Hellen our star writer shares her Top Tens for 2022
TOP TEN ALBUMS
1. Anaïs Mitchell - Anaïs Mitchell
2. FTHC - Frank Turner
3. And Take The Black Worm With Me - One Leg One Eye
4. Ali - Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
5. All Souls Hill - the Waterboys
6. The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs - Angeline Morrison
7. Forest Floor - Fergus McCreadie
8. Sorrows Away - the Unthanks
9. Youngest Daughter - Guise
10. Dawn - Talisk
TOP TEN CONCERTS
1. Måneskin, Circo Massimo, Rome
2. John Francis Flynn, Yellow Arch, Sheffield
3. Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls, Cyprus Avenue, Cork
4. Flook, Sugar Club, Dublin
5. Ye Vagabonds, Vicar Street, Dublin
6. Frank Turner with Matt Nasir (acoustic duo show), Columbia Theatre, Berlin
7. David Keenan, Olympia, Dublin
8. Christy Moore, Vicar Street, Dublin
9. The Unthanks, Vicar Street, Dublin
10. Lankum, Vicar Street, Dublin
TOP TEN FESTIVAL SETS
1. Anaïs Mitchell, End Of The Road
2. Flook, Cambridge Folk Festival
3. Christone Kingfish Ingram, Cambridge Folk Festival
4. Roseanne Reid, Glastonbury
5. The Young 'Uns, Cambridge Folk Festival
6. B C U C, End Of The Road
7. Tinariwen, End Of The Road
8. Spiers and Boden, Cambridge Folk Festival
9. Beans On Toast, Cambridge Folk Festival
10. Vrï, Cambridge Folk Festival
TOP TEN MUSIC FILMS
1. Nothing Compares (Sinéad O'Connor)
2. This Much I Know To Be True (Nick Cave, Warren Ellis)
3. The Dance (Teaċ Daṁsa, s t a r g a z e, Cormac Begley)
4. Ennio, the Maestro (Ennio Morricone)
5. North Circular - A Musical Trip Through Inner City Dublin
6. Rebel Dread (Don Letts)
7. Moonage Daydream (David Bowie)
8. Continuing Traditions (Peadar Ó Reada, Ustad Wajahat Khan)
9. Dark Horse On The Wind (Liam Weldon)
10. Elvis
BEST COMPILATION ISSUED DURING 2022
Between The Music, Volume One - End Of The Road Records
SONG OF THE YEAR
Unknown African Boy (d. 1830) - Angeline Morrison
PODCAST
Fire Draw Near - Ian Lynch
RADIO PROGRAMME
The Folk Show - Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio Two
BOOK
Bunnyman - Will Sergeant
(from 2021, but best music book I read this year)
Helen.
