Music News - APRA Silver Scrolls - One Week To Go
06 September 2005 - 0 Comments
The Auckland Town Hall plays host next Monday to what promises to be the biggest night in New Zealand's musical calendar - the 2005 APRA Silver Scroll Awards.
The Silver Scroll Award, New Zealand's most prestigious music award, has been presented since 1965. This year, APRA celebrates 40 years of creative excellence in song-writing at an exclusive invite-only awards show on Monday 12 September.
The finalists for the 2005 APRA Silver Scroll Award are -
- Tim Arnold, Milan Borich, Michael Franklin-Browne, Mike Hall, Matthias Jordan (Pluto) - 'Long White Cross'
- Dave Dobbyn - 'Welcome Home'
- Dann Hume, Jon Hume, Peter Hume (Evermore) - 'It's Too Late'
- Geoffrey Maddock (Goldenhorse) - 'Out Of The Moon'
- Kody Nielson, Ruban Nielson (The Mint Chicks) - 'Opium Of The People'
"Each of these songwriters represents the strength and vitality of NZ music right now and have all earned extraordinary success both here and overseas with great songs, simple hard work and sheer determination,” says Anthony Healey APRA's Director of NZ Operations.
Unique to the APRA Silver Scroll Awards, the finalists' songs will be performed and interpreted by their contemporaries, under the musical directorship of composer Victoria Kelly. Organisers remain tight lipped about who the line up will be, but confirm that with 50 performers from across musical genres, there are some real treats in store.
"The Silver Scroll performances are always a wonderful way to experience familiar music from a new perspective," says Victoria.
" It's a chance to reveal the qualities of the music that go beyond what we're used to hearing – the performers explore music they might not otherwise play and the songwriters and composers get to hear their work for the first time, all over again."
Four other awards will be presented at the APRA Silver Scroll Awards -
- The Most Performed Work Overseas Award
- The Most Performed Work in New Zealand Award
- The SOUNZ Contemporary Award, recognising creative excellence by a NZ composer
- The APRA Maioha Award, presented for the best Maori waiata of the year.
Special guests at this years awards ceremony include Prime Minister Helen Clark - presenting the SOUNZ Contemporary Award and noted American songwriter Jimmy Webb - who will present the award for Most Performed Work Overseas.
APRA is a non-profit organisation administering the rights of the world’s composers, songwriters and publishers in Australasia. APRA represents over 38,000 writers and publishers through direct membership, with over 5,000 NZ members, and over 2 million writers and publishers throughout the world under reciprocal agreements with other
organisations.
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