Tim's Schedule Playing and Teaching in Poland & the Czech Republic, Summer 2008
July 12, 2008
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Colours of Ostrava
(show & workshop)
Ostrava CZ
I'll be at the festival, on my own, for several days doing concerts and workshops. T.E. |
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Poland Radio 2 Studio
broadcast live at Polish Radio 2, 2 pm EST at http://www.polskieradio.pl/sluchaj/play.aspx?p=r2
Warsaw PL
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Jaroslaw Festival
Jaroslaw PL
http://www.festiwal.jaroslaw.pl/
I'll be there all week doing concerts and teaching shape-note singing, with a final concert on Saturday night including the workshop participants. It sounds like a really cool festival. T.E. |
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There
are now a number of videos on Youtube that you might want to check
out or pass along to friends. Not counting what others have posted, there
are videos for:
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EPHEMERA
-Northern
Roots
I'm busy recording demos for
a full-length recording (record?) that aims to bring Yankee music out of
the closet. In the process I've been talking to producer Joe Boyd, though
mostly about Korean food. Along those lines....
-Cordelia's
Dad
is "in the studio" as it were-
very slowly mixing live stuff and recording a bit of new stuff, hopefully
with trombone, for Matt Hinton's double CD of Sacred Harp songs 1. in their
natural habit and 2. otherwise.
-Hampshire
and Dartmouth
This Spring I'll be teaching
a course in songwriting at Hampshire College and sitting in for Ted Levin
to teach "Global Sounds" at Dartmouth. I'm really looking forward to these,
and am very grateful to Becky Miller and Ted Levin for the opportunity.
-Eastern
Europe
may be in the cards for next
summer. Consider telling your former Soviet bloc festival-running cousin
about this Northern Roots business.
---Sacred Harp
compilation:
I'm recording for Matt Hinton's upcoming double CD, one disc of
real Sacred Harp singing plus another of interesting folks taking a crack
at the music pop music style. Woven Hand and John Paul Jones are confirmed,
plus other fancy folks lurking in the shadows...
---Flammarion
Correspondences:
Ed Jessen's experimental opera featuring TE, Ana Maria Friman, John
Potter and a wonderful array of musicians and other collaborators still
awaits proper funding in the UK. I'm particularly looking forward to this
project and will keep you posted.
---Solo Acoustic
CD
I've been threatening to do this for ages, but now it just plain
needs to happen. It will most likely feature a lot of old songs from New
England, and some new ones, on bajo sexto as well as fiddle, banjo and
guitar. Any of you own a record label?
---Cordelia's
Dad Live: 20th Anniversary show
We're currently mixing this for a potential 2 CD release, one of
the acoustic set and one of the electric from this show at the Iron Horse
in Northampton, MN last April.
---Stands For
Nothing
Also in the works is a first ever digital release of some very classic
hardcore punk by TE, brother Benny and Crowley aka Max Bovine. I still
love this stuff, and think it kicks crap like Avenged Sevenfold where it
hurts. Details TBA |
As many of you know I've generally been very reticent to promote
my work beyond telling my friends about it, if that. This is no longer
practical, and I'm also sick of it. With a lot of help from some dear friends
I have begun to look for ways to capitalize on what's good about my music.
If you would like to help somehow, I would certainly appreciate it: buy
my CDs for your friends, link to my
website , bother your local or satellite radio station to play my music,
help organize a concert/singing school or other event: it's all potentially
very useful. - T.E.
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past
events and adventures
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Blue Note New York
June 10 - 15 , 2008
These special concerts will feature the following excellent musicians:
Omar Sosa Sextet, featuring
Marque Gilmore, drums
Childo Tomas, electric bass
David Gilmore, guitar
Leandro Saint-Hill, flute, saxophone
Tim Eriksen, vocals
Omar Sosa is one of the most versatile jazz artists on the scene today: composer, arranger, producer, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. He fuses a wide range of world music and electronic elements with his native Afro-Cuban roots to create a fresh and original urban sound - all with a Latin jazz heart. On stage, Mr. Sosa is a charismatic figure, inspiring his fellow musicians with his dynamic playing and improvisational approach to the music - an approach full of raw emotional power and humor. Mr. Sosa invariably inspires audiences to their feet and to join him in chorus vocals, heightening the sense of spontaneity and connection.
