Awen Ensemble
Alternative Folk Jazz
She Moves Through The Fair / Over The Lake OUT NOW
https://ffm.bio/awenensemble
Yay! Over The Lake has been featured in the latest episode of the Weekly show and we’re very excited 🙂 Big thanks to Andrew Jervis for including us- you can listen back to his show now on Bandcamp!
Yesterday, we also released a live version of Over The Lake taken at Green Man 2023 💚 Watch through the link in our bio
More from our set at this summer, our answer to ‘She Moves Through The Fair’, 'Over the Lake' Live from Green Man 2023 is OUT TOMORROW! Featuring a solo from the lovely 💚
We're so glad to be able to share more with you from our performance at Green Man. A quieter and more introspective moment in our set, 'Over the Lake' is a piece in response to 'She Moves Through the Fair' but from the dead lover's perspective. Again we’re forever indebted to the wonderful team for allowing us to relive the moment and share it with you all.
If you’d like to watch the full session there will be a link in our bio, we hope you enjoy x
Thank you Clash Magazine for the write up on release day!
Check it out 👇
Awen Ensemble Share Folk-Jazz Take On 'She Moves Through The Fair' | News | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews Awen Ensemble have shared an inventive take on folk standard 'She Moves Through The Fair'. The group meld together folk ideas from across Britain and
Our singles are out in the world!!
Huge love and thank you to everybody who made this possible for us;
- Edmund Allen on the production and mixing and just being wonderful
- Caspar Sutton-Jones on the master
- Everyone at New Soil who have been working so hard to help us get this music to you
- The people of 19th century Ireland for writing such a gorgeous folk song as She Moves Through The Fair
- And of course the band!
We’re beyond excited to share this with you and we really hope you enjoy listening!
OUT NOW on all streaming platforms: https://mrthn.fm/ae_smttf
MUSIC OUT TOMORROW !!!
Only one sleep until our new singles are out in the big wide world and it feels like Christmas Eve has come early! We’re absolutely ecstatic for these songs to be with you ❤️
If you fancy pre-saving it really helps us out and the link is in our bio :))
See you tomorrow eeeeek
One week to go until our singles are with you!
Pre-save now through the link 🙂
🔗 https://mrthn.fm/ae_smttf
We’re over the moon to announce the release of some NEW MUSIC!
She Moves Through The Fair / Over The Lake will be with you on Wednesday 22nd November 🌅
Massive love and thank you to everyone involved in the making of this;
🎶 on production and mixing
✨ on the master
📸 on the photography
🫴 for helping us make this possible
Woooo we truly can’t wait to share this with you! Pre-save available now via the link in our bio !!
Hello! We have some hugely exciting news!
Awen Ensemble have been signed to New Soil and will be joining their family of incredible artists for our upcoming releases. We’re thrilled to finally be able to share this properly with you all!
Stay tuned for another announcement on Wednesday 👀👀
Big day for us yesterday! Thank you Giles we love you !!!
The latest heat from will be available in postcard form on this wee run of gigs 🥵🥵
Perhaps it could also be a clue on what’s coming soon from us…? I don’t know though stay tuned I’m not sure!!!
TOMORROW (1st NOV)
THURSDAY 2nd NOV
FRIDAY 3rd NOV
Feels very on brand for us to be playing our last gig of 2023 in Machynlleth, Wales. A week today this wee run will be done and we’ll be reflecting on a big wander around the gorgeous Welsh countryside 🤎🍂
03/10/2023 - Y Tabernacl,
SO excited to play in some wonderful venues next week- hope to see some of you there! Links for tickets in our biooo 🎫🎫🎫
I (Amy) was on the train to London this morning and thinking how gassed we are for our gig at on 1st November!
Not long now and it’s an exciting one for us for various reasons…
London friends, peep the ticket link in our bio and all other friends, keep your eyes peeled for further news 👀👀
(Photos from our set at the gorgeous at ❤️🏴)
Can’t wait to head out as a gang again on a little leg of gigs next month. London, Leeds and Mach friends we hope to see you there!
