Sam Lee

'One of Britain's finest singers and the most cogent force of his generation in British folk music' - The Observer.

fRoots Album Of The Year Winner, nominated for The Mercury Prize, BBC Folk Awards Winner.

Sam's unique reinterpretation of traditional gypsy song has won fans and critical acclaim alike - his 2012 album, Ground Of Its Own, was nominated for The Mercury Prize. This superb recording is as much musical manifesto as traditional album, reflecting the less than conventional route Sam has taken. He is fast becoming accepted as a new pioneer, defining the sound, sight, and texture of contemporary folk-song. He was given the 2011 Arts Foundation Award, which for the first time, honoured folk music amongst the art forms. His live band, Sam Lee & Friends, carve a new acoustic with their home-made and mongrelised instrumentation using unconventional and contemporary arrangements that challenging preconceptions of what "traditional folk" should sound like.