Sam Slatcher is a freelance creative practitioner working with songwriting, storytelling and, more recently, model-making to bring people together and inspire creativity. His work is rooted in geography — place, memory and journeys — and is shaped through collaboration with local communities and the arts, culture and heritage sector
 

Sam’s work includes the widely acclaimed folk song ‘City of Sanctuary’ as featured on the BBC and Stories of Sanctuary, a collaborative album with people seeking sanctuary in the North East and featuring viola player Raghad Haddad, from the National Syrian Orchestra. Sam performed 'Stories of Sanctuary' to a sold-out audience at Durham Cathedral in October 2018 and has since toured the album across the UK with a refugee choir.
 

Since 2019, Sam has been curating, directing, and facilitating songwriting workshops for various creative projects across the North East with Citizen Songwriters, a social enterprise Sam set up to bring people together through songwriting to create original songs about people’s stories and the places that matter to them.
 

Sam latest album 'Passengers & Pioneers' (released March 2025) draws on stories from an artist-in-residency on the historic Stockton & Darlington Railway, gathering stories from rail passengers who travel the line today. 

In 2026, while Sam continues to tour his music, he is also working with men's groups in Durham to make diorama scenes of the North East of England, drawing on his other artistic interest!