We have some very big and exciting things in the pipeline which we can’t wait to tell you about- watch this space !! 👀
Ticket links in bio 🔗
It was truly a joy to play at on Wednesday. Thank you to everyone who came down and made it such a special gig for us and of course a big thank you to Jez for putting us on. We hope you’ll have us back- we’d love to do it all over again! 💜
Shambala post coming soon…👀
SHEFFIELD FRIENDS! We’re still swept up in the euphoria of Green Man and we can’t wait to bring the energy to you tomorrow 💛
Doors 8:15pm
Music from 8:30pm
See you then!
Hello! Here we are scattered over the mountainside to tell you we have some very exciting gigs around the corner…
We’re thrilled to be sharing our music for the first time at and this year:
🎇 Greenman, Chai Wallahs, Saturday 19th @ 16:30
🎠 Shambala, Sankofa’s, Friday 25th @ 20:30
AND, for our Sheffield friends, we’re delighted to be coming to you on Wednesday 23rd August to play -tickets £10, details in bio
We’d love to see at one of these dates if you’re around and we hope you’re all having a lovely summer 🌞🌞
A massive thank you to all our Leeds friends and fam that made it to our recent shows at Brudenell and Leeds Jazz Festival! We had a wonderful time and can't thank our guests .buchanan.music and for coming and sharing the stage with us. In other news, we're excited to announce that we'll be playing at this year's on the Sankofa stage, make sure to catch us if you're there!
Photo credit:
A massive thank you to all our Leeds friends and fam that made it to our recent shows at Brudenell and Leeds Jazz Festival! We had a wonderful time and can't thank our guests Georgie Buchanan Music and Fee Buckton for coming and sharing the stage with us. In other news, we're excited to announce that we'll be playing at this year's Shambala Festival on the Sankofa stage, make sure to catch us if you're there!
Leeds folk! Come catch us today at the Cookridge Street Stage as part of Leeds Jazz Festival , joining a lineup of great musicians and friends including Olivia Cuttill Miles Pillinger Víctor M. Estévez and many more! We're on at 5:30pm, joined by a secret special guest 👀
It’s nearly x o’clock 🕰️
Our lovely Emyr is away on tour with our boys over at so we are very excited to be inviting the wicked woman to join us on stage ✨
This is Awen and Yaatri as you’ve never seen them before people get your tickets !!!
Sketches are by a wonderful audience member from our gig at 💛
Only 10 days until big bad hit with the hottest feature of the season 🔥🔥
We’re SO excited to be supporting this lovely lot! Hope to see lots of you there, any gig with double is double dreamy so get yourselves down!!
🎟️ Get your tickets now- link in our bio 🎟️
Newcastle we’re coming to you this Thursday!
Can’t wait to join the wonderful .time at .ouseburn for our last gig of 2022 💛✨
15/12 - Cobalt Studios, Newcastle
Tix in our bio
We’re home from the latest leg of our tour feeling very inspired and grateful to have been able to share our music with such wonderful, attentive audiences 🎺🍂✨
These photographs are from our Cardiff gig, thank you so so much for having us!! We can’t wait to come back :)
Catch us next on 15th December at .ouseburn playing alongside the amazing .time 🌙
Hard to believe we’re halfway through our tour already! Aberystwyth and Manchester were both outrageously beautiful, thank you so much and 🍂🤎
Catch us this weekend as we head to Todmorden, Cardiff and Huddersfield
THURSDAY 24th
FRIDAY 25th
SATURDAY 26th
Manchester we’re coming to you!
TUES 22nd NOV • BRUME at CARLTON CLUB
Very excited to be on a line up with the wonderful and
Manchester friends, we’d love to see you there! ❤️
Tomorrow we head to Wales for our show at ! We are so very excited to bring our new music to the place that inspired it all and can’t wait to share it with the people there ♥️
17th NOV • ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE
Tickets in our bio
Lots more exciting shows next week too, if we’re coming to your city we’d love to see you!
Last night was such a beautiful way to open our tour! Thank you to and to everyone who came down to see us, it was lovely to see so many happy faces in the crowd 🌞🌿 Especially big love to for blessing us with her gorgeous piano playing and to for creating this beautiful drawing during our set!! Check out the rest of their stuff, they are wicked women 🤍
GOBAITH IS OUT IN THE WORLD!
