Colum Sands
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...
