Legendary Northern Irish Singer/Songwriter Tommy Sands will Perform at Mountain City Traditional Arts, Wednesday, Oct 26
Legendary Northern Irish singer, songwriter and social activist Tommy Sands will perform at Mountain City Traditional Arts in Frostburg on Wednesday, Oct 26th at 7:30 pm.
Come join him
on a riveting journey to learn how music can change the world.
Sands’ songwriting has drawn the
admiration of Nobel Poet Laureate Seamus Heaney and the father of folk music
Pete Seeger. And "Sing Out" magazine describes him as "the most
powerful songwriter in Ireland, if not the rest of the world."
From the pioneering days with the highly influential
Sands Family, bringing Irish Music from New York’s Carnegie Hall to Moscow’s
Olympic Stadium, Sands has developed into one of the most powerful songwriters
and enchanting solo performers in Ireland today.
His songs, like There were Roses, and
Daughters and Sons, which have been recorded by Joan Baez, Kathy Matthea,
Dolores Keane, Sean Keane, Frank Patterson, Dick Gaughan, The Dubliners and
many others have been translated into many languages and are currently included
in the English language syllabus in German secondary schools.
Mountain City Traditional Arts is a
program of Frostburg State University and the Maryland Traditions Program of
the State Arts Council. For more information call
301-687-8040.
