Event Details: 7pm, Thursday 3rd June, 2021
Tickets: https://www.nzcountrymusicawards.co.nz/attend
With just 5 weeks till their much-loved event, the NZ Country Music Awards are proud to announce the Top 10 finalists of the MLT Songwriting Awards; an award that celebrates the unrecorded songs of NZ & Australia. The annual NZ Country Music Awards are held in Gore and recognise the best of the broad genre of Country Music in the Southern Hemisphere. Audiences who gather in the South each June witness the announcement of the Tui for Recorded Music NZ Best Country Artist, APRA Best Country Song and the MLT Songwriting Award Winner with performances from the finalists for all three awards.
Jeff Rea, Chairman of the NZ Country Music Awards Committee and the first ever MLT Songwriting Awards Winner (1980), is excited to be celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Awards with a finalist list of world-class songs.
“I’m amazed at the ever increasing standard of songs entered in the MLT NZ Songwriting Award and this year with close to record high entries of 117, we can’t wait to hear the top 10 finalists perform their song on the theatre stage,” (Jeff Rea, NZ Country Music Awards Chairman)
The Official Top 10 Finalists for the 2021 MLT Songwriting Awards are:
Look But Don’t Touch – Marian Burns (Auckland)
Gonna Turn – Nicky Moran (Hamilton)
If You Were a Bird – Jenny Mitchell (Gore)
Imperfect Lovers – Mia Jay (Napier)
Trouble Finds a Girl – Jenny Mitchell (Gore), Tami Neilson(Auckland), Chris Wethey (Christchurch) and Tali Enjalas Jenkinson (Christchurch)
Old Bones and New Strings - Carylann Martin (Otaki)
Alexandra Road – Chad Robinson (Queenstown)
What It Does – Michael Young (Auckland) Dixie Dolejs(Auckland)
Downsizing – Eric Reid (Pelican Waters, Australia)
Tired as a Possum – Ron Mitchell (Gore)
The NZ Country Music Awards are delighted to be nearing a sold out theatre for their event and welcome and encourage music lovers of all ages to secure their seats as soon as possible.
Budding songwriters of all experience levels are also invited to attend the MLT Songwriting Seminar on Thursday 3rd June (10am – 2.30pm). The Seminar will feature guest speakers Ant Healy (APRA), Country Music superstar Kaylee Bell and award winning folk songwriter Jenny Mitchell.