Forwarded from Dr Tess Lawrie
New Tess Talks: Where Music, Art & Science Meet
On jamming for freedom with Cambel McLaughlin at the Jam for Freedom Festival in August...
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/where-music-art-and-science-meet
Last week I had the pleasure of talking to Cambel McLaughlin, the founder of Jam for Freedom.
Cambel started the pioneering musical project on Hampstead Heath in London, December 20th 2020. Sick of draconian government measures, he wanted to get as many musicians as possible to meet, join up, and play together in solidarity. To "jam" for freedom.
The movement quickly went from strength to strength. In 2021 and 2022 Jam for Freedom garnered support from music legends Eric Clapton and Van Morrison, played at dozens of protests, undertook months of tireless touring around the UK and Ireland (despite so-called restrictions), welcomed more and more musicians to their collective and empowered thousands of people to step away from fear and refuse to comply with ridiculous instructions that didn't make sense. All thanks to the power of music.
It's grown so much that this summer will see the first Jam for Freedom Festival. Like their other events, it promises to be an oasis of positivity and infinite possibility in an increasingly strange world. Between August 4-6 you can see some of the best musicians in the world, eat organic food, do yoga, wild swim and watch comedy and talks. I'll be there and it's an honour to be involved.
I was thrilled to sit down and chat with Cambel. Too often, we look to the big, established acts to provide music and encourage an attitude that fosters a much-needed counter narrative to the establishment. However, what Cambel and his grass roots team have achieved is to bring new voices to the story.
Yes there were giants, like Clapton and Van Morrison who performed a few covid songs over the last three years but they've gone quiet now. The real change, as we are seeing, is coming from the next generation.
Watch the interview here:
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/where-music-art-and-science-meet
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On jamming for freedom with Cambel McLaughlin at the Jam for Freedom Festival in August...
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/where-music-art-and-science-meet
Last week I had the pleasure of talking to Cambel McLaughlin, the founder of Jam for Freedom.
Cambel started the pioneering musical project on Hampstead Heath in London, December 20th 2020. Sick of draconian government measures, he wanted to get as many musicians as possible to meet, join up, and play together in solidarity. To "jam" for freedom.
The movement quickly went from strength to strength. In 2021 and 2022 Jam for Freedom garnered support from music legends Eric Clapton and Van Morrison, played at dozens of protests, undertook months of tireless touring around the UK and Ireland (despite so-called restrictions), welcomed more and more musicians to their collective and empowered thousands of people to step away from fear and refuse to comply with ridiculous instructions that didn't make sense. All thanks to the power of music.
It's grown so much that this summer will see the first Jam for Freedom Festival. Like their other events, it promises to be an oasis of positivity and infinite possibility in an increasingly strange world. Between August 4-6 you can see some of the best musicians in the world, eat organic food, do yoga, wild swim and watch comedy and talks. I'll be there and it's an honour to be involved.
I was thrilled to sit down and chat with Cambel. Too often, we look to the big, established acts to provide music and encourage an attitude that fosters a much-needed counter narrative to the establishment. However, what Cambel and his grass roots team have achieved is to bring new voices to the story.
Yes there were giants, like Clapton and Van Morrison who performed a few covid songs over the last three years but they've gone quiet now. The real change, as we are seeing, is coming from the next generation.
Watch the interview here:
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/where-music-art-and-science-meet
📌 Follow:
➨ @DrTessLawrie
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May 12, 2023
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Our Glamping Tents Are Now Sold Out! Final tickets available for our beachside main campsite, along the beautiful Redricks Lake, Essex. Caravan and motorhome options also available! 🌊🌞
Don't miss out on the celebration of the summer! Grab your final tickets here 👉 www.jamforfreedom.com/festival
Don't miss out on the celebration of the summer! Grab your final tickets here 👉 www.jamforfreedom.com/festival
May 15, 2023
🌞Infusing Beachside Meditation & Yoga with Live Music + Comedy at Jam for Freedom Festival 2023, August 3rd-6th!
🌿A hand-picked schedule of beachside yoga, sound healing and group meditation followed by a full day and night of panels, workshops, live comedy and music.
📣Introducing a new guest, Philly L Jay! Brining you daily morning meditation before the activities and entertainment begins!
🌊Final tickets available for our beachside main campsite, along the beautiful Redricks Lake, Essex. Caravan and motorhome options also available only at www.jamforfreedom.com/festival 👈
🌿A hand-picked schedule of beachside yoga, sound healing and group meditation followed by a full day and night of panels, workshops, live comedy and music.
📣Introducing a new guest, Philly L Jay! Brining you daily morning meditation before the activities and entertainment begins!