June 18, 2008
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Porter Phelps Huntington House
North Hadley, MA
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"Tim Eriksen and Cordelia's Dad" or something. |
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Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet
Friday, APRIL 4 • 8 pm
Spaulding Auditorium
$28 • Dartmouth students $5
website
April 10, 2008
Tim will be performing in a concert of devotional music, featuring qawali
singers Mer and Sher Ali and a troupe of 10 musicians from Pakistan.
Qawwali (kuh-wah-lee), ecstatic devotional music drawn from Sufi mystic poetry, expresses the elation of divine union and the sorrow of separation. With a fervor resembling the passionate, soul-bearing spirit of gospel music, qawwals often achieve trance states while performing. Brothers Mehr and Sher Ali, qawwali masters from Pakistan, combine powerful vocals with their ensemble's explosive hand-clapping rhythms and traditional percussion—in the exhilarating Punjabi style of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who introduced qawwali to a global audience.
Details
remain to be determined, but it will be in Hanover, NH at Dartmouth College.
Here's a link to the group's main concert in town. More info to come....
April 11, 2008
Songwriters' Coffee House at Hampshire College, 8pm.
Tim will do some singing
with the main show being students in the American Balladry Class.
April 12, 2008
Sacred Harp Singing School: Tim will be teaching at the NECSEM meeting at
Amherst College in Amherst, MA.
website
April 18, 2008
A concert in memory of Dora Magrath
Hampshire College Recital Hall. Here's the facebook page for a tribute to this wonderful singer, student and friend.
February 28, 2007
New York, New
York
The Old Burying
Ground at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall was cool. The bathrooms were somewhat cleaner than the
ones at CBGB, and they even had doors. -T.E.
February 26, 2007
Ithaca, New York
The
Old Burying Ground at Cornell University
February 24, 2007
Oberlin, Ohio
The Old Burying
Ground at Oberlin University
December 10, 2007
The Old Burying Ground
Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan
8:00 PM
Free
This is the first installment of Evan
Chambers's symphonic settings of New Hampshire gravestone texts, featuring
TE, a classical soprano and tenor. The second half of the show will be
Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring."
website
December 1, 2007
Polish Radio 2 Broadcast, 7-9 a.m.
EST
website
Broadcast (in Polish, obviously) about
New England culture and history, with music and extended interview w/TE,
probably in the second half of the show (ca. 8 a.m. EST). The broadcast
will be streamed, but not archived so if you want to hear it you need to
catch it live.
November 29, 2007
Sacred Harp singing
school at Brown University
29 Providence, RI: Sacred Harp Singing School
5-7 pm
Brown University, Steinert Practice Center
Corner of Hope St. & Power St.
Free- everyone is invited, regardless
of musical experience etc.
November 16 -
18, 2007
Port Townsend,
Washington
Eriksen, Powell,
Baugus
3 day workshop w/performance
website
| The Pacific Northwest was great. Old friends and new, lots of singing
and one of my favorite second sets ever, with Riley Baugus and Dirk Powell,
which contained only 5 songs- surely a personal record for stretching things.
I played my first square dance- probably hadn’t been to one since
I was 12. It was excellent to see the Foghorn guys again, and there were
some wonderful moments on stage-"Farther Along" stands
out, as does the increasingly over-the-top version of "The Cuckoo"
thats been brewing for a while now. It was great to see Mike
Heffley, who played trombone on Cordelia's Dads "What
It Is"There were nearly 100 people at the singing school in
Portland. I saw a rainbow and a salmon. -TE |
November 15, 2007
Portland Oregon
Tim Eriksen, Dirk
Powell, Riley Baugus and the Foghorn Stringband
at Mississippi Studios
website
October 16 2007
2 pm
Hampshire College
Music Building
Amherst, MA
Sacred Harp singing
school
You're very welcome
to come sing with us.
| It's been several months since you've received anything from me.
