This year’s Country Music Awards Finalists for Best Album and Best  Song have been announced.

Finalists in the Recorded Music NZ Best Country Album category are…

• Wellington’s Eb & Sparrow for ‘Sun/Son’
  
• Jody Direen from Wanaka for ‘Breaks Out’
• Wellingtonians The Warratahs for ‘Runaway Days’

Finalists for the APRA Best Country Music Song  are…

• Eb & Sparrow’s Ebony Lamb‘s Hungry Little Town.
  
• Mel Parsons‘ Alberta Sun
  
• Tami Neilson & Joshua Neilson‘s The First Man
  

This year’s winners will be announced at the New Zealand Country Music Awards on June 2 at the St James Theatre in Gore. The awards are open to the public.

The New Zealand Country Music Awards take place during Gold Guitar Week. The Gold Guitar Week is in its 42nd year and attracts more than 5,000 country music fans to Gore annually.