Winners announced for 2015 Children’s Music Awards

&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;" alignright size-full wp-image-1665" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;schoolnewsnz&period;fastrackdev&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;test&lowbar;300x224&period;jpg" alt&equals;"test 300x224" style&equals;"margin&colon; 5px&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"224" &sol;>APRA AMCOS and Recorded Music NZ are all wiggly with excitement to announce the winners for the 2015 New Zealand Children&&num;8217&semi;s Music Awards – celebrating music written for children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <&excl;--more--> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The awards were presented live on Sunday&comma; August 2 on TV2&&num;8217&semi;s What Now by last year&&num;8217&semi;s double winner&comma; songstress Anika Moa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The big winner from the awards was fleaBITE&comma; who took home two awards – the Recorded Music Best Childrens&&num;8217&semi; Music Album &lpar;Tui Award&rpar; for &&num;8216&semi;The Jungle is Jumping&&num;8217&semi;&comma; and the What Now Best Children&&num;8217&semi;s Music Video Award for &&num;8216&semi;Don&&num;8217&semi;t Sit Under the Poo Tree&&num;8217&semi;&comma; created by Stephen Templer and Ross Payne&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;FleaBite consistently make wonderful music and &&num;8216&semi;The Jungle is Jumping&&num;8217&semi; is another excellent record for young ones&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Recorded Music NZ&&num;8217&semi;s Damian Vaughan says&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;A finely crafted collection of kids&&num;8217&semi; songs that also showcases a fantastic range of musical styles&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The APRA Best Children&&num;8217&semi;s Music Song was won by Levity Beet and Daniel Stryczek for their song &&num;8216&semi;There&&num;8217&semi;s One in the Bush&&num;8217&semi;&comma; a laid-back earworm about Aotearoa&&num;8217&semi;s native dinosaur&comma; the Tuatara&period; Multi-instrumentalist and all-round clever dude Levity also takes home the inaugural NZ On Air children&&num;8217&semi;s music grant – a &dollar;10&comma;000 grant for the recording of a song and a music video&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Levity&&num;8217&semi;s songs are loved by kids everywhere and this one is a cracker&excl;&&num;8221&semi; APRA AMCOS&&num;8217&semi; Anthony Healey says&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We are thrilled that in partnership with NZ On Air more music for children will grace the airwaves&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Continuing the extremely popular MusicBox series&comma; MusicBox 2015 is available as a free download from the APRA AMCOS website for the month of August&period; MusicBox is a promotional album that features the top songs from the 2015 Children&&num;8217&semi;s Music Awards&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Visit the APRA AMCOS website to download a copy now&excl; <strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bit&period;ly&sol;musicbox2015" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">www&period;bit&period;ly&sol;musicbox2015<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;