The reason, if you have not already heard, is that I suffered the greatest
loss this summer and have been slowly getting my bearings back. My wife
Minja died on July 15- I can only be blunt, as I haven't found an eloquent
or helpful way to say it. I tried for years to write her a love song. It's
clear now, and perhaps always obvious to our many friends, that they are
all love songs. You may wish to look at the following:
www.wmshc.org/minja_memorial.php
Luka, Anja and I are doing well- thank you for your many notes of concern.
-T.E. |
SATURDAY
OCTOBER 13
Memorial in Minnesota
12:30
A rather remarkable
event in Minja's memory will take place at the Cedar Cultural Center in
Minneapolis this Saturday. It's something we tried to organize for years
but never quite got off the ground (except for our tsunami benefit in 2004).
Many of our friends from various communities in the Twin Cities will perform:
I'll do some solo pieces, participate in Sacred Harp singing and probably
play with the Rehobot Oromo Choir, our dear friends with whom Minja and
I played for a number of years. Also appearing will be Pooja Goswami and
party: Hindustani vocal, Nirmala Rajasekar and parety: Saraswati vina,
Joko Sutrisno and the Shubert Club Gamelan, Smart Baitani and his Tanzanian
Choir. It's really a stunning line up, and there will also be cake for
everyone, something Minja would have insisted on.
For details see:
http://www.thecedar.org/mirjana_minja_lausevic_memorial
- -I'm extremely excited about the upcoming workshop version of Ed
Jessen's "Flammarion Correspondences" in York, England in early May.
It will be great to have some experience with this piece before the run
in Copenhagen next fall. Beyond that, I just plain can't wait to hear the
music.
- -"Balkan Fascination: Creating an Alternative Music Community in
America" is finally out! Oxford University Press threw a party for
Minja a few weeks ago at the annual SEM conference, so I guess it's official
(though we have yet to see a copy). Some ads only mention the CD, but the
book contains a DVD as well- a little added incentive to give that special
someone the gift of ethnomusicology this Christmas. website
- -I'm looking forward to a comparatively quiet winter working at or near
home after a bit of traveling, mostly for The Musical Instrument Museum.
Within just a few weeks we were in Paris and Brussels for three days, Hawaii
two weeks later and overnight in Minneapolis the week after that. The museum
actually has offices and the beginnings of a staff now, which makes it
seem much more real.They also apparently have a giant drum squirreled away
somewhere- add some monogrammed tote bags and an overpriced cafeterial
and we'll be in business! website T.E.
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January 5 2007
Cordelia's Dad
electric ca. 11pm
TT the Bear's
Cambridge, MA
This is the second night
of Kimchee Records' big 10th anniversary bash, featuring a short set by
a quasi-reunited, feedback-laden Cordelia's Dad as well as a lot of other
great music: Tiger Saw, 27, Seekonk, Hilken Mancini/Chris Colbourn, Geoff
Farina- doors are at 8 with music soon thereafter.
info: website
visit
Cordelia's Dad new myspace page
December 13, 2006
Tony Trischka/Glory
Shone Around
website
Tony
Trischka mini tour with a quasi-reunited Northampton Harmony: a bluegrass/shape-note
Christmas kind of thing
Dec 8
Bethlehem, PA Godfrey Daniels
Dec 9
Hamilton, NJ Grounds For
Sculpture
Dec 13
Amherst, MA Amherst College
Dec 14
Pawling, NY Towne
Crier
Dec 15
Hartford ,CT University
of Hartford
| Watermelon Wednesdays with Rani Arbo and Andrew Kinsey. I
was an unadvertised part of what turned out to be a wonderful evening of
music at the West Whately chapel. Bats flew, watermelon was eaten- at times
the music seemed almost on fire, though quietly. T.E. |
October 21, 2006
Solo Acoustic/Shape Note concert
Amherst College, Buckley Recital Hall,
7:30 pm- Free
Amherst, MA
Part of the "Sacred
Music in Transition" symposium at Amherst and Yale.
website
October 7, 2006
Tim Eriksen and Michael Theodore @ NWEAMO
New York, NY:
Another electronic
music festival appearance
for the band that might be named Royall
Tyler.
website
September 30,
2006
Kingston, RI
New England Sacred Harp Convention
Two full days
of singing, plus a screening of the new documentary
"Awake My Soul: the Story of the Sacred
Harp."
