Sam Lee, Mercury Prize nominated folk singer, promoter and animateur will release his debut album Ground Of Its Own in June 2012. Having abandoned his
work as a trained visual artist, teacher of wilderness survival and moonlighting as a burlesque dancer and embarking on a journey into the old songs of The British Isles, Sam is fast becoming accepted as a new
pioneer, defining the sound, sight and texture of contemporary folksong. He was given the 2011 Arts Foundation Award, which for the first time, honoured folk music amongst the art forms. Likewise his live
band, Sam Lee and Friends, carve a new acoustic with their homemade and mongrelised instrumentation using unconventional and contemporary arrangements that challenging preconceptions of what ʻtraditional folkʼ should sound like.

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