On Thursday, Dec. 5, Spafford will share a never-before-heard, 47-minute improvisation dating back to January 2017, dubbed the “Chapel Jam.”

“After a cancelled gig in Rochester, we ended staying at an old Mission-turned-Air BnB in Conesus, NY,” the band recalls. “Not totally sure what to do with a night off, we wandered around the property and explored what felt like an abandoned insane asylum before eventually deciding to walk our gear through the snow to the house so we could jam. We set up in an old Chapel room downstairs. [Drummer] Nick [Tkachyk] set up elevated on the altar, the rest of the band staged below. The music just kind of started playing itself and luckily [bassist] Jordan [Fairless] made sure the recording was running. The music traveled. No real destination, no crowd. Just some friends playing music in a bizarre old chapel, in the snow, in the middle of nowhere.”

The band adds that they enjoyed keeping the jam just for themselves for these intervening years, but now it’s time to share it with the world. “These days things are so instantaneous it felt alright to hold on to something secret,” they explain.

The band will premiere the “Chapel Jam” on Thursday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. ET alongside some archival video footage of their time spent there.

Tune in to the Spafford Facebook page to watch the live premiere.

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Read Jambands.com’s recent interview with Spafford’s Red Johnson here.

Check out photos from Spafford’s “Chapel Jam” below: