25th October, 2007

Aussie News......

Natalie HOWARD named Top 10 Finalist in MUSICOZ AWARDS.

The Top 10 Finalists for the 2007 National Musicoz Awards have just been released and Nashville based artist/songwriter Natalie Howard has been named in the 'Country' Category.  She won the Musicoz CMC Best Country Artist Award in 2005 with 'I Can't' from her debut album 'Yesterday's Makeup' and USA 'self-titled' release.  Natalie is proud to be included once again amongst Australia's best independent artists with a song from her upcoming sophomore album.

An 'International' Category was included this year and Natalie co-wrote the song that was nominated for Top 10 Finalist James Dean Hicks from Nashville.

The Musicoz Awards are Australia's Premier Music Awards for Unsigned Artists and cover 17 genres of music and are known in the media as "The Unsigned ARIAs".

Musicoz received thousands of entrants for the 2007 awards and the judges were staggered with the immense talent this year.  All songs are judged equally on originality and strength of melody, lyrics, composition and performance.

Fans can continue to vote in the Musicoz 'People's Choice Awards' and have a chance to win a Maton Electric Guitar valued at $1500. The 'How to Win' information is on Natalie's Musicoz profile page.

The 7th Annual Musicoz Awards will be held on 22nd November at Sydney's Enmore Theatre.  Pat Maloney is quoted as saying "This year's awards are shaping up to be our biggest ever!".  Tickets are available through Ticketek.

For all the news please visit www.musicoz.org