When I post about my music it tends to generate much less interest than when I post about random crap that happened to me, so here's my facebook post from my hotel room in Palm Beach, FL the other day…
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Occom's Carol: at Sally Maminash's Grave
Filmed by Anja Eriksen
I found this remarkable song just about thirty years ago, and have been singing it ever since. I'm still waiting for it to catch on. I was doing some work for Dr. Nicholas Temperley, whose…
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Spencer Rifle - Tim at Vance Randolph's Grave
Explicit...
Filmed by Allison Langston who put together a great weekend of events for me in Fayetteville, Arkansas back in October that included a concert under the stars, a visit to 1,500 year old petroglyphs, the Arkansas Archeological Survey's ceramics…
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Tim Eriksen Amazing Grace 2007
Here's a higher resolution version of the second video I ever posted to youtube, shot by Peter Irvine on Mount Pollux after the first Sunday singing in October 2007. At the time, trying to make decent quality files without exceeding…
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And Pass From Hence Away - Tim singing in Carnegie Hall
Evan Chamber's orchestral song cycle The Old Burying Ground was performed in Carnegie Hall and featured Tim Eriksen.
Evan Chambers brings to life the epitaphs etched in stone so many years ago in Jaffery, New Hampshire in his first release…
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Sarasa Sama Dana
My dear friend and mentor David Reck passed away last night. I'll be posting more in coming weeks- there's a lot to say. For now here's something I filmed for David in the Spring of 2020. I learned it from…
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Logan's Lament - Tim Eriksen on Fretless Bajo Sexto HD
There's a lot to be said about Logan and the song inspired by his famous speech. The only research I've done is in secondary sources, some of which I take with a grain of salt. If you want to look…
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Fretless Bajo Sexto Improvisation
One of my projects over the past year without gigs has been to finally create and work on playing this fretless bajo sexto. I've been playing (trying to figure out) bajo sexto since 2004. That's kind of a long story…
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Sacred Harp Singing Tuesday July 9, 2002 Hills Chapel, Northampton, MA HD
It was a good one- the fourth consecutive day (officially) of singing shape-note music together with local friends and visitors from Texas, New Mexico, Oregon, Minnesota, California and around the northeast. It's been a great long weekend of singing for…
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Tim Eriksen and Maciej Kaziński- Greenwood Side
Tim Eriksen- voice Maciej Kaziński- hurdy gurdy.
I recently found this recording we made in Jarosław, Poland in 2008. It's an off the cuff study for what was to have been a larger collaboration. Sadly Maciej passed in 2018. Among…
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