Check out 2019's impressive Acoustic Guitarist of the Year finalists

By Richard Bienstock
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An incredible array of styles and sounds were on display at the UK Guitar Show

(Image credit: Olly Curtis / Future)

The live final of Acoustic Guitarist of the Year 2019, in association with Takamine, took place on Sunday 22 September at the UK Guitar Show.

The three guitarists – Christine Lenée, Daniel Padim and Alan Shikoh – played for a panel of judges that included John Jorgenson, Andy McKee and Molly Tuttle in order to make it to the live final, at which point they performed for editors from Guitarist and Total Guitar and YouTuber Adam Lee.

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Richard Bienstock
Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.