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March 28, 2024

Dolphin Awards winners announced

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The choir with hip hop outfit TLK and Tom Avery.
The choir with hip hop outfit TLK and Tom Avery.

The north coast entertainment industry celebrated its biggest night of the year on Tuesday with the announcement of the 2914 NCEIA Dolphin Awards at the Ballina RSL Club. Check out photographs of the winners taken by Paul Connelly of Lone Duck Photography, with compliments of River FM.


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1 COMMENT

  1. And Iggy Azalea is?? Did the most successful musician to ever, and undoubtedly ever will, come from this region even get a mention? She’s won over 25 of the BEST music awards in the world. Guess she can just keep on a hopin’ for that Dolphin. No wonder she left and never looked back…

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