Receiving the civic honour of the Keys to the City of Adelaide from the Lord Mayor of Adelaide, for their ‘outstanding contribution to music’, Electric Fields has a long and remarkably diverse history of achievements spanning the past 10 years.
During 2024 they received an ARIA for Best Original Soundtrack Album, took out Best Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Band for the South Australian Music Awards, and at the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs), were recipients of the Indigenous Language Award. They were finalists for an award with the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) and were chosen to represent Australia in Sweden for Eurovision 2024.
2024 saw them performing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House; closing the Adelaide Festival with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; and headlining Garrmalang Festival with the Darwin Symphony Orchestra. In June they played shows in Washington DC and in NYC.
In August 2024, Electric Fields were invited into the Gallery of SA Parliament to witness a motion formally acknowledging and recognising their exceptional musical contribution and representation of South Australia. Following the motion and vote, SA Parliament held a celebration in honour of Electric Fields at Parliament House.
Launching in 2015, Electric Fields’ exceptional trajectory saw them invited to perform in China, Scotland and New Zealand within the first six months, and by the end of their first year, they had headlined shows around Australia, received several awards and were signed to Sony Publishing. The following year they were recipients of the coveted Stigwood Fellowship and have since taken out 30 awards. Described by Vogue as ‘movers of the next gen’, Electric Fields were a close second for Eurovision – Australia Decides in
2019, and in 2024 were invited to represent Australia at Eurovision in Malmo, Sweden.
Their very impressive list of awards includes numerous National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) such as Best Live Band in Australia x 3; Best Live Band in their category x 4; and Best Live Voice in Australia to Zaachariaha Fielding for the last 3 years in a row. Electric Fields hold the record for the most awards received over the years in the history of the NLMAs.
They have played the Australian Open and the AFL Grand Final; performed in Los Angeles for the AAA Gala Event, played Central Park and the Lincoln Centre, NYC; and in the Australian Embassies in Washington DC and Copenhagen, Denmark.
Both national tours were sold-out right across Australia, and their exceptional and critically acclaimed performance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2022 was described as ‘the highlight of the year’ by the MSO – with a request for a remount in 2023. They have since performed full shows with the Canberra, Darwin, Adelaide, Melbourne (for a second show) and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. Along with opening, closing, and headlining countless festivals across Australia, international invitations have included performances in England, Scotland, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, NZ, and the USA – and their long list of international performances includes WOMAD UK; Edinburgh Festival, Cupa Dupa Festival, NZ, and closing the massive Sziget Festival in Budapest.
Electric Fields’ outstanding musical output includes composing for several films, including the recently released Faraway Downs by Baz Luhrmann, for which they received an ARIA Award. They created the internationally award-winning piece Tjitji Lullaby for ABC KIDS TV, which was then published in book form by Harper and Collins.
In 2023, their extraordinary 30-minute composition, written for Electric Skies, became an award-winning event for Fringe Festival, while in 2021, Electric Fields’ astounding one-off self-curated live show INMA garnered two standing ovations, 5-star reviews, and a request to be remounted to close the Fringe Festival 2021 – ultimately taking out the Pick of the Fringe Award.