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The Sands Family: Guestbook
lincoln imp
August 22, 2009
What a great concert in Castleblaney recently. Marvellous evening. Loved all the songs, stories and general good cheer created by yourselves. We all enjoyed the concert, especially the children who continue to sing snippets from many of the songs. Bring on the next Sands Family concert!
francie murray
August 12, 2009
'keep on singing' cd - wonderful stuff,all the sands compositions never heard them before-thoroughly enjoying them. the booklet helps as our southern accent is different you've got anew fan -best of luck for the future
Gerry O' Loughlin
August 10, 2009
Saw the Nationwide Show again on RTE - a good attempt at capturing at least a small bit of what the Sands Family mean to so many people! Greetings from your fans in Drogheda.
mart
August 4, 2009
hi. am desperately trying to get a copy of a song that i've seen on you tube that you did called the rambling irishman. this was my da's song and i really want it played at his funeral next week. can you tell me if it's available on a cd anywehere?.thanks
Sean O'Hanlon
August 2, 2009
Marvellous night of sheer entertainment in THe Market Place, Armagh- enjoyed every moment ...
Sean
Maureen and Jimmy
August 1, 2009
Dear Sands Family
I was in Castleblaney last night and what a brilliant concert. The songs were wonderful and the music was magic but the craic was best of all. You made us look at ourselves in the funniest way. It was just lovely. When are you coming back? Maureen and Jimmy Maguiness
Ronnie Maxwell
July 28, 2009
Congratulations on another great concert in Armagh on Monday evening. We were so pleased to meet you again. Best wishes from the Percy French Society.
David Cross
July 27, 2009
Another brilliant night in Armagh.
Well done.
Enjoyed it immensely.
Peter Moore
July 25, 2009
really enjoyed fidlers green concert 2009. Especially "Dont laugh at me " want to make it our school anthem. To put an end to bullying. Let me know when it comes out on disc. Peter Moore Principal of Our Lady of Good Counsel BNS, Mouren Rd., Drimnagh, Dublin 12.
Lars & Isa
July 6, 2009
FANTASTIC CONCERT - FANTASTIC ATMOSPHERE!!
We very much enjoyed Your concert at the SkagenFestival 5TH July 2009. We hope to see and hear You again!
Lars & Isa
Ulla Boejesen
July 6, 2009
Dear Sand's!
I wnat to thank you all very much for the wonderful concert in Skagen last night - you were brilliant and you really reacehed us, the audience. Perfect night toghether with Eleanor Shanley and the Black's. Hope to meet you some other time here in Denmark.
Love Ulla from the northern part of Jutland.
Mary and Karl Jones
June 2, 2009
The most memorable event of our last visit to Ireland was the concert given by Sean Sands at the Molly Maguires in Ballyconnell. It was truly amazing and we were just looking for a little Irish music. He is the most amazing performer we have ever seen. Please let me know if he will be performing any time between June 20 and July 4, 2009. Thank you for this amazing experience which we will never forget.
Ángeles
May 21, 2009
Great work ! keep on that way!
Janet Guerrieri
May 14, 2009
Hi,
I was born Janet Marie Sands and was born in Rochester, NY. My dad's name is Richard Judson Sands. I was surfing, looking for relatives, but I'm not sure I am related to you.
Rainer
May 11, 2009
F...'n hell - I missed Your concert in Oberhausen...
When will You be nearby next time?
I'd luv to meet You once again.
Wolfgang and Margit Kohr
May 10, 2009
thanks for a very nice evening in Loni Übler Garden
hope to see you again soon in Nürnberg or maybe Poppenreuth
warm regards
Margit & Wolfgang
Werner Meier
May 10, 2009
Thank you so much for a wonderful evening at Fabrik K14 in Oberhausen!
Great music in a perfectly balanced arrangement of outstanding artistry. You made my girl-friend addicted to irish music...
After your concert I had asked Column for his "little concertina" - I didn´t mean the one he had been playing, but the one, I saw him playing years ago: the "pocket-concertina". That was the only thing I have been missing last night besides the "Loan of a spade" and..., and... Unfortunately a concert´s time is limited, but Column´s book might help me playing the songs myself.
That brings me to the next last thing I missed: Anne´s, Ben´s and Tommy´s songbooks.
love
Werner
Erika Seuernagel - Döring
April 29, 2009
Thank you for the absolutely wonderful concert in Taunusstein 24.4.09.
