Dawn, is Sarah Elizabeth Charles’ fifth album as a leader centered on the journey of having her two children and including songs that exist as honest reflections on parenting, celebrating birth/femininity and ancestral tributes. 

I received the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works grant in 2020, just before the world shut down. I was extremely honored and excited to have support for what would be my next body of work. I didn’t realize then just how different the journey of making this record would be. I had released four albums prior to this point with my band of 12 years and I thought 2020 would be a year of composing new music and gearing up to perform and share it. Instead, experiencing loss, moving through grief and getting pregnant with our first child, changed my fifth album’s trajectory. I started to chronicle my experience of miscarriage, pregnancy and becoming a parent through song. There was nothing else that I felt I could write about at the time because this experience was present in every facet of my day to day life. And so I gave myself permission to go deeper and more personal than I had ever gone before in my musical output. 

Dawn

Sarah Elizabeth Charles

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'Dawn' Community Chat

Warning: contains content around miscarriage & birthing that may be triggering
Music & Lyrics by Sarah Elizabeth Charles 
String Arrangements by Jarrett Cherner 
Music, Studio & Recording segments Featuring: 
Maya Keren (piano, keyboards)
Linda May Han Oh (bass)
Savannah Harris (drums)
Marika Hughes (cello)
Skye Steele (violin)
John Davis (engineer) 
Sarah Elizabeth Charles (vocals)

Featuring: 
Kim Kalesti
Martha Redbone  
Laetitia Kaing Travis
Chiara Fasi 
Sarah Elizabeth Charles 
Cinematography & Direction by Keira Cronin 
Editing and Production by Keira Cronin & Sarah Elizabeth Charles 




Angel Spark Mini Doc I Sarah Elizabeth Charles  


Warning: contains content around miscarriage & birthing that may be triggering


Your life is a miracle, 
Your love is a miracle, 
Your light is a miracle, 
In my eyes you’re a miracle 


Dawn Lyrics

Promotional photographs taken by Shervin Lainez  | https://www.shervinfoto.com/

Album cover photo taken by Brigitte Hamadey  | http://bhamadey.com

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5 Select Photos, including album cover in high resolution

Dawn Compact Disc

Rainbow J 

Ground

Discovery 

Miracle 

Kick

Rainbow T 

Plans

Mother

Angel Spark

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