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The Songman: A Journey in Irish Music
Tommy Sands
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Description for The Songman: A Journey in Irish Music
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 60 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AVGH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444. A Journey in Irish Music. 288 pages, 60 b&w photographs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AVGH; BGF. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 22. Weight: 444.
'With a Fenian fiddle in one ear and an Orange drum in the other', singer Tommy Sands was reared in the foothills of the Mourne mountains, where he still lives. As a child, he was immersed in folk music - his father played the fiddle, his mother the accordion. The family's kitchen was a place where Protestant and Catholic farmers alike would gather for songs and storytelling at the end of a day's harvesting. Soon after learning the fiddle himself, Sands began writing his own songs. During the 1960s and 1970s he was the chief songwriter with The Sands Family, ... Read more
'With a Fenian fiddle in one ear and an Orange drum in the other', singer Tommy Sands was reared in the foothills of the Mourne mountains, where he still lives. As a child, he was immersed in folk music - his father played the fiddle, his mother the accordion. The family's kitchen was a place where Protestant and Catholic farmers alike would gather for songs and storytelling at the end of a day's harvesting. Soon after learning the fiddle himself, Sands began writing his own songs. During the 1960s and 1970s he was the chief songwriter with The Sands Family, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843510635
SKU
V9781843510635
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Reviews for The Songman: A Journey in Irish Music
'Tommy Sands' words fairly freewheel down the hill but they also have a great zest to sow the seeds of justice . You feel you can trust the singer as well as the song.' - Seamus Heaney; 'Tommy Sands has achieved that difficult but wonderful balance between knowing and loving the traditions of his home as well ... Read more