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Golden Guitar gaffe to be investigated
The blunder happened during the CMAA Awards in Tamworth last month, when the biggest award of the year, Album of the Year, was presented to Lee Kernaghan instead of Graeme Connors.
Organisers apologised the following day and acknowledged Connors as the correct winner for his album Still Walking.
But with observers still asking “what went wrong?”, Tamworth-based Ian Burkinshaw has been appointed to investigate and find out why the error was not immediately corrected.
CMAA chairman Rod Laing welcomed the investigation and said the board was “embarrassed” by the gaffe.
"If there is something that is certainly not right, if there is an alleged cover-up, if that's proven to be true well, there's got to be action, especially if the board want to retain their credibility and the credibility of the awards as well," he told AAP.
Source: SMH 
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Lee Kernaghan OAM (born 15 April 1964 in Corryong, Victoria) is an Australian country music singer and songwriter. He was the 2008 Australian of the Year.
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