I was especially happy to have an unexpected chance to spend a few days with Martin Carthy. I realized I’d known him forever but never thought to ask “hey, what tuning are you in?” We had a great time…
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
Absence and her sister
"Vocally it’s as if Michael Stipe had fallen in with a Baptist preacher and the single guitar or banjo or fiddle that accompanies each song gives his remarkable voice room to do its stuff"
- Q Magazine
New Album from Soundkeeper Recordings
With Absence and her sister Tim Eriksen and Peter Irvine return to their roots in folk minimalism and Gothic Americana- new and ancient songs of their native New England informed by the wide palette of their other collaborations. The two…
Come on out this Friday!
We are encouraging people to come to The Drake in Amherst, MA on March 20 for a preview of our new album , “Absence and her sister.” Getting people out to local shows remains a challenge, so we'd really appreciate…
Tony Trishka + friends radio show
“I had a great annual holiday tour with Tony Trischa, Sean Trishka, Hannah Read and Jared Engel. Here's a radio show we taped at NEPM” Enjoy!
Americana legend Tony Trischka joins us ahead of his show tonight at The Iron…
Catching up with Alison Krauss
“It was great to catch up with Alison Krauss and Jerry Douglas in Boston, and to finally meet Russell Moore. I love what they and the band did with my song Granite Mills. ". -T.E.
Tim on BBC Documentary Podcast
“Sacred Harp pioneer and former punk frontman, Tim Eriksen, takes us into the hair-raising sound of shape note singing, an American choral tradition experiencing a resurgence across the US and in Europe. All people and all…
Alison Krauss and Union Station have a new album
Alison Krauss and Union Station have a new album coming out that contains two songs I gave Alison over the years: Granite Mills and Richmond On The James.
Granite Mills was recently released as the second single, and the…
Historic Deerfield’s hybrid 2025 museum course
Historic Deerfield’s hybrid 2025 museum course, “One Hundred Years of Song: Singing Early New England Music for Science, Memory, and Abolitionism, 1770–1870,” will be held on Wednesdays March 12, 19, and 26, 2025 virtually and in person.
The Revolutionary and…
88 Well-Tuned Drums + The Fabulous 413 interview with Omar
Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums, directed by Soren Sorensen captures much of Sosa’s oeuvre. Documentary screening with discussion featuring Omar Sosa, Tim Eriksen and film maker Soren Sorensen will happen on Oct 21 in Northampton, Oct 22,…
Atlantica: a new project with Omar Sosa
A couple of hundred million years ago, what became West Africa and Massachusetts were in the same place. The plates shifted, a fissure opened in the proto-continent and became the Atlantic ocean. We and our ancestors have crossed that ocean…
Skautská Alternativa festival
The 15th edition of the Skautská Alternativa festival in Drum near the train tracks
Poslední ročník Skautský Alternativy byl síla a čistá krása!
18th Century Singing School
Tim Eriksen and Allison Steel shared their contagious love of singing with students as they delved into the Shape-Note style of singing used in The Sacred Harp, a song book first printed in 1844 and still actively in use…
Jubilee! A Juneteenth Concert of Early New England Music
An all-star ensemble of early American music performers presented a concert featuring lively Abolitionist psalmody, spirituals, dance tunes, and chamber music from the repertoire of regional African American composers and band leaders. This includes the music of Greenfield’s own John…
Music, magic, love, and dragons
A production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed by Milan Dragicevich with original music by Tim Eriksen
When Shakespeare’s Viola lands on the shores of Illyria, she discovers a topsy-turvy world of rebellious revelry and swirling magic, enabling fever-pitch romantic passions…
Stands For Nothing: 5 song EP release, and first show since the Reagan years
The First Thing I Ever Did EP
“Revisiting this recording and all that surrounded it has been fascinating and profound in ways that I intend to write about more as I understand it all…
Tim Eriksen Presents: Pumpkintown
Tim Eriksen Presents Pumpkintown: Songs, Stories and Magic Lantern Projections From a New England Village. Joined by Peter Irvine, percussion and sound design, and Susan Brearey, paintings and magic lantern projections. Preceded by a shapenote singing workshop…
Tim Eriksen w/ special guest John Hughes
Tim Eriksen w/ special guest John Hughes
New England inspired Americana and true folk practitioner. Plus special guest kora player John Hughes.
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NYT ‘The Outwaters’ Review: Massacre in the Mojave
Critic’s Pick New York Times
Stunning sound design, creative mood-setting and a fearless finale elevate this found-footage horror film about an ill-fated camping trip.
Feb. 9, 2023The found-footage genre can be catnip to young filmmakers, embracing…
A Reading & Conversation with Mrs. Annye Anderson
Tim will be moderating a conversation with the always fascinating Mrs. Annye Anderson about her debut memoir Brother Robert: Growing Up With Robert Johnson, and her nearly 97 years on the planet. Please come if you can!
Robert Johnson, one…
Remembering John Cohen
TE and Brendan Gleeson, June 2002 photo by John Cohen. We'll be remembering John at the Brooklyn Folk Festival this weekend.
NYC FILM PREMIERE, 8:00pm: Different Johns – a documentary film that explores the different lives of John Cohen: old…
Pumpkintown: Songs, Stories from a New England Village
"The imagery was enchanting and engaging, varying from Victorian graphics to etheral, surreal, and painterly images. It is as if one is spying through a keyhole into a kaleidoscopic journey of other worlds, coming into focus much like a dream."
Songs of Abolition: A Juneteenth Concert Celebration
On June 19, 2022, Historic Deerfield will present an evening of music and history titled “Songs of Abolition: A Juneteenth Concert Celebration at Historic Deerfield.”
The concert will include early gospel tunes, music from a new documentary film…
That Folking Podcast: Tim Eriksen
Folking is a podcast series examining modern & historical issues through the lens of folklore, music and dance traditions, featuring the music and words of independent global musicians and contemporary tradition bearers, everywhere.
"Genevieve's great spirit, curatorial listening and curiosity…
