Silver Scroll Award

The Silver Scroll Award is considered the most coveted prize in New Zealand music, celebrating the art of song writing.

The top five finalists for the 2022 APRA Silver Scroll have just been… Audio

We pull apart the five finalists for best New Zealand song of 2018, ahead of the APRA Silver Scrolls award for songwriting.

Tami Neilson presents the Silver Scroll Award to Ella Yelich-O'Connor, Jack Antonoff and Joel Little Video, Audio

Songwriting is like a mystical process that involves distilling unnameable, abstract feelings and ideas into music, almost like a form of alchemy – making something tangible out of the intangible… Video

Moana Maniapoto, leader of Moana and the Tribe, will join a distinguished group of New Zealand artists when she is inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame later this month. Audio

For the past 50 years the APRA Silver Scroll Award has commended the efforts of Aotearoa's best songwriters. Zac Arnold from RNZ Music has the list of 20 finalists for 2016  Audio, Gallery