All the best from Erika and Hans-Jürgen
Michael Tødten
January 21, 2009
Thankyou very much for your lovely performance in Drauget, Vallekilde, Denmark last saturday january 17. I believe you are going to be a big inspiration for Niels and me, and for our little irish band in the future. Just in this moment my wife and I are listening to "Let the circle be wide" and in a few moments I will order "the orange cd" on the internet!
With love from
Michael
Jørgen Madsen
January 18, 2009
Thank you for an absolutely wonderful concert in Asnæs last night! I hope you've made it home safely. Did you notice a flash of light outside the windows just after going on stage? I saw it and this morning I read a meteorite had fallen and exploded over the southern part of Sweden at 8:10 pm. The event was clearly visible in our region. Anyway, thanks again for a magnificent concert!
Heike
January 17, 2009
Hallo, habe vor einigen Jahren einmal euch komplett im Itzehoer Theater und danach im Goosmarkt in Itzehoe den Ben allein gehört. Ich war ziemlich beeindruckt und seitdem ein ganz großer Fan von euch. Eines der schönsten Lieder, die ich jemals gehört habe, ist das vertonte Gedicht(Goethe vertont) von Column (ich hoffem ich habe richtig geschrieben). Ich habe noch nie so einen schönen Text gehört.
Gruß Heike
Lillian Olsen
January 14, 2009
Hi all of you.
We had the pleasure to so you, and listen to your lovely music - when you had your show in Ballerup.
It is fantastic whar you can :-)
Have bougth your new CD an enjoy it.
Look forward to meeting you next time.
Love from Lillian and Jens olsen
Christian Petersen.
January 11, 2009
Dear Tommy.
Thank you, for a wonderfull evening in the old Muldbjerg Mølle in oktober last year. To morrov evening, Wi`ll meat again, this time in Hejlsminde, and with the whole Family Sands.I hope that this evening will give me in inspiration for a new hour, in my radioprogram Folktime, from Radio Klitholm in Hvide Sande.
Happy New Year, and all the best, to you and the rest of The Sands Family.
Javier Muñoz Galiano. Albacete. Spain
December 12, 2008
I love your music. I have tried to contact you Colum to request a song in your program FOLK CLUB but with no success. I know Catherine and Tommy very well and I have stayed with them in summer
Chris
October 12, 2008
I living in Danmark and i hope you come to Danmark soon, so we can enjoy your wonderful music!
Chris from http://www.wonderfulgreece.dk/
Sabine Teich
August 27, 2008
Dear Sands brothers,
here is Sabine from Bremen. I hope you all are well and that music is rolling. I look forward to meet up with you in the north of Germany again and to enjoy your wonderful music. My irish fiddle is brilliant :o) Warm regards to all of you and Anne, Sabine
Brian Clark
August 26, 2008
Been a Fan forever , Have met Tommy at the Dunfermline folk weekend . Any chance of a DVD of some of your stuff . Im sure it would be very popular
Annette Cortain
August 21, 2008
Can I just thank you for the energy and happiness you have brought to my life through your music it really is that wonderful!
Rapidshot
August 20, 2008
You're wellcome to see some pics of the Sands playing @ Zehntscheuer / Ravensburg / Germany this spring.
Just look for > panoramio rapidshot Ravensburg
Jordanka Doneva
August 19, 2008
Herzlich!!!
Danny
Oliver Mc Loughlin
August 12, 2008
I was at the Ardowen on friday night and I just want to thank you for as they say in Fermanagh a fierce concert altogether.
I have been to many trad concerts here and I just wanted to tell you ,this was the.best
olly
Carolyn Gray
August 11, 2008
I saw you for the first time at Saltburn festival yesterday and just wanted to say what a pleasure it was to hear you. My sister and I have been singing "There Were Roses" for years after learning it from a friend. It was great to hear the original. Look forward to seeing you all again sometime. Cheers
don elliott
August 8, 2008
dear tommy and family loved the show at the ardhowen tonight great humour and songs.i loved the song about maggie. i two had a granny and mother like her.your music is a link with that time postwar ie 60s and 70s i enjoyed many a ceili
we will never see there like again. take care ANNE AND DON
Sylvia K.
August 5, 2008
Fiddlers Green Festival was a wonderful week of fun and culture and it couldn't be ended better than by a Sands Family concert. You were all in terrific form - getting better and better! Keep going! Sylvia
Sean Dempsey
August 5, 2008
Brilliant night of music and craic in Casleblayney. My wife and I enjoyed it all immensely!
And the CD "Keep On Singing" should be compulsory listening. Look forward to your next visit to this neck of the woods! S.D.
