I'm raising £2500 to produce Daylight Music 2025
Organised by Benjamin Eshmade
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We rely on grants and crowdfunding to deliver Daylight for you all to enjoy, and we’re launching our 2025 crowdfunder today. Please support us if you can! If you’d like to know more, keep on reading, but if you’d like to donate already please just click the ‘Give Now’ button and we would be really grateful.
It’s 2025. In an ever-changing world our series is a haven, a musical hug, an escape, a place to experience wonder. For this to continue we once again ask our community of friends, family, audience and artists for some help.
Transcendental way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Inspiring and uplifting – Yvonne from Bloomsbury
In what continues to be a challenging time for live music we once again open a Crowdfunder to continue the fundraising for our Spring/Summer/Winter seasons in 2025. It’s the most direct way for anyone to support or perhaps give us a financial thumbs up for a past event you’ve particularly cherished.
Daylight music feels different to other concert series: the warmth, the cake and the people running a platform where experimentation, risk and high-quality music making are encouraged, make it feel like a place where anything might happen, and everyone is welcome. – Rosie Middleton
We have been lucky that the series has been supported once again by Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants, but this cannot be our only source of income so we have to find money from multiple sources whether that be from door income, café profits or merchandise.
We need to raise money in advance for hiring the venue, bringing in a sound system with a van to transport it, and paying an experienced engineer who will set up and pack it down. Then there are all the weeks of preparation to make the events as good as they can be. We also want to make sure we can financially compensate our musicians for their time and transport, which cannot come just from the Pay-What-You-Can door entry.
Incredible , continuity, uplifting, soul moving, holistic, wonder inducing and mindful of making adaptations for disabled patrons - thank you! – Anna from Canterbury
Grassroots events such as these are so important for helping artists like myself to develop my their practice and song writing – Flo Lines
Rain or shine, storm or snow, with or without electricity, we’ve been there – and with some help from this fundraiser we will continue to do so this year.
Thanks for reading and supporting,
Ben Eshmade (Arctic Circle’s Daylight Music)
