The Crescent & The Black Swan Folk Club presents
Sam Lee
w/ Spafford Campbell
Tuesday 7th October, 7.30pm
Tickets are £22.50 (+ b/f) in advance (£26 on the door) and available from See Tickets.

*This is a seated show with all seating unreserved*

The songdream continues…

Sam Lee’s critically acclaimed fourth album ‘songdreaming’ recounts songs of old, come new, tapping into the source of ancient folk narratives connecting us to the natural world. Receiving a 5-star review from The Guardian, this deeply personal body of work emerges from his wide-ranging work as a naturalist, ecological activist, folksong collector and sonic trailblazer.

Sam has crafted a unique reimagining of songs, artfully narrating the kinship between us and our landscapes. The woodlands, rivers, birds and the ancestors who stewarded them.

This is folk music as both map and memory, through visions and revisions, soulful, raw, unrefined, and deeply connected to the soil. This record imagines what creative ‘response-ability’ means in the protection and adoration of our natural and folk heritage.

Sam’s band will be collaborating on these shows with folk wonderkids Spafford Campbell, showcasing their sonic mastercraft and debut Real World record ‘Tomorrow Held’.

Spafford Campbell

Open your palm — there it is: the morrow, held and released. Tomorrow Held is the visionary new album from Spafford Campbell, blending post-rock, jazz, chamber classical, and folk into eight immersive, mostly instrumental tracks. Fiddle player Owen Spafford and guitarist Louis Campbell, both conservatoire-trained, create textured, genre-defying music that demands presence. Following their acclaimed debut You, Golden and 2024’s 102 Metres East EP, this project blazes a trail through ambient loops, processed fiddle, and experimental soundscapes. Echoing Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden and Bon Iver’s ethereality, Tomorrow Held is a spacious, transcendent listen — reflective, mysterious, and fiercely original.