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Rostrevor musician and environment campaigner Colum Sands is launching a new book based around taking a step back and appreciating the beauty around us and allowing nature's healing power to do their work. 'These Quiet Places' is being launched in Warrenpoint Library next week The book contains photographs, thoughts and song excerpts of mostly local places. As Colum explains "to remind us of what we have but can’t take for granted. As Joni Mitchell put it so well, 'You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone…'.”
As a solo performer as well as being a member of The Sands Family, Colum has travelled the world with his thought-provoking, quirky and often humorous songs and stories, many of them based upon life in his native County Down and around the shores of Carlingford Lough.
The travel restrictions of the past two years have given many people cause to take a closer look at the quiet beauty and the healing power of nature that lies on our doorstep and Colum’s new book is inspired as he says himself “by those special out-of-the-way scenes that can so easily be missed in life’s great rush to be somewhere else.”
Michelle Fitzpatrick, District Manager with Libraries NI said “We’re looking forward to taking a photographic stroll with Colum Sands when he launches his new book in Warrrenpoint Library. The audience can expect to explore the rivers, forests, mountains and shores around Carlingford Lough and if lucky, get to hear a verse or two of one of Colum’s songs!”
The free event takes place on Wednesday 25 January from 6:30pm until 8:00pm and everyone is welcome to come along. Please contact the library to book a place as booking is essential.
Telephone: 028 4275 3375
Email: Warrenpoint.library@librariesni.org.uk
