Albion and The Nightingales

In the still of a spring night, we journey into the woods with
musicians Sam Lee and
Jack Durtnall to hear the beautiful and
increasingly rare song of the nightingale with a concert and
conversation around the campfire. 


Artistic Director Josephine Burton treads
lightly in the footsteps of a historic partnership between the
nightingale and humans. The BBC’s first ever live outside
broadcast was recorded exactly 100 years ago in May 1924 as
cellist Beatrice Harrison played alongside a
nightingale. Our episode is the start of a new series of Dash
Arts podcasts exploring the relationship between art and nature,
and part of Dash's current season, Albion; an
investigation of modern Englishness in all its complexity. Join
us as we travel across landscape and language, digging deep into
folk and written histories, oral traditions, music, storytelling,
theatre and performance. 


Visit the Singing With Nightingales website to
find out more about Sam’s work and to join him on such a magical
evening in the woods. 


In the podcast we’re grateful to hear from:


Josephine Burton - Artistic Director of Dash Arts


Sam Lee - Musician and Conservationist


Jack Durtnall - Musician


Audience members from Singing with Nightingales


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