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Sam Lee’s ‘Songdreaming’ pleases on so many levels, the significance of the stories told by the lyrics build in your mind while powerful arrangements do what music does best, evoking emotional response after emotional response.

Sam Lee announces his new album songdreaming and a supporting UK-wide tour. Watch his new video for the album single Bushes and Briars – an invitation to consider what appreciation in the age of extinction can feel like.

Today marks the release of ‘Old Wow+’, a reissue and revisit of Sam Lee’s 2020 release featuring 6 bonus tracks. Taken from the album, watch Sam performing John Barleycorn at Stonehenge. Don’t miss his October/November Album tour.

Sam Lee announces Old Wow+ a 19-date tour starting in October 2021 (including Union Chapel, London and Glasgow University, Scotland) plus a special reissue of Old Wow featuring additional tracks and new versions.

For their latest single, The Folkatron Sessions are joined by Sam Lee for ‘Three Galleys’, a classic tale of kidnap and warfare which sounds equally intricate as it does effortless and intuitive – this is cutting edge folk music.

Recorded at night in Highnam Woods, Gloucestershire, ‘Nightingale Soul Call’ expresses a suspended moment in time in which Adrian Freedman’s Shakuhachi flute met the nightingale, and together with Sam Lee on the shruti box, a meeting of kindred souls took place.

Award-winning folk singer, conservationist and curator Sam Lee is to publish his debut book ‘The Nightingale’. It’s preceded by a series of live and online concerts produced by The Nest Collective.

Folkroom announces the Pillow Fort Folk Festival on June 6th ft. Sam Lee, author and artist Chris Riddell, Edgelarks, Ewan McLennan, Ben Walker, Kirsty Merryn, Hickory Signals AJIMAL, Native Harrow and more.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the Nest Collective in partnership with Music Declares Emergency and Culture Declares Emergency are launching an uplifting online offering called Singing with Nightingales: Live at Home.

Never before have the many strands of Sam Lee’s work come together as they do on Old Wow. Featuring a remarkable cast of players, Old Wow is his most direct, urgent and moving record to date.

Sam Lee announces ‘Old Wow’, his third album, produced by Bernard Butler, and shares electrifying album single ‘The Garden Of England’, a re-write of the traditional song ‘Seeds Of Love’.

A compelling collaboration between Mercury-prize-nominated folk singer/song collector/broadcaster Sam Lee and pioneering, free-thinking composer/conductor/bandleader Peter Wiegold.

Sam Lee is hosting a series of after-dark events in woods this Spring, offering a campfire feast with songs and stories about one of Britain’s rarest birds – the nightingale – featuring Nessi Gomes, Aidan O’Rourke, Laura Moody, Alice Zawadzki and more. It promises to be a unique experience.

British Broadsides sees Sam Lee, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann team-up and lead a five-piece band that will reinvent a collection of British Broadsides giving a rare insight into Britain’s music, literary and political history.

Jon Boden compiles The Ultimate Guide To English Folk, a lavish two-disc primer designed to appeal to experienced folkies and newbies alike. It is not the first such collection, but it is probably the most wide-ranging, lovingly compiled and inventively sequenced. One of the most important messages to take from this compilation is that while folk music in England is something of an extended family, it is by no means …

Sam Lee talks to Folk Radio UK about his forthcoming appearance at Wren Music’s Baring-Gould Folk Weekend and Song School in Devon – an event which, it seems, is tailor-made for him.

Part one – Best Folk Music Albums of 2015 including: Alasdair Roberts, Anna & Elizabeth, Darren Hayman, Marry Waterson, LAU, SImpson Cutting Kerr, The Rheingans Sisters, This is the Kit, The Weather Station, Trembling Bells, Ryley Walker and more.

Sam Lee and composer Llywelyn ap Myrddin reveal ‘Nose Song’, their contribution to the Body of Songs project, a music and science experiment that brings together some of Britain’s most talented musicians to create a collection of songs, inspired by our inner workings.