Join Allison Steel and me, July 21-23, for a singing retreat at a weird little imaginary New England village.
We’ll be singing old songs from the Easy Instructor, 1801 and The Sacred Harp, 1991 as well as working on new…
Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shape-note gospel and dance tunes from New England and Southern Appalachia. He combines hair-raising vocals with inventive accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, guitar and bajo sexto - a twelve string Mexican acoustic bass - creating a distinctive hardcore Americana sound.
“One of the best singers in music”
-T Bone Burnett
"otherworldly"
-Barbara Kingsolver
“Among the world’s finest folk practitioners”
-Toronto Star
“The best ballad singer of his generation”
-BBC Radio