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SAM LEE (UK) – first Seattle performance by this Mercury prize nominee.

w/ Brenda Xu

Lee is a 21st-century artist, collecting new versions of old songs on his iPhone and laptop, but his repertoire is steeped in the reek and smoke of folk history and lore, its tales of love, parting, exile and murder bound by a sympathetic magic still resonant today, parting the veil on vivid scenes from our islands’ deep history.

Awarded the 2011 Arts Foundation prize and nominated for the 2012 Mercury Award for his debut album, ‘Ground Of Its Own’, he has taken his music worldwide to more than 20 countries, appeared in Peaky Blinders on TV, and joined The Unthanks to commemorate the Great War at the Barbican in London. Lee reached an even larger audience with his performance of ‘The Tan Yard Side’ to the accompaniment only of a nightingale on Radio 4 on 19 May 2014. This remarkable recording marked the 90th anniversary of the first-ever outside broadcast of ‘Singing with the Nightingales’ by cellist Beatrice Harrison on 19 May 1924.

“The rising star of traditional English folksong” – The Daily Telegraph

“One of the most promising folk singers to emerge from the London scene this decade” – The Independent

“An extremely natural and charismatic performer. His modern, often trancelike arrangements of traditionals never fail to still a room.”  – Timeout

Doors 7pm | Show 8pm
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