2023 Song and Tune Writing Award Winners

We wish to thank all who submitted entries to the competition and to those who performed at the concert. The variety and breadth of composition and talent is what the Awards are really about and we acknowledge the efforts made on all the entries received. Congratulations to all the category winners (listed below). Thank you to the Kunanyi Folk Club team for helping present the concert and to the judges. Our appreciation goes to our Vice-President Peter Hicks who by running this competition continues to foster song and tune composers in the folk tradition and provides an introduction to new and inexperienced performers.

Winners are as follows:

Song: Ryan Garth for I Just Wanted to be With You Tonight 

Tune: Ross Smithard for Done

U19: Marguerite McClintock for Ode to Anxiety 

U19: Isabella Pearl for Lisa

People’s choice (shared)

Greg and Eden Wells for Dancing with the Wind

Isabella Pearl  for Lisa