MONDAY 16th November 2009

The 2009 ARIA Fine Arts Awards have been announced with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra conducted by Paul Dyer winning Best Classical Album for 'Handel: Concerti Grossi Opus 6'. Katie Noonan was awarded Best Jazz Album for 'Blackbird' and Seaman Dan was awarded Best World Music Album for 'Sailing Home'. The Best Original Soundtrack was awarded to 'Balibo'... Indigenous singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has performed with Sting, singing Every Breath You Take for French television show, Taratata. Gurrumul is currently touring Europe... Rock band Powderfinger have performed tracks from their new album 'Golden Rule' as a livestream concert on Fairfax's websites last Thursday... Troy Cassar-Daley, Jetty Road & Keith Urban have all been nominated for multiple awards at next year's Country Music Awards. 

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