Tinh Mahoney - Vietnamese Guitarist
 

Acoustic Rain 

What does it feel like to hide in a bunker while a battle rages outside your home in the night? "The Fiery Sky"

What is it like for a soldier to be thousands of miles away from home on New Years Eve? "Home/ Auld Lang Syne"

Feel the dance of the butterflies as Tinh performs “Butterflies in a Pagoda”

The sounds of Pakistan are vivid and exciting in Tinh's complex “Islamabad.” Tinh lived in Islamabad as a teenager for 4 years.

Listen to Tinh's love for his son in "Liam's Lullaby"

 

My Vietnamese Suite

Listen to the beautiful rice fields dancing in the wind "The Rice Dance"

How does it feel for a child to loose his uncle in the war? "My Uncle's Death"

The agonies of heart, longings, and hopes that scald the souls and bodies of "boat people" who are forced to leave their beloved Viet Nam. "The Refugee Trilogy"

"Through the Eyes of a Child"

Far away in a foreign land
But my soul was left behind
Like a morning bird singing in the night
I want to go back
Through the Eyes of a Child

A Tribute to Trinh Cong Son

Trinh Cong Son's popularity grew when his anthems to peace swept across Viet Nam during the war. Although his music was banned by both North and South Viet Nam, bootleg copies of his songs were widely distributed. There are stories of finding tapes of Trinh Cong Son's music on the bodies on dead soldiers on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. This album comes from the heart of one musician interpreting another. To hear Tinh's translations of Trinh Cong Son's lyrics into English is an experience one won't soon forget.

This album is a double disc: The first disc is sung in Vietnamese and the second is overlaid with the English translation of Trinh Cong Son's moving lyrics.

I have more information on Trinh Cong Son including lyrics translated into English.

Christmas Night

Tinh's original title for this album was "Christmas in the Country." He later changed it to "Christmas Night". Basically what Tinh wants to do is to take the listeners back to a time where life was innocent and simple; when Christmas means more than just a trip to the shopping mall. Tinh's solo guitar renditions of these timeless Christmas songs share the beauty of Christmas Night when Christ was born.

7500 Miles to Redemption - A Movie

"Prison has a way to desensitize any man, and I guess for the first time, in the longest time, they felt their goose bumps rising..."
Sam Sophanthavong, Inmate, Oregon State Penitentiary


7500 Miles to Redemption