Which documentary features Taylor Swift performing “august” acoustically with the Folklore album?
Answer
Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions
Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions features Taylor Swift performing “august” acoustically with the Folklore album.
The 2020 documentary was filmed at Long Pond Studio in the Hudson Valley, New York. Swift performs all 17 songs from Folklore while discussing their writing, production, and emotional ideas with Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner.
The sessions were significant because they brought the three principal collaborators together in person after months of remote work during the pandemic. The performances use stripped-down arrangements that reveal the melodies and lyrics beneath Folklore’s layered studio production.
The documentary is different from Miss Americana, which is a career-focused documentary, and from the Eras Tour, which is a concert tour rather than a Folklore recording-session film. It premiered on Disney+ on November 25, 2020, and also produced a live soundtrack album. In the film, “august” appears as part of the complete Folklore sequence rather than as an isolated music video.