Karen
July 25, 2008
love the cheesecake song and the diet song
Jackie Sands-White
July 5, 2008
I just googled my maiden name and ran acorss this web site. i'm from Buffalo NY but i know my family has some connection to Bobby Sands. Does yours?
Frank Morrison
July 1, 2008
Hi Sands Family!
Just got my copy of "Keep On Singing" - really great! Real folk music - and not much of that around these days!
Keep up the good work.
Frank
Jeff Chapman
June 24, 2008
I fell in love with Celtic music over 30 years ago. I play a little guitar to relieve the stress from being a paramedic. The song that hooked me was "There Was Peter". I was wondering if you have the tuning/cords or the tabliture for it available. Would really like to learn the song. Excellent job over the years. Keep it up. Hope you can help.
Thanks
Jeff
Wolfgang
May 18, 2008
Thank you for the great concert in Letterkenny on may 2 2008 and the conversation after the great music on this night. Hope to see you again. All the best for you all. Wolfgang
Ry
May 9, 2008
Hi all fantastic concert as always proud to be a sands keepin the music going down the generations hehe love ry roll on fiddlers green xoxox
xxruby
May 7, 2008
am from warrenpoint i no tommy well lol great musical family so he may pop on 2 http://shamrockwap.co.uk/web to find out who it is haha
Ted & Joanne Klassen
May 5, 2008
Thank you for the fabulous concert in Letterkenny last week. Especially we appreciated Directions, the song you dedicated to us - very appropriate. Your music & stories are with as we travel home to Winnipeg, Canada. We wish you every success,
Ted & Joanne Klassen,
Friends & Fans
David Cross
May 4, 2008
Have just returned from the concert in Armagh. First time I have ever seen the Sands family live. What can I say. It was just brilliant. Great songs and so much crack. Colum and Ben could make a living as comedians. It was a perfect night and one I would recommend to anybody. Not enough people know about this great family so all I can say is spread the word. I know I will.
Ronnie Maxwell
May 4, 2008
Thank you all so much for making the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Percy French Society such a success. Endless praise from our guests from all over Ireland and much further afield. Congratulations on the top quality entertainment you provide and on the unique rapport you have with the audience. Looking forward to seeing you again very soon. Safe travels and best wishes.
Charlotte Gollinger
May 3, 2008
The CD´s are so wonderfull!!!!charly
Dara
May 3, 2008
hi Granda,Tom,Clm and Anne luved ur concert hugz,kissez and looooooooaaaaaaaaads of luv Dara
Ellen and Martin
May 2, 2008
Fantastic concert in Letterkenny - wall to wall entertainment:nobody does it better!
Ellen & Martin
Christopher Lea
April 21, 2008
Thank-you for a wonderful two Days of concerts (Reddebeitz and Kiel Germany) Your presence and your music alwase make me feel cheerful and happy !!
Don't forget to drink plenty of Sheeps milk with Whisky!!
Marion
April 21, 2008
I like your new CD very much, the fine music and stories, the change between traditional and contemporary pieces and all your wonderful own styles to sing and talk. Every time you can bring the spirit of Ireland to my country and to many other people in the world.
Thank you for the concert on Harry's Farm. It was great.
Hope to see you again soon
for you all the best
Marion
Heike
April 19, 2008
Thank you very much for the great evening in Kiel!
Heike
Arnim Spengler 31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge
April 17, 2008
Thank you for the evening hours and the concert with you.I wish
that you may come again next year.
With best wishes,
Arnim Spengler
Marian and Brian
April 16, 2008
'KEEP ON SINGING' Your new CD is brilliant. Traditional and new songs going hand in hand beautifully.
All the best and 'Keep on Singing'
Gerd Schäfer
April 15, 2008
Dear Sands-Family, you remenber the Festival *Folk in den Bergen* Lennestadt/Germany? We work now on a comeback in 2009!
One of your long term fans
April 15, 2008
Thoroughly enjoyed the two concerts. One in Oldenburg and the one in Bremerhaven. Keep on singing singing. I have been enjoying the music for nearly forty years and looking forward to the next forty.
Ingrid
April 15, 2008
It's me again.
Sorry Anne I forgot the "e" at the end of your name. Shall never happen again. :-)
Ingrid Seggewiss
April 15, 2008
Hi Ann, Ben, Colum and Tommy!
It was great to meet you all again yesterday. Have been 2 fantastic concerts (Gladbeck+Duisburg)and it won't be the last. I really hope we can manage to come to Rostrevar in July to see Anja and you all again.