website
click
for article on tim
August 26, 2006
Orton
Park Festival
Madison, WI
(608) 256-2953
I'll do a Sacred
Harp workshop and a solo set that
includes folks
from the workshop...T.E.
website
| Amherst College Valentine Chair Details: Minja and I are
set to teach four courses next year. In the fall we'll teach one on global
film music and, believe it or not, Music 11, which is Amherst's "Music
101." We'll be using the Sacred Harp as the primary teaching source, but
also incorporating Carnatic Music, Balkan vocal and brass band music, American
rock and folk to whatever degree seems to work. Spring semester we'll teach
American Music and an ethnomusicology seminar for music majors. We'll also
put together a series of concerts/events. We're hoping Esma Redzepova will
be in the country sometime next year. In the Spring we're planning an "Old
Folks' Concert" a la 1850's New England (but probably with some Ramones
and other stuff thrown in). We've got a zillion other ideas, but let us
know if you have a special request. We'll also be organizing some sort
of American music ensemble. I'm thinking of having it open to anyone, and
creating a genre after we see who's interested. Everyone will have to learn
to read shapes though. |
August 15, 2006
Transperformance
16: All in the Family
Northampton,
MA
website
"Cordelia's Dad
and Sacred Harp singers from Western MA will appeared as
the Von Trapp
Family Singers"- to benefit the Northampton Arts Council.
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is the annual end-of-summer bash produced by The Northampton Arts Council
and the PTOs of the Northampton public schools to support arts enrichment
in Northampton's schools and in the community. Northampton High School,
J.F.K. Middle School and the four Northampton elementary schools are all
beneficiaries of this fundraiser.
The
theme this year is Family. Local bands will cover groups that have family
in their name or have members who are related, such as: The Jackson Five,
The Neville Brothers, Sly and the Family Stone, The Kinks, and The Carpenters,
to name just a few.
Peter Irvine of Cordelia's Dad -- who will
be joining with The Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Singers to transperform
The Van Trapp Family -- listed three reasons for their choice: "One, Tim
Eriksen (co-founder of Cordelia's Dad) visited the Trapp Family Lodge in
Vermont as a kid and got yelled at by Maria (something about not touching
the breakables). Two, the singing styles of Julie Andrews and your average
Sacred Harp singer could hardly be more different, which fits the mandate
of Transperformance to reach as far outside of one's comfort zone as possible.
Three, our friend, and participant, Amy once won a costume contest at a
Sound of Music sing-along, and still has the pink parasol and dress. So
we really had no choice." -brattleboro reformer
Cordelia's Dad eclectric and Sacred Harp singers appeared as the
Von Trapp Family at this annual event. Thanks to singer/costumiere Amy
Davis, Peter Irvine and I had matching lederhosen. They could become a
permanent addition to our projects. T.E.
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August 6, 2006
Newport
Folk Festival
Newport, RI
(401) 847-3700
website
| w/65 Sacred Harp singer friends, Riley Baugus, Peter Irvine and Michael Theodore. It was just amazing to be with everyone! It
was surely the most people they've ever had on stage, not that that's the
point. The organizers said the set reminded them why they started the festival
in the first place.
It was great to play with Riley again, too.
The day before the show, it occurrred to me that we were supposed to play
together and hadn't talked about it (or played together for over a year).
I gave Riley a call about maybe trying to find time to practice some, and
it turned out he'd just landed in Providence, gotten in a rental car and
was a mile from the exit to the place I was staying. Nothing like planning.
The enthusiastic response to the screeching and thundering noises made
by Michael Theodore and myself confirmed that we are, in fact, a pop band.
We might be called Royall Tyler. How does that sound? I also like "Royall
Tyler: Mother of Birds." T.E. |
June 14, 2006
Solo Acoustic
Porter-Phelps-Huntington
Museum
(hopefully with various musical friends)
Hadley, MA
website
June 8, 2006
Solo Acoustic
w/Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem
7:30 pm.
Cedar Cultural Center
Minneapolis, MN
June 1-4, 2006
Collaboration
w/Minnesota Dance Theater
Southern Theater
Minneapolis,
MN
612-340-1725
website
Tim, soon-to-retire Amherst College professor David Reck,
his
son, Daniel Reck, and Umayalpuram Mali
Double
Vina Concert w/David Reck
w/mrdangam and
ghatam acompaniment-
Amherst College, Buckley Recital Hall.
