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2024 Song and Tune Writing Award Winners

Song and Tune Writing Awards, Uncategorised,

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 Roger Joseph and Chris Okunbar. 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.

Peter writes:

Hi All,  

Just a public mention of the winners of the 2024 FFT Folk Song and Tune Awards 

Thanks again to all contributors / entrants and concert participants

The judges had a very difficult job with so many worthy offerings and some contested decisions amongst judges before they were able to settle on their compromise.  So the winners were:

Song

1. Tamar River Men – Vince Brophy

Honourable Mention Poets Breakfast – John Hughes

Tune

1. Missing Home – Montz Matsumoto

Honourable mention – Moving On – John Hughes

U19

In Botany Bay – Marguerite McClintock

If I’m falling – Miri McNamarra

The winners of the Peoples Choice awards on the night was

Sheoak – jointly written by Jonathan Duddles and Anna Ritchie

2022 Song and Tune Writing Award Winners

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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 Roger Joseph and Dom McAlinden. 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:

Mike Silverwood Award (Song):  Greg Wells – “The Lake”

Tune:  Michael Horton – “Sand Hopper”   

U19: Marguerite McClintock – “The Hunt for the Bandicoot”

U19: Samantha McMeekin – “When the World Stops”

People’s Choice: Mia Aplin “Endings and Beginnings”