Our star writer of the year Helen, share her Top Tens for 2019
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1. Lankum - The Livelong Day
2. The Waterboys - Where The Action Is
3. Frank Turner - No Man's Land
4. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
5. Ye Vagabonds - The Hare's Lament
6. Ryan Bingham - American Love Song
7. The Gloaming - '3'
8. Joe Pug - The Flood In Color
9. Martin Simpson - Rooted
10. Justin Townes Earle - The Saint Of Lost Causes
GIG OF THE YEAR
1. Lankum - Vicar Street
2. Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls - Birmingham Symphony Hall
3. DaoirĂ Farrell - Dublin City Assembly House
4. Brian Finnegan & Friends - D C Music Club
5. Olivia Chaney - National Concert Hall
6. Huun Huur Tu - Sugar Club
7. Susan O'Neill (SON) - The Oak
8. Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi - Sugar Club
9. Beans On Toast - Dublin Academy
10. Primal Scream - Olympia
FESTIVAL SHOWS
1. Martin Simpson - Cropredy
2. Talisk - Cambridge Folk Festival
3. The Cure - Glastonbury
4. Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls - Glastonbury
5. Richard Thompson - Cambridge Folk Festival
6. Ryan Young & Jenn Butterworth - Cambridge Folk Festival
7. Lankum - Glastonbury
8. McCusker, McGoldrick, Doyle - Cambridge Folk Festival
9. Lucinca Williams - Cambridge Folk Festival
10. Lisa O'Neill - Cambridge Folk Festival
Song of the Year: Lankum - The Young People
Film of the Year: Depeche Mode - Spirits in the Forest (Anton Corbijn)
Podcast - Folk on Foot
Album of the Decade: Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones