Coming all the way from Amherst, MA, traditional singing instructor Tim Erikson will be at Arbutus for a workshop on Wed. June 18th, 7-8:30. Some of the more famous people has worked with include Nicole Kidman, Sting and Elvis Costello. Read about Tim here: Tim Eriksen is one of the most distinguished performers in American folk music. His work as an ethnomusicologist and teacher has included extensive research on shape-note music in New England and the venerable Sacred Harp four-part harmony tradition. He is a founder of what is currently the world’s largest Sacred Harp singing convention, in Northampton, MA. In the words of Paste Magazine editor Josh Jackson, “no one has done more to help revive Sacred Harp singing among a younger generation.” Eriksen has taught hundreds of hour- to week-long workshops in shape-note harmony singing at festivals, universities, museums and arts centers, including the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, the Society for Ethnomusicology Convention, Colours of Ostrava Festival (Czech Republic), and Camp Fasola (Anniston, AL). His students have ranged from a group of kindergarteners at an inner city school in Portland, Oregon to Nicole Kidman, Elvis Costello, Sting and a group of fifty Romanian extras in the film Cold Mountain and the senior citizen members of the now legendary Young at Heart Chorus. https://facebook/events/1415779668679858/
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:36:04 +0000