Hugh Sheehan is a musician, composer, sound designer, and audio producer from Birmingham. Having spent 10 years in Helsinki, Hugh is ow based in London. He produces work for concert hall, theatre, moving image, radio, and podcast. The foundations of his practice lie in Irish traditional music and contemporary classical music, whilst much of his work explores questions of gender and sexuality, desire and shame, assimilation and radicalism.
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.
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.
