Sand Family Band Summer tour 2019

Welcome to the Sand Family Band “All Around This World” tour for the summer of 2019! This summer the family band took a ludicrous leap and landed in Europe! Over the course of seven weeks we traveled and played music in a dozen European countries. On the way we took 10,000 pictures! Below you’ll find just a small sampling of our photos and videos from the road.

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(See pretty photos and videos from our super-awesome tours in 2016, 2017 and 2018)

SAND FAMILY TOUR 2019

FRIDAY, JUNE 14

A pre-tour show in Philadelphia to warm up the band.

SUNDAY JUNE 23

FLY FLY FLY

All Around This World summer tour 2019-06-23

MONDAY JUNE 24

Stayed with friends in Konstanz, Germany. Swam in the lake. Ate sausages on a haunted back porch.

TUESDAY JUNE 25

Concert for the kids at Luechtturn GmbH in Schrobenhausen, Germany. Our first European show, proving to ourselves, beyond a doubt, that kids who don’t speak English still speak “music.”

All Around This World performing in Schrobenhausen, Germany

WEDNESDAY JUNE 26, THURSDAY JUNE 27

In the Borgo Grotta Gigante neighborhood, in the Sgonico municipality near Trieste in northeastern Italy, the Sand Family band performed at the fantastic Dom Bistro. Yes, everyone danced.

     

FRIDAY JUNE 28, SATURDAY JUNE 29, SUNDAY JUNE 30, MONDAY JULY 1

Looking out over Umbria in Italy.

All Around This World on summer concert tour 2019 in Umbria, Italy 

TUESDAY JULY 2

Bellinzago Novarese, Italy

WEDNESDAY JULY 3

Performing as part of the Veglia Bifolka variety show produced by Teatro Cantiere at the Pro Loco community fairground in Piana Crixia, Liguria, Italy.

All Around This World summer tour 2019 in Piana Crixia, Italy     

THURSDAY JULY 4

A break between concerts to swim in the blue water near Nice, France.

All Around This World summer tour 2019 in Nice, France

FRIDAY JULY 5

A living room performance for friends in Serres, France.

SATURDAY JULY 6

Making new friends in Brignais, France, near Lyon.

SUNDAY JULY 7

Performing in the small village of Saint-Priest-La Roche, France.

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MONDAY, JULY 8 and TUESDAY, JULY 9

Geneva, Switzerland

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10

Tours, France

THURSDAY, JULY 11

The fantastic “Double Jeu” sculpture exhibition in the gardens of Etretat, France, in Normany on the western coast.

    

FRIDAY JULY 12

Chateaufort, France (near Paris)

SATURDAY JULY 13, SUNDAY JULY 14, MONDAY JULY 15

Celebrating Bastille day in Chennevieres sur Marne, France, near Paris.

TUESDAY JULY 16 and WEDNESDAY JULY 17

Performing at the Diakonie camp for refugees/asylym seekers in Frankfurt, Germany, joined by a special guest to sing a song from Afghanistan.

In Frankfurt, playing it cool.

THURSDAY JULY 18, FRIDAY JULY 19, SATURDAY JULY 20, SUNDAY JULY 21

Performing, and watching incredible performances from dance groups from several continents, at the SIVO festival in Orvelte, Netherlands.

 

(photo by Sjoerd Looijenga)

   

MONDAY JULY 22, TUESDAY JULY 23, WEDNESDAY JULY 24, THURSDAY JULY 25

Riding bikes, as one is wont to do, in the Netherlands.

All Around This World summer tour 2019, riding bikes in the Netherlands

Performing at COA refugee/asylum seekers centers in Luttelgeest and Burgum.

FRIDAY JULY 26, SATURDAY JULY 27, SUNDAY JULY 28

House party in Hamburg, Germany

Another house party in Hamburg. (Thanks Hamburg!)

Performing in Hamburg at a Caritas-supported housing development that is home to many former migrants/refugees.All Around This World summer tour 2019, at Caritas Center Berlin, Germany

MONDAY JULY 29, TUESDAY JULY 30, WEDNESDAY JULY 31

In Berlin.

Singing and dancing at Berlin’s Familienzentrum Fabrik Osloer Strasse.

All Around This World summer tour 2019, at the Familienzentrum FOS in Berlin

THURSDAY AUGUST 1, FRIDAY AUGUST 2, SATURDAY AUGUST 3

So happy to be performing at BlissBeach Rügen Island, Germany.

All Around This World summer tour, at BlissBeach on Rugen Island, Germany


SUNDAY AUGUST 4, MONDAY AUGUST 5, TUESDAY AUGUST 6

The Sand Family performing at Brix Hostel in Prague.

A visit to central Czechia to perform for families of asylum seekers on behalf of Czechia’s Organization for Aid to Refugees.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7

We spent the night in Brno, Czechia, where we asked the question, If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, what is the value of a bird on the head?

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7

The Sand Family in Brno, Czechia, performing for asylum seekers, immigrants and other Brno families on behalf of Czechia’s Organization for Aid to Refugees.


Later the same day, the Sand Family performing as special guests at a party celebrating a “Fair Trade” store in Tulln an der Donau, Austria.

FRIDAY AUGUST 9, SATURDAY AUGUST 10

At the extraordinary Guca Trumpet Festival.

 

SUNDAY AUGUST 11

With friends in Belgrade, Serbia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MONDAY AUGUST 12

A birthday surprise — and a flagrant fire hazard — in Zagreb, Croatia.

TUESDAY AUGUST 13

Staying at a stunning camping lodge in Haiming, Austria.

  

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14

Zurich, Switzerland, cleaning out the car to return it, thinking we were heading home the next day…’til our flight was canceled at the last minute and rebooked for the following morning.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 15

On our extra day we celebrated Liechtenstein’s 300th birthday by drinking free beer at the castle with the King.

   

FRIDAY, AUGUST 16

Finally returning home to Philadelphia, via Zurich, Brussels and JFK.

Wow, what a tour.