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| Background information | |
| Born | 16 February 1949 |
| Genres | Folk |
| Occupations | Actor/Singer |
| Instruments | Guitar, Melodeon |
| Associated acts | Muckram Wakes, Albion Band, Home Service, Barry Coope |
| Website | https://www.johntams.co.uk/ |
John Tams (born 16 February 1949) is an English actor, singer, songwriter, composer and musician.[1]
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Folk musician [link]
John Tams was a member of Derbyshire folk group Muckram Wakes in the 1970s, then worked with Ashley Hutchings as singer and melodeon-player on albums including Son of Morris On, and as a member of the electric folk group Albion Band. Splitting with Hutchings in the 1980s, he formed Home Service. He is now a solo performer, either fronting a folk-rock band or in a duo with Barry Coope (of Coope Boyes and Simpson).
In December 2009, Tams released a single of "Love Farewell" with the Band and Bugles of the Rifles. The recording of this song, dating from the Peninsular War, was for the benefit of Help for Heroes, a charity dedicated to supporting injured British service personnel and their families.
Collector and stage actor [link]
In 1974, Tams and Neil Wayne went to County Clare to make field recordings of highly-regarded traditional players of the concertina. The recordings were issued on the "Free Reed" label in the '70s. These recordings then became very scarce until 2007 when all the tracks were issued as a 6-CD set called The Clare Set.
Tams was a musical director and actor at the National Theatre from 1976 to 1985 and then again from 1999 to 2001, working on such shows as The Mysteries, Lark Rise to Candleford, Glengarry Glenross, The Crucible, Golden Boy, The Good Hope and The Mysteries Revival in 1999. He was a member of the creative team headed by Bill Bryden.
He also worked as a music consultant at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Holding Fire (opened July 2007), and on War Horse (opened October 2007) at the National Theatre. War Horse has been described as the most successful show ever staged by the National and has resulted in several awards. It received six nominations for the Olivier Awards, including one for the Best Sound, for Tams and fellow team members Chris Shutt and Adrian Sutton.
Television actor [link]
John Tams may be best known to the general public through having played one of the supporting roles in the ITV drama series Sharpe as one of the "Chosen Men": rifleman and former poacher Daniel Hagman, a whimsical, sober, steady hand in the 95th Rifles; always ready with a deadly eye behind a Baker rifle, a folk remedy for an ailment or a song for a weary heart. He also co-wrote the music for each film (18, as of Nov. 2008) alongside Dominic Muldowney.
In 1996, Tams and Muldowney released the best-selling album Over the Hills & Far Away: The Music of Sharpe to accompany the series. This album has sold over 120,000 copies.
Solo singer [link]
Tams has released three solo albums to date, Unity (2001), Home (2002) and The Reckoning (2005); all of which have met with critical acclaim. At the 2006 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Tams won Best Album for The Reckoning, Best Traditional Track (for Bitter Withy) and Folk Singer of the Year.[2] Tams is the only artist to have won the Album of the Year award twice, the first time was with his first solo album Unity in 2001.[2] At the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008 he and singing partner Barry Coope were presented with the prestigious Best Duo award from actor Sean Bean, alongside whom he acted in the Sharpe TV series.[3] Tams has now received ten nominations, resulting in six BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
Radio producer [link]
In 2006, Tams became musical director of the BBC Radio 2 2006 Radio Ballads, an updating of Ewan MacColl's Radio Ballads. The series was short-listed for two Sony Radio Awards in 2007. In the event it won a Sony Gold Radio Academy Award for Song of Steel and a Bronze award for Thirty Years of Conflict. It has been nominated for a Clarion Award. The song Steelos, written by Tams for the Song Of Steel episode of the 2006 Ballads, was nominated Best Original Song at the 2006 Radio 2 Folk Awards. Currently, Tams is also working on a stage version of Steelos to be performed at the Magna Centre in the Rother Valley in 2009. He worked on John McCusker's commission 'Under One Sky' alongside Graham Coxon, Roddy Woomble, Julie Fowlis and others.
In November 2007, Tams was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University,[4] then in January 2009 another Honorary Doctorate from Derby University.[5]
Personal life [link]
John is married to Sally Tams,[6] who also works as his manager. The couple have a daughter.
