2006 New Zealand Music Awards

2006 New Zealand Music Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in New Zealand music
Date	October 18, 2006 (2006-10-18)
Location	Aotea Centre, Auckland
Country	New Zealand
Reward(s)	Tui award trophy
Website	http://www.nzmusicawards.co.nz
Television/radio coverage
Network	C4

The 2006 New Zealand Music Awards took place on 18 October 2006 at the Aotea Centre in Auckland. The best Jazz album was presented at the New Zealand Jazz Festival in November.^[1]

Bic Runga, the Bleeders and Fat Freddy’s Drop each won two awards each. Dave Dobbyn won his 15th award as a musical artist.

Awards and nominees

The Maori Album awards were merged into one category.^[2]

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[3]

Key: † – Non-technical award; ‡ – Technical award

Album Of The Year†	Single Of The Year†
Bic Runga - Birds Don McGlashan - Warm Hand Dave Dobbyn - Available Light Concord Dawn - Chaos By Design Elemeno P - Trouble In Paradise	Pluto – "Long White Cross" Bic Runga - "Winning Arrow" Goldenhorse - "Out Of The Moon" Mt Raskil Preservation Society feat. Hollie Smith - "Bathe In The River" The Feelers - "Stand Up"
Best Group†	Best Male Solo Artist†
Elemeno P – Trouble In Paradise Bleeders - As Sweet As Sin Fly My Pretties - The Return Of Fly My Pretties	Dave Dobbyn – Available Light Don McGlashan - Warm Hand Che Fu - Beneath The Radar
Best Female Solo Artist†	Breakthrough Artist Of The Year†
Bic Runga - Birds Aaradhna - I Love You Anika Moa - Stolen Hill	Bleeders – As Sweet As Sin Aaradhna - I Love You Frontline - Borrowed Time
Highest Selling NZ Album†	Highest Selling NZ Single†
Fat Freddy’s Drop – Based On A True Story	Rosita Vai – "All I Ask"
Radio Airplay Record Of The Year†	Best Rock Album†
The Feelers – "Stand Up"	Bleeders – As Sweet As Sin Blindspott - End The Silence Elemeno P - Trouble In Paradise
Best Urban / Hip Hop Album†	Best Dance / Electronica Album†
Frontline – Borrowed Time Nesian Mystik - Fresh Men Opensouls - Kaleidoscope	Concord Dawn – Chaos By Design Recloose - Hiatus On The Horizon Sola Rosa - Moves On
Best Aotearoa Roots Album†	Best Music Video†
Fly My Pretties – The Return Of Fly My Pretties Anika Moa - Stolen Hill Rhombus - Future Reference	Mark Williams – "Wandering Eye" (Fat Freddy’S Drop) Alyx Duncan -"Fuji" (Minuit) Adam Jones - "Long White Cross" (Pluto)
Peoples Choice Award†	Best Producer‡
Fat Freddy’s Drop Pluto Frontline Elemeno P Bic Runga Goodnight Nurse	Bic Runga - Birds Don McGlashan, Sean Donnelly, Ed McWilliams - Warm Hand (Don McGlashan) David Holmes & Paul McLaney - Like Stray Voltage (Gramsci)
Best Engineer‡	Best Album Cover‡
*Andre Upston – Birds* (Bic Runga)** Andrew Spraggon / Angus McNaughton - Moves On (Sola Rosa) Lee Prebble - The Return Of Fly My Pretties (Fly My Pretties)	*Chris Knox – As Sweet As Sin* (Bleeders)** Joe Garlick - The Return Of Fly My Pretties (Fly My Pretties) Stephen Tolfrey - End The Silence (Blindspott)
Best Classical Album†	Best Maori Album†
Tower Voices New Zealand – Spirit Of The Land Bridget Douglas and Rachel Thomson - Taurangi The New Zealand Trio - Spark	Te Reotakiwa Dunn – Te Reotakiwa Dunn Mahara Tocker - Hurricane's Eye Rodger Cunningham - Toto
Best Gospel / Christian Album†	Best Country Music Album†
Juliagrace - Juliagrace Mumsdollar - A Beautiful Life Shooting Stars - Over The Water	Shane Warner - Absolutely Jacqui Watson -Uncut Ron Mitchell - Low Down Country
Best Pacific Music Album†	Best Folk Album†
Mt Vaea Band - Mama JXN & LavaBoyKila - First off the Plane Annie Puletiuatoa - Childhood	Lorina Harding - Clean Break Chris Priestley - Uncovered: A Collection Of New Zealand Folk Songs Sean Kelly & Friends - See The Light
Best Jazz Album†	Outstanding Contribution To The Growth Of NZ Music On Radio†
The Vaughn Roberts Big Band – Grrreat Stufff! Colin Hemmingsen - The Rite Of Swing Paul Dyne - Shelter Of The Ti Tree	David Innes

Performers

Performances on the night included

Bic Runga sang "Say After Me"
Elemeno P sang "S.O.S"
The Bleeders
Frontline performed "Lost in Translation"

References

↑ "Variety spices up music awards gongs". Scoop.co.nz. 19 October 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
↑ "2006 New Zealand Music Awards". Web page. RIANZ. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
↑ "Awards 2006". Listing. NZ Music Awards. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2012.

External links

On the Red Carpet, NZ Herald
NZMA 2006-8 performances, YouTube

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