Don McGlashan Wins APRA Silver Scroll Award

21st September 2006

Don McGlashan has won the APRA Silver Scroll award for the song Bathe in the River. The award was presented to Don by the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister Helen Clark at a ceremony hosted by Marcus Lush last night at the Auckland Town Hall.

It's the second time Don has won NZ's pre-eminent song writing prize after winning in 1994 with Anchor Me. This year, Don was also nominated for his song Miracle Sun.

The four other finalist songs were -

     Dann Hume, Jon Hume, Peter Hume (Evermore) - Running
     James Milne (Lawrence Arabia and The Reduction Agents) - The Pool
     Don McGlashan - Miracle Sun
     Anika Moa - Stolen Hill

The Silver Scroll Award has been presented since 1965. An anonymous panel of judges considers the creative distinction of the song and assesses both musical and lyrical content in equal proportion.

"Don has synthesized these gospel elements to give us song-writing in its purest form," says one judge from the panel, which remains anonymous.

Tthe finalist songs were performed and interpreted by their musical contemporaries - the line up kept under wraps until the awards ceremony. With more than 60 performers across musical genres, guests saw performances of ….

The Mint Chicks Stolen Hill, Spacifix The Pool, The Tutts Miracle Sun, North Shore Pony Club featuring Aaradhna Running and The Jubilation Choir with Russell Harrison and Anthony Gold Bathe in the River.

Guests were also treated to a 2006 version of Poi - E performed by the Patea Maori Club with P-Money and 4Corners.

Four other awards were presented tonight. They were -

2006 APRA Maioha Award (presented for the best Maori waiata of the year) - presented to Richard Bennett for his waiata E Hine. Wai 100% performed a version of the waiata during the evening.

2006 SOUNZ Contemporary Award (recognising creative excellence by a NZ composer) was presented to Ross Harris for Symphony No.2.
Nathan Haines Quartet with Hamish McKeich performed an arrangement of Harris' piece.

2006 Most Performed Work in New Zealand - James Reid (The Feelers) for Stand Up.

2006 Most Performed Work Overseas - Neil Finn for Don't Dream it's Over.

Mushroom Music NZ Ltd publishes James Reid and Neil Finn.
Native Tongue Music Publishing publishes Don McGlashan.

APRA is a non-profit organisation administering the rights of the world's composers, songwriters and publishers in Australasia. APRA represents over 42,000 writers and publishers through direct membership, with close to 6,000 members, and over 2 million writers and publishers throughout the world under reciprocal agreements with other service organisations.

www.apra.co.nz

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