Multi-instrumentalist and experimental folk artist Sam Amidon

Sam Amidon Experiments with Folk Music

Soundcheck | Aug 10, 2017

The Vermont-born singer/fiddler/banjoist/guitarist and scion of a family of shape-note singers, Sam Amidon, has a reputation for having collected, re-imagined, and performed American traditional tunes or other folk music, in addition to collaborations with Kronos Quartet and composer Nico Muhly. That said, this spring, Amidon released his first album of original music, which is an experiment in trying out the Appalachian music he loves, as well as "improvisation, beats, Don Cherry, Vermont, London." Sam Amidon joins us live to play songs from that most recent record, The Following Mountain. 

 

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