Sam Lee

Sam Lee, Mercury Prize nominated folk singer, promoter and animateur released “Ground Of Its Ownʼ in June 2012 to much critical fanfare. The recording is a musical manifesto, reflecting the artistic journey Sam has taken so far and the less
than conventional route getting there. A naturally gifted voice, singing was new to him until his first encounter with folk song some 6 years ago.

This discovery of a new world compelled him to abandon his
work as a trained visual artist, teacher of wilderness survival and moonlighting as a burlesque dancer and embark on a journey into the old songs of The British Isles. Sam is fast becoming accepted as a new
pioneer, defining the sound, sight and texture of contemporary folksong.

He was given the 2011 Arts Foundation Award, which for the first time, honored folk music amongst the art forms. Likewise his live
band, Sam Lee and Friends, carve a new acoustic with their homemade and mongrelised instrumentation using unconventional and contemporary arrangements that challenging preconceptions of what ʻtraditional folkʼ should sound like.

“One of Britain’s finest singers and the most cogent force of his generation in British folk music” – The Observer

“…never less than intriguing. It all hangs together quite beautifully too, investing these dark, mystically tales of false lovers and more with a dreamlike quality that’s as rare as it’s compelling.”- Q Magazine

“An album of unusual dignity and immense beauty.” – MOJO