Hey everyone- I need to be brief today so I can get back to writing a big fat term paper.
Another Present: Here’s a link to another song for you, this time a more familiar carol. You can download it and, if you want, share it with friends. I recorded it sitting in front of the fire for that virtual Yule log feel- extra points if you can hear what kind of wood I was burning. Maybe another time I’ll post a love song or a Ramones cover, but for some reason this week I just feel like singing Christmas carols. You can find more of them here.
New Website Launch: Check out the beautifully redesigned TimEriksenMusic.com, created by Lori Frazer and launching today at 6 pm.
New CD: Finally, it looks like my unaccompanied solo singing CD will be coming out soon- more news on that in coming weeks.
West Coast Tour: I’ll be on the west coast again from January 4th through 10th. I hope to see some of you there, and please tell your friends in the Los Angeles/Seattle area:
Monday, January 4th, 8 p.m.
Coffee Gallery Backstage
2029 N. Lake, Altadena, CA
tel. 626-398-7917
Tuesday, January 5th, 7 p.m.
Shape-Note Singing School
All Saints’ Chapel
2451 Ridge Rd, Berkeley, CA
Free and open to everyone. No experience necessary.
Wednesday, January 6th, 8 p.m.
Freight & Salvage
2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA
tel. 510-644-2020
Friday, January 8th, 7:30 pm
Axe and Fiddle
657 East Main Street, Cottage Grove, OR
Tel. 541-942-5942
Saturday, January 9th, 9 p.m.
With Rachel Taylor Brown and Brothers Young!
Mississippi Studios
3939 N. Mississippi, Portland, OR
tel. 503-288-3895
Sunday, January 10th
2:45 p.m.
Workshop: Early American Shape-Note Singing
Dusty Strings Music School
3406 Fremont Avenue North, Seattle, WA
tel. 206-634-1662
10 p.m.
Solo acoustic show – The Tallboys open!
Rendezvous/Jewelbox Theater
2322 2nd Ave., Seattle, WA
tel. 206-441-5823
Thanks very much for your interest and support over the past year! Many good wishes for Christmas, the New Year and whatever other significant events you may be celebrating or avoiding in weeks to come.
January Hills
Tim, the workshop at Dusty Strings was terrific. I’ve been chased around by that image you cited of someone (a diarist?) riding a horse in the countryside and hearing the sound of thousands of people singing from the valley just past the hill. I’m beginning to appreciate how early Americans were such mystics and practical people at the same time, like a dream world built of dirt. Beautiful stuff, and thanks for the teaching.
Hi Tim. Sorry I missed your West Coast tour. I was doing my own tour on the East Coast. You always have a standing invitation to inspire more inner city Portland kids in music anytime. Cheers!