Episode 80 - Sam Lee - Song Dreaming, Music as Prayer and Living Life on the Hedge

In this episode I’m in conversation with Sam Lee. (samleesong.co.uk/)
Sam is a Mercury Music Award nominated folk singer, storyteller, song collector, climate and nature activist, conservationist, community builder and all round purveyor of life-centric vibes.
Oh and he sings with Nightingales too.
Sam is an inspiring and humble human, weaving so many beautiful threads through his work in service to life on this planet.
His 4th album ‘Songdreaming’ is about to be released, which is the catalyst of this conversation.
This is a vital, honest, open, expansive and playful conversation which I loved hosting.
We explore:
* Living, creating, working, participating and trying to stay well in decaying and collapsing systems.
* Good mischief and (h)edge living as an antidote to a constructed world that makes less and less sense.
* The interconnectedness of the collapse in nature, species decline and the separation and severing of our modern culture from place, story and land based communities.
* The potential for music and song as connectors, portals and maps to a living world full of story and intelligence in these times.
* Song collecting, keeping intergenerational stories alive and the power of folk song to connect us back and forwards to the places, landscapes and living world around us.
* Living in the entanglement of grief, love, loss, despair, joy and possibility of these times.
* The emergence of the album ‘Songdreaming’ and its rootedness in nature and a world that is alive.
The episode features music from the new album.
(details and links in show notes)
I loved this conversation with Sam, I hope you will too.
Support Sam's music and performances if you can, you are in for a treat.
(via links in show notes)
Let us know in the comments what it brings up for you.
And please share it to someone else if it speaks to you.
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[@paulievins5862]

My favourite childhood hiding place was on top of an overgrown hedge. No one would find you and at dusk the birds would gather around to roost. So special.

[@powee2003]

Excited to find this interview. Discovered Sam Lee about 4 or 5 years ago, over here in Canada, listening to "Old Wow". Needless to say it blew my mind. Very happy to have discovered your podcast as well.