The 2016 APRA Silver Scroll Awards were held on Thursday 29 September 2016 at

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, celebrating excellence in New Zealand songwriting. Five years later APRA revoked the 2016 Silver Scroll after recipient Thomas Oliver admitted assaulting a woman on the night of the awards.

Silver Scroll award

The Silver Scroll award celebrates outstanding achievement in songwriting of original New Zealand pop music. The short list of finalists was announced on 1 September. The Silver Scroll was awarded to Thomas Oliver. He is no longer recognised as the winner after APRA revoked the award in 2021. Oliver admitted that at an after-party on the night of a separate award ceremony in 2017, he assaulted a woman by grabbing her around the neck. The music director for 2016 was musician and 2007 Silver Scroll nominee Sean James Donnelly. As well as overseeing all music performances, he was arranged for the five Silver Scroll finalists to be covered in a unique style by different artists.

Long list

In July 2016 a top 20 long list was announced. From this list APRA members voted to decide the five songs that will make up the year's short list. * "10 Years" - Seth Haapu * "A Lake" -

Lawrence Arabia Lawrence Arabia is the musical guise of New Zealand artist and composer James Milne. In 2006, Lawrence Arabia released his self-titled debut album and the debut album from his band The Reduction Agents, '' The Dance Reduction Agents''. Both ...

* "All Eyes In The Room" - Gareth Thomas * "All Over You" - Leisure * "August Song" - The Sami Sisters * "Buried By The Burden" - Pacific Heights featuring Louis Baker * "Don't Rate That" -

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* "Dream" - Lydia Cole * "Give Up Your Dreams" -

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* "Harmony House" -

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* "If I Move To Mars" - Thomas Oliver * "Love Will Be A River" - Holly Arrowsmith with

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* "March" - Electric Wire Hustle featuring Deva Mahal * "One Question" - Yoko-Zuna featuring Laughton Kora * "Pedestrian Support League" -

Street Chant Street Chant were a New Zealand indie rock band who were signed to Flying Nun Records. The band formed in Auckland in late 2007 with Emily Edrosa on guitar and vocals, Billie Rogers on bass and backing vocals and Mikey Sperring on drums, origin ...

* "Pocket" - Miloux * "Stuck In Melodies" - Andrew Keoghan * "The First Man" -

Tami Neilson Tamara "Tami" Neilson is a Canadian-born New Zealand country & soul singer/songwriter. She is the winner of multiple awards, including the 2014 APRA Silver Scroll Awards and Best Country Song Award; she is also the winner of the Best Country Alb ...

* "The Hours" - Mice On Stilts * "We Will Rise Again" - Shayne P Carter

New Zealand Music Hall of Fame

Singer-songwriter

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was inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame at the Silver Scroll awards ceremony in September.

Other awards

Six other awards were presented at the Silver Scroll Awards: APRA Maioha Award (for excellence in contemporary Maori music), SOUNZ Contemporary Award (for creativity and inspiration in composition), and APRA Best Original Music in a Feature Film Award and APRA Best Original Music in a Series Award. The award for the most performed New Zealand song in New Zealand and overseas was dropped in 2016.

APRA song awards

Outside of the Silver Scroll Awards, APRA presented six genre awards in 2016. The APRA Best Pacific Song was presented at the

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, the APRA Best Country Music Song was presented at the New Zealand Country Music Awards, the APRA Best Māori Songwriter will be presented at the Waiata Maori Music Awards and the APRA Children's Song of the Year and ''What Now'' Video of the Year will be presented live on ''

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''. For the first time in 2016, the award for Best Jazz Composition was awarded, presented at the National Jazz Festival.

References

External links

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