Having sound recordist Jake Lee Savage working so closely alongside the VWF Team from the outset, and delighted with his vision and creative ideas, we invited Jake to add filming to his CV and we’re delighted with the results which can be found on our YouTube channel HERE. Alternatively click on each film link below.
Please note: The films on this page are specific to events that we ran as part of the Vaughan Williams’ Folk Project.
There are, in addition to these films, films made from individual Schools and Communities work which have been filmed by a number of people. These can be found in the RESOURCES section within this Project’s webpages though many of them form part of our final Schools and Communities film created towards the end of the project in the Summer of 2023.
Film 14 – Vaughan Williams’ Folk – East Anglian Traditional Music Day Youth Showcase – September 2023
Film 13 – Vaughan Williams’ Folk – FolkEast Youth Showcase – August 2023
Our talented group of 9 young musicians met to play together for the first time in February 2023. Between then and July, they met via zoom for one to ones with tutors Finn Collinson and Emma Beach and in groups. In July they came together again in person for a weekend’s intensive 2 day workshop followed by a dress rehearsal on Thursday 17th August in the Blaxhall Village Hall, five minutes down the road from the FolkEast festival site, a day before the first of two Showcase Performances. Take a look for yourself at the quality of these up and coming musicians – the first of these Showcases was performed to a packed tent of around 600 people!
Film 12 – Vaughan Williams’ Folk – Schools and Communities Film – August 2023
This strand of the Vaughan Williams’ Folk Project has reached over 2,500 people and have been taken across the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk via Schools and local community groups. Many of these short films that make up this film have been captured by the musicians leading their workshops and our film maker Jake Lee Savage has collated these shorts and produced this final film.
Films 3-11 – Vaughan Williams in the East Conference – November 2022
Visit our conference pages to view 5 individual presentations given by our researchers who have looked into Vaughan Williams’ collecting of folk song in East Anglia HERE. This link takes you to not only links to the films but also to a programme of the day and other documents related to the presentations and a report of the day. There are also links to 4 short videos of the short lunchtime recital “Broadland Tunes” that took place.
Film 2 – Project Launch – October 2022
The rescheduled launch of the Vaughan Williams’ Folk project took place on Saturday 10th October in Stowmarket. Essex Researcher, Sue Cubbin and her band Potiphar’s Apprentices joined us for an enlightening illustrated talk on the folk songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams in Essex from 1903. You can now watch this event HERE.
Film 1 – Letters from King’s Lynn – August 2022
The first event promoting the forthcoming Vaughan Williams’ Folk Project took place at FolkEast who EATMT worked closely with throughout the duration of this project. To kick off a busy year plus long project, Alan Helsdon and Chris Holderness gave an illustrated talk entitled ‘Letters From Kings Lynn‘ – which enlightened audiences about Vaughan Williams’ collecting in Norfolk. You can watch a film of this talk HERE.
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