During 2025 we worked with arts and community development charity Creative Arts East, an organisation who support cultural activities and rural touring to smaller towns and under-engaged audiences who wouldn’t otherwise be able to experience them.  Based in the UK’s East Anglia region, they cover the huge area of Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and parts of Essex, and every year support over 600 arts and cultural events.

We performed a number of dates with Orchestra of Samples in and around Suffolk, and with these in place further dates across the region were added, including the much loved and extravagant outdoor Maui Festival and the closing of the Bungay Folk Festival, where we performed a sell-out show; interestingly, we were sent this tiny clip below, someone who was in the audience had written to BBC Radio 6 Music saying it blew their mind, which made our day!  Plus East Anglian ‘what’s on’ magazine Grapevine interviewed Orchestra of Samples main-man Graham Daniels, which you can read here.

Guests performing on various shows during the Suffolk summer tour included virtuoso pianist Will Fergusson, singer Kitty May, ukulele and charango player Lizzie Wood, percussionists George Fothergill, Gary Newland and Joe Soloman, alongside regulars František Holčík on clarinet / EWI and from France Alejandro de Valera on fretless guitar.  Here’s some photos…  

Massive thanks to Bill Jackson for some of the photos, and to Creative Arts East and all the teams at The Seagull Theatre in Lowestoft, the 2 Sisters Arts Centre in Felixstowe, Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall and The Fisher Theatre in Bungay.