Allan Barron

Allan was born in Invercargill, raised Southland/Otago and seasoned in Canterbury.  He started writing songs about the time he was 15 or 16. He won a songwriting competition in Auckland in 1970 with a song called The Orphan based loosely on a guy he had met while living at the YMCA.  Allan was lucky enough to win the Professional Songwriters Award at the NZ Gold Guitar Awards in 1986, the Apra award for songwriting 1989, and in 2008 was awarded the Best New Song Award for that year by the Rural Roots Commission, an offshoot of the American Traditional Country Music Association.  2008 also saw Allan inducted into the Hall of Fame.  He loves his work and hopes he can keep doing it successfully for many years to come.
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