JIll Lerner
12 May, 2025
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Sam Carter - narrative rich songwriting at Hambledon Folk Club, Hambledon.

Wednesday 11th June, Hambledon Folk Club, The Youth Hut, Hambledon. PL7 4RW. Doors: 20:00. Tickets: £12(£10 members) £6(under 18). Contact; 02392 632719. folkclubhambledon@hotmail.co.uk

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Sam Carter
Sam Carter Credit: Thom Atkinson

Midlands-born Sam Carter is a BBC Folk Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist renowned for his narrative-rich songwriting, which Uncut described as being “as penetrating as Richard Thompson’s best work”. For over 15 years, he has been stirring audiences from Camden to Canada, from major festivals to intimate clubs. Carter’s expressive fingerpicking led Jon Boden of Bellowhead to call him "the finest English-style fingerpicking guitarist of his generation," while Ivor Novello-winner Nitin Sawhney has praised his "killer voice."

With a discography that spans six solo albums and two releases with the folk-rock band False Lights, Carter’s music reflects a blend of traditional English folk, shape-note singing, and rock. Notable highlights in his career include a spellbinding performance on Later… with Jools Holland, where he played songs from his shape-note-inspired album The No Testament alongside renowned fiddler Sam Sweeney.

Sam Carter
Sam Carter Credit: Thom Atkinson