Music News - Finalists announced for the 2015 Children's Music Awards
09 July 2015 - 0 Comments
Aotearoa’s native dinosaur, the beauty of bugs and the difficulties of toast at sea are all thoroughly explored by this year’s finalists for the 2015 Children’s Music Awards – an annual presentation celebrating music written for kids.
Finalists in line for the APRA Best Children’s Music
Song Award are songwriter and actor Madeleine Sami for her
song Bugs, written for the animated children’s series Poppet
Stars; multi-award winning Levity Beet & Daniel
Stryczek for their song There’s One in the Bush; and Rangi
Kerswell, Maraea Davies & RJ Kerswell, for their bi-lingual educational
song He Aha Ai (Why?).
In addition to the award, this year, for the first time the winner of the best song award will also receive a $10,000 grant from NZ On Air to be used towards the recording of a new song and a music video.
Finalists for Recorded Music NZ’s coveted Tui award for Best Children’s Music Album include the self-titled Poppet Stars album - featuring various songwriters and artists that feature in the series; children’s music main-stays FleaBITE with their album The Jungle is Jumping; and Itty Bitty Beats with their album Bath Time.
Also awarded is the What Now Best Children’s Music Video Award. Finalists this year include FleaBITE’s animated Don’t Sit Under the Poo Tree, created by Stephen Templer & Ross Payne; Little City Critters’ Read a Story, created by Raymond McGrath - the clever monster that also wrote the song; and Luna World’s The Wollie Flopp, created by Lauren Billingham & James Brookes.
The winner of the What Now Best Children’s Music Video Award is decided by those who know best – kids! The finalists are now on the What Now website, and voting is open! Visit http://www.whatnow.tv/ to check out the videos and to vote.
The winners of all awards will be announced live on
What Now on Sunday 2nd August by kiwi songstress and last year’s winner of the
best song and album award Anika Moa.
The top songs from the 2015 Children’s Music Awards will be included on MusicBox
2015 - a promotional album that will be released in August. MusicBox
2015 will be available as a free download for a limited time from the APRA
AMCOS website, and a limited number of CDs will be made available to libraries
and kid-friendly organisations.
FINALISTS
APRA Best Children’s Music Song
Bugs –
written by Madeleine Sami, performed by Poppet Stars
He Aha Ai (Why?) – written by Maraea Davies & Rangi
Kerswell, performed by RJ Kerswell
There’s One in the Bush – written and performed by Levity Beet
& Daniel Stryczek
Recorded Music NZ Best Children’s Music Album
Bath
Time by Itty Bitty Beats, written by Lucy Hiku & Jenny Payne
Poppet Stars by Poppet Stars, written by Madeleine Sami, Anna
Coddington, Kath Bee & Jason Smith
The Jungle is Jumping by fleaBITE, written by Robin Nathan
What
Now Best Children’s Music Video
Don’t Sit Under the Poo Tree by fleaBITE, video created by
Stephen Templer & Ross Payne
Read a Story by Little City Critters, video created by Raymond
McGrath
The
Wollie Flopp by Luna’s World, video created by Lauren Billingham
& James Brookes
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