[REVIEWS] -- [BIO] -- [PHOTO GALLERY]
Photos from CD Release April 8, 2005
"Gorgeous
voice…a melodic, keyboard-based folk-club singer who exists far beyond
what's normally thought of as folk…"
-Boston Herald
"RESPOND is one of the strongest and most comprehensive local compilations
in recent memory."
-The Boston Phoenix
"RESPOND…one of the most important and courageous recordings of the
decade".
-Timothy White, Editor-in-Chief, Billboard Magazine
"Beautiful, haunting…Sandi Hammond uses her voice in a grand manner
to powerful effect. Her commanding vocals mixed with lush, atmospheric melodies
that sometimes invoke chills…"
-INSTANT Magazine
"A palpable approach to her writing and singing…gliding soprano vocal
delivery…"
The Groove (Berklee School of Music)
"Sandi Hammond…literally brought tears to my eyes…"
-Roslindale/Jamaica Plain Art News
"Sandi has a strong and unique voice which lends itself to the gospel genre.
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-GazetteNET/the Daily Hampshire Gazette
Recent
Boston-area Appearances Include:
Somerville Theatre
WGBH radio
WERS radio
WUMB radio (with The Mood Chain)
Club Passim
Zeitgeist Gallery
Johnny D's
The Burren
Kendall Café
All Asia Café
Lizard Lounge (Alexis Shepard Memorial)
Scullers Jazz Club (with Patrice Williamson)
Other
Appearances Include:
The Living Room, (NYC)
Free Times Café (Toronto)
The Center for the Arts in Natick (Natick, MA)
Plantation Club (Worcester, MA)
Blackthorne Tavern (S. Easton, MA)
Mount Blue (Norwell, MA)
Acton Jazz Café (Acton, MA)
The Prodigal Son (Hyannis/Cape Cod, MA)
Fire&Water (Northampton, MA)
Natick High School (with The Mood Chain opening for Pheobe Snow)
Singer/songwriter Sandi Hammond first started writing pop songs at age 11. In her late teens she graced the stages of Tanglewood, Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall while performing with several professional choral groups. Now a gifted classically trained singer/songwriter, and a fine musician on keyboards and guitar, she touches audiences with her prolific and impressive repertoire of unique melodic songs. Fans describe her versatile soprano voice as full and emotional. She is most inspired by Joni Mitchell, Bartòk, Paula Cole, Annie Lennox and Elton John.
In December 1998, Sandi teamed up with 26 other Boston-area female singer-songwriters to produce RESPOND, a compilation CD created to raise funds for Respond, Inc., a local non-profit organization that assists battered women and their children. RESPOND, which features a terrific lineup of well-known singer-songwriters such as Patty Larkin, Juliana Hatfield and Catie Curtis, has received critical acclaim from Billboard Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald and the Boston Phoenix, as well as support from MTV and VH-1, and distribution from Columbia Records. In 2003, RESPOND II was released as a sequel, featuring artists Dolly Parton and Indigo Girls; Sandi worked as an associate producer of RESPOND II.
In 2000, Sandi released her own debut solo CD, RUBBERGIRL (Aspire Records), to a sellout crowd at Club Passim. Touring to promote RUBBERGIRL and RESPOND, Sandi has shared the stage with Pheobe Snow, Mindy Jostyn, Lori McKenna, Mark Shilansky, Kris Delmhorst, Faith Soloway, Pamela Means, Jules Verdone, Oen Kennedy, Felicia Brady, Hewitt Huntwork, Colleen Sexton, Kerri Powers, Anne Heaton, Christopher Williams, Rachel McCartney, and Laurie Geltman.
In 2002, Sandi was invited to donate a cut of a new song, "Wings to Fly", to a benefit compilation CD for The Center for Arts in Natick, FEATURES AND OPENERS, available at www.natickarts.org.
Sandi is currently completing a two-act gospel musical and released her second solo album, THIS SUMMER NIGHT, in April of 2005. She also has a song featured on a compilation CD released by Brave Records,COMING HOME: BOSTON SONG COLLECTIVE, released in May of 2005 (www.braverecords.com). She is an affiliate artist of Aspire Records and is on the faculty of The New School of Music in Cambridge and Brookline Music School.
Sandi
Hammond
Rubbergirl Music PO Box 398034 Cambridge, MA 02139
www.sandihammond.com
Booking inquiries: 617-650-2986
whatsup@sandihammond.com
PHOTOS by Marcy Smith (c) 2005
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