2019 Libera Awards

{{Infobox award

| name = 2019 Libera Awards

| awarded_for =

| sponsor =

| date = {{start date|2019|06|20}}

| location = Ziegfeld Ballroom

| country = United States

| presenter = A2IM

| host = Chris Gethard

| most_wins = Kamasi Washington (3)

| most_nominations = Mitski (5)

| website = {{url|https://liberaawards.com/}}

| previous = 2018

| main = Libera Awards

| next = 2020

}}

The 2019 Libera Awards took place on June 20, 2019. Presented by the American Association of Independent Music, it recognized the best in independent music during a ceremony at New York City's Ziegfeld Ballroom.{{Cite web|last=Courtney|first=Ian|date=2019-03-28|title=Nominees Announced For A2IM’s 2019 Libera Awards|url=https://celebrityaccess.com/2019/03/28/nominees-announced-for-a2ims-2019-libera-awards/|access-date=2021-06-16|website=CelebrityAccess|language=en-US}}

The ceremony was hosted by comedian Chris Gethard and featured performances by Deva Mahal, Sunflower Bean, and Jean-Michel Blais.{{Cite web|last=Hartshorn|first=Tori|title=A2IM Announces Performances For 2019 Libera Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/A2IM-Announces-Performances-For-2019-Libera-Awards-and-Lifetime-Achievement-Award-Recipient-20190514|access-date=2021-06-15|website=BroadwayWorld.com|language=en}}

This was the first year where there were three categories for Label of the Year as opposed to two; Small (5 or fewer employees), Medium (6-14 employees), and Big (15 or more employees).

Winners and nominees

Adapted from Libera Awards.{{Cite web|title=2019 Winners|url=https://liberaawards.com/2019-winners/|access-date=2021-06-16|website=Libera Awards|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808064957/https://liberaawards.com/2019-winners/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=2019 Nominees|url=https://liberaawards.com/2019-nominees/|access-date=2021-06-16|website=Libera Awards|language=en-US}}

class="wikitable" style="width:95%" ! width="50%" \|Album of the Year ! width="50%" \|Best Live Act
valign="top" \|Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth Mitski – Be The Cowboy IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance serpentwithfeet – soil Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands Of Love \| valign="top" \|BADBADNOTGOOD King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Mitski Run the Jewels Kelela
width="50%" \|Best American Roots/Folk Album ! width="50%" \|Best Blues Album
valign="top" \|John Prine – The Tree of Forgiveness Calexico – The Thread That Keeps Us Richard Thompson – 13 Rivers I'm With Her – See You Around Dom Flemons – Black Cowboys \| valign="top" \|Fantastic Negrito – Please Don't Be Dead Shemekia Copeland – America's Child Boz Scaggs – Out Of The Blues Deva Mahal – Run Deep Cedric Burnside – Benton County Relic
width="50%" \|Best Classical Album ! width="50%" \|Best Country/Americana Album
valign="top" \|Jean-Michel Blais – Dans ma main Niklas Paschburg – Oceanic Henrik Schwarz & Metropole Orkest – Scripted Orkestra London Symphony Orchestra – Fuchs: Piano Concerto "Spiritualist" Oliver Coates – John Luther Adams: Canticles of the Sky \| valign="top" \|John Prine – The Tree of Forgiveness Phosphorescent – C'est La Vie Mary Gauthier – Rifles and Rosary Beads Jim Lauderdale – Time Flies Alejandro Escovedo – The Crossing
width="50%" \|Best Dance/Electronic Album ! width="50%" \|Best Hip-Hop/Rap Album
valign="top" \|Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands Of Love Leon Vynehall – Nothing Is Still Jon Hopkins – Singularity SOPHIE – Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of \| valign="top" \|Awkwafina – In Fina We Trust August Greene – August Greene Myke Bogan – Joe Fontana Blueface – Famous Cryp Junglepussy – JP3
width="50%" \|Best Jazz Album ! width="50%" \|Best Latin Album
valign="top" \|Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth Onyx Collective – Lower East Suite Part Three Esperanza Spalding – 12 Little Spells Julian Lage – Modern Lore Tia Fuller – Diamond Cut \| valign="top" \|Bad Bunny – X 100PRE Cuco – Chiquito Orquesta Akokán – Orquesta Akokán El Alfa – El Hombre Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles – Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles
width="50%" \|Best Metal Album ! width="50%" \|Best Outlier Album
valign="top" \|Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love High on Fire – Electric Messiah Underoath – Erase Me Thou – Magus Sleep – The Sciences \| valign="top" \|Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo Kero Kero Bonito – Time 'n' Place Serpentwithfeet – soil Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands Of Love Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of
width="50%" \|Best R&B Album ! width="50%" \|Best Re-Issue Album
valign="top" \|Charles Bradley – Black Velvet Durand Jones & The Indications – Durand Jones & The Indications Blood Orange – Negro Swan Kadhja Bonet – Childqueen Serpentwithfeet – soil \| valign="top" \|Pixies – Come On Pilgrim...It's Surfer Rosa Tom Waits – Small Change Bauhaus – The Bela Session Liz Phair – Girly-Sound To Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Boxset Hiss Golden Messenger – Devotion: Songs About Rivers and Spirits and Children
width="50%" \|Best Rock Album ! width="50%" \|Best Sync Usage
valign="top" \|Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel Mitski – Be The Cowboy Shame – Songs of Praise Snail Mail – Lush IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance \| valign="top" \|Run the Jewels (RTJ Music, Inc.) – x Black Panther Gillian Welch (Acony Records) – "The Way It Will Be" in This Is Us Shigeto (Ghostly International) – "Ann Arbor Pt 1" & "Lady Misaki" in Japan's Decorated Trucks - Shot on iPhone (Apple) Perfume Genius (Matador Records) – Eighth Grade trailer Alice Merton (Mom+Pop) – "No Roots" (Mini Cooper Sync)
width="50%" \|Best World Album ! width="50%" \|Breakthrough Artist/Release
valign="top" \|Bombino – Deran Gilberto Gil – OK OK OK Femi Kuti – One People One World Angelique Kidjo – Remain in Light Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – Black Times \| valign="top" \|IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance Snail Mail – Lush Lucy Dacus – Historian Sunflower Bean – Come For Me Caroline Rose – Loner
width="50%" \|Creative Packaging ! width="50%" \|Independent Champion
valign="top" \|Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth Various Artists – Brainfeeder X Charles Bradley – Black Velvet Deluxe Box Mitski – Be The Cowboy John Maus – Vinyl Box Set \| valign="top" \|NPR Caroline CD Baby Redeye SoundExchange
width="50%" \|Label of the Year (Big) ! width="50%" \|Label of the Year (Medium)
valign="top" \|Domino Recording Co. Dead Oceans Polyvinyl Record Co. Rough Trade Records Warp Records \| valign="top" \|Partisan Records Bloodshot Records Mom+Pop Saddle Creek Yep Roc Records
width="50%" \|Label of the Year (Small) ! width="50%" \|Marketing Genius
valign="top" \|Daptone Records Brainfeeder Hardly Art Innovative Leisure Oh Boy Records \| valign="top" \|Aphex Twin – Collapse EP King Gizzard – King Gizzard Reissues Campaign Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance Reggae Month – Studio One
width="50%" \|Video of the Year ! width="50%" \|
valign="top" \|Mitski – "Nobody" Moses Sumney – "Quarrel" John Prine – "Summer's End" Aphex Twin – "T69 Collapse" Kamasi Washington – "Street Fighter" \| valign="top" \|

