Sam Lee (UK)
Singer-songwriter
Traditional/Global
Sam Lee (UK)
Singer-songwriter, folk performer, folk song collector, conservationist, birdwatcher Sam Lee gave an essential concert at the House of Music 2022, where he was joined on stage by guitarist Bernard Butler, founder of Suede. Lee has since made a new album, songdreaming, released in 2024, which Butler happened to produce. Sam Lee now returns to the House of Music Concert Hall - if you were here last time, you'll come anyway, and if you missed it, you can make up for it now.
Drawing on English folk tradition and the songs of wandering gypsies, Sam Lee is a renewed guardian of these song traditions, the Mercury Prize-nominated singer-musician, voted Artist of the Year by Songlines, the most prestigious world music magazine, crossing traditional singing with instruments and arrangements not originally part of folk but fitting, and in doing so updating the folk music tradition in an original way. A music educator, he is also very active in organising the London folk concert scene and lecturing on radio and television, as well as teaching in university departments. Last year's LP further expanded Lee's musical spectrum, with choral, gospel, electric guitars crossed with the Arabic bladed canun, and the Swedish special fiddle, the nyckelharp. This time the guitarist-singer will take to the stage with a violinist, a drummer and a pianist at the House of Music.
