Sam Lee is a folk-singer, song-collector, promoter, radio host, TV personality, teacher and owner of a restless mind luckily powered with generous supplies of optimistic energy.
He's a natural singer but the practice was new to him until his first encounter with folk-song some six years ago, an epiphany that compelled him to abandon his work as a visual artist, teacher of wilderness survival and part-time burlesque dancer and go in search of the last custodians of the living traditions, the Gypsy Traveller community.
He spent a four-year apprenticeship under the legendary, late Scottish Traveller Stanley Robertson - last of the great ballad singers - becoming the musical 'next of kin' to Stanley's vast repertoire of songs which, with his band, he interprets using unconventional instrumentation and arrangements, challenging preconceptions of what 'traditional folk' should sound like.
http://samleesong.co.uk/.
He's a natural singer but the practice was new to him until his first encounter with folk-song some six years ago, an epiphany that compelled him to abandon his work as a visual artist, teacher of wilderness survival and part-time burlesque dancer and go in search of the last custodians of the living traditions, the Gypsy Traveller community.
He spent a four-year apprenticeship under the legendary, late Scottish Traveller Stanley Robertson - last of the great ballad singers - becoming the musical 'next of kin' to Stanley's vast repertoire of songs which, with his band, he interprets using unconventional instrumentation and arrangements, challenging preconceptions of what 'traditional folk' should sound like.
http://samleesong.co.uk/.
Instrumental
Past Events
- KITE Festival 2021
- Cambridge Folk Festival 2020
- Shambala Festival 2019
- Manchester Folk Festival 2018
- Grinagog Festival 2017
- The Green Man Festival 2016
- Caught by the River Thames 2016
- Port Eliot Festival 2016
- Glastonbury Festival 2016
- Great British Folk Festival 2015
- Homegrown 2015
- Festival No. 6 2015
- Bristol Folk Festival 2015
- Festival No. 6 2014
- End of the Road Festival 2014
- Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival 2014
- Greenbelt Festival 2013
- Wilderness 2013
- WOMAD 2013
- Wychwood Music Festival 2013
- Wilderness Festival 2012
- Latitude Festival 2012
- Moseley Folk Festival 2011
- Kendal Calling Festival 2011