Andrew Clermont Awards

Golden Fiddle Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 !

Alongside Shenzo Gregorio – Best Fiddler,
Jessie May – Community Award &
Gleny Rae – Best Fiddler with a Band
– presented by Mark Mitchell of Epoch Strings

Inducted into the South Australian Music Hall of Fame! Nov 18, 2022

At Wirrina Bluegrass & Acoustic Roots Festival (just south of Adelaide)

Gleefully accepted in the arms of my SA Supper Club team having also performed the Tubular Bells excerpt that day!

Tim Bailey, Quentin Eyers, Margie Russell, Lucy Kammerman, Tim Bennett, Ingrid Wangel, Janet & Hugh Gordon, Gary Coombs

plus Tubular MD – Tony Schick & Fiddler Rob Wallace off the side!

Inducted by Enrico Morena – Adelaide Music Collective

2021 – Peoples Choice Award – Folk Alliance Australia – The Borderers!

Andrew has appeared with them steadily since 1998! Here in concert at Adelaide Fringe 2021

John Elliot Portrait Photo Shoot which appeared across the Country!

Check out my shark tooth (thanks Diana Kühn, Germany)! Oh! And “me mate” John Williamson

And soooo grateful to be also beside Reg Lindsay with whom I sessioned on his Reasons to Ride CD 1993 and
Jimmy Little who joined the Brian Young Tour with me 1985 looping the Australian outback in a 1946 DeHaviland Dove (about 28,000km!)

ORIGINAL AWARDS

Golden Guitar for Best Vocal Group in 1985 Three Chord Wonders/ The Album “Try Change” and the Track – “Losin’ My Blues!”

John Green thanking his daughter Billie as we received Golden Guitar for Best Vocal Group in about 1985 for the band formed by Lawrie Minson, Three Chord Wonders/ The Album “Try Change” and the Track – “Losin’ My Blues!”

There are a few between Lawrie Minson & myself !

1984, 1985, 1987 National Flat-pick (Bluegrass) Guitar Champion

Here with Fiddle Champ Tom Fitzgerald (whom I backed on guitar for the occasion!) and Banjo Champ Ian Simpson, from The Flying Emus & Slim Dusty Show

Won of the Battle of the BushBands 1999

Won of the Battle of the BushBands 1999 as FowlHouse Jack & Battle of the BushBands 2000 & 2002 as Terra Australis

Barmera Country Music Hands of Fame Inductee 1999

with youngest daughter Tahlia photo bombing just behind 🙂

rubbing shoulders with fellow Inductee of SA Music Hall of Fame Jim Hermel 2022
and quite the who’s who of SA Country Artists of the time
Wayne Law, Jonnie Russell, Peter Busher, Zeta Burns, Wally Sparrow and Noel Watson !