Songs composed for The Secret Garden, with script writers Becci Sharrock, Lisette Auton and director Ali Pidsley. 

The musical is a modern take on the classic children’s book by Frances Hodgson Burnett sees city girl Lennox staying at her uncle’s estate in rural Northumberland. Initially lonely and despondent with her situation, she eventually befriends her ill cousin Cooper and neighbour Dylan and the three end up going on a journey of self-discovery as they try to uncover the mystery of a secret and hidden garden on the grounds.

Sing And Dance

She's Wild

Secret Garden

Robin's Song

A song about the world's first railway town, Shildon, told from the perspective of a railway worker. The song will be released March 1st 2025 and comes from the album Passengers & Pioneers (released 14 March 2025) that celebrates 200 years since the birth of the modern passenger railway. 

Set The World On Track

The single ‘Pioneers’ will announce a brand-new album called ‘Passengers & Pioneers’ by Sam Slatcher featuring four acclaimed North East poets, due for release 14 March 2025. The album has been written using archive history from the first passenger railway journey in 1825 on the Stockton & Darlington railway and stories collected from those travelling and working on the line today. It will be released in celebration of the 200 year anniversary of the first passenger journey.

The release of this first single ‘Pioneers’ begins the story with George Stephenson, walking through the night to convince stakeholders in Darlington to finance his creative vision for a modern passenger railway which would ‘set the world on track’.

Pioneers

A song about the unlikely encounter of strangers on a train

Stranger On A Train

The opening words were written by a 14-year-old boy in a letter to his sister the week after the  inaugural passenger journey on the launch of the Stockton & Darlington Railway on the 27th September 1825.  

The letter contains a rare insight into what witnessing the first ever steam hauled passenger  train would have been like. “It was a very grand sight to see such a mass of moving people!” The  song imagines the boy’s full account of events on the day that made history.  


My Dear Sister

The song Let Us Be Together comes from the album Stories of Sanctuary, curated by singer-songwriter Sam Slatcher

The lyrics to the song were written by Hasna Al Hassoun and the music by Sam Slatcher. The piano, guitar and vocals are performed by Sam Slatcher, with backing vocals by Eliza Colin Hodges. 

Please visit https://storiesofsanctuary.co.uk/ for more information

5. Let Us Be Together

From Sam Slatcher's debut solo album 'Chaos & Solitude' released 22 May 2020.

For the full album, please visit:
https://samslatcher.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-solitude

"Nether Springs is a plea to abandon, just for a day, our addiction to phone screens and our automatic response to each ping and notification, in favour of looking up and outwards and making the effort to reconnect with nature and our true selves. It's a lovely arrangement with finger-picked guitar and keyboard complementing each other perfectly." (FATEA magazine)

Nether Springs

Sam Slatcher is a folk singer-songwriter living in Durham, North East England. His honest and reflective songwriting, delivered with a calming and delicate voice captures the warmth of humanity and a longing for peace and justice. To date, Sam has released a debut EP 'In Unlikely Places (April 2018) as well as curated the project Stories of Sanctuary that brings together refugees and other residents of Co. Durham, including the release of a critically acclaimed album ‘Stories of Sanctuary’ featuring National Syrian Orchestra’s Raghad Haddad (Nov 2018). Sam frequently performs across Northern England and sings and plays guitar and piano.

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