# Colum Sands > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Colum_Sands > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Colum_Sands.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colum_Sands > Source revision: 1320451111 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Irish singer songwriter (born 1951)}} {{EngvarB|date=December 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP primary sources|date=February 2011}} {{BLP sources||date=February 2011}} }} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Colum Sands | image = Colum Sands, Costa del Folk, Portugal, October 2016 (30256671605).jpg | caption = | birth_name = Colum Sands | birth_date = 1951 | origin = [Mayobridge](/source/Mayobridge), County Down, Northern Ireland | genre = [Irish Folk](/source/Folk_music), [Celtic](/source/Celtic_music) | occupation = Singer-songwriter, radio broadcaster | instrument = | years_active = 1970s-present | associated_acts = [The Sands Family](/source/The_Sands_Family)
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{{URL|http://www.columsands.com/}} }} '''Colum Sands''' (born 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter who made his first performances and recordings with [The Sands Family](/source/The_Sands_Family) of [County Down](/source/County_Down). Between his extensive solo appearances, he continues to record and perform with his brothers [Tommy](/source/Tommy_Sands_(Irish_folk_singer)) and Ben and his sister Anne in the family band. Following appearances throughout Europe and North America in venues ranging from small [folk club](/source/folk_club)s to [Carnegie Hall](/source/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](/source/Rostrevor), County Down. He has produced around one hundred albums, working with young traditional musicians, songwriters and bands, ranging from first-time recording artists like [Cara Dillon](/source/Cara_Dillon) and Oige, [Deanta](/source/Deanta), Neil Mulligan and [Kieran Goss](/source/Kieran_Goss) to veteran performers including [Joan Baez](/source/Joan_Baez), The Sands Family, [Liam O'Flynn](/source/Liam_O'Flynn), [Vedran Smailovic](/source/Vedran_Smailovic) and [Pete Seeger](/source/Pete_Seeger). Sands has released eight albums featuring his own songs{{cite web |url=http://www.columsands.com/biography.html |title=Colum Sands biography |website=columsands.com |access-date=3 September 2011 |archive-date=17 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217134245/http://www.columsands.com/biography.html |url-status=live }} and a songbook titled ''Between the Earth and the Sky''{{cite book |last=Sands |first=Colum |title=Between the Earth and the Sky |publisher=Cottage Publications |date=1 October 2000 |url=http://www.cottage-publications.com/cgi-bin/ctg/book/product.cgi?id=86 |isbn=978-1900935197 |access-date=3 September 2011 |archive-date=31 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331162551/http://www.cottage-publications.com/cgi-bin/ctg/book/product.cgi?id=86 |url-status=live }} illustrated by Colum McEvoy. As well as performing his own songs, Sands has translated [Goethe](/source/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 storyteller 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](/source/Maggie_MacInnes). His songs have been translated into German, Dutch, Danish and Hebrew and have been recorded by many artists including [Maddy Prior](/source/Maddy_Prior), [June Tabor](/source/June_Tabor), [Liam Clancy](/source/Liam_Clancy), [Tommy Makem](/source/Tommy_Makem), [Roy Bailey](/source/Roy_Bailey_(folk_singer)), [Andy Irvine](/source/Andy_Irvine_(musician)) 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](/source/Lyric_Theatre_(Belfast)) ([Belfast](/source/Belfast)) in 1976 found him working with [Liam Neeson](/source/Liam_Neeson) in the [Patrick Galvin](/source/Patrick_Galvin) play ''We Do it for Love''.