Sandy Crimmins is a spoken word artist who performs her poetry to
music. Known in the Philadelphia poetry community, she's performed at poet
venues such as Kelly's Writer at the University of Pennsylvania, and art
galleries, including the Robb Gallery in Chestnut Hill. She'll be performing
"El Cid in Flamenco and Flame", her latest collaborative dance, music
and spoken word piece created with the group, Secret Lives. It will feature the
Flamenco finger style acoustic guitar music David Falcone, and Flamenco
dancer and fire eater, Tomas Dura. Sandy has received national
recognition from her CD release, Iowa Summer, a collaboration with
acclaimed guitarist Richard Drueding, who has enhanced the music of folk
icon Tom Paxton, singer-songwriter Tom Gala, and jazz blues singer Zan Gardner.