Event overview
Winner of the 2011 Arts Foundation Award for Folk Music, Sam is a singer, promoter, teacher, researcher and self-confessed die-hard enthusiast of the folk arts and founder of The Magpie’s Nest, which was named BBC Folk Club of the Year for 2010.
Swapping his many careers, including visual artist, teacher of wilderness survival and performer on the burlesque cabaret circuit for the world of folk, Sam has become one of the leading lights of the folk revival, taking traditional song into a new direction and onto new platforms.
All welcome
“Sam is the most accomplished and authentic interpreters of traditional English song to emerge in years…He brought the house down.”
fRoots
“You will be dumbfounded by Sam Lee with duck-egg eyes, a horseshoe smile and an honest, confiding baritone”
Erlend Clouston, The Guardian
Dates & times
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2 Dec 2011 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
Accessibility
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