Let the Circle be Wide with Tommy Sands Comes to The State 3/12!

Tommy Sands along with Moya and Fionan Sands grace The State with a gift just in time for St. Patrick's Day on Thursday, March 12th. Let the Circle be Wide featuring Tommy Sands as well as Moya and Fionan Sands bring the sound of the true Ireland to The State. Here is some more info on the living legend Tommy Sands:

Tommy Sands, Country Down's singer, songwriter and social activist has achieved something akin to legendary status in his own lifetime.

From the pioneering days with the highly influential Sands Family, bringing Irish Music from New York's Carnegie Hall to Moscow's Olympic Stadium, he has developed into one of the most powerful songwriters and enchanting solo performers in Ireland today.

His songwriting, which draws the admiration of Nobel Poet Laureate Seamus Heaney and father of folk music Pete Seeger, prompts respected US magazine "Sing Out" to regard him as "the most powerful songwriter in Ireland, if not the rest of the world".

His songs, like There were Roses, and Daughters and Sons, which have been recorded by Joan Baez, Kathy Matthea, Dolores Keane, Sean Keane, Frank Patterson, Dick Gaughan, The Dubliners and many others have been translated into many languages and are currently included in the English language syllabus in German secondary schools.

Although constantly performing on stages all around the world he prides in taking his music down from the lights and into the darker corners of society. One of his current projects, teaching underprivledged prisoners in Reno, Nevada to write their own song with which to defend themselves in court is currently creating a wide spread stir in the world of community art in the United States. Back home in Northern Ireland he has just completed a CD written with Protestant and Catholic school children about their own areas, in towns and villages around Northern Ireland. During the Good Friday Agreement Talks, his impromptu performance with a group of children and Lambeg drummers was described by Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon as "a defining moment in the Peace Process".

Below are some videos of Tommy Sands performing with Country Down and also solo:



Let the Circle be Wide featuring Tommy Sands along with Moya and Fionan Sands will be performing at The State on Thursday March 12th at 8:00 PM. Tickets are going for $23 and are available for purchase both ONLINE and at The State Theatre Box Office. Hope to see you at this great event leading up to St. Patrick's Day!