"We're all just finding our way home..." ~ Sam Lee's work is a testament to the power of traditional songs and ritual to speak to modern audiences.
A Mercury prize nominated singer, composer, folksong interpreter, passionate conservationist, song collector and creator of live events, Sam plays a unique role in the British music scene. During a stint as a burlesque dancer, he stumbled across traditional British folk song and embarked on a mission of song collecting, eventually spending years recording songs from Gypsy Traveller communities that continue to face societal oppression and persecution.
Sam also released a novel, The Nightingale: Notes on a Songbird (Penguin 2023), a product of his ongoing Singing with Nightingales project where he performs live night-time concerts in the British countryside.
As a change-maker in the music industry, he is a co-founder of Music Declares Emergency and the pioneering artist to work with leading environmental charity Earthpercent to whom proceeds of his newset album 'songdreaming' will be donated.
As well as his experiences with ayahuasca, Sam's passion for igniting and rejuvenating tradition in the modern world struck a chord with Onaya's work and anchored an important and nourishing conversation.
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