Posts by Sam Amidon
Folktronica legend Beth Orton has detailed her new LP, The Ground Above, alongside its lead single and UK + US tour dates.
BETH ORTON
details transcendent new LP
THE GROUND ABOVE
feat. Nick Hakim, Shahzad Ismaily,
Tom Skinner and more
out 26.6.26 on @partisanrecords.bsky.social
New Single 'Waiting' ⬇️
LIVE 🇮🇪
12 June 2026 - Doolin Folk Festival
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVxD...
Beth Orton announces new album 'The Ground Above' - it's out this summer...
Beautiful new song 'Waiting' leads the way - and a full UK tour follows in October.
www.clashmusic.com/news/beth-or...
Jake Xerxes Fussell, Sam Amidon, abd bassist Ben Whiteley at Longboat Hall, Toronto (April 2026)
#livemusic #folkmusic #americana
Willows: Peeka Kuusisto, Sam Amidon and Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
This afternoon I have been listening to artists from Finland #nowplaying
#NowPlaying
Sam Amidon - The Following Mountain
samamidon.bandcamp.com/album/the-fo...
New Mixtape: ft. Alasdair Roberts, Sir Richard Bishop, classical Persian music from 1966, Juni Habel, Goblin Band, Natalie Wildgoose, Castanets, Jason Molina, James Yorkston, Nancy Wallace, Weirs, Owl Service, Greet, Sam Amidon and a few other surprises along the way www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
"Sugar Baby" by Sam Amidon
Now playing on Desert Islands: "Sugar Baby" by Sam Amidon
We’re getting going slightly this morning by building “a log cabin on a mountain so high.” Of course there’s that warbling cuckoo there, that symbol of infidelity, but “she’ll never say cuckoo ‘till the 4th of July.”
By @samamidon.bsky.social on #SpinThisHouse
#FolkMusic
youtu.be/xzEur-Af-P0?...
Roland AE-30 wind controller
sam gendel solo on 'cussetta' from big ears 2026
Someone needs to tell you that there's new Beth Orton, and it might as well be me.
bethorton.bandcamp.com/album/the-gr...
New Beth Orton music youtu.be/w2Msg99FydI?...
BBC Radio 6 Music
Lauren Laverne
Now Playing
Beth Orton
The Ground Above
🎶L'air du soir🎶
Marc Ribot - "How To Walk In Freedom" (feat. Sam Amidon & Fay Victor)
Ghost Train 🚊 Orchestra with Karen Mantler, Joan as Police Woman, & Sam Amidon at the historic Tennessee Theatre.
Arrangements of the music of Moondog.
Fabulous!!
#bigears #bigears2026
Hard to classify and deliberately so, Willows brings together Pekka Kuusisto, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and folk singer Sam Amidon in a programme that moves freely between classical repertoire, contemporary music and American folk songs.
Read at moto-perpetuo.com/top-releases...
🎶L'air du soir🎶
Marc Ribot - "How To Walk In Freedom" (feat. Sam Amidon & Fay Victor)
Heard this most beautiful, hopeful song today, "Days of War" by Moira Smiley & Sam Amidon. Something I really needed in these times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARbq...
#musicchallenge
#springmusicchallenge
Sam Amidon - Golden Willow Tree youtu.be/osnZyXUiias
oh yeah !
Today's music lesson for all y'all guitarists…
It's funny we spend so much time in "standard tuning" when the following players were rarely in it: Curtis Mayfield (F#A#C#F#A#F#), Keith Richards / Ry Cooder (DGDGBD), Joni Mitchell (DAEF#AD), Skip James (DADFAD), Nick Drake etc -and even Jimi was a half step down from standard
Wedding dress - Sam Amidon & Pekka Kuusisto with Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
youtu.be/8SbkazOduIQ?...
★★★★ #PekkaKuusisto #SamAmidon @samamidon.bsky.social #NorwegianChamberOrchestra players @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social - Grief is the thing with strings, as styles harmonise in music of memory and mourning - review @boydtonkin.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
Listen back to In Tune !
I always appreciate Tom Huizinga when he's on NPR Music programming.
This piece is beautifully, and fittingly, written about an incredible album released just yesterday.
Willows, by violinist Pekka Kuusisto, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and the wonderful Sam Amidon on vocals.