Sunday 08.09.24 | Doors 12, Music 1 - 3pm at The Hot Tin, Whitstable Rd, Faversham ME13 8BD
Daylight Music 377 | PRAH Recordings: Donna Thompson, Yama Warashi & NiCKY | https://buytickets.at/arcticcircle/1345323 

This Autumn, we find ourselves entering once more the enchanting space of The Hot Tin in Faversham, a venue that just celebrated its 139th Birthday! Once upon a time the space was a church, then a school gym, scout hut, camping shop, printers and commercial wood joiners. Now it's a thriving grassroots music venue for the local community. In early September we are working with PRAH Recordings to create a unique intimate piano-focused show across three distinct acts.

Donna Thompson's music swirls around you where cinematic jazz meets meditative R&B - soulful melodies and effortlessly charming hooks come together in honest pure pop moments. On her debut EP on PRAH Something True she grapples with the importance of self-love, of community and the strength found within oneself and others. Within her music the message to remember is to just breathe, be thankful and exist in the present.

NiCKY is a composer, pianist, and singer. The tragicomic love child of east London’s queer performance scene and Zippos Circus, their intimate live sets are heart-rendering yet irreverent. They takes influence from Anhoni, Elton John and Perfume Genius, exploring queer love, liminality and tales of characters from the road. Characterised by a quiet solitude, they carve new territories within intentional, performative queer storytelling and songwriting.

The Japanese artist Yoshino Shigihara had been based in Bristol ever since co-founding the now defunct fusion punk collective Zun Zun Egui. Since then she blossomed on her own across more meditative but no less territorially transcendent records as Yama Warashi for PRAH. Yoshino has always had a sense of wanderlust – her aim is to keep an open ear and absorb everything that she can before returning it back out into the world through her music. 

Not only a birthday for the venue, but PRAH Recordings itself has also just marked its 10th anniversary of releasing esoteric music into the world. And our daytime series continues in its teenage years at we turn 15, so there is plenty to celebrate!

‘We are big fans of Daylight Music so having the chance to get three PRAH artists together at a great venue with a real piano for a proper daytime show is something of a thrill for us, we can't wait’ – Stephen (PRAH)

Further event details: Pay-What-You-Can entry in advance or on the door (we suggest £12 per adult), subject to availability/capacity. An event for all ages. As always with this series we endeavour to make our audience feel as safe, comfortable and welcome as we possibly can.

Our series is kindly supported by an Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant

Queer Folk: LGBTQIA+ people have always existed. So where are they in traditional songs and music? Queer Folk was created by Sophie Crawford and George Sansome to amplify the voices of LGBTQIA+ performers, foster collaborations, and encourage the building of LGBTQIA+ community within the folk, roots, and traditional music scene.

Note Constance has replaced Island Girl who is now unfortunately unable to be with us

Sherika Sherard is an independent Singer/Songwriter from South London, fusing Lyrical Soul and Folk. Has opened for Legendary Musician ‘Seal’ and recently featured on Spike Lee’s Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have it”.

Using Poetry, Rap and Music, Adae invites you into their world, pontificating on Mental health, Queer Faith, Traditional spirituality and generally figuring out existing.

Imagine if folk and neo-soul fell in love and eloped, the product of which was a really angsty love child. Hold onto that image when listening to Constance Sojourner and it will frame her musical offerings as she flits between fun uke pop-bops and forlorn love songs.

Extraordinary People and Extraordinary Music – the OAE Experience ensemble perform music by three remarkable composers from the classical period; Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Maddalena Lombardini, and Franz Joseph Haydn.

The afternoon also feature a performance by the Istante Collective with Nicola Barbagli (oboes, recorders & accordion), Flora Curzon (violins), Johan Lofving (guitars & theorbo, John-Henry Baker (double bass, violone, spoons & percussion) performing the music of Matteis, Haydn, Bartok and Sinclair.

Resident at the Southbank Centre, Associate Orchestra at Glyndebourne and Artistic Associate at Kings Place, the OAE is one of the world’s leading ensembles specialising in period instrument performance, playing music on instruments or replicas from the time the music was written. The orchestra is led today by Margaret Faultless, one of the OAE’s three leaders who has been mentoring the young musicians on the scheme.