8:00
free
Amherst, MA
| It was just great to play with David again. I hope we can find time
to do more this year. We did a preview concert at Wesleyan University with
David Nelson on mrdangam, and it was great to play with him again too!
T.E. |
May 14, 2006
Sacred
Harp Singing
Hadley, MA
Porter
Phelps Huntington House
1-3 pm
I
can't imagine a better way to prepare for a South Indian music concert.
April 30, 2006
Double
Vina Concert-
w/David Reck,
vina and David Nelson, mrdangam
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
Russell House - Russell House
Millett Room
Admission: Free
website
860-685-3355
April 2, 2006
Solo Acoustic
will
most likely feature a piece or two by the
yet-to-be-named
duo with Michael Theodore
Tractor Tavern
206-789-3599
Seattle, WA
website
| Pacific Northwest Gig Report: The shows were great, and the audiences
"select." We started off at the SEAMUS conference, which was very cool.
The audience consisted almost entirely of electro-acoustic composers, and
I enjoyed the opportunity to talk about the sorts of things they care about
(me too for the most part). I don't know what composers throw when they
don't like something, but whatever it is they didn't throw any. Michael
Theodore ended up playing on the next two gigs as well, on laptop as well
as saw and percussion. Lots of fun. We'll probably do some music together
at the Newport Festival or around that time. The festival's new slogan
appears to be "turbo folk," so maybe we'll be just the ticket. (Or maybe
we'll have to work up some Ceca and Selma Bajrami covers). |
April 1,
2006
Solo Acoustic
will
most likely feature a piece or two by the
yet-to-be-named
duo with Michael Theodore
Mississippi Studios
(503) 288-3895
Portland, OR
website
March 30, 2006
Electro acoustic
project w/Michael Theodore
SEAMUS Festival
Afternoon Show, 1:30 at Beall Hall
Eugene, OR
website
November 20, 2005
Woods
Hole Folk Society
Concert
Series
Woods
Hole, MA
website
for more info
November 19, 2005
Passim
Cambridge,
MA
website
for more info
November 17-19,
2005
Society
for Ethnomusicology annual conference
Atlanta, GA
November 13, 2005
Old
Town School of Folk Music
Chicago, IL
November 11, 2005
Early
American Museum
Mahomet, IL
November 10 -
12, 2005
Midwest Open-Air
Museums Coordinating Council
(MOMCC)
Annual Conference
Shape Note/Sacred
Harp Day Long Workshop
Lerna, IL.
October 29, 2005
Prairie Home
Companion
w/Garrison Keillor
. (check your local listings)
The Fall So Far: I had a great time at the Lotus Festival in Indiana
and the Open House Festival in Northern Ireland. Both included very satisfying
gigs and some profound Sacred Harp workshop moments. It was great to do
shows with Riley Baugus again, along with Ira Bernstein, and it was great
to play with the Foghorn Stringband. We listened to lots of Entombed and
Minor Threat in the van- a rare treat when travelling with banjos and fiddles.
We had a great driver, Peter Crann, who sings sean nos and is hilarious.
I loved hearing Rosie Stewart- man, what a singer. I got to have dinner
with her at a Burger King in Belfast, which was another bonus. Kieran and
Allison who put the festival together are also great folks, and Kieran
is
a Motorhead fan. Things are looking up in the world. I finally got
to see the film Chrystal, and really enjoyed it. The use of music is very
effective, and I loved the way my song was used. T.E. |
September 28 -
October 9, 2005
Open
House Festival
ARTIST
IN RESIDENCE
Belfast,
Ireland
THE
MUSIC THAT CROSSED THE ATLANTIC...
THE
ROOTS OF NORTH AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC AND DANCE
This
year Open House Festival has taken a musical journey across the Atlantic,
following the route that has been taken for the past three hundred years
by pilgrims and emigrants from Ireland and Britain, and in particular the
Scots-Irish. The Appalachian Mountains have become a melting pot for different
cultural and musical influences from England, Ireland and Scotland, as
well as from other cultures including Africa. The area has produced a rich
new branch of the traditional music tree, giving us the likes of Old-Time
Mountain music and Bluegrass, Sacred Harp or Shape Note singing, as well
as dance styles like Flatfooting and Clogging.
