Singer/songwriter Mel Parsons will perform at Baycourt on October 28. Photo/supplied
Tauranga Arts Festival performer Mel Parsons has been named as a finalist for this year's APRA Silver Scroll Award.
The award, which is judged by peers, is for songwriting and Parsons has been nominated for Get Out Alive, a song she wrote after a car crash last year and which
features on her third solo album, Drylands.
The crash happened last August, just minutes from her Christchurch home as the 33-year-old was returning from a ski trip.
She lost control and her car rolled four times - she was lucky to escape serious injury or death. Parsons tours extensively in Australia, North America and Europe and will be appearing on Wednesday, October 28, in Tauranga after a 23-date tour of this country.
She has twice been a finalist in the New Zealand Folk Album of the Year award.
