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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.

For three days, Bristol’s Colston Hall was transformed into a place called Lau-Land. Traditional music mixed with the avant-garde and the genre-defying to create an all-round remarkable experience. But what else would you expect from a weekend curated by such an innovative, creative band such as Lau?

James heads to St. Mark’s Church in Dalston to catch a very special evening with Sam Lee and friends as he kicks off the first night of his Temples Tour Album Launch for The Fade in Time. It turned into a very memorable evening as you can read here.

We have some great nights coming up for The Levels Collective at Bridgwater Art Centre in Somerset with Alasdair Roberts & Kitty MacFarlane this month followed by Solarference and The Dead Rat Orchestra in April and a special event in May featuring Sam Lee & Friends. It’s all happening so try and come on down.

Our Song of the Day is a video premiere of Lovely Molly. A beautiful live recording session on which Sam Lee is joined by the Roundhouse Choir who certainly live up to their reputation here as one of the most exciting and energetic young choirs in London. It features on his new album ‘Fade in Time’.

Sam Lee’s follow-up album ‘The Fade in Time’ is an impassioned album of hugely ambitious scope; a historical document that at the same time belongs firmly in the 21st century.

Sam Lee has unveiled the beautifully choreographed yet haunting and other-worldly new video for Blackbird, the debut track from his new forthcoming album ‘The Fade In Time’. Watch it here.