Open
House Festival is this year bringing a host of American artists to Belfast,
including two
artists-in-residence,
Tim Ericksen and Ira Bernstein. Through concerts, workshops and sessions,
these superb artists will be demonstrating and passing on their skills,
and the living traditions that they represent.
website
for more info
May 6, 2005
Cedar Cultural Center,
Minneapolis, MN
8:00 pm
May 7, 2005
CSPS, Cedar Rapids,
IA 8 pm
Tim
Eriksen, Dirk Powell and Riley Baugus
Micro-Tour
Dirk Powell and Riley Baugus are stunning younger voices in older American music,
with whom Tim Eriksen collaborated to much critical acclaim in the film Cold
Mountain and last year's "Great High Mountain Tour" with Ralph Stanley
and Alison Krauss. These concerts are a much anticipated reunion.
Saturday,
April 23, 2005
Rehobot
Oromo Choir (w/Tim Eriksen)
as part of
the
The
Festival Dancing In Your Head Marathon
One of the towering
creative figures of our time, Ornette Coleman changed how we think about
music, what is beautiful and what is possible. This three-day festival
celebrates the life and sounds of a true jazz pioneer. The Walker and Headwaters
Music, led by Artistic Director Anthony Gatto, copresent this weekend of
world premieres, compelling juxtapositions, and intimate views of a legend.
4:00 pm to 12:00
am
William and
Nadine McGuire Theater, Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin
Avenue, Minneapolis
$15 ($12
Walker members)
Song
Links II is being released this week
Check out the website
Sunday March 20,
2005
The Smithsonian
Resident Associate Program
MARCH LECTURES & SEMINARS
Sacred Harp Singing
With Tim Eriksen
S. Dillon Ripley Center 1100 Jefferson
Drive, S.W.
Saturday March
19, 2005
Folklore Society
of Greater Washington ( FSGW)Workshops
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM:
Mirjana Lausevic and Tim Eriksen
Balkan Singing Workshop--Traditional
Bosnian Polyphony
Knox Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall
(Falls Church, VA)
from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM:
Tim Eriksen--"Sacred Harp" Shaped Note
Singing School
Knox Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall
(Falls Church, VA)
from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM:
FSGW Monthly Program
Tim Eriksen
Knox Presbyterian Church (Falls Church,
VA)
see FSGW
website for details
March 12th and
13th, 2005
Western
Massachusetts Sacred Harp
2005
Convention
Saturday and Sunday
9:30am - 3:30pm
see website for directions and details
TSUNAMI BENEFIT CONCERT
(this concert raised 11,000+
$! thank you everyone!)
JAN. 15, 7pm
TED
MANN CONCERT HALL
PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD! THANKS...
2128 4th Street South
Minneapolis, MN
FEATURING MUSICIANS FROM AFFECTED AREAS AND BEYOND:
- -JOKO SUTRISNO AND INDONESIAN GAMELAN ENSEMBLE
- -NIRMALA RAJASEKAR: SOUTH INDIAN VEENA (was in Chennai, India when
the disaster struck)
- -TIM ERIKSEN:ORIGINAL ACOUSTIC AND TRADITIONAL AMERICAN FOLKSONG
- -EAST AFRICAN TRADITIONAL AND POPULAR MUSIC
- -SWEDISH FIDDLING
- -AMERICAN SHAPE-NOTE SINGING...and more TBA
Free will donation- all proceeds will go to UNICEF
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Greetings everyone. As you may know, I studied South Indian music for
many years, and Minja and I are still active in the Indian music scene
in the Twin Cities (she's on the board of the Indian Music Society of MN
etc). I studied in Chennai/Madras, which made the images of the tsunami
additionally unbearable. Minja and I are organizing this concert at the
speed of light, adding artists daily and expecting some surprises. Whatever
it raises will be a drop in the bucket, but the more drops the better.
If you feel this is something you can support, wherever you are, please
make a donation if you can, come to the show, sing some Sacred Harp songs
with us on stage or just take a moment to honor the victims. T.E.
