Sam Lee Talks Commitment to Keeping British Folk Alive and ‘Singing with Nightingales’ Sessions

Sam Lee is something of a phenomenon. Whereas most folk singers are content to sing of the past and possibly bring folk history into the new, Sam literally lives the folk life. When not producing frankly very cool folk albums with Bernard Butler (Suede), he can be found crusading on a quest to preserve the land and particularly to connect with wildlife, notably nightingales. He has even published a book, The Nightingale, and every year takes a pilgrimage into the woods to Sing with Nightingales and his followers in a campfire setting. At one point during tonight’s gig at the Philharmonic’s Music Room, he laments the almost certain fact that his generation may be the last to hear the actual call of his beloved birds. Sam’s latest album, Songdreaming, is a beautiful collection of original co...

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