Wanaka’s own Anna Van Riel has taken out the Australian Songwriters Association Awards‘ Best Children’s Song Award for Throw Out The Grain, at a ceremony held in Sydney on October 30.

Thanks to having dual citizenship for NZ and Australia she is able to enter the annual awards. Anna has plenty of trans-Tasman form, having previously won the same ASA award in 2016 for Cooking Up A Song, taken from the album of the same title. Throw Out The Grain was also a finalist in the International Songwriters Competition 2019, and a finalist in the NZ Children’s Music Awards.