Little
Rock
Folk Club
presents Fri Jun 5th 2009 at
7:30pm
Sam Lee
Listen to Sam sing It
Happened On A Day!
“You will be dumbfounded by Sam Lee with duck-egg eyes, a horseshoe
smile and an honest, confiding baritone” The Guardian
“I think what put shivers down my back when I heard Sam sing was his
attention to the detail of decoration and the style of all those old singers.
It was like hearing the past and the future of traditional song all rolled
into one voice” Ali Burns
Sam is a singer, promoter, teacher, researcher and confessed die-hard
enthusiast of the folk arts. Swapping his many careers including visual
artist, teacher of wilderness survival and performer on the burlesque cabaret
circuit to work in folk music, he has become one of the current leading lights
of the folk revival taking traditional song into a new direction and onto new
platforms. Not just a singer, Sam is also the creative force behind The
Magpie’s Nest, which has been hailed as “the torch bearing folk club for
the new generation”. He works part-time for the English Folk Dance and Song
Society as the London Links officer at Cecil Sharp house. Sam is apprenticed
to the legendary Scottish Traveller singer and storyteller Stanley Robertson,
who is passing onto Sam his vast and unique repertoire of ballads and songs.
He teaches song across the country including The Royal College of Music and is
a tutor on the Newcastle Traditional Music Degree.
www.themagpiesnest.co.uk/about-magpies-nest
Many moons ago Focal Point's Judy Stein
introduced a nascent LRFC to Pete Morton, who remains a club favorite
and continues to be a periodic visitor to our fair town... This is the
first of a number of extremely rare musical offerings that LRFC is pleased to
make... and all without any stimulus bail out financial support :-)
Please come and share this extremely rare opportunity to hear this truly fine
artist who will delight you.
Tickets: $10, accompanied children 12 and
under free, 50% student discount with ID.
Thomson Hall
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1818 Reservoir Rd
Little Rock
coming soon:
Jun 5th:Sam Lee
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