class="wikitable" style="width:95%"

! width="50%" |Album of the Year

! width="50%" |Best Live Act

valign="top" |Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth

Mitski – Be The Cowboy
IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance
serpentwithfeet – soil
Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands Of Love

| valign="top" |BADBADNOTGOOD

width="50%" |Best American Roots/Folk Album

! width="50%" |Best Blues Album

valign="top" |John Prine – The Tree of Forgiveness

Calexico – The Thread That Keeps Us
Richard Thompson – 13 Rivers
I'm With Her – See You Around
Dom Flemons – Black Cowboys

| valign="top" |Fantastic Negrito – Please Don't Be Dead

Shemekia Copeland – America's Child
Boz Scaggs – Out Of The Blues
Deva Mahal – Run Deep
Cedric Burnside – Benton County Relic

width="50%" |Best Classical Album

! width="50%" |Best Country/Americana Album

valign="top" |Jean-Michel Blais – Dans ma main

Niklas Paschburg – Oceanic
Henrik Schwarz & Metropole Orkest – Scripted Orkestra
London Symphony Orchestra – Fuchs: Piano Concerto "Spiritualist"
Oliver Coates – John Luther Adams: Canticles of the Sky

| valign="top" |John Prine – The Tree of Forgiveness

Phosphorescent – C'est La Vie
Mary Gauthier – Rifles and Rosary Beads
Jim Lauderdale – Time Flies
Alejandro Escovedo – The Crossing

width="50%" |Best Dance/Electronic Album

! width="50%" |Best Hip-Hop/Rap Album

valign="top" |Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands Of Love

Leon Vynehall – Nothing Is Still
Jon Hopkins – Singularity
SOPHIE – Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of

| valign="top" |Awkwafina – In Fina We Trust

August Greene – August Greene
Myke Bogan – Joe Fontana
Blueface – Famous Cryp
Junglepussy – JP3

width="50%" |Best Jazz Album

! width="50%" |Best Latin Album

valign="top" |Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth

Onyx Collective – Lower East Suite Part Three
Esperanza Spalding – 12 Little Spells
Julian Lage – Modern Lore
Tia Fuller – Diamond Cut

| valign="top" |Bad Bunny – X 100PRE

Cuco – Chiquito
Orquesta Akokán – Orquesta Akokán
El Alfa – El Hombre
Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles – Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles

width="50%" |Best Metal Album

! width="50%" |Best Outlier Album

valign="top" |Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

| valign="top" |Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo

Kero Kero Bonito – Time 'n' Place
Serpentwithfeet – soil
Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands Of Love
Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of

width="50%" |Best R&B Album

! width="50%" |Best Re-Issue Album

valign="top" |Charles Bradley – Black Velvet

Durand Jones & The Indications – Durand Jones & The Indications
Blood Orange – Negro Swan
Kadhja Bonet – Childqueen
Serpentwithfeet – soil

| valign="top" |Pixies – Come On Pilgrim...It's Surfer Rosa

Tom Waits – Small Change
Bauhaus – The Bela Session
Liz Phair – Girly-Sound To Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Boxset
Hiss Golden Messenger – Devotion: Songs About Rivers and Spirits and Children

width="50%" |Best Rock Album

! width="50%" |Best Sync Usage

valign="top" |Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel

| valign="top" |Run the Jewels (RTJ Music, Inc.) – x Black Panther

Gillian Welch (Acony Records) – "The Way It Will Be" in This Is Us
Shigeto (Ghostly International) – "Ann Arbor Pt 1" & "Lady Misaki" in Japan's Decorated Trucks - Shot on iPhone (Apple)
Perfume Genius (Matador Records) – Eighth Grade trailer
Alice Merton (Mom+Pop) – "No Roots" (Mini Cooper Sync)