{"id":4752,"date":"2021-01-27T00:55:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/?p=4752"},"modified":"2021-01-27T00:55:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:55:27","slug":"benny-allen-continues-award-winning-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/01\/27\/benny-allen-continues-award-winning-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Benny Allen continues award-winning run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian singer-songwriter Benny Allen has continued his award-winning run at the Australian Country Music People&#8217;s Choice Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Although he couldn&#8217;t be at the Tamworth Country Music Festival this year, Benny will have a treasured memento from January, taking out the award for Best Bush Ballad with his single, The Battle of Point Nepean.<\/p>\n<p>This follows on from his win in the Australian Country Music People&#8217;s Choice Awards last year for Best Video Clip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m blown away to have had so many people connect with a song about Australia&#8217;s first brush with quarantine,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means so much to me, to be included not just as a finalist, but as a winner of one of these prestigious awards. When you look at the historical winners list, it&#8217;s humbling to think that my name is being included amongst people that can be identified by their first name in this industry &#8211; Troy, Lee, Beccy, Amber and both of the Adams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Battle of Point Nepean is Benny&#8217;s first foray into the bush ballad format, chosen for its natural connection to storytelling, but he&#8217;s promised it won&#8217;t be his last.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bush ballad format is something that really appeals to me, particularly as a storytelling format &#8211; and I can&#8217;t wait to produce more work in this style,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Benny is working on new music to be released in the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian singer-songwriter Benny Allen has continued his award-winning run at the Australian Country Music People&#8217;s Choice Awards. Although he couldn&#8217;t be at the Tamworth Country Music Festival this year, Benny will have a treasured memento from January, taking out the award for Best Bush Ballad with his single, The Battle of Point Nepean. This follows &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/01\/27\/benny-allen-continues-award-winning-run\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Benny Allen continues award-winning run&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hume","category-radio16","category-tcrn","category-zfm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}