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Angus and Julia Stone
Jun 22, 2011 Updated Jun 23, 2011

Angus and Julia Stone have taken out the top gongs at this year's APRA Music Awards.

The Sydney songsters won both the Songwriter of the Year award and Song of the Year for 'Big Jet Plane'.

Jet were the other big winners on the night, picking up the Most Performed Australian Work and Rock Work of the Year for their single 'Seventeen', while veteran songwriter Paul Kelly was presented with the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music.

AC/DC also made the awards list for their rock classic 'Highway to Hell', which even though it was released back in 1979, picked up the award for the Most Played Australian Song Overseas.

APRA 2011 Winners:

Song of the Year

Big Jet Plane
Angus and Julia Stone

Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year

Megan Washington

Most Played Australian Work

Seventeen
Jet

International Work of the Year

Hey, Soul Sister
Train

Country Work of the Year

Little Bird
Kasey Chambers

Blues & Roots Work of the Year

Close To You
John Butler Trio

Urban Work of the Year

Who's That Girl
Guy Sebastian Featuring Eve

Dance Work of the Year

Free Fallin
Zoe Badwi

Rock Work of the Year

Seventeen
Jet

Most Played Australia Work Overseas

Highway to Hell
AC/DC

Songwriter of the Year

Angus and Julia Stone

Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music

Paul Kelly

Source: ABC News external link

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Angus & Julia Stone is an Australian brother-sister duo from Newport, New South Wales on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Forming in 2005, their parents are both musical and played as a folk duo before Angus and Julia were born. At very young ages, their father introduced them to music and encouraged them to join the school band. Julia played the trumpet, Angus the trombone and their older...

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