All the best
Ingrid
PS: Keep on singing!!!!
Cheryl
April 12, 2008
I just love yoru new CD 'Keep On Singing"
Constanze
April 12, 2008
Hi..
Yesterday evening I heard your concert at the Müggenkrug in Oldenburg. Your music is so beautiful and i hope you come back to Oldenburg soon.
Your Constanze
Johanna Wilmes
April 12, 2008
Dear Sands, I think your music is great and I think it`s amazing to see how inspired you sing your music and how you are able to inspire your fans!
Peter
April 9, 2008
Dear Sands,
many thanks for the great concert last sunday in Poppenreuth.
I've forgotten, to great you from
Colin Wilkie
All the best,
Peter
Udo Haack
April 8, 2008
Very nice evening in Gladbeck, Thanks!!! The new CD great songs at the car to comming Home ...
Best wishes from Troisdorf near Bonn...
Reinhard Danny Dannhoff
April 8, 2008
Thank you for the beautiful music at the Waldorf Schule Gladbeck. Great songs. See you again.
Susanne
April 6, 2008
Thank you for your friendship and lust but not least for the wonderful and heart warming music at your concert in the Rätsche in Geislingen.
Hope we'll stay in touch. Take care !
Peter Michel
April 4, 2008
Dear Sands, I've enjoyed very very much your concert this evening in Ravensburg regretting that I haven't met earlier your performances. I'm grateful too for your artless and nonbigheaded manner and your open mind speaking with the audience. Thanks a lot!
Martina
April 4, 2008
...just came back from the first gig presenting the new songs.
Keep On Singing is an outstanding work!
Martina
April 1, 2008
Dear Sands Family,I also heard something about your new CD - I went to our CD Shop, but WE couldn't find it... please tell me how I can get it otherwise...
All the best for your Germany Tour at the next days
Ute
March 31, 2008
Dear SAnds Family, I heard your songs in the early 80th and I loved them and their message. Now my children are as old as I was 25 years ago and since a short time they like the same music. I think we become older ... But this year in summer we all visit Ireland
cathrin baumbach
March 19, 2008
Dear Sands Family,
I just stumbled across your page after listening to the Amiga record (!) "Singing of the Times". I saw you repeatedly at Berlin's Political Song Festival many moons ago. I now live in the U.S. where I saw Tommy with Moya a few times in recent years. Any chance you are ever going to perform on the East Coast? All the best!
Lee mcdaid
March 1, 2008
Just saying hello from Donegal and thanks for all the great songs over the years!
Bronagh Donnelly
February 27, 2008
Hello, Im writing an essay for university on the song tradition in Co.Down, do you have any good points of interest?
Vera
February 25, 2008
Hey everyone
I just stumbled accross your page...
I saw you years ago in Wernigerode with my mom...I recall writing a long long letter to Tommy sands and recieving a postcard from you years later:)I actually came across your music when visiting an old library at home...and i used to love your songs...when I listen to them now it brings back so many memories...
Its as if your music is timeless!
anna mc sherry
January 11, 2008
Hi my name is anna mc sherry my father was hugh mc sherry from glenann in armagh i have been told we might be related throu my fathers mother annie boyle,i would love to here from any one with information and love your music bye for now anna mc sherry.
busk,fur,denmark
January 7, 2008
nice to meet you in rostrevor in november,with svend erik.
happy new year from busk.
jens ravnsborg
November 21, 2007
Thank you for a wonderfull evening in Frederikssund - i hope you will come back next year.
Best wishes
Jens
Denmark
paul murphy
October 11, 2007
I AM A TEACHER OF RELIGION IN CASTLEBAR ORIGINALLY FROM KILLOUGH CO DOWN A FRIEND OF JOHN WATERSON .I USE YOUR SONG THERE WERE ROSES FOR MY JUNIOR CERT RELIGION .COULD YOU FORWARD A COPY OF THE WORDSPLEASE.
Joergen Olsen
October 7, 2007
Thank you for a most entertaining and enrichening concert and evening in Frederikssund, Denmark October 2007. All the best and hope to see you again very soon. "When you are leaving please go ut backwards so we think you are coming in."
Seoirse MacDomhnaill
October 6, 2007
A Chairde- Just stumbled across your website. Great to see it. I spent many a good night in Mark's. I love all your music, but I still think my very favourite is Peter's Song. Not only because of the memories of Peter himself, but also because it sums up what Irish music is and should be...something that many of the dilletantes today forget, or perhaps have no experience of. Slan go foill...Seoirse
Iona
August 22, 2007
Fantastic night at the Millennium Forum on 10 August -great music, great craic. Thanks! Lovely to speak to you again.
