Juni Habel + Nick Jonah Davis
Event 5.0 of Season 4.0 Juni Habels fragile finger-picked lullabies warm themselves by the open fire with her rich intimate voice atop twinkling arrangements and strange percussive instrumentation. Like glowing embers in the dark, these songs are odes to life and death, the beauty of belonging and human kinship with nature. The Norwegian’s first album […]
Haiku Salut + Osgled + Matt Sewell
Event 4.0 of Season 4.0 Multi-instrumentalists Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood, and Louise Croft describe themselves as “instrumental dream-pop-post-folk-neo-everything”. Influenced by the evocative film soundtracks of Yann Tiersen and Benoît Charest, the genre-melting electronica of early Múm, and the impressionistic writing of Haruki Murakami, their music blends folk traditions, with otherworldly found sounds and future-forward “loopery […]
Dylan Henner + Ibukun Sunday
Event 3.0 of Season 4.0 Little is known about Dylan Henner, who landed on the ambient scene in 2020 with cassette releases for Phantom Limb, Belgian label Dauw, and cult tastemakers AD93. He barely promotes himself publicly, instead choosing to communicate through disarmingly poetic song titles. His debut album “The Invention of the Human” (AD93, […]
Awen Ensemble + Peiriant
Event 2.0 of Season 4.0 Awen Ensemble are a 7 piece alternative folk-jazz outfit. Meaning ‘poetic inspiration’ in Welsh, the name Awen outlines the band’s intention to explore folkloric heritage, landscape and emotional processes through music, inspiring audiences to connect with and reflect on these elements. Playing both vocal led and instrumental works, Awen Ensemble […]
Jonny Nash (Ft Tomo Katsurada) + Christopher Haddow
Event 1.0 of Season 4.0 Jonny Nash creates music that holds you close, comfortable, spacious and profoundly human. He’s joined by his close friend Tomo Katsurada, with the pair performing in the beautiful, resonant surroundings of Shrewsbury Library. Expect drifting, swelling, transportive soundscapes that gently pull you inward. Support comes from Glasgow-born guitarist and composer […]
Merope + M.Haiux
Event 8.0 of Season 3.0 Merope’s roots lie deep in the soil of Lithuania’s folk songs, connecting them with ideas from across the cultural map. Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė’s kanklės and singing are the foundation of their celestial ambient folk reinterpretations, joined by ornate, experimental guitar and electronics from Belgian multi-instrumentalist Bert Cools, creating an intimate soundscape […]
Hinako Omori + Kit Grill
Event 7.0 of Season 3.0 The final announcement of Season 3.0 promises something truly special, as two remarkable artists transform the stunning acoustics of St Alkmund’s Church. Hinako Omori is a Japanese-born, London-based composer creating immersive sonic worlds from ambient synths, voice, and classical textures, often enhanced with binaural and multi-channel techniques. Her acclaimed, many-layered […]
Gwenifer Raymond + Elizabeth Still
Event 6.0 of Season 3.0 (Exclusive Small show) Limited to 65 tickets for this pilot event at The Darwin Room, Shrewsbury Library. Welsh instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond, is set to announce her third studio album, to be released September 5th on Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies. Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is […]
Walt McClements + Lucy Sissy Miller
Event 5.0 of Season 3.0 Walt McClements is an accordionist, multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los Angeles. His solo compositions focus on processed accordion, creating patient and emotional meditations that nod to drone and ambient music. His debut record, “A Hole in the Fence” was released in 2021 on American Dreams, and utilized a minimal […]
Movement in Sound – Tengger + Seaming To
Event 4.0 of Season 3.0 Movement in Sound As part of this year’s Belle Vue Belle Vue Arts Festival theme, ‘Movement’, SY.Gigs is thrilled to present an extraordinary evening of music and exploration. Bringing together the Pan-Asian, New-Age drone psychedelic band Tengger and the avant-garde multi-instrumentalist and experimentalist Seaming To family band. This event promises to push the […]
An exploration of Harp & Piano – Marysia Osu & Hanakiv
Event 3.0 of Season 3.0 Piano Day Special Piano Day, is an annual worldwide event founded by a group of like-minded people. It takes place on the 88th day of the year because of the number of keys on the instrument being celebrated. As part of International Piano Day 2025 SY.Gigs is proud to be […]
Voyage of the Beagle by John Biddulph + Ashia Vaughan
Event 2.0 of Season 3.0 Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and sound designer John Biddulph is thrilled to announce his latest musical project, an exploration of sound that was inspired by Charles Darwin’s iconic text, The Voyage of the Beagle. This performance in Shrewsbury, as part of the Darwin Festival and performed in Darwin’s church, The Unitarian, will […]
Matters Unknown
