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Sam Lee

March 2024

  • Sam Lee standing in the middle of a river, trees either side

    Sam Lee: songdreaming review – a moving tribute to Albion’s troubled soul

    Disquiet pervades the folk singer’s self-written fourth album, with romantic love and awe of nature holding out against ecological collapse

August 2021

  • Sam Lee live

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Sam Lee review – a cry from nature itself

    The polymath folk singer and his band weave magic – and sound the alarm for a world in peril

March 2021

  • Sam Lee with a nightingale.

    Into the woods: Sam Lee, the singer who duets with nightingales

    Sam Lee built a studio in a wood, found a nightingale to sing with, hooked up a backing band, and livestreamed their concerts. But it is a race against time – for the song of the nightingale may soon be lost for ever

December 2020

  • Jake Blount, Shirley Collins and Bróna McVittie.

    Best music of 2020
    The 10 best folk albums of 2020

    Folk artists this year drew inspiration from China, south Asia and the wildness of the sea on the way to making stirring and vital music

February 2020

  • Sam Lee XR Berkeley Square.

    Sam Lee: Old Wow review – a dazzling fusion of nature and song

    Lee pursues his twin passions on this fine third album

January 2020

  • Sam Lee, photographed in Wick woods, Hackney; Sept 2019

    Folk album of the month
    Sam Lee: Old Wow review – Britain's nature crisis in gnarly song

    Lee’s twee-free third album, produced by Bernard Butler and featuring Liz Fraser, is a stark reminder of this country’s environmental concerns

May 2019

  • ‘I’m not a shouter’ ... Folk musician Sam Lee.

    Sam Lee: the Extinction Rebellion musician flying birdsong to the charts

    He co-produced the RSPB birdsong recording that has hit the Top 20, and duets with nightingales – to highlight the beauty of a fragile world

May 2016

  • Sam Lee

    The man who sings with nightingales

    In a secluded forest, folk musician Sam Lee is working with an unusual collaborator

April 2016

  • Sam Lee and the elusive nightingale.

    Sam Lee’s Singing With Nightingales review – sweet night music

    A dark, dark wood and a shy songbird make a magical setting for traditional folk ballads

January 2016

  • Sam Lee and Friends.

    Sam Lee and Friends: Gypsy Traveller Roots review – traditionally original

  • Folk group Lau

    Top 10 picks of Celtic Connections 2016

April 2015

  • sam lee on my radar

    On my radar
    On my radar: Sam Lee’s cultural highlights

    Musician Sam Lee on Robert Macfarlane’s books, Knockengorroch World Ceilidh and the most amazing vegetarian breakfast

March 2015

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    Sam Lee and Friends: The Fade in Time review – a wonderfully inventive creation

    These free-spirited arrangements of songs from the Travelling community find Sam Lee at his engaging best

September 2014

  • Sam Lee

    Sam Lee, the Unthanks review – moving meditations on the first world war

    The musical performances in this motley mix of wartime memories were strikingly beautiful, but the visual effects were distracting, writes Colin Irwin

May 2014

  • Sam Lee & Friends Perform At The Queen Elizabeth Hall

    Sam Lee review – an anything-goes set by British folk's most inventive singer

    From traditional Gypsy tunes to jazzy numbers, Lee delivered a refreshingly unpredictable and exuberant take on folk, writes Robin Denselow

March 2014

  • Womadelaide 2014: Crowds bask in the South Australian sun.

    Music blog
    10 things we learned at Womadelaide 2014

    From gourmet lasagne to guitars made from cigar boxes – here are our favourite moments from the Australian outpost of Womad

January 2014

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    On my radar
    On my radar: Juliet Stevenson's cultural highlights

    Juliet Stevenson, star of films, stage and TV series such as The Politician's Wife, talks to Leah Harper about poetry, Iranian film and the magic of Mark Twain

December 2012

  • Mokoomba

    Best albums of 2012
    Best world and folk music albums of 2012

    Zimbabwe's soulful Mokoomba, along with the powerful voice of Karine Polwart, featured in this year's top picks, writes Robin Denselow

November 2012

  • Alt-J

    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Music Weekly podcast: Alt-J win the Mercury prize

  • Alt-J

    Mercury prize 2012 winners Alt-J - video interview

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