We’re pleased to welcome Sam Hodgson to Yorkshire Youth and Music!

Sam joined us in 2024 as a music leader for our Refugee and Asylum Seeker project at Calderdale College and Adel Beck Secure Children’s Home. He is a singer, guitarist, and bouzouki player with over 10 years of experience working with communities across Yorkshire and the North of England in songwriting and music-making.

Sam is multi-skilled and brings his talents to music workshops, oral history and verbatim songwriting, commissioned soundscapes, interactive performances, and intimate live shows.

Alongside his work with YY&M, Sam has collaborated with some of the most pioneering community music organisations and projects in the North, including Live Music Now, Swan Song, AMP, Under the Stars, Grimm & Co, and Let’s Go Yorkshire.

He has facilitated songwriting in high-security prisons, with NEET and SEN children, with children and adults with learning differences, and as a university lecturer.

Sam is passionate about using music to support the well-being of communities and individuals, always championing participant-led activity and the belief that enormous creative potential exists within each person.

With his bands Hebble, Samh, Band of Jays, and Jambalaya,  he has performed at some of the UK’s most notable folk and alternative venues and festivals. His music has been played on national and international radio.