Arctic Circle's innovative daytime concerts series, Daylight Music, returns to Bethnal Green and Leytonstone with a visit to Faversham too

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Experience Ensemble at Daylight Music, St Matthias, Stoke Newington (Photo Paul Hudson)

Arctic Circle's Daylight Music series has been running since 2009, providing innovate daytime concerts at weekends in Bethnal Green, Leytonstone and further. The Autumn 2022 season runs from 5 November to 11 December 2022, with a wide variety of styles and musical influences on offer. And as the temperature drops, there is music from improvisations inspired by hundreds of years of history from Hildegard von Bingen to the latest graduates from the Goldsmith Music department, whilst December features their first event outside London, at The Hot Tin in Faversham.

Things kick off at St John's Leytonstone on 5/11/2022 with the Guido Spannocchi Quartet led by the the Vienna born London based saxophonist, plus New York-based cellist composer Clarice Jensen and the jazz duo Brackenbury Bianco which features American jazz drummer Tony Bianco.

Other events include Lomond Campbell, Seaming To and Lara Jones presented as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, a collaboration with Goldsmiths Music which features Iris Garrelfs with Goldsmiths Improvisors’ Collective which brings together students and staff plus clarinettist Pete Furniss who is a lecturer at Goldsmiths, a band which arose out of lockdown performances Home is where the music is with Beth Hopkins (saxophone and vocals), Jelly Cleaver (guitarist and songwriter) and China Bowls (singer songwriter), and finally Lost Map presents Pictish Trail’s Highland Grotto as Johnny Lynch aka Pictish Trail gathers in East London some of his label collective of musicians and contemporaries from around the map.

Full details from the Daylight Music website.