29 Aug 2021

Botswana Music Union (BOMU) will announce awards nominees on Wednesday.

In a press release, the music union’s consultant, Seabelo Modibe says the announcement follows submission of music work from artistes who will compete in 30 categories.

Modibe says the announcement of nominees, which will be streamed live on Botswana Television, will also be partially virtual with a limited number of guests.

Awards categories, he says include artist of the year, song of the year, best new comer, best collaboration, best international achievement, best album, best female and best male awards, among others.

Modibe, who is also the Total Music Group managing director, says adjudicators have already finished the adjudication the process.

“A panel of nine judges has just concluded the adjudication process and we are now proceeding to reveal who made it into the next leg,” he says.

Again, he says judges, who were working independently, have also confirmed that the competition will be extremely tight as artistes have submitted their incredible pieces of work from 2019 to date.

On the other hand, BOMU president, Phemelo Lesokwane said in an interview that they were excited and looking forward to knowing who had made it to the final round.

Lesokwane said artistes continued to work extremely hard year in and out therefore the awards would certainly be great reward for them.

Lesokwane also said the awards were worthwhile, especially during the difficult time of the COVID 19 pandemic. ENDS