A MERCURY Music Prize nominated folk singer and traditional song collector will be playing at More Music’s Hothouse, in Morecambe, on October 17 and delivering a workshop about his methods the following day.

Sam Lee burst onto the folk scene in the late Noughties and has blazed a trail as an outstanding singer and song collector.

He has also been the driving force behind folk club The Nest Collective, which has brought traditional music to new stages and venues, as well as the founder of a burgeoning song collectors’ movement that inspires a new generation of performers to draw on living source singers rather than books and records.

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.

Ticket information can be found at www.moremusic.org.uk/sam-lee or by calling 01524 831 997.

On Sunday October 18, ‘Off Stage with Sam Lee’ will be an opportunity to learn about Sam’s song collecting methodology and how he makes traditional songs contemporary.