John Tams

John Tams ( born February 16, 1949) is a British actor, singer, composer. He is married to Sally Tams, who is his manager at the same time. Together they have a daughter.

Folk musicians

John Tams began his career as a folk musician in the 1970s as a member of Muckram Wakes. He then worked as a singer and accordion player of the Electric folk group Albion Band with Ashley Hutchings on various albums, including Son of Morris On, and instrumental in the production of Rise Up Like the Sun. After the paths of Tams and Hutchings separated in the early 1980s, founded Tams 1983, the folk-rock band Home Service. Today, he is more likely alone or in duet with Barry Coope.

Collectors and theater actor

In 1974, Tams made ​​, along with Neil Wayne County Clare recordings of highly respected concertina players. These photographs were published in the 1970s by the record label " Free Reed ", but were very difficult to obtain until they were re-released in 2007 as a 6- CD set, the so-called " Clare Set ".

From 1976 to 1985, again from 1999 to 2001 Tams was musical director and actor at the Royal National Theatre in London. In the last two years he worked among others in the shows The Mysteries, Larkrise to Candleford, Glengarry Glenross, The Crucible, Golden Boy, The Good Hope as well as The Mysteries revival. He also was a member of the creative team led by Bill Bryden.

He also worked as musical adviser to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, where he was on the realization of the pieces Holding Fire and War Horse (both premiered in 2007 ) involved. Warhorse was considered the best ever given at the Globe piece called and suggested several times for various awards, including the Olivier Awards, including also for the best music, along with his colleague Chris Shutt and Adrian Sutton.

TV actor

The television viewers John Tams is probably known by the cuteness of his role of protecting and former poacher Daniel Hagman in the TV series Sharpe. Together with Dominic Muldowney he also wrote the music for each episode of the series. In 1996, Tams and Muldowney album Over the Hills & Far Away are: The Music of Sharpe published, which has sold more than 120,000 times. Tams and Muldowney also wrote the music for the film completed in May 2008 Sharpe 's Peril.

Singer

Tams has so far published three solo albums: Unity (2001), Home (2002) and Reckoning ( 2005), which have all been judged very positive from the critics. In 2006 he won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in the category " Best Album " for The Reckoning, in the category " Best Traditional Track" ( Bitter Withy for ) and in the category " Folk Singer of the Year". While the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008, he got and his singing partner Barry Coope of Sean Bean presents the representative Best Duo Award.

Radio producer

In 2006, Tams was musical director of BBC Radio 2 2006 Radio Ballads, an audio documentary format, which had been previously established by Ewan MacColl. The show was one of the candidates for the Sony Radio Academy Awards 2007.

In November 2007, Tam was awarded by Sheffield Hallam University honorary doctorate.