2024 Semi Finalists
ALL RESULTS LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
LOCAL HEROES & EVENTS
| A Better Place | Karen | Law | |
| All Those Years Ago | Allan | Caswell | Marian Caswell |
| Beer Box Man | Matt | Scullion | |
| Bombs & Bullets | Sally | Pottinger | Luke O’Shea |
| Boys Who Go To War | Barry | Forrester | |
| Gunner The Kelpie Hero | Ken | Lindsay | Lindsay Waddington |
| Heroes of the past | Kevin | Sullivan | |
| His Normality | Lola | Brinton | Jason Vorherr |
| I Hear Your Voice – The Aussie Soldier | Brendan | Mcmahon | |
| Keep The Flame For Me | Craig | Stewart | |
| Local Hero | Peter | Campbell | Brendan Smoother and Dan Murphy |
| Long Black Skirts | Alice | Benfer | |
| Maliyan & Guniinii | Matthew | Davidson | |
| Sons of the Southern Cross | Angela | Small | Quinn McHugh |
| The Promise | Wendy | Wood | |
| The War Song | Amanda | Heartsong | |
| The War That Stole My Daddy’s Life | Rae | Leigh | Allan Caswell |
| Uncle Bill to Me | Bruce | Mackay | Adrian Payne |
BUSH BALLAD
| Beneath Australian Stars | Anne | Fraser | Luke Austen and Christine Eckleston |
| Big Thing in a Small Town | Dean | Perrett | Paul Ricketts and Lachie McLean |
| Coolaroo | Shelly | Jones | Shelly Jones and LesterTreuer |
| Gunner Ther Kelpie Hero | Ken | Lindsay | Lindsay Waddington |
| Old Felt Hat | Alice | Benfer | Alice Benfer and Gregory M Dillon |
| Old Flea Bitten Grey | Alice | Benfer | |
| Outback Woman | Dean | Perrett | Dean Perrett |
| Proud to Call You Dad | Lloyd | Back | |
| She Sang The Harmony | Anne | Fraser | Kath Stuart and David and Merelyn Carter |
| Thats My Way of Life | Peter | Salata | |
| The Woman On The Land | Craig | Stewart |
COUNTRY BLUES
| Broken Romance | Brendan | Mcmahon | |
| Can’t Fix With A Rose | Robert | Derschow | |
| City Girl | Darrin | Truran | |
| Far Gone Fifty Four | Sean | Costello | |
| Get Over You | Dominique | Maurice | |
| Getaway | Keith | Todd | |
| Homesick Blues | Stan | Lenz | |
| Into The Dream | Rae | Leigh | Tiana Victoria and Storm Rae Francis Leigh and Michael Jan Asley Hickey and Allan Orn Graig |
| Shop Til I Drop | Shelly | Jones | Lester Treuer and Shelly Jones |
| The Devil Wears Cowgirl Boots | Coral | Renee | |
| The Do I, Don’t I blues | Cathy | Dobson | Angus Gill |
| Walk on by | Garry Carson | Jones |
LYRICS
| Everybody Wants a Piece of Me | Russell | Leeming | |
| Feet in the Irons | Diana | Davis | |
| Fire in Gippsland | Diana | Davis | |
| First Love, Last Dance | Glen | Fredericks | |
| From the Wrong Side of the Tracks | Kevin | Pye | |
| Got the Bayou Blues Instead | Chris | Murphy | |
| Like my Mama Loves Tobacco | Shanleigh Rose | Carey | |
| Moody Blue | Kevin | Pye | |
| Pistol Packin’ Mumma | Christine | Eccleston | |
| Red Dirt In My veins | Susan | Muranty | Elizabeth Usher |
| Shadows Of The Brim | Christine | Eccleston | |
| Shadows of the Night | Kevin | Pye | |
| She’s a Farmer’s Wife | Kevin | Pye | |
| The Bridle on the Door | Kevin | Pye | |
| The Country Boys In Town | Sally | Ross | John Ross |
| The Rivers Edge | Brendan | Mcmahon | |
| This Old Dusty Track | Alan | Gilmour |
NOVICE
| Tracy | Maili | Clarke | |
| The old tyre swing | kylie | moss | |
| Hearts On Loan | Kristy | Xavier | |
| Seven Daze | Josephine | Lemon | Ian Hallett |
| Trouble | Josephine | Lemon | Ian Hallett |
