Researching Colum Sands
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 3354 people with the Sands surname? In that year Sands was ranked number 1247 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Colum Sands on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Colum Sands and the Sands Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 4664 people with the Sands surname in the UK? Sands is now ranked number 1259 for popularity in the UK. |
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Colum Sands
Colum Sands (born 1951) is an Irish singer songwriter who made his first performances and recordings with The Sands Family of County Down. Between his extensive solo appearances he continues to record and perform with his brothers Tommy and Ben and his sister Anne in the family band.
Following appearances throughout Europe and North America in venues ranging from small folk clubs to Carnegie Hall New York City, in 1981, Sands set up the independent record label, Spring Records, with a recording studio at his home in Rostrevor, County Down.
He has produced around one hundred albums, working with young traditional musicians, songwriters and bands, ranging from first time recording artistes like Cara Dillon and Oige, Deanta, Neil Mulligan and Kieran Goss to veteran performers including Joan Baez, The Sands Family, Liam O'Flynn, Vedran Smailovic and Pete Seeger.
Sands has released eight albums featuring his own songs and a songbook titled Between the Earth and the Sky illustrated by Colum McEvoy.
As well as performing his own songs, Sands has translated Goethe into English (recording a bilingual version of "Nähe des Geliebten" with Berlin singer Scarlett Seeboldt), worked and toured in the Middle East with Israeli story teller Sharon Aviv on the English/Hebrew peace initiative production "Talking to the Wall" and translated Scottish Gaelic songs into English on his collaboration with Scottish singer and harper Maggie MacInnes.
His own songs have been translated into German, Dutch, Danish and Hebrew and have been recorded by many artistes including Maddy Prior, June Tabor, Liam Clancy, Tommy Makem, Roy Bailey, Andy Irvine and Mick Hanly.
Apart from songwriting and studio production, Sands has worked in a number of theatrical collaborations and his involvement as a musician with the Lyric Theatre (Belfast) in 1976 found him working with Liam Neeson in the Patrick Galvin play We Do it for Love. He has also composed music for Community Playwright Patch Connolly's plays, The Fair Day and The Square.
Sands is also well known as a radio presenter, from the 1990s until 2016 he presented Folk Club, the popular weekly programme on BBC Radio Ulster. He has also compiled and/or presented radio programmes for BBC Radio 2 (Shifting Sands) RTÉ Radio 1 (Rootin' About.) and BBC Radio 4 "The First LP in Ireland'. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h666r
Sands received a Living Tradition Award for his services to Folk and Traditional Music and his song, "Donegall Road" was included in the Smithsonian Institution's album Sound Neighbours, which received three shortlisting nominations for the 2008 Grammy Awards.
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