Join Soumik Datta and Sam Lee as part of Turn up the Volume, a week of action and events from Music Declares Emergency, uniting the music industry around climate issues and speaking out together.

Sam plays a unique role in the British music scene and is a founding member of Music Declares Emergency. Soumik Datta is an award-winning musician, producer and television presenter. He plays the 19 stringed sarod and combines Indian music with songwriting, spoken poetry and live electronics.

MDE continues the tradition of popular music taking a leading role in driving change, following in the footsteps of Rock Against Racism, Free Tibet, Rock The Vote and Warchild.

This event will be hosted by Hawkwood CEO Alicia Carey and Matthew Shaw.

An evening of art, science and deeply personal storytelling. From the building blocks of life to medical mysteries, from the mental health crisis to the magic of birdsong, and creating a memorial to someone you love.

Sam Lee is a Mercury Prize-winning folk singer, conservationist, song collector, broadcaster and activist. The Nightingale: Notes on a Songbird, is Sam’s first book - a unique and lyrical portrait of nightingales in myth and poetry, and an exploration of how environmental issues are threatening the future of this charmed and elusive bird.

He will be appearing with four other speakers:

. Edmund de Waal, internationally acclaimed artist and writer.
. Walter Isaacson, acclaimed biographer of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein.
. Suzanne O’Sullivan, a neurologist specialising in complex epilepsy and winner of the Wellcome Book Prize.
. Horatio Clare, bestselling author, broadcaster and former BBC arts radio producer.

Join us for an evening of discussion, inspiration, storytelling and enchantment with Mercury Prize nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector, award winning promoter, broadcaster and activist Sam Lee and Jemma Foster: writer, forager, plant medicine and ethnobotany expert and founder of innovative mixed media platform Wild Alchemy Lab.

As we continue our Liminal Compass journey through the Forest we will be looking at the ways in which Forests can educate us, nourish us, heighten our senses and most importantly enchant us!

Join us to learn about the amazing work that both Sam and Jemma are doing and to hear their own stories of forest enchantment.

Sam will chat with Idler magazine editor Tom Hodgkinson and Idler Academy director Victoria Hull. Therapist, writer, broadcaster and teacher Dr Mark Vernon will provide philosophical insight. The discussion will be followed by a live Q&A.

Bring your friends to this online event. It should be like meeting up in the pub for an interesting conversation. We leave the meeting open at the end so you can carry on chatting.

Birding royalty Sam Lee, Bill Bailey and Helen Macdonald celebrate all things avian.

Whether in the city or country, birds surround us: sound-tracking our lives, visiting our gardens and brightening the skies. Yet their habitats are increasingly threatened and their complex lives often overlooked. These authors share a fascination with birds and have spent hours in their company, studying their weird and wonderful ways, musing on the melodic beauty of their songs or reflecting on their place in human memory, love and loss.

A discussion between passionate conservationist, renowned musician and folk expert Sam Lee, whose debut book The Nightingale pays homage to the songbird that has inspired artists, poets and musicians for centuries, Helen Macdonald, bestselling author of H Is for Hawk, and a new collection of essays, Vesper Flights, and comedian, musician and presenter Bill Bailey, who delighted bird watchers with his Remarkable Guide to British Birds and is known for his love of animals and for the small menagerie he has built in his West London home.

Part of the British Library’s springtime season on environment: The Natural Word.

Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the arrival of Spring. For thousands of years, its sweet song has inspired musicians, writers and artists around the world, from Germany, France and Italy, to Greece, Ukraine and Korea. The Nightingale is a unique and lyrical portrait of a famed yet elusive songbird.

'The Nightingale', by Mercury-nominated folk musician and conservationist Sam Lee, is the story of our changing environment told via the nightingale, the elusive bird that is fast disappearing from the British countryside. Hear Sam talk about his new book in a year when more than ever they denote hope, the arrival of Spring and a new dawn after a difficult winter. Lee is known as a traditional music specialist dedicated to collecting, restoring and sharing ancient music from Britain and Ireland especially from the Irish traveller communities. He is a BBC Folk Award Winner whose most recent release “Old Wow” was included in MOJO magazine’s year-end Top 30 albums of 2020.

This talk reveals in beautiful detail the bird's song, habitat, characteristics and migration patterns, as well as the environmental issues that threaten its livelihood.

From Greek mythology to John Keats, Persian poetry and 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square', Lee delves into the various ways we have celebrated the nightingale through traditions, folklore, music, literature, from ancient history to the present day.

Join NWT Ambassador, Nick Acheson in conversation with Sam Lee. This event is held via Zoom and is free to attend with a suggested donation of £5.

Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the arrival of spring. For thousands of years, its sweet song has inspired musicians, writers and artists around the world, from Germany, France and Italy to Greece, Ukraine and Korea.

Passionate conservationist, renowned musician and folk expert Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. This new book reveals in beautiful detail the bird's song, habitat, characteristics and migration patterns, as well as the environmental issues that threaten its livelihood.

"Sam Lee has brought the poetic magic that has long enchanted so many of his musical fans into the written word. Allow yourself to glimpse the world Sam sees, to be part of his love affair with the nightingale, and you will no doubt be delighted." Lily Cole

Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the arrival of Spring. For thousands of years, its sweet song has inspired musicians, writers and artists around the world – from Germany, France and Italy to Greece, Ukraine and Korea.

Passionate conservationist, renowned musician and folk expert Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. This talk reveals in beautiful detail the bird's song, habitat, characteristics and migration patterns, as well as the environmental issues that threaten its livelihood.

From Greek mythology to John Keats, to Persian poetry and 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square', Lee delves into the various ways we have celebrated the nightingale through traditions, folklore, music and literature, from ancient history to the present day. The Nightingale is a unique and lyrical portrait of a famed yet elusive songbird.