January
22
TSUNAMI BENEFIT CONCERT
Tim Eriksen
Varsity Theater
Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Friday
October 22
Tim Eriksen
7pm
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Becker 101 (BCSB)
sponsored by the university of iowa's
year of the
arts and humanities and the obermann faculty
research semester on the
voice.
Monday
November 8
Tim Eriksen
Arizona State University, Tempe
Organ Hall, School of Music
Sacred Harp singing school at 1 pm
concert 7 pm
news
& stuff
- A relatively relaxing fall: I'm currently
taking some time to work on various projects at home, and not doing a lot
in public. It's nice to be here for a while after a long period of travelling.
- Among other things I just finished recording
for the "Songlinks" project, which will result in a two CD set of ballads,
one sung by British singers and one by Americans- out next spring.
- We're also getting back to the World in
Two Cities project, which is very exciting. Look for a concert
by musicians from various refugee communities on Nov. 6 in Minneapolis,
sponsored by the American
Refugee Committee
- Minja finished her book "Mystery of the American
Voices" and the accompanying CD is coming together. It'll be out on Oxford
University Press, but no word as to when.
- Esma Redzepova and the Ansambl Teodosijevski are still touring North America, and if at all possible you should go see
them (especially if you can get to New York for their upcoming return-
I can't think of any concert I'd rather be at, and we might even fly out
for it). The Ansambl are the guys we recorded with for the Zabe i Babe
"Drumovi" CD in 1997. check
here for information
May
- June, 2004
THE
GREAT HIGH MOUNTAIN TOUR
featuring songs and
performances by artists from the O Brother, Where Art Thou, Down
From the Mountain , and Cold Mountain soundtracks,
will kick off on May 5 th in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the Thompson-Boling
Arena.
The show, presented by Grammy-winning
producer T Bone Burnett , will feature several artists from the highly-successful
2002 Down From The Mountain Tour —including Alison Krauss & Union
Station featuring Jerry Douglas, Ralph Stanley, The
Cox Family, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, The Whites,
and Norman & Nancy Blake; they will be accompanied by Dirk
Powell, Riley Baugus, Tim Eriksen, and The Reeltime
Travelers (from the Oscar-nominated Cold Mountain soundtrack), as well
as Ollabelle (a sextet who draws their inspiration from nineteenth-
and early-to-mid-twentieth century rural American music), and Sierra
& Cody Hull.
“Something
of a ‘sequel’ to the 2002 Down From the Mountain Tour, this latest incarnation
retained the flavor of the original but added enough new acts to make the
show engaging for concertgoers who keep coming back for more.”
“…a refreshing mixture of roots-music royalty and relative newcomers.”
Bobby Reed, Chicago
Sun Times
“…the
show was a magnificent slice of early Americana—and the most joyful lesson
imaginable.”
Edward Morris, CMT.com
“The
Great High Mountain Tour comes close to putting more talent onstage than
an acoustic music fan can handle.”
Wayne Bledsoe, Knoxville News Sentinel
“…during
the Chicago stop of the Great High Mountain tour, the capacity crowd experienced
the vocal power of American traditional music sung from the depths of the
soul.”
Michael Parrish, Chicago
Tribune
“[T
Bone] Burnett has launched The Great High Mountain Tour, in which a sprawling
caravan of roots artists crosses the land making what once was old new
again.”
Dave Tianen, Milwaukee News
tour
dates and places
Saturday
& Sunday March 13-14 2004
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
SACRED HARP CONVENTION
is in Northampton, MA
at the Northampton Center For
The Arts. see www.wmshc.org
Saturday
March 13, 2004
Tim Eriksen solo acoustic
Iron Horse Music Hall
Northampton, MA
7:00 pm
$12 advance/$15 door
opening for Karan Casey
(413) 584-0610
Sunday
February 29, 2004
ACADEMY AWARDS
The oscars were
fun, especially seeing so many old friends and singing in the dressing
room and on the bus. Our Sacred Harp song, Liberty, was cut at the last
minute due to time concerns. In the scale of world events it's a small
deal, but it might have done the world some good to hear it. We all got
to hear it plenty, however, including the night before when Sting, Elvis
Costello and
Allison Krauss sang it
along with us at Miramax's annual bash. Elvis seems especially taken with
the music, and I'm grateful to him and T Bone for advocating on its behalf
in trying to keep it in the big show. We enjoyed singing with him on "The
Scarlet Tide," (even though it's not in the
Sacred Harp.) T.E.