Discography [link]
- with the Albion Band
- The Prospect Before Us (1977)
- Rise Up Like the Sun (1978)
- Lark Rise to Candleford (1980)
- 1990 (1990) (guest appearance; vocals on The Party's Over)
- with Home Service
- Home Service (1984) (reissued as Early Transmissions, 1996)
- Mysteries (1985)
- Alright Jack (1986)
- Live 1986 (2011)
- Solo albums
- Unity (2000)
- Home (2002)
- The Reckoning (2005)
- Soundtracks
- Over the Hills & Far Away: The Music of Sharpe (1996) (with Dominic Muldowney)
- War Horse: Original music and songs from the National Theatre production (2008) (with Adrian Sutton)
- Compilations
- The Definitive Collection (2007)
- ^ BBC Radio 2: "The Radio Ballads"
- ^ a b "BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008 - Previous Winners". BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/folkawards2008/previouswinners.shtml. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
- ^ "BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008 - Report". BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/folkawards2008/report.shtml. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
- ^ "Honorary doctorates". Sheffield Hallam University. https://www.shu.ac.uk/graduation/honorary.html. Retrieved 2008-06-05.[dead link]
- ^ "John Tams Honorary Doctor of Letters". Derby University. https://www.derby.ac.uk/graduation/highlights-2009/videos/john-tams. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
- ^ "Radio play is perfect for Armistice Day". Derby Evening Telegraph. 7 November 2008. https://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/entertainment/Radio-play-perfect-Armistice-Day/article-456620-detail/article.html. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
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Tamsé
Tamsé is a village in the Toece Department of Bazèga Province in central Burkina Faso. The village has a population of 715.
References
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Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
The Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS) is a two-year residential early entrance college program serving approximately 375 high school juniors and seniors at the University of North Texas. Students are admitted from every region of the state through a selective admissions process. TAMS is a member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology.
History
TAMS was established on June 23, 1987 by the 70th Texas Legislature, in order to provide high school students an opportunity to take advanced coursework in math, science, and engineering. It was designed as a residential program at the University of North Texas for high school-aged students gifted in mathematics and science.
The establishment of this innovative program stemmed from national concern among educators about anticipated shortages of students who would be sufficiently well prepared in mathematical and scientific problem solving. Recognizing that American youth would need to compete in an increasingly technological society, several states including Texas opted to create alternative educational programs that would attract students to the fields of mathematics and science as well as offer bright, motivated young people an accelerated education in these areas of study. TAMS differs from other state-supported residential math and science schools in that the academy offers students the opportunity to complete two years of college concurrently with the last two years of high school.
Tams (disambiguation)
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ALBUMS
- The Definitive Collection released: 2007
- The Reckoning released: 2005
- Unity released: 2000
- Over The Hills & Far Away: The Music of Sharpe released: 1996
Over The Hills & Far Away: The Music of Sharpe
Released 1996- The Overture / Sharpe's Theme / Prelude (featuring Sean Bean)
- I'm Ninety Five
- Over The Hills And Far Away
- The Spanish Sword
- Rogue's March
- The Collier Recruit
- The Bird In The Bush / The Colours
- The Spanish Bride
- The Shilling
- Gentleman Soldier
- Bugle Call/Moneymusk -- Regimental Double Past
- Broken-Hearted I Will Wander
- Badajoz
- The Rambling Soldier
- The Huntsman's Chorus / The Italian Song
- Johnny Is Gone For A Soldier
- The Forlorn Hope
- Love Farewell
- Sunset
- Sharpe's Song / Sharpe's Theme
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by: John TamsOh Bold Hugh Stenson is my name From Ashbourne in the Peak I came And at the age of seventeen I fell in love with Molly Green
Poor pity then this sorrowed state King George's army it is my fate All for the shilling that passed between Has parted me from Molly Green
She is a beauty I do declare She come from High Church in Shropshire She was an angel all in my eye Which made me from my colours to fly
But when I was all upon the seas I could not take one moments ease She was daily all in my eyes Home to her side then I did fly
Stenson, she said, I pray forbear I know that you a deserter are And if my parents should come to know How soon they'd prove your overthrow
So to Wollerton near Nottingham Where I put my trust in a false young man Thinking him a friend to be But he like Judas betrayed me
Then a court martial there was called And I was brought before them all And for deserting they did me try And they condemned me for to die
From January until July Upon these boards and stones I lie And when I die without control Let this sore scene sink in your soul
Come all young men where e'er you be I bid you warning take by me For at the age of seventeen I fell in love...