Check it out now on spotify and come to Heart TONIGHT to hear it live 🌿🌿
Music from 8:30pm, tix in bio
📣 Leeds friends!
We’re very excited to be kicking off our autumn tour next Friday with a hometown show at 🤍 Our new single Gobaith comes out the very same day so come down to celebrate with us!
4th Nov @ Heart Centre, Leeds - tix link in bio
Our newest single “Gobaith” is out on 4th November! 💜 Meaning ‘hope’ in Welsh, this instrumental tune was first written by our trumpet player during lockdown and explores the feeling of helplessness that untied us during that time.
Also! On release day we’ll be playing in Leeds at so come down to hear it live!
🍂 We’re going on tour 🍂
We can’t wait to visit all these beautiful venues next month! If we’re coming to your town, come say hello and hear some of the new songs we’ve been working on. Nothing better than some sweet folk-jazz on a cosy November night!
Leeds
Aberystwyth
Manchester
Todmorden
Cardiff
Huddersfield
Newcastle .ouseburn
📸 .photos
New live session of ‘Ionawr’ - OUT NOW!
This song gives an insight into the new sounds we’ve been exploring together and what’s to come from us. It would mean so much to us if you gave it a watch- link in our bio :)
Massive thanks to for giving us this opportunity at their Summer Studios and to for being a dream to work with and doing such a beautiful job with the videography. We hope you enjoy!
Keep your eyes peeled for the release of our beautiful new live session at 5pm today!
It’s of a new tune, called ‘Ionawr’, which means January in Welsh. We’re really excited to be sharing these new sounds with you all!
We had the pleasure of filming it at Sage Gateshead over the summer with the incredible Rob Irish.
All day there are live sessions going out from Hannah Ashcroft, Yaka Scapin, Sophie Fetokaki and Mathias Skye - check them out too, you won’t be disappointed!
Thrilled to be supporting the absolute wonder at for next week!
🌞 Thursday 15th September - tickets in bio 🌞
Gig time !! This Saturday we’re playing for Lancaster Jazz Festival at
Our wonderful vibraphonist Sam is a busy bee at the minute so this weekend we are joined by the lovely and his stunning Rhodes 😍 We’re very excited to be playing together again and hope to see you there!
It's out! You can now listen to our new single "Bendith" on all major platforms, make sure to hit the link in our bio and get it downloaded! Huge amount of love to those of you sharing it so far ❤️
Bendith release update!
We are thrilled to announce Bendith is back on track and coming to your ears on Monday 25th July 🌝 If you simply can’t wait that long we’ve premiered the new single on bandcamp TODAY! https://awenensemble.bandcamp.com/track/bendith-feat-amy-clark
Big big love to and for making our folk jazz dreams come true 💛💛
TONIGHT
We take to stage at Peggy's Skylight in Nottingham, where we'll be playing 2 sets. Catch us at 8pm!
We're busy with our last bits of prep before our gig supporting Têtes de Pois at Brudenell Social Club, and we are buzzing!
Jazzland Sessions Vol 1 feat Têtes De Pois + Awen Ensemble
See you there x
Thank you Awen Saunders-Goldman for the photo - https://hsgawen.wixsite.com/awensg/photo-albums
Just a couple more weeks until we play Brudenell Social Club with the majestic Têtes de Pois, hosted by the legend that is Lubi Jovanovic. Get your tickets here:
Jazzland Sessions / Têtes De Pois + Awen Ensemble - 2nd Show
Thank you Awen Saunders-Goldman for the photo - https://hsgawen.wixsite.com/awensg/photo-albums
Awen Ensemble
Awen Ensemble are a Leeds based Contemporary Jazz Collective, formed of current students and alumni of Leeds College of Music. Each member has heavy involvement in the assorted Leeds Jazz scene, and can be found playing in other bands including Yaatri and Narcle. The ensemble members are:
Emyr Penry Dance - Trumpet / Flugel
Saul Duff - Tenor Saxophone
Samantha Binotti - Vibraphone