Singer Bene is on the Silver Scrolls Top 20 shortlist for 2019
Singer Bene is on the Silver Scrolls Top 20 shortlist for 2019
Established artists and up-and-comers have been thrown into the pot for this year's Silver Scroll Award, making a tasty jambalaya.
Twenty songs from more than 200 entries have bubbled to the top and will now be put on simmer as Apra's 10,000 members vote to reduce these down to thetop five finalists and, ultimately, the winner of the prestigious songwriting award.
The voters have hard decisions to make as not only do the songs in the top 20 span multiple genres, they're all damn fine songs.
New faces in the mix include breakthrough rappers Church & AP with Ready or Not, indie fave Benee with Soaked and Christchurch's emerging singer/songwriter Mousey with Extreme Highs.
They join local stars Broods, with Dust, Alien Weaponry with Ahi Kā, and Tiny Ruins with Olympic Girls and returning finalists Anika Moa with Buttercup, The Beths with Happy Unhappy and Aldous Harding with The Barrel.
The awards ceremony will take place at Spark Arena on Wednesday, October 2, where a songwriter, or songwriters, will also be inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame.
The full Top 20 are:
Ahi Kā - Alien Weaponry Buttercup - Anika Moa Can't Help The Way - Foley Diagonals - Ladi6 Digebasse - CHAII Dust - Broods Enough - Miloux Extreme Highs - Mousey Happy Unhappy - The Beths Just 'Cause You Don't Want Me - Mel Parsons Look Up - SORRENTO No Emotions In The Wild - SWIDT Old Images - Anthonie Tonnon Olympic Girls - Tiny Ruins Ready Or Not - Church & AP Soaked - Benee The Barrel - Aldous Harding The Sacred - Lydia Cole Where Were You When I Was All You Needed - Ha The Unclear Years Gone By - Avantdale Bowling Club
