Hanushka coffee house sessions: live

Jason McNiff is back at Hanushka Coffee House on Saturday 31 October, the first of four Saturday nights he's playing in a row. He'll be there again on 7, 14 and 21 November, so if you can't make this one, there are three more to choose from over the next few weeks.

It's part of the coffee house's Saturday evening sessions, where McNiff leads a rotating collective of musicians. The line-up changes from night to night, but the instrumentation stays the same: violin, double bass, clarinet and mandola. Because the players shift, each session ends up with its own feel, even if the core sound remains the same.

If you've never been, it's a fairly straightforward setup: McNiff at the centre, with the other instruments filling out the sound around him. The violin and clarinet take the melodies, the double bass holds the low end, and the mandola sits somewhere in between, adding a bit of texture and weight to the middle. It's a chamber-sized ensemble, so you're close to the music rather than watching it from a distance.

All four dates start at 19:30 at Hanushka Coffee House, 28-29 Robertson Street, Hastings, TN34 1HL. Since it's a run of four Saturdays, you can catch one or come back for a few.