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

    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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    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…

    New Collaboration 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…

    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."

    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…

    Esplanade Festival: Songs of deliverance

    "Tim Eriksen presents two hymns in the Sacred Harp singing tradition against a wintry backdrop of the pastoral Western Massachusetts, United States, in response to Esplanade’s festival, A Tapestry of Sacred Music. In the theme of deliverance, especially in this…

    I Wish the Wars Were All Over

    Tim's song, I Wish the Wars Were All Over Chosen by Joan Baez to be her last recorded musical statement-the last song on her farewell album "Whistle Down The Wind."

    We are entering the end times for some of the…

    Art Maker: Tim Eriksen, musician Daily Hampshire Gazette

     

    Whether teaching shape-note singing, exploring folk music traditions from Appalachia, the Balkans and India, or blending punk and folk music sounds on his guitar, fiddle and banjo, Tim Eriksen has carved out a unique niche for himself as a musician…

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