The nominees have been announced for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Nominees 2019. It’s a great list of acts based in the UK. Check them out below. To buy tickets for the event (16th October in Manchester) and to vote in Album of the Year click here.
Folk Singer of the Year
Gwilym Bowen Rhys
Lisa O’Neill
Olivia Chaney
Ríoghnach Connolly
Best Duo/Group
Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita
Stick in the Wheel
The Breath
The Rheingans Sisters
Horizon Award
Brìghde Chaimbeul
Kinnaris Quintet
Kitty Macfarlane
The Trials Of Cato
Best Traditional Track
Factory Girl by Lisa O’Neill ft. Radie Peat
Ffoles Llantrisant by VRï
The Foggy Dew by Ye Vagabonds
The Reedcutter’s Daughter by Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith
Best Original Track
Blackbird by Lisa O’Neill
I Burn But I Am Not Consumed by Karine Polwart (written by Karine and Steven Polwart)
O-U-T Spells Out by Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening
Scapa Flow 1919 by Kris Drever
Best Album
Ancora by Flook
Heard a Long Gone Song by Lisa O’Neill
Hide and Hair by The Trials Of Cato
Soar by Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita
Musician of the Year
Jenn Butterworth
Mohsen Amini
Sam Sweeney
Seckou Keita