Mumford & Sons joined by ‘The Office’ star Ed Helms for ‘Awake My Soul’ in Los Angeles

Mumford & Sons have performed their 2009 classic ‘Awake My Soul’ with The Office star Ed Helms in Los Angeles – check out footage of the performance below.

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Last week (March 20), Mumford & Sons performed the first of their four intimate club shows in the US in the build-up to the release of their new album, ‘Rushmere’. To celebrate the occasion at the Hollywood Palladium, Marcus Mumford and co. were joined by several special guests, including Dawes and Madison Cunningham.

Dawes joined the band to perform for ‘Caroline’, while Cunningham joined Mumford & Sons for ‘Blood on The Page’, with the both of them also performing a cover of The New Basement Tapes’ ‘Kansas City’ with the band.

However, earlier in the set, Mumford & Sons brought out The Office and The Hangover star Ed Helms for ‘Awake My Soul’. Helms played the banjo and provided backing vocals for the performance after Marcus Mumford introduced him to the crowd: “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Mr. Ed Helms to the stage.”

Check out fan-shot footage of the performance below.

Mumford & Sons’ Hollywood Palladium was the fifth of nine intimate shows that the band are performing around the world as a warm-up before they release their new album ‘Rushmere’ later this week. Prior to the stop in L.A., they performed in Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, London and Sydney.

‘Rushmere’ will mark their first LP in seven years and is set for release on March 28 via Island/Glassnote, following on from 2018’s ‘Delta’ (pre-order/pre-save here).

‘RUSHMERE’ also marks Mumford & Sons’ first album as a trio, comprising Mumford, Ted Dwane and Ben Lovett. Banjoist Winston Marshall departed the group in 2021, after facing backlash for praising a book by right-wing US journalist Andy Ngo.

In a three-star review of Mumford & Sons’ 2018 record ‘Delta’, Jordan Bassett wrote for NME: “A decade after they began their bid to become the most popular band in the world, Mumford & Sons are still pushing into unfamiliar territory. Lyrically, the record deals with the onset of maturity and this, combined with that forward-thinking approach, suggests Mumford & Sons are here for the long haul. It’s a far from perfect album, but the band’s hunger for new sounds must be applauded.”

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