| Hold On | Lucy | Beveridge | |
| Old Rocking Chair | Lucy | Beveridge | |
| Little Bird | Lucy | Beveridge | |
| The Devil Wears Cowgirl Boots | Coral | Renee | |
| Lunchtime Rush | Stephen | Pike | |
| Dancing out of time | craig | wilson | |
| Moonlight | Darrin | Truran | |
| When A.P. and Brenda Sang | Bruce | Barclay | |
| Got the Bayou Blues Instead | Chris | Murphy | |
| The Brooklyn Bayou Blues | Chris | Murphy | |
| Hummingbird | Darrin | Truran | |
| Done Cheating | Darrin | Truran | |
| Roadside Flower | Brad | McKenna |
OPEN
| Read a Room | Chloe | Styler | Phil Barton Lauren McLamb |
| Aloysius | Cathy | Dobson | Angus Gill |
| His Normality | Lola | Brinton | Jason Vorherr |
| Take It As It Comes | sandy | Mcnaughton | |
| No More Pictures | John | Hudson | |
| The Promise | Wendy | Wood | |
| Burn So Bright (Feat. Charlotte Lloyd) | Craig | Lloyd | David Carter, Merelyn Carter |
| Hunting Season | Dennis | Comino | |
| Thank You Country | Craig | Lloyd | Michael Saleta, David Carter, Merelyn Carter |
| Corner of my mind | Aaron | D’Arcy | Aaron D’Arcy and Zach Allen |
| The Note | John | Hudson | |
| Two Hearts Beat Better Than One | Tina | Pettaras | |
| I still think about you | Sandy | Mcnaughton | David Sarmiento |
| Broken | Jason | Greenwood | |
| Mogareeka Moon | Garry Carson | Jones | |
| Never Want To Leave This Town | Dave | Diprose |
YOUTH
| Back on the road again | Jack | Gregory |
| Fishing from heaven | Jack | Gregory |
| Hold On | Lucy | Beveridge |
| Little Bird | Lucy | Beveridge |
| Old Rocking Chair | Lucy | Beveridge |
| Side of My Heart | Ava | Bizzanelli |
| Wildfire Season | Lucy | Beveridge |
TRADITIONAL
| After The Rain | John | Greenwood | |
| Batman Bridge | Cameron | MacDonald | |
| Beer Box Man | Matt | Scullion | |
| Bombs & Bullets | Sally | Pottinger | Luke O’Shea |
| Burn So Bright (Feat. Charlotte Lloyd) | Craig | Lloyd | David Carter, Merelyn Carter |
| Defining Moments | Shelly | Jones | Lester Treuer |
| Dusty Sky | Dean | Perrett | Dean Perrett |
| Everlasting Cactus | Alice | Benfer | Kevin Bennett |
| Far Away | Jay | Turner | |
| Flowers | Lloyd | Back | |
| Hillbilly Girl | Virginia | Hermel | |
| I wont say I miss you | Phoebe | Hutchison | |
| Lion In My Heart | Aimee | Hannan | Gina Jeffreys Max Jackson |
| Lonely Nights | Peter | Campbell | Victoria Edwards |
| New Country Morning | Brendan | Mcmahon | |
| Next Heartbeat | Sandee | Facy | Michael Saleta |
| She Won’t Hang My Picture On The Wall | Bill | Rowland | |
| Southern Highlands | Andy | Penkow | Allan Caswell |
| Streets and Headstones | Craig | Stewart | |
| Thank You Country | Craig | Lloyd | Michael Saleta, David Carter, Merelyn Carter |
| The Murray and Me | Craig | Stewart | |
| When I Think of Home | Lindsay | Waddington | Allan Caswell |
| Widgee Widgee Station | Alice | Benfer | Kevin Bennett |
| Wildflowers On The Outback | Alice | Benfer | Gregory M Dillon |
| Wonboyn Waters | Virjilla | Walker | Kevin Bennett |
ALT BALLAD ALT ROCK
| Chasing Your Love | Patrick | Kenny | Kelsey Berrington |
| Claire | Dennis | Comino | Kelsey Berrington |
| Coming Home Soon | Felicity | Dowd | |
| Cowboys and Moonshine | Toria | Richings | |
| Finally Caught Up with Me | Corey | Legge | |
| For Tonight | Crystal | Robins | |
