Vodafone Ghana Music Awards 2012: ‘Artiste Of The Year’ To Grab GHC 10.000!

This year’s Ghana Music Awards will not only be organised with a new title sponsor; Vodafone, the awards which is now termed as ‘Vodafone Ghana Music Awards’ or VGMA for short unlike the previous editions has come with many changes.

On April 14 at the Dome of the Accra International Conference Centre, the winners of this year’s edition would be announced to a live audience. The prize for each winner has been increased. Each winner gets GHC 2.000 whiles the Artiste of the Year grabs GHC 10.000.

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Below is a detailed plan for the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards 2012:

27^th February: The organisers, Charter House will unveil the nominations for this year’s awards which will be telecast live on GhONE Entertainment Television.
1^st March: After the unveiling of the nominees, the public can now begin voting for their favourite musician. The voting can be done via SMS [a short code], online via the awards website [www.ghanamusicawards.com].
10^th & 24^th March: In venues in Takoradi and Kumasi, music lovers will have the opportunity to get entertained by the nominees.
27^th March: There will be an Industry Forum which will have various practitioners in the music industry present to dissect on issues. The forum will be organised in association with the World Bank which is committed at helping and promoting Ghana Music.
31^st March: A fortnight to the awards, the nominees will the opportunity to climax the celebrations in Accra
4 weekends in March/April: Just like Takoradi and Kumasi, the nominees will continue with club parties in selected regional clubs.
10^th April: With a week to the awards, the Industry Awards takes place at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel.
14^th April: The main awards night. 15 awards will be presented to deserving musicians to a live audience. Shortly after the awards, the after party continues at a venue to be announced later.
29^th April: The organiser’s wraps up the festival with winners presented with their prizes.
June to July: The period for the Foundation Activities and Development Project for the award winners