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Kevin Redpath is a filmmaker, producer and storyteller.
We moved to Glastonbury in 1982. In those days the town still had a Cattle Market, four banks, a number of independent grocers, a single alternative gift / bookshop 'Gothic Image', a Currys, a Gas Showroom and a Woolworths. A retired Major, and his fearsome wife, ran The George and Pilgrim (known locally as George and the Dragon) and the High Street was choked with the fumes and rumble of pre-bypass traffic.
On many summer days you could still find yourself alone on top of the Tor. Tickets for Glastonbury Festival were a princely £8.00 and Van Morrison topped the Pyramid stage for the first time. 25,000 Festival goers endured one of the wettest years in Somerset after 45 consecutive days of rain.
In the town itself, things were slowly changing. A new generation of entrepreneurs arrived to build new businesses, purchase the Assembly Rooms from the County Council, set up a vibrant alternative health clinic and a whole food shop. The Glastonbury Experience blossomed from the site of an old garage and the first Glastonbury Community Weekend took place. Quiet celebrations took place in the Assembly Rooms to mark the cross quarter festivals of Beltane and Samhain.
Celebrating these Festivals is something Glastonbury does so brilliantly today. We have fantastic drummers, dancers, goddesses, dragons, ceremonialists, singers and musicians. We have a world renown Carnival, an annual Zombie walk for charity, and pilgrimages of every faith, sing, pray and chant their way around the town.
A Glastonbury Tale has been a personal project for me. Filming was book-ended by the deaths of my parents and at times I struggled to translate Judge's brilliant music into visual sequences. I hope the film reflects well on the town, not only capturing some of annual celebrations and festivals but recognising the people who get up early every day to bake our bread, service our cars, manage our beautiful library, print our fliers, grow flowers for our town's award-winning floral displays and serve the community as our Councillors and Mayors. They all make Glastonbury an extraordinary place to live in.
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Judge Smith is a composer, librettist and musical innovator.
As a founding member of Van der Graaf Generator in 1967, Judge helped shape one of progressive rock’s most distinctive and literate voices. After leaving the band early on, he pursued a solo path defined by restless creativity and genre-crossing experimentation.
Over the decades, Judge has written stage musicals, operas, chamber works, film scores, and a string of acclaimed “songstories”—a form he pioneered that fuses narrative and music into extended cinematic experiences for the ear.
His Requiem Mass, completed over several years, is a deeply felt response to themes of death, remembrance, and transcendence. While it draws on the structure and tradition of the Latin Mass for the Dead, the piece is entirely original in tone, combining solemnity with dramatic, often electrifying shifts in musical texture.
Particularly striking is his setting of Dies Irae—a medieval poem about the Day of Judgment—interpreted here with an unapologetically rock-and-roll energy that challenges and redefines sacred music.
In A Glastonbury Tale, Judge's Requiem does not merely underscore the visuals—it acts as a spiritual framework, guiding the viewer through the emotional and symbolic journey of the town and its people. The pairing of sound and image invites the audience to reflect on continuity, change, and the sacredness of everyday life.
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