Event 1.0 Season 3.0 Jonathan Enser, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and brass contributor for UK afro-jazz group Nubiyan Twist, describes his new project, MATTERS UNKNOWN, as “celestial blues wrapped in contemporary global grooves.” Raised in rural England, Enser’s love for music began early, with a passion for the trumpet guiding him to a lifelong exploration of brass. […]
Fabiano Do Nascimento + Rebelski
Event 11.0 of Season 2.0 Fabiano Do Nascimento is a guitarist, composer, producer and arranger from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, currently based in Los Angeles and Japan. Fabiano records music and performs on various multi-string / multi-tuning customised nylon string guitars. A contemporary artist who is deeply rooted in Brazilian heritage and is known for […]
Scrimshire + Irini Arabatzi
Event 10.0 of Season 2.0 Adam Scrimshire is a multi-instrumentalist, writer, producer and mix engineer based in South London. He is perhaps best known for his work under the artist name Scrimshire, through which he has released seven solo albums. His music has consistently had the support of BBC Radio DJs including Gilles Peterson, Jamie […]
Dasom Baek & Minseon Choi + Leaving
Event 9.0 of Season 2.0 Dasom Baek is a composer, improviser, and performer of traditional Korean instruments, including Daegeum, Sogeum, Danso and Saenghwang. Dasom pursues ground-breaking and modern music rooted in traditional Korean instrumental performance. Dasom’s contemporary expression of these ancient instruments bridges the gap between traditional craftsmanship and contemporary sonic experimentation. Sparse and spacious. […]
Hempolics + Hayden T
In association with Theatre Severn. A gig fixed by SY.gigs.
Clarice Jensen + Black Brunswicker
Event 8.0 of Season 2.0 Clarice Jensen is a composer and cellist based in New York. As a solo artist, Clarice has developed a distinctive compositional approach, improvising and layering her cello through shifting loops and a chain of electronic effects to open out and explore a series of rich, drone-based sound fields. Pulsing, visceral […]
Greg Foat/Ayo Salawu + Ocean Ivy
Event 7.0 of Season 2.0 Greg Foat is one of the UK’s leading jazz pianists, composers and music producers. Greg’s worked with a diverse selection of musicians, including Bob Lind, Moses Boyd, Curtis Lundy, Questlove and Gigi Masin. In recent years he’s recorded for Jazzman Records, Athens Of The North and Strut. Greg Foat’s latest […]
Group Listening + Bazmatron
Event 6.0 of Season 2.0 Musical collaborators for the past decade, Paul Jones and Stephen Black are together known as the woodwind-and-key-wielding, sculptural-papier-mâché-hat-wearing Group Listening. Following renegade reinterpretation records Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works Vol. 1 (2018) and Vol. 2 (2022), which pulled apart, pondered, and re-shaped cult ambient classics by the likes of Robert […]
Tara Clerkin Trio + Haress
Event 5.0 of Season 2.0 Tara Clerkin Trio are Pat Benjamin, Sunny Joe Paradisos and Tara Clerkin, two of which hail from Shrewsbury. The three musicians involved in a number of cult Bristol bands over the years before confidently settling down in triangle formation. They are inspired by and borrow from jazz, trip hop, electronica, […]
Audrey Carmes + Roberto Biffarini
Event 4.0 of Season 2.0 Audrey Carmes is a composer and artist based in Paris, France. Having graduated from the Paris School of Fine Art, she found herself drawn towards the city’s experimental electronic music, developing a sound practice that she combined with her poetry and writing. On her spellbinding debut album Quelque chose […]
Miles Spilsbury
Event 3.0 of Season 2.0 Miles Spilsbury is a saxophonist, composer and multi-instrumentalist. In addition to a list of collaborators which includes Carlos Niño, Nate Mercereau, Surya Botofasina, Slugabed, Iglooghost and Yasei Collective, Spilsbury has been a permanent member of celebrated avant-rock experimentalists The Physics House Band since 2018. He has performed at prestigious […]
Bex Burch + John Biddulph
Event 2.0 of Season 2.0 UK-born, Berlin-based composer, percussionist, producer and instrument maker Bex Burch has employed percussion and hand made xylophones to carve out a unique sonic space for herself. Her restless creativity and desire to embrace new musical challenges across a range of percussive instruments has seen her recorded music straddle the […]
Cerys Hafana
Event 1.0 of Season 2.0 Cerys Hafana is a musician from Machynlleth emerging as a unique composer and artist. She plays arrangements of Welsh folk tunes and songs, alongside original compositions on the triple harp and piano. She mixes found sounds, archival materials and uses electronic processing. Cerys will be joining us from Machynlleth, Wales, […]
Swarthy Korwar
In Association with Theatre Severn. A gig fixed by SY.Gigs. Sarathy Korwar, one of the most original and compelling voices in the UK jazz scene, comes to the Walker Theatre. His latest work celebrates South Asian music and literature, and resonates with spirituality and community.