| Good place to grow up | Aaron | D’Arcy | |
| Heartbreak Land | Dave | Diprose | |
| Hurricane | David | Campbell | Adam Pendergast |
| I Won’t Forget | Ben | Walker | Allan Caswell and Beth Lucus and Stephen Dobson |
| Lost | Shanleigh Rose | Carey | |
| Love is Like a River | Shelly | Jones | LesterTreuer |
| Love Was | Kym | Watling | |
| Lucky guy | Cameron | MacDonald | |
| Musaic Got Me Through | Dave | Diprose | |
| Pills | Trinity | Woodhouse | |
| Pocket Full of Words | Shelly | Jones | LesterTreuer |
| Rainmakers | Jay | Turner | Cath Mundy |
| Rainmakers | Jay | Turner | Cath Mundy |
| Small Town with a Big Heart | Dianne | Coombes | Angus Gill |
| Songbird (Oh My, My) | Patrick | Kenny | Kelsey Berrington |
| Stray | Darrin | Truran | |
| The Spirit of Australia | Craig | Stewart | |
| Twenty Five | Chloe | Styler | Kaylee Bell and Gavin Carfoot |
| Walk You Down That Aisle | Glen | Fredericks | |
| Weighed Down | Cathy | Dobson | Angus Gill |
| What Do You Do? | David | Campbell | Adam Pendergast |
| Wild Storm | David | Javier |
COUNTRY ROCK
| Ain’t Afraid Of Dirt | Sally | Pottinger | |
| Coming Home | John | Hudson | |
| Coolangatta QLD (Cooly Rocks On) | Paul | Owen | Lawrie Minson Shelley Minson |
| Dead in the Water | Dennis | Comino | Kelsey Berrington |
| Firehorse | Angela | Small | |
| Frontier | Craig | Stewart | |
| I’m Coming Back | Corey | Legge | |
| Just Gettin’ My Hat | Jack | Lorry | |
| Lied On The Way In | Bert | Giancristofaro | |
| Love The Summer Time | David | Javier | Susy Bodilly |
| Moonshine and Whiskey | Garry Carson | Jones | |
| My Radio | Jax | Tonic | |
| Nowhere Town | Ross | WEBB | Ben Malone |
| One Step At A Time | Sandy | Halverson | |
| Out on Bail or Back in Jail | Glen | Fredericks | |
| Railway Train | Ben | Walker | Thomas Keating |
| Rearview Mirror | Beth | Compton | |
| Ricochet | Shanleigh Rose | Carey | Reordan James Carey |
| Roadtrains | Amanda | Heartsong | |
| Rollin Road Train | Dean | Perrett | |
| Runaway Heart | Michael | Lehnen | Craig Woodward Catherine Lehnen |
| Ten Years In Cockatoo | Craig | Stewart | |
| The Great Divide | Craig | Stewart | |
| Trouble | Josephine | Lemon | Ian Hallett |
| Turn Up The Radio | Brendan | Mcmahon |
GOSPEL SPIRITUAL
| Called Good | Dean | Perrett | |
| God Is Smiling | Kathy | Coleman | |
| Gospel | Antonio | Nero | |
| Salvation | Darrin | Truran | |
| Sweet Loretta | Alan | Gilmour | Shirl Llewellyn |
| Take off your shoes | Lee ann | Weekes | |
| The Backsteps | Dianne | Coombes | |
| The end of Sundowner Drive | Cathy | Dobson | |
| The Sweetest Verse | Virginia | Hermel | |
| The way of love | Holly Lee | Jones | |
| Wild Storm | David | Javier | |
| You Felt Like Home | Sandy | Mcnaughton |
TSA NEW SONGWRITER
| Give and Take | Felicity | Dowd | |
| Colourblind | Trinity | Woodhouse | |
| Wild Heart | Jane | Gardiner | |
| Rearview Mirror | Beth | Compton | |
| Pills | Trinity | Woodhouse | |
| Stake a Claim | Glen | Fredericks | |
| Blue Butterfly | Tina | Pettaras | |
| For Tonight | Crystal | Robins | |
| Ain’t Afraid Of Dirt | Sally | Pottinger | |
| For You Love | Toria | Richings | |
| One Stoplight Town | Beth | Compton | |
| Threeways | Kevin | Sullivan | |
| What I Said | Trinity | Woodhouse | |
| How About You | Paul | Griffin | Peter Benson |
| Without you | Keith | Todd |