Nominations open for the 2024 OneMusic Excellence Award!

The OneMusic Excellence Award, as part of the national Restaurant and Catering Association Awards series celebrates the dining venues who have elevated music to be their premier marketing drawcard.

Does your restaurant music need a drum roll? Enter the OneMusic Excellence Award. The award entry is at no cost and takes just 3 minutes to complete online, so if you think the tunes playing in your dining venue are worthy of a nod from judges, enter the OneMusic Excellence Award in 2024.

The awards, (one in each state) are open to any venue who puts an interesting spin on music - background music, live music, a DJ, however you use it to make your customer experience more extraordinary.

Black and white background image of a musician performing at a restaurant. OneMusic logo. Text reads: 2024 Awards for Excellence.

How to enter

Restaurants and cafes have to complete just six questions to enter. Venues do not need to be a member of the Restaurant and Catering Association or a customer of OneMusic Australia to enter. Entry is free. Dining venues in each state have rolling deadlines to enter the OneMusic Excellence Award, with closing dates:

  • WA - 20 May
  • ACT - 3 June
  • QLD/NT - 10 June
  • NSW - 24 June
  • SA - 22 July
  • VIC/TAS - 12 August

 

Whether you have a “dream to be the place where (your) community can come for good food and live music” such as last year’s NSW winner Medowie Social or help recover from a cyclone like last year’s WA winner Finlay’s at Kalbarri “…Every Sunday the music takes it to another level,” owner Melissa Finlay says: "There is no magic formula except care, attention and a love of music."

 

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