Nominations are now officially open for the 2022 Pacific Music Awards.

Pacific artists from Aotearoa, New Zealand (citizens/residents) can be nominated for all the dozen award categories, with the exception of the Best International Pacific Artist Award, which is open only to Pacific artists from overseas.

The recordings being entered can be singles, EPs or albums that have been released for sale during the 2021 calendar year, so that’s January 1 – December 31, 2021.

More information can be found here.

Nominations must be submitted online through the official entry system. The deadline for nominations will be May 6, 2022, with Thursday, August 4 the date set for the awards ceremony itself.

After two years of Covid constraint, the Pacific Music Awards Trust are looking forward to a huge celebration of Pacific music then.