CALIFORNIA TRADITIONAL MUSIC SOCIETY |
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THE CALIFORNIA TRADITIONAL MUSIC SOCIETY
PRESENTS
TOMMY SANDS
IN CONCERT
The California Traditional Music Society is proud to present
Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands in concert
on Friday, March 7, 2008 at 8pm at the for the Encino Community Center,
4935 Balboa Blvd, Encino 91316. Unreserved tickets are $17.50 in advance
or $20.00 at the door with reserved tickets higher. Call: (818)817-7756
or visit http://www.ctmsfolkmusic.org for ticket information.
“Most gifted songwriter...with an ability to write
on serious subjects which come across as songs rather than sermons...also
well able to be extremely funny in the way he puts words together...”
IRISH TIMES
Tommy Sands, singer, songwriter and social activist from County Down
in Northern Ireland, has achieved something akin to legendary status in
his own lifetime. From the pioneering days with the highly influential
Sands Family, bringing Irish Music from New York’s Carnegie Hall
to Moscow’s Olympic Stadium, he has developed into one of the most
powerful songwriters and enchanting solo performers in Ireland today.
His songwriting, which draws the admiration of Nobel Poet Laureate Seamus
Heaney and father of folk music, Pete Seeger, prompts respected folk music
magazine “Sing Out” to regard him as “the most powerful
songwriter in Ireland, if not the rest of the world.”
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 to name a few, have been
translated into many languages.
Although constantly performing on stages all around the world he prides
in taking his music down from the lights and into the darker corners of
society. One of his current projects, is teaching underprivileged prisoners
in Reno, Nevada, to write their own songs with which to defend themselves
in court. This has created a wide spread stir in the world of community
art in the United States. Back home in Northern Ireland he has just completed
a CD written with Protestant and Catholic schoolchildren about their own
areas, in towns and villages around Northern Ireland. During the Good
Friday Agreement Talks, his impromptu performance with a group of children
and Lambeg drummers was described by Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister
Seamus Mallon as "a defining moment in the Peace Process".
“It would take a mean bastard to dislike him”, according
to Eamon McCann in Hot Press. Sands has a way with words to charm and
disarm and coax a chorus out of the tightest jawed audience.
In May 2002, Tommy received an honorary doctorate of Letters from The
University of Nevada for his outstanding work as musician and ambassador
for peace and understanding. May 18th was pronounced “Tommy Sands
Day in Reno”.
In December 2002 although the Northern Ireland Assembly had been stood
down, Sands managed to persuade the Members to return for a special Christmas
musical party together. As one politician after another joined him on
stage for a song, Loyalist leader David Ervine was heard to remark, “Tommy
Sands is the only man, without a private army, who can intimidate me.”
The concert which was recorded for the Sands weekly radio program, later
received a special award at the “World Festival of TV and Radio”
in New York.
“The gentle songs of a gentle man, ringing out above the tumult
and the shouting....Through people like Tommy Sands there will be an answer...”
BELFAST TELEGRAPH
“Most gifted songwriter...with an ability to write on serious
subjects which come across as songs rather than sermons...also well able
to be extremely funny in the way he puts words together...”
IRISH TIMES
“Tommy Sands has achieved that difficult but wonderful balance
between knowing and loving the traditions of his home and being concerned
with the future of the whole world...” PETE SEEGER
“I love the version of ‘Where Have All The Flowers Gone’
by Tommy Sands. That is the best version that has ever been recorded.
It is just chilling, isn’t it?...” JOHN STEWART (KINGSTON
TRIO)
“One moment my tears were of sorrow, the next moment they were
tears of joy; his songs are unforgettable stories...” RADIO
LEIPZIG
“You feel you can trust the singer as well as the song...”
SEAMUS HEANEY
To Order Tickets.
Unreserved House Concert Tickets are $17.50 in advance or $20 at the door.
Children twelve and under are free and students 18 and under are $15 at
the door.
Reserved Front Row House Concert Tickets are available in advance only
for $30, which includes a $12.50 tax deductible donation to CTMS.
Reserved Front Section House Concert Tickets (Rows 2-4) are available
in advance only for $25, which includes a $7.50 tax deductible donation
to CTMS.
Tickets may be ordered in advance by mail with a check
or on-line with a credit card.
To order by mail, send a note with your name and address
with the name of the concerts and the number and kind of tickets wanted,
and a check for the total amount payable to CTMS to:
Sands Tickets, CTMS, 4401 Trancas Place, Tarzana, CA 91356-5399.
Mail Orders must be postmarked by March 1, 2008
You can also order tickets on line
with a credit card by from our website:
http://www.ctmsfolkmusic.org
(there is a small processing fee added per ticket for credit card orders.)
ALL SALES ARE FINAL
The California Traditional Music Society
is a Non-profit Tax Exempt 501(c)(3) Educational Corporation
Mailing Address: 4401 Trancas Place, Tarzana, CA 91356-5399 818 817-7756
FAX: 818 817-7734
email: info@ctmsfolkmusic.org
website: www.ctmsfolkmusic.org
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