page_title: Tommy Sands (Irish singer)
hierarchical_section_title: Tommy Sands (Irish singer)
caption_attribution_description: English: Irish folk singer Tommy Sands performes in front of a crowd of hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians who came to the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem for the weekly Friday demonstration. עברית: זמר הפולק האירי טומי סנדס מופיע בפני קהל של מאות ישראלים ופלסטינים שבאו לשכונת שייח ג'ראח במזרח ירושלים להפגנה השבועית כמידי יום שישי.
context_page_description: Tommy Sands, Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, is a folk singer, songwriter, radio broadcaster, and political activist. He performs with his three siblings as The Sands Family; solo as Tommy Sands; and with his son and daughter as Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands. Tommy was the prime songwriter for The Sands Family, one of Ireland's most influential folk groups of the 1960s and '70s.
  Tommy Sands has hosted Country Céilí, a radio show on Downtown Radio in Newtownards since 1976.
  His song "There Were Roses" has been described as "... certainly one of the best songs ever written about the "Irish Problem"".
  In May 2002 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Nevada, Reno for his outstanding work as musician and ambassador for peace and understanding. May 18 of each year has been proclaimed Tommy Sands Day in Reno.
context_section_description: Tommy Sands (born 19 December 1945), Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, is a folk singer, songwriter, radio broadcaster, and political activist. He performs with his three siblings as The Sands Family; solo as Tommy Sands; and with his son and daughter as Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands. Tommy was the prime songwriter for The Sands Family, one of Ireland's most influential folk groups of the 1960s and '70s.
  Tommy Sands has hosted Country Céilí, a radio show on Downtown Radio in Newtownards since 1976.
  His song "There Were Roses" has been described as "... certainly one of the best songs ever written about the "Irish Problem"".
  In May 2002 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Nevada, Reno for his outstanding work as musician and ambassador for peace and understanding. May 18 of each year has been proclaimed Tommy Sands Day in Reno.
caption: Tommy Sands performs in a joint Israeli-Palestinian demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah against house evictions of Palestinians by Israeli courts.
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