While most would remember him as the dashing and willful Jim Craig in the iconic Man from Snowy River movie, nowadays he is much more at home in a suit crooning Sinatra tunes.

“That movie (The Man from Snowy River) was made 35 years ago and it’s amazing how loved it is,” Tom said.

“I am very happy to be involved in a work so enduring and it was really a major turning point in my life.”

Tom has definitely swapped his spurs for a microphone and will be performing Sinatra at the Sands, a concert conceived as a celebration of the 100^th anniversary of Frank Sinatra’s birth.

“I took the idea of doing a tribute album of Sinatra at the Sands, made in 1966, and honouring that in my performance,” he said.

Tom will be bringing his big band sound down to the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre with 13 performers providing that rare live sound.

Tom has always been a Sinatra fan and a career highlight was when he was asked by daughter Tina Sinatra to be the ‘voice’ of Frank Sinatra in a mini-series inspired by the life of ol’ blue eyes. 

“I sent her a video clip of a song I had written about Sinatra called The Man in the Hat, which I had performed on the Midday Show.

“She flew me to Los Angeles to audition for the role and I was pinching myself all the way over. I wasn’t even a professional singer by that stage,” he said.

While he did get a chance to see Sinatra live in concert he wasn’t able to meet him personally.

“I did ask but Tina said, ‘Tom, he don’t meet anyone nowadays,’ and you know, sometimes it’s good not to meet your heroes,” he said.

For his Shoalhaven concert he will be joined by his All Star Big Band and will sing all the wonderful songs from this sensational recording of Sinatra in his prime including Come Fly with Me, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, One for my Baby, You Make Me Feel So Young, Fly Me to the Moon, It was a Very Good Year, My Kind of Town and more.

The original musical arrangements by the great Quincy Jones for the magnificent Count Basie Orchestra will be faithfully recreated by Tom’s band.

Tom will also perform Strangers in the Night, That’s Life, My Way and, of course, New York, New York.

Hopefully by the end of the show the audience will feel like they have well and truly celebrated the birth of Sinatra in style.

“I’ve been very fortunate.This is my 40th year in show business and I count myself very fortunate to have come this far. 

After the show there will be a meet and greet session where fans can get autographs or photographs with him.

Tickets are available now.