Handsome Tours are proud to present Sam Amidon will be touring Australia in 2012.

Sam Amidon was born and raised in Brattleboro, Vermont by folk musicians Peter and Mary Alice Amidon, taking up the fiddle at the Extremely Young age of 3 years old. He has released three albums of radically re-worked folksongs: But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted, recorded at his then-home of Harlem in 2006 with Thomas Bartlett; followed by All Is Well in 2008 and, most recently, I See The Sign in 2010 - both recorded in Iceland with producer Valgeir Sigurðsson.

“Amidon mines an old America and twists it up into something new and awfully strange…”
- [Prefix Mag]

Bringing a calm vocal to his work, along with a vast collection of instrumental talent [playing banjo and guitar in addition to the aforementioned fiddle], Sam Amidon puts folk classics in a new light. His creative aptitude has yielded collaborations with artists such as Nico Muhly, Thomas Bartlett, Beth Orton, Shahzad Ismaily, Glen Hansard, and Bill Frisell.

“It’s theoretical and handsome music, and it makes good sense of its curious point of view”
- [New York Times]

Sam Amidon is currently London-based and finishing work on a new album. Don’t miss his Australian shows in 2012.

Handsome Tours Presents
Sam Amidon – 2012 Australian Tour

Thursday, 19th January, 2012
Northcote Social Club, Melbourne
with special guests Otouto

Tix from handsometours.com, northcotesocialclub.com, Northcote Social Box Office: ph: (03) 9486 1677, in person at the Corner Box Office (57 Swan 11am-8pm Mon-Sat)

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Also appearing at Sydney Festival and as support for Beth Orton’s Australian Tour in 2012.