Since 2013, Sam Payne has hosted The Apple Seed on BYU Radio, a daily radio program filled with folk tales, fairy tales, personal tales, tall tales, family tales and more. Sam serves as the Weber State University Storytelling Fellow, and for the last three decades has brought his own stories and songs to halls in Canada, Bulgaria, Tokyo, and from coast to coast in the United States, including the Will Rogers Auditorium in Dallas, Texas and the Kennedy Center in the nation’s capitol. Sam has been featured at festivals large and small, including the National Storytelling Festival and the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival. He has authored educational publications for children, with a regular readership of more than two million elementary school students. In addition to a catalog of award-winning music and storytelling recordings, Sam has created stage works like “Sanctuary: the story of Zion,” commissioned to celebrate the centennial of the National Parks Service, and books like “Echoes of Hammers and Spikes” (with Suzanne Payne), commissioned to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
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