Found Sound for April: Singing with Nightingales

As the Season Turns

Folk, Seasons, Folk Singer, Ffern, Arts, Society & Culture, Music History, Folklore, Fragrance, Seasonal, Field Recording, Folk Music, Music, Wildlife, Nature, Science

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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For April, Alice travels to East Sussex for the homecoming event of Singing with Nightingales. Here she meets friend of As the Season Turns Sam Lee, a Mercury-nominated folk musician, song collector and founder of the project, which brings people together each spring to experience the magic of nightingales in the wild - and sing alongside them. We’re given a special window into the evening, with a guest appearance from singer Mira Awad. Found Sounds are sonic scrapbooks of field recordings and interviews with people keeping heritage crafts alive. They are part of As the Season Turns, an award-winning podcast created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns.
0:15.9	I'm Leah Lane Dirts and I'm delighted to introduce this found sound for April, presented by musician and sound artist Alice Boyd.
0:25.5	Found sounds are sonic scrapbooks of interviews and field recordings made with people keeping heritage crafts and folk arts alive.
0:34.9	For April, Alice travels to East Sussex for the homecoming event of singing with
0:40.6	Nightingales. Here she meets Sam Lee, a Mercury-nominated folk musician, song collector and founder
0:48.3	of the project, which brings people together each spring to listen and sing alongside nightingales in the wild.
0:56.4	We're given a special window into one of these evenings with a guest appearance from singer, artist and activist, Mira Oad.
1:05.8	You may wish to pause the podcast here for a moment, while you find somewhere warm and quiet to close your eyes
1:12.8	sit back and settle down into this month's found sound Sam, can you introduce yourself and describe your work?
1:36.7	Hello Alice, I'm Sam Lee.
1:39.1	I'm folk singer, nature lover, agitator, member of the Fern Folk Guild, and creative sing with nightingales.
1:49.2	And we're currently in this lovely woodland in Sussex.
1:53.1	Can you tell me a bit about where we are and what you can see and what you can hear?
1:57.4	We are in a hornbeam oak coppice.
2:04.7	We're actually surrounded by a lot of stands of oaks because a lot of the hornbeam and the ash have been cut down so we've got these beautiful mature
2:10.9	oaks standing rather majestically around us. Because we're in a coppice, we are in bird heaven. So you can probably
2:20.9	hear we're surrounded by such a density of song, which is such a joy. And we have a very
2:28.4	bird-themed evening ahead of us. Can you talk a bit about why we're here today? We're in a very special
2:37.0	place because amongst these blue tits, great tits, nut hatches and all the wonderful songbirds,
2:44.0	chif chaffs, there is also nightingales in this spot, not very far from where we're standing.
2:50.0	And once these ones, these guys all go quiet.
2:54.2	Tonight, the nightingales will be on their third night of singing,
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