Shida Shahabi + Tiny Leaves
Event 6.0 Season 1.0 Final event of Series 1.0 (Letting the Light in) welcomes internationally recognised ambient composer Shida Shahabi to the beautiful space of St Alkmunds Church Shrewsbury. Born in the Swedish capital in 1989, composer Shida’s home was filled with both ‘70s Persian pop and long-established classical works, but, she insists, “it was […]
Matthew Halsall
In association with Theatre Severn. A gig fixed by SY.gigs. Part of the ‘An Ever Changing View’ album tour.
Simeon Walker + David John Fitzpatrick
Event 5.0 Season 1.0 Leeds-based pianist & composer Simeon Walker has quickly emerged as a leading light in the burgeoning Modern Classical scene, following the release of Mono and Winnow, his two albums to date. Simeon has performed & toured extensively in his own right across the UK and Europe, alongside support slots for Neil […]
Elori Saxl + Roberto Biffarini
Event 4.0 Season 1.0 Elori Saxl is an American experimental electronic composer. Her debut album The Blue of Distance (released 2021 on Western Vinyl) received critical acclaim for its elegant combination of digitally-processed recordings of wind and water with the rich sounds of analog synthesizers and chamber orchestra. Half-written in the verdant Adirondack mountains of […]
Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer
Event 3.0 Season 1.0 International Anthem label artists Jeremiah and Marta arrive from Los Angeles for a unique UK performance, playing bucolic ambient electronic soundscapes from their critically acclaimed ‘Recordings from the Åland Islands’ album. ‘Together their instruments capture the beauty of the landscape, but also something more – these pieces evoke a real sense […]
Shabaka Hutchings + Miriam Adefris
Event 2.0 season 1.0 Shabaka’s work transcends conventional notions of genre, and draws from a vast pallet of cultural influences. Whilst he’s undeniably a pioneering voice in the renaissance of British Jazz, his remit is much broader: he’s also performed classical concertos with world-leading orchestras; led several hugely influential bands (Sons of Kemet,The Comet is […]
Mary Lattimore + Tiny Leaves
Event 1.0 Season 1.0 Mary Lattimore is a harpist and composer living in Los Angeles. She experiments with her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp and effects. Her solo debut, The Withdrawing Room, was released in 2013 on Desire Path Recordings. Lattimore also writes harp parts for songs and recordings, performing and recording with such […]
Sam Wilkes & Sam Amidon live in Shrewsbury
Sam Wilkes records music. Composer, Producer, Arranger, Bassist. Performs live primarily playing a Fender precision bass. Sam Wilkes lives in Los Angeles, California. Sam Amidon is a contemporary folk musician. A unique one off UK gig from Sam Wilkes and Sam Amidon in aid of the Ukraine Humanitarian Aid. Pic Credits – Elliot Jones
International Piano Day 2022
2022 International Piano Day at St Alkmunds. Performances from: Francis Shelley Tiny Leaves ft Andy Lowe Alex Kozobolis James C Taylor
Sea Power
In association with Theatre Severn. A gig fixed by SY.gigs. Review
Hanna Peel + Will Burns
Support – Tiny Leaves In association with Theatre Severn. A gig fixed by SY.gigs.
Haiku Salut + Tiny Leaves
Haiku Salut are an instrumental dream-pop-post-folk-neo-everything trio from the Derbyshire Dales. The group consists of multi-instrumentalists Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood, and Louise Croft. Between them, Haiku Salut play accordion, piano, glockenspiel, trumpet, guitar, ukulele, drums, and melodica. Their music also features electronic elements, which they refer to as “loopery and laptopery”. Influenced by the evocative […]