Announcing Lisa Tomlins and Bret McKenzie as hosts of the 2024 APRA Silver Scroll Awards

As the awards inch ever-closer, we’re excited to make our final announcements in the event lead-up. We’re thrilled to reveal your hosts for the night’s ceremony: the wonderful Lisa Tomlins and Bret McKenzie.

Two true Wellington luminaries, Tomlins and McKenzie will be well known to the music community for their respective multi-faceted careers.

Over the last three and a half decades, Lisa Tomlins (Ngāti Kahungunu | Ngāi Tahu | Ngāti Toa) has established themselves as one of the most versatile vocalists around – cultivating a reputation as lauded by her peers as by her audiences.

The Upper Hutt-based singer, mentor and vocal coach has performed, recorded, and travelled the globe with the likes of Fly My Pretties, L.A.B, Lord Echo, Neil Finn, Trinity Roots, Hollie Smith, Shapeshifter, Fat Freddy's Drop, Sola Rosa, and Rhombus.

Tomlins continues to grace stages in both support and headliner roles, while juggling mentorship and education work with the New Zealand Music Commission, YAMI (Youth & Adults in the Music Industry), Commotion, and Victoria University’s Jazz Performance Programme.

Bret McKenzie is the only New Zealander to receive both an Oscar and a Grammy – alongside seven Emmy nominations and a slew of other accolades, including being appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music and film.

The ever-evolving career of McKenzie includes stints in Te Whanganui-a-Tara musical icons The Black Seeds and The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra; screentime in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy; decades of musical comedy as half of world-conquering duo Flight of the Conchords; and screen composition credits for, among others, power ensembles The Muppets and The Simpsons.

From winning the Wellington regional Smokefree Rockquest heat as a youth with jazz-funk outfit The Blue Samanthas, to debuting at number three on the Billboard charts in 2008 with the Conchords’ self-titled LP, McKenzie recently toured their 2022 solo album Songs Without Jokes around the world before returning to their storied work in composing for screen.