WHO ARE GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT?

Gawain and the Green Knight are a homemade valentine to that cute ghost in your attic. They’re a Brooklyn-based band, which is maybe why they want their songs to give you that same sweet, achy-chest feeling they get when walking past apartment windows that are lit up at night.

Made up of married folks Alexia Antoniou and Mike O’Malley, Gawain and the Green Knight have been performing around NYC since January 2018, singing about their affection for little human moments and their healthy fear of death. But, you know- in a cute way.

Sit a little while their two EPs- Ghosties and A Sleeping Place- or take a listen to their new single, “Bright and Bleeding.”

 
 
 
 

People are saying kind things!

  • “Gawain and The Green Knight ponder mortality on moving Indie-Folk EP, ‘A Sleeping Place.’” -AMERICAN SONGWRITER

  • “Creative, strange, beautiful.” -TWO STORY MELODY

  • “Grim, sweet, elegant… Gawain and the Green Knight stand out from the indie folk crowd in the passion and panache they bring to their characters” - MERRY-GO-ROUND MAGAZINE

  • “Antoniou’s deeply emotional delivery affects us palpably, resonating in the depths of our bodies and souls.” - FOLK ALLEY

  • “ So far, it seems Antoniou’s vocal performance can sell any story on its own, but it’s still exciting to hear the duo inhabit ambitious instrumental settings as they iterate on age-old stories with wit, whimsy, and heart.” -THE ALL SCENE EYE

  • “Gawain and the Green Knight…might be called a folk duo but that would just be a simplification. A more accurate description would be storytellers or maybe conjurers or musical alchemists. “ - AMERICAN PANCAKE

  • “Inescapably beautiful” -IMPERFECT FIFTHS

  • ”Her songs conjure up vivid historical humans living vivid human moments… a kind of troubadour feminism.” - GAB ROD BLOG

  • “Melancholic and uplifting” -FOLKING

  • “Honest and exciting… these guys have their own distinctive sound and approach, creating songs with a wonderful literary quality.” - MICHAEL DOHERTY’S MUSIC LOG

  • “Every now and again a track takes hold of you that's completely different from anything else that you've listened to - I think that's the case with today's track of the day by New York-based Gawain and the Green Knight… they create haunting, beautiful, magnificent music.” - FOLKABLE MUSIC