Sam Amidon live in concert.
ON TOUR

Sam Amidon

20
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

83
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Based on 
20
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Last 12 Months Rating  
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Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Sam Amidon is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 20 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Sam Amidon is rated as a superb live performer, with remarkable shows that are worth watching. Sam Amidon concert reviews describe live shows and performances as mesmerising.

ON TOUR

Servants Jazz Quarters, London, United Kingdom (October 15); つま恋リゾート 彩の郷, 静岡, Japan (November 2)

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Latest Release

Sam Amidon (23 October 2020)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Brattleboro, United States (6/3/1981)
Bio
Sam Amidon (born Samuel Tear Amidon on 3 June 1981 in Brattleboro, Vermont) is an American folk artist. His parents are Peter Amidon and Mary Alice Amidon, both well-established folk musicians.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

Berkeley B-Side (USA)

October 25, 2014
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Sam Amidon tells jokes, warms audience at the Great American

The Guardian (UK)

October 29, 2013
80
%
He ambled on a tousle-haired figure in a blue T-shirt clutching a guitar as if he was going to turn St Luke's into a large folk club with exquisite acoustics.

Exclaim (Canada)

September 6, 2013
80
%
Yet for all the frippery and showmanship, Amidon's surest skills and sensibilities are musical, and when he prefaces his plaintive take on a wonderfully naive R. Kelly song, "Relief," by noting that "Even the parts that aren't true, sometimes it's good to sing them," you think: Here is a man who understands p

The Upcoming (UK)

May 24, 2013
100
%
Last night the Vermont-born artist celebrated his latest release Bright Sunny South with an utterly mesmerising concert at the intimate Bush Hall.

QRO Magazine

April 17, 2012
%
Although the tables had been moved to make way for a stage and seating area there was no denying that everyone was still in a library.

The Guardian (UK)

April 12, 2011
80
%
He gives this impression partly because he has the curly mop and wide eyes of an overgrown five-year-old.

musicOMH (UK)

August 19, 2010
%
An unfairly maligned source of music in recent times (due mainly to the invasive success of a few bland apples) tonight hosted three very different examples of young talents doing it their own way.

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