The Australian Country Music Roll of Renown is an Australian and New Zealand country music Hall of Fame that was inaugurated by Radio 2TM in 1976. The award honours Australian and New Zealand musicians who have shaped the music industry by making a significant and lasting contribution to country music. The award is determined by an independent selection panel, set up under Chairmanship of Max Ellis, one of the original founders of the Roll of Renown, the Awards and the Festival. The inductee is announced at the Country Music Awards of Australia in Tamworth every January.
List of inductees YearInductees1976Tex Morton1977Buddy Williams1978Smoky Dawson1979Slim Dusty1980Shirley Thoms1981Tim McNamara1982Gordon Parsons1983The McKean Sisters (Joy and Heather)1984Reg Lindsay1985Rick and Thel Carey1986Johnny Ashcroft1987Chad Morgan1988John Minson1989The Hawking Brothers1990Stan Coster1991Barry Thornton1992Nev Nicholls1993Shorty Ranger1994Jimmy Little1995Ted Egan1996Dusty Rankin1997John Williamson1998Rocky Page1999Brian Young2000Rex Dallas2001Arthur Blanch2002The Schneider Sisters (Mary and Rita Schneider) 2003Frank Ifield2004Webb Brothers & Kenny Kitching2005The Singing Kettles & Athol McCoy2006Reg Poole2007Lindsay Butler & Kevin King2008Geoff Mack & Jean Stafford2009Slim Newton2010Anne Kirkpatrick2011Phil Emmanuel and Tommy Emmanuel2012Terry Gordon2013Wayne Horsburgh2014Norm Bodkin & Les Parnell2015Ray Kernaghan & Lee Kernaghan2016Graeme Connors2017Troy Cassar-Daley2018Kasey Chambers2019James Blundell2020Joy McKean2021The Bushwackers2022Beccy Cole2023Colin Buchanan2024Allan Caswell2025Keith Urban2026Adam Harvey
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