The documentary 'The Music In Me' is the third project together for the team of Producer Anne Kenyon and Director Nigel Traill. The filming began in 2002 but was put on hold due to funding difficulties. Then after two years of negotiations by Producer Kenyon, a private backer was located, the contracts signed, and at last the project was up and running. Filming then got into full swing in early 2005. Director Nigel Traill shot the documentary using a Sony Z1 HDV camera and edited it on Final Cut Pro.

Because of the nature of the Merry Makers and the natural showmen and women that they are (especially when a visitor or camera is around) Kenyon and Traill spent hundreds of hours just being there at rehearsals and social functions, so that eventually a familiar family like relationship was achieved. It became normal for the Merry Makers to have a camera around them - a trusting relationship that all documentary makers aspire to.

The trust that was achieved helped the interviews in the film and made them much more poignant and moving because there was no need to find a comfortable ground from which to interview... it was already there.

Over 100 hours of footage was shot with so many 'magical moments' that display, often without the need for verbal explanation, the unique qualities that make up the Merry Makers.

Early on Traill and Kenyon decided for a 'reporterless' film - not wanting an anonymous voice to intrude into the storyline as it unfolds. Hence all the voices that are heard are from the Merry Makers themselves, their families and of course Lucinda Bryant & Janet Macfarlane, the power house duo behind the group.