Sam Lee & Ed Hicks

Sam is a singer, promoter, researcher, teacher and confessed die-hard enthusiast of the folk arts. Since swapping his career teaching wilderness survival and performing on the Burlesque Cabaret circuit to work in folk music, he has performed at many of the major UK festivals. He runs the London Folk club, The Magpie’s Nest and works as the London Links outreach officer for the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Since discovering folk music Sam has become apprenticed to the great traveler singer and storyteller Stanley Robertson who is passing on his vast legacy of Scottish ballads. He spends much of his time in between gigs traveling in the footsteps of Peter Kennedy collecting songs from the English Romany Gypsies, The Cumbrian Fell pack hunts and many other communities. “Sam is the most accomplished and authentic interpreter of traditional English song to emerge in years” F Roots