Contact Sandy Reay

P.O. Box 2261
Monument CO 80132

Sandy started playing music when she was old enough to lift the lid on the piano and pick out tunes by ear. In 1996, she started playing upright bass. She's been playing professionally since 1998.

In the spring of 1994, she wrote her first song. In the fall of 1994, she was a finalist in the Walnut Valley Songwriters / Composers' Showcase with her second song, "Cabin on the Prairie". She was a finalist again in 1997 with "Apache Plume". She also co-wrote a collection of scary songs for children, with Patrick Bone , a Scholastic Book author. In the summer of 2008, she co-taught a songwriting course, "Hook Rhyme and Singer," with Christy Wessler at Swallow Hill. Her songs are featured on Colorado Sandstorm Music Publishing.

Sandy played bass in a number of bands and for a number of performers. She was the "bass wench" of the Colorado Renaissance Festival from 1999 through 2004. She has "retired" to concentrate on her songwriting.

Although she can be heard on over 15 CDs, her latest CD, "I Wanted to Fly," is the one that makes her proudest. She wrote half the songs and co-wrote the other half with Ernie Martinez , J.J. Fraser , and B. J. Suter . Four of the songs were included in Colorado Bluegrass Music Society compilation CDs. One was a Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival New Songs contest alternate. Several are getting airplay on KDNK, KOLT FM, WGOE, KVMR. WVOF-FM, WRSU-FM, Erin Radio, Heartland Public Radio HPR2: The Western Channel, Boy radio stations, and Boston Pete station 4. Both the CD and the song "Already Gone" made the Top Ten charts in the May-June 2010 issue of Rope Burns, the trade publication for Western music.

with Ernie Martinez and Annie Phillips

at Celtic Isles Pub with Steve Pierce and Terry Dalton
(photos by Kim Davison)

Djypsy Grass with Michi Regier & Gary Michaels

WhoYaSay? with Bill Farmer and B.J. Suter

After the Renaissance Festival, at Acoustic Music Revival

The Canyon Ratz with Michi Regier at Swallow Hill
Mark Mortensen (left) and Mark Merryman (right)


The Canyon Ratz with Michi Regier at Las Hadas
(photo by Kim Davison)

Red Molly with Michi Regier, B.J. Suter, and Bill Farmer at Swallow Hill Folk Festival, August, 2005
(Article from "The Hub"; Note: band is incorrectly identified in the photo caption.)

Benefit Oct 2, 2005                               (photos by Kim Davison)
The Canyon Ratz and Michi Regier	Djypsy Grass
	At Swallow Hill, December, 2005
At Plantation House At Mooredale, October, 2005 (photo by Mike Quaintance)	(photo by Kim Davison)
The Canyon Ratz	Swallow Hill Volunteer, Jan. 2006 (photo by Reggie Barrett)
with Company Q at Canon Rose, Feb, 2007
with Ernie Martinez, Steve Pierce, Terry Dalton March 17, 2007, at Sheabeen Irish Pub . (Photos by Andy Schmidt)
at Pogue Mahone's March 31, 2007 (photo by Mike Quaintance)
with Jeff Ingram at Three Kings Tavern April 1, 2007 (photo by Mike Quaintance)
with Bob Turner and Steve Pierce at Three Kings Tavern, April 1, 2007 (photos by Mike Quaintance)
with Rick McGregor and Jeff Ingram May, 2007, at Acoustic Music Revival
with Ernie Martinez, Christy Wessler and Rick McGregor at the Swallow Hill Folk Festival September, 2007 (photos by Marge McGregor) ~ * ~   with Ernie Martinez, Bob Turner and Steve Pierce at the Swallow Hill Folk Festival September, 2007 (photos by Reggie Barrett)
Jeff Graves, Bob Cooke and a crazed percussionist! (photo by Sandy Culter)
with Jeff Graves, Jay Graham, Owain Graham at Pogue Mahone's, Oct 13, 2007 (photo by Joanne DiBenedetto)
with the Shadow Mountain String Band: Bill, Sandy, Mike, Ron, B.J. Jan. 2008, Victorian Dance Caribbean Cruise, Carnival Conquest
Ernie Martinez's CD Release Party, Swallow Hill, June 14, 2008
more photos of Ernie's CD release party
(photos by Bill Patterson)
Sandy, Ernie Martinez, and Martin Gilmore performing "One Lonely Rider"
America's Soul Live! June 17, 2008 with Mack Bailey More photos: America's Soul Live! (photos by Bill Patterson)
the New Canyon Ratz: Wade Krause, Sandy Reay, Mark Merryman, Mark Mortensen, Jeff Ingram Fat Frog, July 11, 2008 (photo by Kim Davison)
Old Pearl Street Summerfest, July 12, 2008, with Rocky Mountain Jewgrass Rocky Mountain Jewgrass at Swallow Hill November, 2008 (photo by Reggie Barrett)   Rocky Mountain Jewgrass at the Tempe Center for the Arts, January 11, 2009 (photo by John and Peta Jacobs)       Rocky Mountain Jewgrass Acoustic Alley, April 11, 2009
Acoustic Music Revival   < Songwriters Showcase, May 30, 2009     Saturday Concert Series, July 28, 2009 >            Songwriters Showcase at Pickin' on Tennyson June 10, 2010 with Sylvia Murray photo by Suzie Solomon of GospelGrass