About Sandi

Sandi is a singer-songwriter, composer, choral director, and voice coach.  Sandi 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.

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.

Sandi completed a two-act gospel musical and released her second solo album, THIS SUMMER NIGHT, in April of 2005. She also had 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.

In 2014, she founded the Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus, 

Sandi Hammond founded the Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus in November of 2014. She has a BA in Music from Earlham College, where she was a merit-based fine arts scholar in music and also the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Choral Conducting. In her early twenties she sang as a member with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the John Oliver Chorale. A grant recipient from the MIT Council for the Arts, Sandi has performed as a vocalist on WGBH radio, both as a classical singer and a jazz artist with the vocal trio ESP, with whom she has also sung at notable clubs such as the Regattabar and the Soho series Out By Ten in New York City. In 2000 she released a track as a singer-songwriter as one of 27 women artists on the all-women's compilation CD, RESPOND, which was picked by Columbia Records and which raised over $400,000 for an area domestic violence shelter by the same name. Sandi has over 20 years' experience teaching voice beginning piano, songwriting, and ear training. Sandi is currently working on two musicals, and also recently founded the Butterfly Women's Human Rights Choir, which premiered an original work of hers, "Malala's Song to the Taliban" in April of 2015. In October 2015, Sandi and the Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus received the Lavender Rhino Award at the LGBT History Project's HistoryMaker Awards. Her headshot (2016) is copyrighted by photographer Ray Bernoff.