- EVERY
SOUND BELOW: My new solo acoustic CD
is scheduled to come out in mid-May on Appleseed Recordings. I'm very excited
about this one.
- GREAT
HIGH MOUNTAIN: Early May-early
June there's gonna be a big tour with some of us from the Cold Mountain
soundtrack plus folks from the "Down from the Mountain" tour.
- THE
LADYKILLERS: The Cohen Brothers decided
to use an old 78 instead of the song we recorded for the film. It's too
bad, but it makes more sense, especially since they'd already edited the
film to that recording. From what I saw and heard in Los Angeles the other
day it looks like a really good movie and soundtrack.
- Ain't
No Grave: A Tribute To Traditional & Public Domain Songs released
by Dren
Records. It is the nature of traditional
and public domain songs to shift with time.Words, melodies, even titles
can change as musicians make these songs their own.This album is a collection
of these songs, and each song reflects a distinct artistic personality.
But even while the performances carry these songs firmly into the present,
the respect each track carries for the past binds this album together. Tim's
song is Southern Girl's Reply
Check out Fasola.org — for information about
Sacred Harp and Shape Note singing
December
16, 2003
Cold
Mountain soundtrack released
| Highlights,
for me, are the fabulous recordings of the songs "Idumea" and "I'm Going
Home" from our June 2002 Sacred Harp recording session at Liberty Church,
Henagar AL, and an unaccompanied solo by Cassie Franklin, a Sacred Harp
singer friend also from Henagar. Along with the Sacred Harp songs, you
can hear me on another 4 songs (although I'm singing in character as "Stobrod,"
and sometimes to a click track). For those who like to buy from the artist,
I don't think that's gonna happen on this one, though I appreciate the
thought. I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from getting hold of this,
though the real event for me will be the release of a whole CD of songs
from the Liberty Church recording, sometime this spring. More to come..."
TE |
Royce
Theater Cold Mountain Gala
Los
Angeles
This
was filmed for television and included readings
by
Cold Mountain director Anthony Minghella,
actors
Nicole Kidman and Jude Law and
music
by a bunch of people on the soundtrack (including Tim)
Minja, Luka, Anja and I just returned from Los Angeles where we
attended the premiere of "Cold Mountain." It's a good film, which is a
relief. More importantly, the use of Sacred Harp music works well. Miramax
came through with tickets for a number of Sacred Harp singers. It was fun
to watch it together and sing on the van on the way back to our hotel,
and I was happy and relieved that everyone seemed pleased by how
it turned out. Having, as it does, all the elements of something you're
supposed to like, there will likely be the predictable hipster backlash.
But all in all I think the movie is very strong, and its violence is refreshingly
consequential. We also participated in "Cold Mountain: Words and Music"
at Royce Hall, UCLA, Monday night. It will be on TV sometime, and later
on DVD, along with a documentary about the event. I think
they're also planning a reality TV show based on the making of various
documentaries about the making of Cold Mountain. At least that's my impression.
I got to sing out a little more than I did on the soundtrack, which was
fun. The highlights for me were singing "Idumea" with Cassie Franklin and,
of course, singing 282 with 45 Sacred Harp singers who responded to my
very last minute plea, as well as various actors. I hear second hand that
more than one person found themselves wondering if they'd really just seen
Rod Ivey and Nicole Kidman singing "I'm Going Home" on "EXTRA!" Sting opted
out, but we were OK without him. The catering was excellent! T.E. |
Radio
| NPR's Melissa
Block, Andrea Hsu, and Bill Deputy of "All Things Considered" visited Henagar,
Alabama and the Alabama State Convention in Birmingham on November 21st
and 22nd. They recorded the Saturday session of the Alabama State Convention
and interviewed lots of singers. visit
npr site for more
Joey Brackner interviewed David Ivey and Tim Eriksen in an Alabama
folklife interview about Sacred Harp Singing in the Movie Cold Mountain.
Musical examples are included in the program. click
here to listen |
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