{{cite web |title=Obituaries: Patrick Galvin |first=Richard Anthony |last=Baker |work=[The Stage](/source/The_Stage) |date=23 May 2011 |url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/feature.php/32272/patrick-galvin|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505123339/http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/feature.php/32272/patrick-galvin|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 May 2013}} 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'',{{cite web |title=Folk Club |website=[BBC Radio Ulster](/source/BBC_Radio_Ulster) |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007c0h6 |access-date=23 April 2011 |archive-date=24 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224205724/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007c0h6 |url-status=live }} the popular weekly programme on [BBC Radio Ulster](/source/BBC_Radio_Ulster). He has also compiled and/or presented radio programmes for [BBC Radio 2](/source/BBC_Radio_2) (''Shifting Sands'') [RTÉ Radio 1](/source/RT%C3%89_Radio_1) (''Rootin' About''.) and BBC Radio 4 "The First LP in Ireland".{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h666r |date=8 May 2012 |website=[BBC Radio 4](/source/BBC_Radio_4) |title=The First LP in Ireland |access-date=17 May 2022 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624085045/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h666r |url-status=live }} Sands received a Living Tradition Award for his services to Folk and Traditional Music{{cite web |url=http://www.acousticshowcaseni.co.uk/#/colum-sands/4548994765 |website=Acoustic Showcase NI |title=Home - Acoustic Showcase NI |access-date=3 September 2011 |archive-date=4 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204213934/http://www.acousticshowcaseni.co.uk/#/colum-sands/4548994765 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.livingtradition.org.uk/thehub/node/109 |title=Bogle, Bailey and Sands become Patrons of Common Ground |date=10 July 2009 |first=Clare |last=Lappin |website=Living Tradition |accessdate=3 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331162552/http://www.livingtradition.org.uk/thehub/node/109 |archive-date=31 March 2012 }} and his song, "[Donegall Road](/source/Donegall_Road)" was included in the [Smithsonian Institution](/source/Smithsonian_Institution)'s album ''Sound Neighbours,''{{Cite web | url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sound-Neighbors-Contemporary-Music-Ireland/dp/B000PWQT3U | title=Sound Neighbours: Contemporary Music in Northern Ireland | website=Amazon UK | year=2007 | access-date=17 May 2022 | archive-date=28 December 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228054243/https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sound-Neighbors-Contemporary-Music-Ireland/dp/B000PWQT3U | url-status=live }} which received three shortlisting nominations for the 2008 [Grammy Awards](/source/Grammy_Awards). ==Discography== [[File:Bardentreffen 2014 So 0821.JPG|thumb|[The Sands Family](/source/The_Sands_Family) at the [Bardentreffen](/source/Bardentreffen) festival 2014]] ===Studio albums=== *1981: ''Unapproved Road'', Spring Records SCD 1001 *1989: ''The March Ditch'', Spring Records SCD 1014 *1996: ''All My Winding Journeys'', Spring Records SCD 1035 *2003: ''The Note That Lingers On'', Spring Records SCD 1051 *2009: ''Look Where I've Ended Up Now'', Spring Records SCD 1059 *2013: ''Turn the Corner'', Spring Records SCD 1062 *2020: '' Song Bridge'', Spring Records SCD 1067 ===Live albums=== *2007: ''Live in Concert Songs and Stories'', Spring Records SCD 1054 ===Collaborations=== *2002: ''Talking to the Wall – with Sharon Aviv'', Spring Records SCD 1048 *2011: ''The Seedboat (Bàta an t-Sìl) – with Maggie MacInnes'', Spring Records SCD 1061 ===Other appearances=== *2007: ''Sound Neighbours: Contemporary Music in Northern Ireland'', Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW40544 *2009: ''Dear Irish Boy – Marianne Green with Andy Irvine'', Glas Records MEGCD02 ==Books== *2000: Colum Sands Songbook ''Between the Earth and the Sky'', Cottage Publications == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.columsands.com/index.html Artist's Official website] * [http://www.myspace.com/columsands MySpace] * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007c0h6 The radio show that Colum Sands hosted] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sands, Colum}} Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:Irish male singer-songwriters Category:Irish singer-songwriters Category:Irish record producers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Colum Sands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colum_Sands) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colum_Sands?action=history)). 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