YJF: Flowerden, Winning Post, 03/10

York, meet York Jazz Fest. A new city-wide festival celebrating jazz in all its forms. From intimate bars to iconic venues, from timeless standards to forward-thinking sounds, York Jazz Fest brings together the full spectrum of jazz for four days of live music, discovery and community. Whether you've loved jazz for decades or have never listened before, you're invited. 1-4 October 2026. Tonight: Flowerden. A quintet from York playing original, infectiously catchy jazz/pop fusion. Entirely instrumental, every tune is jam packed with riffs, textures and rhythms that you'll be humming for days. Bex, Nik, Tim, Tobias and Tom bring eclectic tastes and backgrounds from hard rock to the films of Studio Ghibli, mixed with the contemporary jazz sensibilities of Ezra Collective, Kokoroko and Nubya Garcia. Formed in 2024, Flowerden's first gig was support to Mercury-nominated corto.alto. They released their first EP in 2025.