🌊Final tickets available for our beachside main campsite, along the beautiful Redricks Lake, Essex. Caravan and motorhome options also available only at www.jamforfreedom.com/festival 👈
May 23, 2023
Supporting THE People's Paper! 📰
I remember interning at Sky and work experience at ITV when I was a teenager and thinking,' I don't want to be a tool of your establishment'. Now we have our own press, our own festivals, our own journalism, businesses and economy.
🌞Thank you to all that have helped build up the freedom movement, I hope we can help celebrate it at this years festival! Featuring 100+ artists and activities alongside Redricks Lake in Essex. See you then!
www.jamforfreedom.com/festival 👈
I remember interning at Sky and work experience at ITV when I was a teenager and thinking,' I don't want to be a tool of your establishment'. Now we have our own press, our own festivals, our own journalism, businesses and economy.
🌞Thank you to all that have helped build up the freedom movement, I hope we can help celebrate it at this years festival! Featuring 100+ artists and activities alongside Redricks Lake in Essex. See you then!
www.jamforfreedom.com/festival 👈
May 24, 2023
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🔥Another incredible guest joins the celebrations! Join our free mailing list at our website in bio + discover hundreds of pro-freedom artists and so much MORE!
Comment below who you think it is!🤔
🌞www.jamforfreedom.com/festival
#jamforfreedom
Comment below who you think it is!🤔
🌞www.jamforfreedom.com/festival
#jamforfreedom
May 26, 2023
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Announcing our new guest... David Icke!🌞
Joining our celebration on the main stage overlooking Redricks Lake 🌊
Please share this incredible news with your local groups, family and friends!🎉
Final tickets available for vehicles and camping at www.jamforfreedom.com/festival 🏕
Footage from 'David Icke- Live at Wembley Arena' available alongside 100s of hours of David's work only at @ickonicmediagroup
Music featured: 'Rise Like Lions' by the Freedom Ensemble
Joining our celebration on the main stage overlooking Redricks Lake 🌊
Please share this incredible news with your local groups, family and friends!🎉
Final tickets available for vehicles and camping at www.jamforfreedom.com/festival 🏕
Footage from 'David Icke- Live at Wembley Arena' available alongside 100s of hours of David's work only at @ickonicmediagroup
Music featured: 'Rise Like Lions' by the Freedom Ensemble
May 29, 2023
Cambel chats to Friday headliner, Joseph Arthur on TNT Radio!
📣Hear how he started the Jam for Freedom movement out of a suitcase drum kit and how hosting festivals in his garden as a teenager developed his passion for bringing all peoples together. 🌞
https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/cambel-mclaughlin-on-joseph-arthur-his-technicolor-dreamcast-28-may-2023/
📣Hear how he started the Jam for Freedom movement out of a suitcase drum kit and how hosting festivals in his garden as a teenager developed his passion for bringing all peoples together. 🌞
https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/cambel-mclaughlin-on-joseph-arthur-his-technicolor-dreamcast-28-may-2023/
Podbean
Cambel McLaughlin on Joseph Arthur & his Technicolor Dreamcast - 28 May 2023 | TNT Radio
GUEST OVERVIEW: Cambel McLaughlin is the Founder of Jam for Freedom https://www.jamforfreedom.com/
May 30, 2023
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Due to MASSIVE interest in attendance we have now put the logistics in place for day passes! These will launch via our exclusive mailing list tomorrow at 12PM UK time!🥳
Join our mailing list to receive this link and hear more about our free tours around the world to promote truth, peace and harmony through music:
www.jamforfreedom.com/festival
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Join our mailing list to receive this link and hear more about our free tours around the world to promote truth, peace and harmony through music:
www.jamforfreedom.com/festival
🌍🎶
June 4, 2023
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Day Tickets Now Live at Our Website! Go grab them while you can 🌞
Share the news to your friends and family so we can get the whole community involved 😊
Ticket and info link here: https://jamforfreedom.com/festival
www.jamforfreedom.com/festival
Share the news to your friends and family so we can get the whole community involved 😊
Ticket and info link here: https://jamforfreedom.com/festival
www.jamforfreedom.com/festival
June 5, 2023
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Our Official Festival Playlists are Live! 🥳
Listen to all our headline acts and a host of independent artists from around the world that have stood for freedom. Get a taste for their music and check out their full work too!🌍🎶
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2X3JWrEuoavSOhY6cp6VGe
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp6SzC_D8sqjNo9U-fYps-8gt08IAiXQ5
Listen to all our headline acts and a host of independent artists from around the world that have stood for freedom. Get a taste for their music and check out their full work too!🌍🎶
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2X3JWrEuoavSOhY6cp6VGe
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp6SzC_D8sqjNo9U-fYps-8gt08IAiXQ5
June 9, 2023
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Festival Partner Opportunities Now Open! 🥳
🌍Jam for Freedom and its worldwide community has come far from a couple musicians performing in parks as a protest. We're now an international movement of people that are building our own economy and putting our money where our mouth is!
