Sam Amidon w. Elise Arsenault

Sonic Unyon is a Canadian indie record label, festival promoter, venue operator, and community partner in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Sam Amidon is a singer-fiddler-banjoist-guitarist originally hailing from Vermont, USA

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Sam Amidon

Sam Amidon is a singer and multi-instrumentalist originally hailing from Brattleboro, Vermont. His most recent album, The Following Mountain, was released in May 2017 by Nonesuch Records. His sixth album overall, it is his deeply personal synthesis of folk-based song form and experimental improvisation. Prior to The Following Mountain, Sam released five albums of radically reimagined folksongs on the Bedroom Community and Nonesuch labels. Called “part preservationist, part visionary” by the Boston Globe, Amidon’s material for these albums consists primarily of reworkings of traditional American ballads, hymns and work songs. The albums have been deeply collaborative in nature, inviting contributions from musicians such as composer Nico Muhly, guitarist Bill Frisell, and improviser Shahzad Ismaily among others. Along the way, Amidon has recorded or performed as a guest artists with musicians such as Bon Iver, Jason Moran, Tune-Yards, Pekka Kuusisto, and Amidon’s wife Beth Orton. He has also appeared as a soloist performing his songs with ensembles such as the Kronos Quartet, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and the Aurora Orchestra, among others.“Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Sam Amidon: spokesman for the new, weird America.” —New York Observer "Rare for someone his age, he knows where a lot of old folk songs come from, what they can accomplish and how they might be revised.… Playing guitar or banjo as he sings, he transforms all of them, changing their colors and loading them with trapdoors." – The New York Times"The music is jazzy and percussive, bowing beneath him softly like a sunset and carrying him to a place where he sounds at ease —like this is where all those years of wandering have led him." - Pitchfork“Amidon is doing to folk what Arthur Russell did to disco and dance music: The components are taken context-free and mixed around. He can recognize the patterns of bluegrass or jazz or indie rock without being bound to them” – Wondering Sound

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