014 the sixth consecutive year the venue has hosted the event, and the same site where ARIA held a standalone Hall of Fame anniversary celebration earlier this year, inducting six artists into its Hall of Fame in June. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2026 ceremony, presented in partnership with Spotify and broadcast on Network 10 and Paramount+, will look back at four decades of Australian music while highlighting current stars. Nominations for the main ARIA Awards will be announced Thursday, Sept. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ARIA Award for Best Music Festival will return for a second year, the Australian Recording Industry Association…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[131379,18,117,13676,19,17,337,2624],"class_list":["post-676397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-aria","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-global","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117228310568679049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}