Voting still open for 2019 Songlines Music Awards

The voting window closes on 31 January and voters can pick their favourite artists using this form. Voters will be automatically entered into a draw to win tickets to WOMAD in Malmesbury, UK, from 25 to 28 July. Ten runners-up will receive a copy of the 2018 Songlines Music Awards compilation album.

Now in their 11th year, the awards recognise the wealth of musical talent from around the world that has been featured in Songlines magazine.

“Similar to last year’s awards, we now also have five geographical categories based on the CD reviews sections in Songlines: Africa & Middle East, Americas, Europe, Asia & Pacific and Fusion,” the publication said. “From albums reviewed throughout 2018, Songlines contributors will decide on four nominees from each of these five categories (announced April 5), with the eventual winners crowned on 10 May in the June 2019 issue.”

Voting terms and conditions

• All votes must be posted through the official Songlines Music Awards website (www.songlines.co.uk/music-awards) by midnight GMT on 31 January.
• Only one vote for each category per person. Voters are allowed to vote in the Best Artist and Best Group categories.
• Managers, promoters and record companies or anyone who has a professional interest in a particular artist or group are not allowed to vote for them.
• Songlines reserves the right to disqualify votes if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that fraudulent voting has occurred or if it considers there has been any attempt to rig the voting.
• Songlines and/or its suppliers, cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any network or line, system, server, provider or otherwise which may result in any vote being lost or not properly registered or recorded.
• Songlines reserves the right to discount any votes which it judges to be made outside the rules of the contest and to disqualify an artist for whom such votes are cast.
• Voters will be deemed to have accepted these rules and to agree to being bound by them by casting a vote.
• Songlines’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

About Songlines

Songlines is a world music magazine based in the UK. Apart from its online offering, the magazine is published eight times a year and contains CD reviews, artist interviews, guides to particular world music traditions, concert and festival listings, and travel stories.