Music of Healing
The Music of Healing: A now famous annual event running for more than 30 years at Fiddlers Green Festival, Rostrevor, takes its title from a song of that name written by Pete Seeger and Tommy Sands.
This Discussion /Concert, which uses music and song to facilitate meetings of opposite sides in the Northern Ireland conflict, was first chaired by local celebrity Mary McAleese in 1995 before she became 8th President of Ireland and since then by Tommy Sands.
Every year Tommy Sands invites leading politicians and world-famous musicians as well as local talent to join him on stage and discuss hard hitting topics affecting society at the time.
After being coaxed into singing a song on stage at a previous Music of Healing event PUP leader, the late David Irvine said “Tommy Sands is the only man without a paramilitary army that can intimidate me.”