sam wilson

Sam Wilson is a guitarist whose practice as a performer-composer focuses on creating instrumental music for improvisers. She blends her early love of fingerstyle guitar with her love of jazz into her style. Her albums ‘Into a Heart Pt. II’ and ‘New Doors’ won Music Nova Scotia’s ‘Jazz Recording of the year’ in 2022 and 2023. In 2021 Sam won the Paul Cram Creation award and composed ‘Recover-we’, her first piece for orchestra which was performed by Symphony Nova Scotia at the 2023 Open Waters Festival. Sam's current artistic muse is wild spaces and site specific places, you can hear this on her upcoming release ‘Wintertides’; featuring Vancouver based musicians Jen Yakamovich and Geordie Hart, it is inspired by contrasting landscapes and the collaboration of bi-coastal communities. Sam frequently performs with the acclaimed trombonist Andrew Jackson and has played in the WHODUNIT production with Rooted Dance Projects (previously Votive Dance).