🙌We are now offering organisations, businesses and individuals the opportunity to support our independent movement and connect with our fanbase and community across the world. See the guide below for more information on our 2023 Partner Opportunities.
For those that confirm a sponsorship before June 21st we will also feature your business in our festival promo pamphlet and guide, which will be sent across the UK and beyond to all ticket holders.
To express interest and receive the full price list for these opportunities please email: contact@jamforfreedom.com 👈
Festival info and tickets at www.jamforfreedom.com/festival
🌍Jam for Freedom and its worldwide community has come far from a couple musicians performing in parks as a protest. We're now an international movement of people that are building our own economy and putting our money where our mouth is!
🙌We are now offering organisations, businesses and individuals the opportunity to support our independent movement and connect with our fanbase and community across the world. See the guide below for more information on our 2023 Partner Opportunities.
For those that confirm a sponsorship before June 21st we will also feature your business in our festival promo pamphlet and guide, which will be sent across the UK and beyond to all ticket holders.
To express interest and receive the full price list for these opportunities please email: contact@jamforfreedom.com 👈
Festival info and tickets at www.jamforfreedom.com/festival
June 12, 2023
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Our Official Festival Map is Here!🥳 All of you that have brought tickets from around the world will be receiving your reprint of this watercolour painting, showing the very first Jam for Freedom Festival site map🎨
Tickets are being sent out to arrive before the end of this month and all ticket holders will receive a copy of the map, an exclusive festival pamphlet and more! 🌍🎶
We can't guarantee there will be any left after this month, so grab the final tickets at www.jamforfreedom.com/festival 👈
Tickets are being sent out to arrive before the end of this month and all ticket holders will receive a copy of the map, an exclusive festival pamphlet and more! 🌍🎶
We can't guarantee there will be any left after this month, so grab the final tickets at www.jamforfreedom.com/festival 👈
June 19, 2023
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See you in less than 2 weeks!
We hope next years venue will be able to fit you all in, we did not anticipate the demand for our debut festival. 🥳
Remember to join our mailing list for first chance at next years tickets. We have some top acts already lined up. 🌍🎶
www.jamforfreedom.com
#JamforFreedom
We hope next years venue will be able to fit you all in, we did not anticipate the demand for our debut festival. 🥳
Remember to join our mailing list for first chance at next years tickets. We have some top acts already lined up. 🌍🎶
www.jamforfreedom.com
#JamforFreedom
July 21, 2023
August 8, 2023
We'll be providing financial breakdowns to show how expensive the festival was to put on in due time (approx 100k). In the meantime, here is evidence of the company which was booked in to install our main stage sound system and provide professional lighting and sound engineers which never happened. One of the many let downs at the festival, including our second stage manager bailing on us. Please direct complaints to Ben Stonehouse, the Operations Director at ben@eventsgear.co.uk
Unless you are a chartered accountant who has access to the exact costs incurred by what we have put on, creating narratives that the festival was a money grab by the organiser is completely unfounded and pure speculation. It was not.
There are also rumours that the festival received a 90k donation from Eric Clapton. This also never happened. This was an independently funded festival that is for the people, by the people.
Thanks for all the feedback and offers of support, we are dealing with them all as quick as can be🙏
Unless you are a chartered accountant who has access to the exact costs incurred by what we have put on, creating narratives that the festival was a money grab by the organiser is completely unfounded and pure speculation. It was not.
There are also rumours that the festival received a 90k donation from Eric Clapton. This also never happened. This was an independently funded festival that is for the people, by the people.
Thanks for all the feedback and offers of support, we are dealing with them all as quick as can be🙏
August 10, 2023
August 10, 2023
One of the fantastic panels featuring guests from all over the world. https://youtu.be/2g4ZEIpbKX8
August 11, 2023
The Jam for Freedom Hip-Hop Houseband took over most of Saturday night at the festival. Check out this video featuring Ryan Sanders, Nate and Mew3ree🥳
https://youtu.be/v1uuj5RuuK0
https://youtu.be/v1uuj5RuuK0
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A Day at JAM FOR FREEDOM with Mew3ree and Ryan Sanders
The date in the video is actually wrong this event was on the 5th August 2023 - anyway...
Massive shout out to @mew3reemusic542 for bringing us into the Freedom Family. In this video we venture into Essex, Harlow and experience a festival: @JamforFreedom.…
Massive shout out to @mew3reemusic542 for bringing us into the Freedom Family. In this video we venture into Essex, Harlow and experience a festival: @JamforFreedom.…
August 16, 2023
*Scam account alert* ⚠️ Please note we will never message you directly. Please report any fake 'Jam for Freedom' accounts sending you unusual messages👍
Our only account is @jamforfreedom ✅
Our only account is @jamforfreedom ✅
August 17, 2023