Gabi Jenzer
August 18, 2007
I really enjoyed hearing you in Ballyshannon especially because it was the first time!
Could you send me the words of the songs Roses and County Down
Thanks very much!Gabi
Margaret Heatley
August 15, 2007
My husband, myself and our 20-year-old son thoroughly enjoyed your concert in the Market Place, Armagh on 11th August, 2007. It was a profoundly beautiful experience to witness your multi-musical talents and creativity. A truly inspirational performance.
William Houston
August 14, 2007
Enjoyed your concert in the Millennium Theatre, Derry / Londonderry last Friday night, 10th August. Great music, song and crack....haven't heard you live since the early 80's when you played at a concert in the Corrymeela centre,Ballycastle. Thanks again for a great night...William
Robbie Devine
August 12, 2007
Great concert in Armagh. First time I had heard any of your music but I have now bought some cd's to keep me going. Have you released a cd with all the songs of last night's performance on it? That would be a great cd to release. Great stories, songs and company. Many thanks for a great time.
Ronnie Maxwell
August 12, 2007
What a fantastic concert in Armagh! Yet another thoroughly professional performance from the family. All the warmth of your personalities was conveyed so effectively through the humour and the thought-provoking songs. Such genuine talent is rare nowadays. Thank you for the pleasure you all give and may your success continue for many years.
Brendan McClorey
August 12, 2007
Such a talented family. I had such a good time at your concert in Armagh last night. I could hardly sleep with the stories and songs going round in my head.
Margaret O'Neill
August 7, 2007
Really enjoyed the concert in the Aontas Theatre in Castleblaney. Your songs and stories were as good as ever. When are you coming back.
Pat Greenan
August 1, 2007
What a concert at Fiddlers Green! Enjoyed the whole Festival but your Sunday night performance was outstanding - congratulations! Pat
Jim & Margaret
July 10, 2007
Looking forward to your concert in Derry - long time since you played here! Enjoy Fiddlers Green Festival. All the best. J & M
Mac
June 19, 2007
Hi all together,
can´t find the right words to say how beautifull it was to meet you at the Grennfarmfestival.
Many thanks
Mac
Konni Schmidt
June 9, 2007
Hello Ann, Colum, Benny and Tom,
greetings from germany.
Its pitty that you're only one time in germany this year.
I'm just listening the colums radio program.
Good stuff.
I'll biking again from Paris to Moscow this year. See my website: www.bikeforpeace.de
Normally i would start in Ireland this year, but it is too hard work to organise all.
All the best for you all.
Good music! Im so sad to not come to this proud country.
Bye
Konni
Steve Hyland
June 9, 2007
Hello to all. I got you website address from Cheryl on Irish Penpals. I like you music. My son has his own band and the play acoustic instruments. Visit his site at www.southaustinjugband.com.
ray spicer
May 27, 2007
just got my pc working after a while and found your web site. its been a long time since i saw and spoke to you. i spoke to Anne many years ago in Irvine at the marrymass festival, i was always drunk, i gave that up 13 years ago. i lost my wife to cancer in 2001 and a year later moved to kent where i remarried and got on with my life. i enjoy my music today and ive bought hundreds of cds and dvds of all types of Irish and Scottish folk music. your music is good today as it was in the 70s. and you dont look any different. would be good to see you in concert again, have you any plans to tour in this area of Folkestone. thanks for your time.
Ray
shane ohare
May 22, 2007
great stuff. from kilcoo myself . nice 2 c locals doing the business. you know the craic thou, 'what evr ya say, say nothin'
William Houston
May 16, 2007
What is the title of your CD containing the song, 'The Wake'. Thanks in advance for your info...Regards, William
Cheryl Hornbeck
April 18, 2007
I'm setting here listening to HOPE IS IN THE MORNING. I just got it in the mail today and i love it!
Martha Gallogly
February 26, 2007
Hello
I am on your website and it is rather enjoying. I am great fans of your music and i play the tin whistle and sing myself. I have seen Sean Sands from Belfast sing in Fermanagh and Cavan. Is he a cousin of yours.
Danny Chico
February 16, 2007
Mr. Sands, you music is beautiful. It will keep your feeling relax.
Danny,
Killeen, Texas
Tiarna brennan
February 11, 2007
Hi one of are comeing is it ben yeah. Mrs breen sayed we will go down on histoy
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