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Folk on Foot

Sam Lee singing with Nightingales in Sussex

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8526 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Mercury music prize nominee Sam Lee is a folk singer, a countryman and an impresario. In this episode of Folk on Foot he invites Matthew to join him in a Sussex wood in the middle of the night as he leads a group of people on a silent walk to hear him sing with a nightingale. The next day Sam and Matthew retrace their steps in daylight, reflecting on the power of this mystical experience.

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Folk on foot is a chance for us to meet up with a leading folk musician in a landscape that's inspired them,

0:39.7

and to have a conversation about their life and about their music, and to hear them sing.

0:44.5

Well, we're going to do some of that today, but this edition is a bit different because there's a second walk,

0:49.9

and that walk is going to involve the humans being silent and listening to the sounds of the landscape around them.

0:56.1

It's going to happen in pitch darkness in the middle of the night,

1:00.1

and that'll be a totally different experience. We've come to a farm just north of Lewis in East Sussex.

1:29.3

It's overcast.

1:30.3

We're standing just in front of a large pond,

1:34.3

and you can see the farm buildings across it, an old barn

1:37.3

with timber holding up the roof, and then a house to the left.

1:42.3

And we've come here to meet somebody who I think is in his

1:47.2

natural habitat here actually. He's in a tent in the woods. And he's a man called Sam Lee,

1:54.1

Mercury Music Prize nominated album maker. But I think of him really as the Pied Piper of

2:00.6

contemporary folk music because he's also a promoter.

2:03.6

He puts on concerts by other people, and he's a countryman. He's somebody who knows the law and the countryside in his bones and his fingertips.

2:15.6

He's camping in the woods just over to our right, and we're going to go in there and find fingertips. He's camping in the woods just over to our right,

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