Sam Lee’s Singing With Nightingales review – sweet night music

A dark, dark wood and a shy songbird make a magical setting for traditional folk balladsIt is 7.30pm and just starting to get dark in woodland not far from Lewes in Sussex. It’s raining steadily. A circle of people, booted, hatted and with umbrellas, sit on log benches around a defiant fire and ignore the weather. The small talk is of nightingales – one of our reasons for being here. And now, through the trees, like the Pied Piper he is (it is the marvel of his voice, as much as anything, th...

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