MLT Songwriting Award
Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 MLT Songwriting Award
Mel Parsons - 'Hardest Thing'
Multi-award winning singer songwriter Mel Parsons is one of Aotearoa / New Zealand’s most beloved touring acts.
The 2020 Folk Artist of the Year is most at home on stage - her live shows are tight and compelling, with spellbinding harmonies and killer hooks entrancing from the first note. With her longtime band, Parsons toured as the NZ support for The Teskey Brothers, and is also a cast member of Kiwi musical supergroup ‘Fly My Pretties‘, with sell out tours and festival performances throughout Australasia. “Immaculate renditions of immaculate songs…Mel Parsons and her band are world class” - music.net
The 10 finalists for the 2024 MLT Songwriting Award were: (in no particular order)
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· ‘Hardest Thing’ Written by Mel Parsons
· ‘Nothing To Fear’ Written by Mark Casey & Lavina Williams
· ‘Boots’ Written by Jon Collins
· ‘Wilted Flower’ Written by Fiona Louise
· ‘The Man Who Told Me’ Written by Nicola Mitchell
· ‘Your Old Ways’ Written by Chad Robinson & Kate Targett-Adams
· ‘Addicted’ Written by Rosie Teese
· ‘Tell Me Mama’ Written by Karra Rhodes
· ‘When I Go’ Written by Zac Griffith, Co-written by Allan Caswell
· ‘Little Victories’ Written by Barry Saunders
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