Tompkins Corners will present a Shape Note Singing Workshop with Tim Eriksen. A three-time GRAMMY nominee, Eriksen is an uncompromising performer, ethnomusicologist, Sacred Harp singing master, musical adventurer, and punk-folk pioneer who has shared a stage with Kurt Cobain and Doc Watson.
Eriksen has helped bring the sounds of Shape Note music and traditional American folksong to the fore with his pioneering punk-folk band Cordelia’s Dad, his courses at Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota, and his Shape Note “singing schools” from the Newport Folk Festival to Singapore’s Tapestry of Sacred Music and Dance. His students have ranged from …
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