{"id":434217,"date":"2026-05-19T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434217\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:58:10","slug":"nominations-are-now-open-for-the-2026-national-indigenous-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434217\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations are now open for the 2026 National Indigenous Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs) are gearing up for another big year of celebrating the First Nations excellence both established and emerging around the country.<\/p>\n<p>The NIMAs are headed back to Darwin Amphitheatre in Garamilla\/Darwin on August 8, but first they&#8217;ve gotta find their nominees \u2013 that&#8217;s where you come in.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Submissions are now open for the six categories across the awards, including:<\/p>\n<p>Artist of the YearBest New TalentAlbum of the YearFilm Clip of the YearCommunity Clip of the YearSong of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Artists who have previously won big at the NIMAs include BARKAA, 3%, Emily Wurramara, King Stingray, Becca Hatch and more.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations are open until Friday 19 June \u2013 head on over to <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/nima-nominations.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the NIMAs website<\/a> to pitch for your faves to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>Nominees and the full slate of unreal performances will be announced closer to the awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs) are gearing up for another big year of celebrating the First Nations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[222218,156,222219,222220,157,222217,111,139,222216,69,71835,71837],"class_list":["post-434217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-darwin-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-indigenous-music","tag-indigenous-musicians","tag-music","tag-national-indigenous-music-awards","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nimas","tag-nz","tag-the_latest","tag-triple-j"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}