AN ACCLAIMED international folk artist who has shared a stage with Kurt Cobain will be performing in Pembroke next week.
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 banjo sexto – a twelve-string Mexican acoustic bass – creating a distinctive hardcore Americana sound that ranges from the bare bones of solo unaccompanied singing on his album Soul of the January Hills through the stripped-down voice and bajo sexto Christmas album Star in the East to the lush, multi-layered arrangements on Josh Billings’s Voyage, an upcoming album of northern roots music.
He has also taught all over the world, from kindergarteners at an inner city school in Portland to big names like Nicole Kidman, Elvis Costello, and Sting.
Tim will be performing at Burnetts Hill Chapel, Martletwy, on Tuesday, October 21.
Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm start.
Tickets, priced at £10, are available from Main Street Music, Pembroke. Telephone; 01646 621530 to reserve your ticket.
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