18 April 2025, Sussex

Year: 2025
Written By Ali Webb (WSS)
Debs Newbold, Sara Salloum & Sam Lee
Singing with Nightingales

YOUR GUEST MUSICIANs, HOST & NIGHTINGALE

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Debs Newbold
Debs Newbold

Debs Newbold is an internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning storyteller, writer and theatre artist who creates fresh, playful work that gets deep under the skin.

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Sara Salloum
Sara Salloum

Dr Sara Salloum is a Renaissance lute player and scholar who reenacts the performances of musicians – particularly women – from sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe. She has performed in diverse settings including historic houses and castles, cathedrals, galleries and museums, opera houses and concert halls, cafés and bars. Her PhD brought her skills as a performing musician together with scholarship, and developed fresh and original methods for conducting historical and musical research. 

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The Nightingale
The Nightingale

The Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) is a small, brown, unremarkable-looking bird, but they possess one of nature’s finest singing voices. The English population winters in Sub-Saharan Africa in the western countries like Sierra Leon and Senegal, returning to the very same thicket they were born in arriving in early to mid-April. They spend April to the end of May mating and nesting where we can encounter the extraordinary display of the males’ courtship song, famous for his all-night broadcast.

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Sam Lee
Sam Lee

Sam is a folksinger, song collector, activist, nature conservationist, guide, and presenter. With three critically acclaimed albums - his debut receiving a Mercury Music Prize nomination - he works holistically in challenging the sound and purpose of our indigenous music in the 21st Century.

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Ali Webb (WSS)
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