Sam Lee is one of the most prominent figures on the contemporary British folk scene. A singer, folk song collector, activist, promoter and mover and shaker of the folk revival movement, he is breathing new life into old folk songs with his novel arrangements. His first album Ground Of Its Own was nominated for the Mercury Prize and he won the main BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for the track Lovely Molly from his second album. In 2016 he was named Artist of the Year in the Songlines Magazine Awards and in the same year he wrote and sang the theme song for Guy Ritchie’s Hollywood film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

His latest album Old Wow was produced by Bernard Butler (Suede) with special guests Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack), Cosmo Sheldrake & Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh (The Gloaming). He hosts an annual nightly Singing with the Nightingales, and has published a book about nightingales, The Nightingale. Sam is a founder and member of Music Declares Emergency and works closely with Extinction Rebellion.

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Part of Sam Lee's Europe Tour
Sam Lee plays a unique role in the British music scene, as in addition to being a recognized and original folk singer, he is also active as a folk song collector, conservationist and founder-director of The Nest Collective folk club. Starting from the English folk tradition and the songs of the wandering gypsies, it preserves and renews the mentioned song traditions, but at the same time, like the House of Music, it also places great emphasis on music pedagogy. The Mercury Prize-nominated singer-musician is coming to Budapest this time with material from his latest release, 2021's Old Wow+ .

Sam will be performing as part of the BBC’s Go Green initiative. Radio 2 will present a musical celebration of ‘Our World’ in this unique event at Great Yarmouth’s Hippodrome Circus, with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Orchestras Live. Taking place on June 24th 7:00pm.

Join Sam on the 19th June at 3.45pm in Glasgow’s gorgeous Kelvingrove Park for the first Dandelion Festival – a three-day spectacular of live music, performances, talks, workshops and food that’s open to everyone and completely free.

Two of the UK's most genre-defying musicians unite for this co-headline show for our Woolwich Words & Sounds season. Join us to experience two unique takes on time-honoured musical traditions from around the globe.

Join Sam @ Croissant Neuf on the 25th of June at 3pm