Sam Lee
Folk Singer, song collector & presenter Sam Lee has spent the last 15 years working with some of the most exciting British and international folk artists and industry professionals re-galvanizing the London and UK folk scene through his live events challenging the ecosystem of the music scene. Director of The Nest Collective & The Song Collectors Sam is also an award-winning, Mercury Music Prize-nominated musician himself. Sam's been instrumental as one of the new wave of activists shaping the landscape of the folk world and roots music in the UK and connecting music with environmental and conservation awareness.
In his solo performances, Sam takes the singer story-teller approach recounting the song collecting journeys on which he has sourced his unique repertoire. As one of the only people today recording the few remaining oral tradition bearers in the Gypsy and Traveler community Sam has met some of the last keepers of old lore and inherited an amazing fund and way with old songs. Sam combines this with his ongoing work in nature conservation and connects the music's ancestral purpose with our current broken ecological situation here in the UK exploring how folk music is so entwined with our ever changing relationship to the natural world. Wonder tales of birds, forests and rivers will be shared and celebrated for these songs are the vital armature in the ways we have historically passaged through, listened to and stewarded the landscapes we live in.