Sam Lee & Friends

The rising star of British folk in a more global context

Award-winning singer, promoter, teacher, researcher and self-confessed die-hard enthusiast of the folk arts, Sam Lee is one of the leading lights of the resurgent British folk scene making music that’s very much his own.

For three years he worked with Scottish Traveller and ballad singer Stanley Robertson and ‘inherited’ his repertoire, sparking his interest in the music of the English Roma and Scottish and Irish Travellers.

Tonight’s concert presents his music in a rather more global context. His friends include some fine string players plus Jonah Brody on Japanese instruments and Camilo Tirado on tabla.  British folk as you’ve never heard it before.

Lee is just about to release his eagerly-awaited debut album, Ground of its Own, of which Shirley Collins, no less, has said: "The singing is sublime and exquisite! It’s gentle and despairing, trance-like and tender. Strokes of genius there I think!".

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