Sam Lee is a Mercury Prize-nominated and BBC Folk Award-winning singer, conservationist and curator. Trained in fine art but with a lifelong passion for wilderness studies and nature connection, Sam is a folk music specialist dedicated to collecting, sharing and interpreting ancient oral music from Britain and Ireland. He has combined these interests through his ‘Singing with Nightingales’ annual springtime concert series.

His singing has been heard in films and TV shows, from Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword to Peaky Blinders. Sam was musical director for the RSPB’s 2019 Top 20 birdsong single, ‘Let Nature Sing’ and his 2020 album Old Wow garnered five-star reviews. He has lectured at Goldsmiths, SOAS and Oxford University and was the first folk singer to teach at the Royal College of Music.

Daniel Taylor is best known for his work on the battle of Villers-Bocage. He is the Curator for the Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry Museum, and writes on a number of military subjects, chiefly, though not exclusively, relating to the Sharpshooters and other Yeomanry Regiments. For many years he has lectured and presented on 20th Century warfare, lecturing for the Army, NATO, RMA Sandhurst, The Tank Museum and the National Army Museum, plus schools and colleges. Besides writing and presenting a documentary on Villers-Bocage, he has featured in a number of military history documentaries, and regularly leads battlefield tours, specialising in the Normandy campaign, but has also taken groups to the Western front, Holland, Germany, Italy, Sicily, Libya and Egypt. In former years Daniel served with the Territorial Army (Army Reserve). In addition to his military activities, Daniel works as a freelance modelmaker for architects, film and museums. His is married, has two sons and lives in Kent, UK.