Echoes & Recollections - this afternoon we focus on three artists from Orindal Records. Although they will perform solo on the stage, they surround themselves with various looping devices, often mixing in elements of pre-recorded music or field recordings that allow them to virtually accompany themselves, in the process replicating their multi-tracked home recordings in real time. Alongside what binds them in spirit is a the nostalgic, memory-based content in the lyrics or melodies, as well as each of their own unique & somewhat abstract interpretations of the musical tradition they draw from.

I Know What You Did Lost Summer: the idyllic Hebridean island of Eigg is home to Lost Map, a DIY label and loose-knit collective founded by Pictish Trail in 2013, with a roster of artists as diverse as the different formats their music is released on. Be it limited edition colour vinyl, hand-stamped CD-rs, weird zines, evil streams, cassettes or even postcards, the sound of the label is unified by its passion for collecting distinctly unique voices – singers (and a poet) with a story to tell. Already a regular fixture in the Daylight Music Christmas Calendar, this forthcoming July event is the Lost Map’s first summer showcase for DM – with three solo artists performing songs from their latest releases.

Join the dots inbetween will be Bit Cloudy this week.

Space In This Place: we find ourselves in a gathering of musicians and the instruments they surround themselves with, of all sizes and shapes. Through the movements of mallets and of breath, they chime, they chirp or sing revealing the influence of many centuries of music and history. Watch carefully as a thought becomes an action, an action become a sound and those sounds fly back to us transforming into sensations, emotions, and endorphins as they reach our ears.

Playing the Future – unlock your mind and drift away on waves of sounds, emotions and melodic hooks.This afternoon encounter an ensemble of Stylophones, the siren call of the ondes Martenot, and a composer juxtaposing the old with the new using the musical palette of piano, electronics & strings. The curiously eerie yet poignant sounds of these two unusual 20th Century instruments have inspired film makers, musicians and pioneers such as David Bowie, Olivier Messiaen, Alfred Hitchcock, Gerry Anderson and Radiohead. Join us and step into a retro-futurist utopia of sound, texture and ideas, full of hopes and dreams.

A series of soliloquies: performers speak to us this afternoon using the instrument they’ve spent their lives mastering and manipulating, whether that be guitar, voice, double bass, saxophone or violin. Experience layers and loops, an orchestra of ideas from these solo performers, as the church will amplify and reflect these songs and improvisations.

Postcards from the Past: What is a song if not a carefully constructed time capsule made of words, music, sounds, sensations, harmonies and history? This afternoon we enter the lives and experiences of three very different songwriters from different backgrounds. We will get to know them as they share these snapshots in song of their lives and of the musical moments they polished and perfected and now perform for us.

The piano can be a much undervalued mechanical instrument yet it can bring so much wonder into the world. On this afternoon we present it anew - listen and look to the skilled hands of Xenia Pestova Bennett reimagining Bach's most famous work with composer Karlheinz Essel (Gold.Berg.Werk), creating a sound that will surround you in a reflective space. Alongside this will be the live premiere of a new project combining improvisations, field recording and synth textures with Jo Johnson & Hilary Robinson. And we have the return of our favourite explorer and musical storyteller Sarah Angliss, who will be joined by vocalists Sarah Gabriel and Melanie Pappenheim, both of whom appeared on her soundtrack for Amulet, the eerie feature film debut from director Romola Garai.

Lost Map present an afternoon contemplating the antiquated tradition of exchanging cards, the moral dilemma of keeping in touch just once a year, and the often erotic politics behind who stays on the list (and who gets cut). With Pictish Trail, Molly Linen and Jenny Moo’re Mystic Business with guest F*Choir.

Bring your granny, your cousin, your kids or your best friend for a fire and music-filled journey through the great dark woods in the company of the Russian witch Baba Yaga.

London Dreamtime and Cunning Folk’s music and storytelling nights for adults is in Time Out – Top 50 Nights Out in London. They have been commissioned to create music and storytelling shows with many organisations including The Southbank Centre, the Royal Academy of Music, UCL, the British Library and many more. This is their second show for Daylight Music. The story will include multi-sensory audience participation.

Cunning Folk’s music is inspired by paganism, freak folk and witchcraft – ‘a swath of acoustic Tyrannosaurus Rex, early Pink Floyd, Roy Harper, Julian Cope and Donnovan with elements of modern House.’ – Rock and Reel Magazine