Sam Slatcher

Dr Sam Slatcher is a community music practitioner and Director of Citizen Songwriters, a social enterprise that brings isolated communities together through exploring music and lyrics. Sam combines participatory approaches to community engagement with his expertise on songwriting to facilitate group learning on music, songwriting and storytelling. In 2018, Sam completed his PhD in Human Geography from Durham University in creative arts-based approaches to community engagement in West Yorkshire.

Sam works as a freelance artist facilitating music workshops with Citizen Songwriters, producing various community arts projects as well as releasing and performing his own music as a folk singer-songwriter.