Colum Sands
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Biography
Colum Sands, born in 1951 in Ireland, is a singer-songwriter who began his career with the Sands Family of County Down. In 1981, he founded Spring Records and set up a studio in Rostrevor, County Down, producing around 100 albums for artists like Cara Dillon, Joan Baez, Liam O'Flynn, and Pete Seeger. His own solo releases include Unapproved Road (1982), All My Winding Journeys (1996) and The Note that Lingers On (2003). Sands' song "The Donegall Road" (2003) was notably featured on the Smithsonian Institution's album Sound Neighbours, which received three shortlisting nominations for the 2008 Grammy Awards. He has also translated songs into multiple languages and collaborated with artists like Maggie MacInnes and Sharon Aviv.
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- The Child Who Ask You Why
- One of These Days
- Good Friday Never Changes
- Directions
- I Ain't Tired
- The Night Is Young
- Ceasefire
- Goethe's Song
- Jackson Johnson / The Merry Blacksmith
- Eleanor Plunkett
- Sweeny the Fiddler
- Talking To The Wall
- The Donegall Road
- The Politician's Song
- Tune For August
- The Note That Lingers On
- Wake Song
- The Man With the Cap
- The Boys of Tandragee / The Hag at the Churn
- Skipping History Lesson
- Buskers
- The March Ditch
- Going Down To The Well With Maggie
- Song For Adam And Eve
