Sam Lee
Mercury Prize-nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector, award-winning promoter, broadcaster and activist.
Learn MoreThis broadcast happened in 2020. For upcoming Singing With Nightingales events and broadcasts please click here.
Hosted by Sam, this audio broadcast, live on Youtube, will take you on a journey into the woods of Sussex to hear the unforgettable song of the nightingale.
We will then be linking up with special guest musicians in their own homes for real-time improvised duets and poetic offerings with the nightingales, bringing the magic of music and nature to you during these housebound times.
This broadcast happened on Wednesday 22nd April 2020.
Pet Shop Boys • Cosmo Sheldrake • Isobel Waller-Bridge • Bernard Butler • Seth Lakeman • Nick Mulvey • Julie Fowlis • Johnny Flynn • Jessie Buckley • John Smith • Jocelyn Pook and Melanie Pappenheim • Sara Nicolls
With written and spoken contributions from:
Chris Packham • Robert MacFarlane • Jay Griffiths • Gavin Turk • Lily Cole • Simon McBurney • Matthew Bannister • Simon Armitage • Farhana Yarmin • Ed Gillespie
& more to be announced!
The broadcast will be going out live on the Nest Collective Youtube channel.
Earth Day is an annual event celebrated in 193 countries around the world on 22nd April to demonstrate support for environmental protection. www.earthday.org
This celebratory broadcast is the opening of our Singing with Nightingales: Live at Home series, running 29th April to 9th May. We hope you will join us across this series of concerts, for more information please follow this link.
If you are enjoying this special Earth Day broadcast, please let us know by sharing and tagging The Nest Collective on your social channels, and using #singingwithnightingales #nestflix #earthday
If you are in a financial position to do so, we would also like to ask if you would consider making a donation to support this broadcast and the Singing with Nightingales series. This will help to ensure that we can run Singing with Nightingales and our much-loved annual season in future years, and offer support for our family of musicians and amazing team of artists and art makers who help to deliver these exceptional evenings. We are hugely grateful for any donations made, large or small.
Thank you!
Mercury Prize-nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector, award-winning promoter, broadcaster and activist.
Learn MoreLive on Youtube - Free to all
You can either watch the live feed embedded on this page, or you can find it directly on the Nest Collective Youtube channel.
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