Stella Donnelly takes home grand prize at WAM Song Of The Year Awards

Stella Donnelly has just added another achievement to her already brilliant resumé, taking home the grand prize at this year's West Australian Music's (WAM) Song Of The Year Awards.

It goes without saying that Stella Donnelly has had an absolutely stellar (no pun intended) career over the last year, with Donnelly taking home the inaugural the Levi’s Music Prize at BIGSOUND 2017, winning a huge grant from Australia Council, and signing to leading indie Secretly Canadian. Now, she can add to that list of achievements winning the grand prize at the WAM Song Of The Year Awards.

Having been nominated in the Pop category alongside other stunning WA acts including Abbe May, Coin Banks, and Riley Pearce, Donnelly won the award for her stunning take on the culture of victim-blaming, 'Boys Will Be Boys'.

“Thank you so so much for my award for Song of the Year," Stella Donnelly said in a video message. "I just want to thank the venues that have always given me shows, the people that book the shows, the amazing staff, and all of the other amazing musicians in Perth and WA.”

“I’m so so lucky to be in such a supportive scene and I can’t wait to see what it looks like next year. Thank you so much.”

Other winners at this year's WAM Song Of The Year Awards included Carus Thompson for the Blues/Roots category, Bolt Gun for Heavy/Metal, J.F.K for Rock, while The Little Lord Street Band took home the award in the Country category.

Check out Stella Donnelly's 'Boys Will Be Boys':

WAM Song Of The Year Winners

BLUES/ROOTS

Sponsored by Nannup Festival I Studio sponsor Artisan Music

WINNER Lies Carus Thompson

OTHER NOMINEES The Fire Inside Farraday’s Cage Ghost Kat Wilson Trio Hometown Blues Minky G and Rosco Ask For It Tracey Barnett

COUNTRY 

Sponsored by Country Music Club of Boyup Brook I Studio sponsor Underground Studios

WINNER Maybe I’m Just In Love The Little Lord Street Band

OTHER NOMINEES What Am I Fighting For Jasmine Atkins Country Is Calling John Bennett Wanted Man Kim Wainwright The Great Escape The Justin Walshe Folk Machine

ELECTRONIC

Sponsored by RTRFM I Studio sponsor Fremantle Recording Studios

WINNER Prior Engagement Feels

OTHER NOMINEES Juxtapose Corbelle Bitter Lake Doublethink Prism Formlessness Mayhills Calling Ukiyo

EXPERIMENTAL

Sponsored by RØDE Microphones I Studio sponsor Sumo Sound Studios

WINNER The One Intenso

OTHER NOMINEES Man is Wolf to Man Part 1 Bolt Gun Unveiled feeding | ear Bering (Foreboding) samarobryn No Tether Tangled Thoughts of Leaving

FOLK

Sponsored by Clancy’s Fremantle I Studio sponsor Blondel Recording Studios

WINNER I Only Hide Helen Shanahan

OTHER NOMINEES Friends I Want to Tell You (On My Mind) Bill Lawrie Red Rocks Carla Geneve Trains And Submarines Carus Thompson Misplaced Riley Pearce

HEAVY/METAL

Sponsored by Diskbank I Studio sponsor Templeman Audio

WINNER Man is Wolf to Man Part 2 Bolt Gun

OTHER NOMINEES Uncharted Make Them Suffer Quantum Umbrella Nucleust Stuck Odditry The Alarmist Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Red Light Ultra Sound

JAZZ

Sponsored by Audiofly I Studio sponsor Crank Recording

WINNER Don’t Stop Here Harry Mitchell

OTHER NOMS Manzer Fesse 457 World Jazz Onward and Upward Daniel Susnjar Afro-Peruvian Jazz Group Catalyst Kate Pass Kohesia Ensemble Tony Umbridge MFG

OUTSTANDING INDIGENOUS

Sponsored by Freo Social Hall I Studio sponsor Poons Head Studios

WINNER Country Is Calling John Bennett

OTHER NOMINEES Culture Child JoKeria Little Country Town Lullabies and Legacies Wangkatjungka Woman Rocky Ridge Band Same Script Ziggy Ramo

OUTSTANDING REGIONAL

Sponsored by APRA AMCOS I Studio sponsor Blackbird Sound Studios

WINNER Country Is Calling John Bennett

OTHER NOMS Red Rocks Carla Geneve The Mountain Harry Jakamarra Three Stories to the Truth Short & Curly Here and Now Tanya Ransom

POP

Sponsored by Cool Perth Nights|Mojos Bar I Studio sponsor Tone City Recording Studio

WINNER Boys Will Be Boys Stella Donnelly

OTHER NOMINEES Love Decline Abbe May Forgive Us (feat. The WAAPA Gospel Choir) Coin Banks A Boy And A Boy J.F.K Misplaced Riley Pearce

PUNK/HARDCORE

Sponsored by Rhubarb Records | XVinylX I Studio sponsor Vision Studios

WINNER Magic Glove The Bob Gordons

OTHER NOMINEES Back To The Grey Hope Street Make It Right Incomplete Witch Los Solos Stupefied The Bible Bashers

ROCK

Sponsored by Badlands Bar I Studio sponsor Soundbaker

WINNER A Boy And A Boy J.F.K

OTHER NOMINEES Truthless BATS Ashes Camarano Critical The Tommyhawks Coping Treehouses

SCHOOLS 14 & UNDER

Sponsored by City of Fremantle I Studio sponsor Sonic Lolly

WINNER The Fire Inside Farraday’s Cage

OTHER NOMINEES Walls Darcey Morton New Slate Lily Kate and Amelia Grace Sometimes Luna Rozza I Rise Sienna Eddy

SCHOOLS 15 – 17

Sponsored by Headphonic I Studio sponsor Pavement Studios

WINNER Ear To Lend Figurehead

OTHER NOMINEES Hannah Dexter Wright Timeghost hachi The Stockman’s Grandson Lachy John Now I’m Here MALi JO$E

URBAN/HIP HOP

Sponsored by Sorrento Strategic Music I Studio sponsor Shake Down Studio

WINNER Be Real (feat. Danny Martin) Coin Banks

OTHER NOMINEES It’s Usually Sunny in Perth Bluntfield Navigator Dead Tooth Money For Portraits POW! Negro Same Script Ziggy Ramo

WORLD

Sponsored by Perfect Pitch Publishing I Studio sponsor Shanghai Twang Studios

WINNER Same Drum Akolkol Dastan Gesa

OTHER NOMINEES Blah Brassika FANM Grace Barbé Binar Phil Walley-Stack Clarity Rastatrix