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The Songman: A Journey in Irish Music (SIGNED COPY)
by Tommy Sands
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- ISBN 10
- 1843510634
- ISBN 13
- 9781843510635
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Dublin IR: The Lilliput Press, 2005. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 266 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY SANDS on the front fly leaf. ‘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 kitchen was where Protestant and Catholic farmers alike would gather for songs and storytelling at the end of a day’s harvesting. During the sixties and seventies Tommy was chief songwriter for The Sands Family, who played wherever they were welcome, from local wakes and weddings to New York’s Carnegie Hall; his songs have been recorded by Joan Baez, Dolores Keane, Dick Gaughan and The Dubliners. He tells of his family’s traditional way of life; of the turbulent days of the civil rights movement; The Bothy Band brawling in Brittany; encounters with Alan Stivell, Mary O’Hara and Pete Seeger; Ian Paisley on his radio show Country Céilí; and a ‘defining moment’ during the Good Friday Agreement talks, when he organized an impromptu performance with children and Lambeg drummers. The Songman is a memoir replete with warmth and wit. Record # 381244
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 381244
- Title
- The Songman: A Journey in Irish Music (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- Tommy Sands
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1843510634
- ISBN 13
- 9781843510635
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press
- Place of Publication
- Dublin IR
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Music, Ireland, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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