Songline Awards Nominees Winners 2020

 BEST ARTISTE

 WINNER

 

Bassekou Kouyaté

Miri with Ngoni ba (Outhere Records)

 

Aziza Brahim | Best Artist Nominee

Sahari (Glitterbeat Records)

 

Asmâa Hamzaoui | Best Artist Nominee

Oulad Lghaba with Bnat Timbouktou (ajabu!)

 

Dudu Tassa | Best Artist Nominee

El Hajar with the Kuwaitis (Nur)

BEST GROUP

 WINNER

 

Cimarrón | Best Group Award Winner

Orinoco (Cimarrón Music)

 

Cimbalom Brothers | Best Group Nominee

Testvériség/Brotherhood (Fonó)

 

Insólito UniVerso | Best Group Nominee

La Candela del Río (Olindo Records)

 

Kefaya + Elaha Soroor | Best Group Nominee

Songs of Our Mothers (Bella Union)

AFRICA

 WINNER

 

Blick Bassy

1958 (Nø Førmat!)

 

KOKOKO!

Fongola (Transgressive Records)

 

Souad Massi

Oumniya (Wrasse Records)

 

Tinariwen

Amadjar (Wedge/PIAS)

AMERICAS

 WINNER

 

Leyla McCalla

Capitalist Blues (PIAS/Jazz Village)

 

Daymé Arocena

Sonocardiogram (Brownswood Recordings)

 

The Garifuna Collective

ABAN (Stonetree Records)

 

Lakou Mizik

HaitiaNola (Cumbancha)

ASIA

 WINNER

 

Jambinai

ONDA (Bella Union)

 

Debashish Bhattacharya

Joy!Guru with with Wojtek Traczyk and Hubert Zemler (Unzipped Fly Records)

 

Ustad Saami

God is Not a Terrorist (Glitterbeat Records)

 

Senyawa

Sujud (Sublime Frequencies)

EUROPE

 WINNER

 

Lankum

The Livelong Day (Rough Trade Records)

 

Félix Lajkó & VOŁOSI

Félix Lajkó & VOŁOSI (Fonó)

 

Lau

Midnight and Closedown (Reveal Records)

 

Lisa O'Neill

Heard a Long Gone Song (River Lea)

FUSION

 WINNER

 

Kefaya + Elaha Soroor

Songs of Our Mothers (Bella Union)

 

Sarathy Korwar

More Arriving (The Leaf Label)

Kronos Quartet and Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat

Placeless (KKV)

The Lost Words

The Lost Words: Spell Songs (Quercus Records)

WORLD PIONEER & NEWCOMER AWARDS

Winners to be revealed at the awards live event, details to be announced. Watch highlights of last year’s ceremony below: