Early American Shape Note Singing Workshop With Tim Eriksen | Afternoon Of His Evening Concert

Name: Early American Shape Note Singing Workshop With Tim Eriksen | Afternoon Of His Evening Concert
Start: 2024-05-18T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Godfrey Daniels

Schedule

Sat May 18 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Godfrey Daniels | Bethlehem, PA

We’re excited to welcome Tim Eriksen to Godfrey Daniels’ stage on Saturday, May 18, for an afternoon Early American Shape Note Singing Workshop and an evening solo concert, with our opening guest Pete Gustavson!
✨ If you can attend, we'd love to see you, and please share with everyone and anyone that you think would be interested - especially any of your friends or family that you have been trying to talk into joining a Shape Note group as the workshop will be geared towards beginners and experienced singers :)
✨ As a consultant and performer for the soundtrack of the award-winning soundtrack of film Cold Mountain Tim Eriksen was enlisted to teach Sacred Harp singing to the cast by T-Bone Burnett, the producer of the Cold Mountain Soundtrack. Eriksen performed on the soundtrack, singing with Riley Baugus on traditional songs such as “I Wish My Baby Was Born” and “The Cuckoo”, and his solo track of “Am I Born to Die?”. He was then part of The Great High Mountain Tour, which celebrated the traditional music of Cold Mountain and O Brother, Where Art Thou?
✨ Date: Saturday, May 18
Afternoon Workshop Time: 4:00 PM Doors | 4:30PM Workshop
Evening Concert Time: 7:30 PM Doors | 8PM Show
✨ Ticket Link for All: https://godfreydaniels.org/event/tim-eriksen-may-18-2024/
✨ Ticket Pricing:
• Shape Note Workshop $25.00 Advance | $30.00 Day Of Workshop
• Both Workshop And Concert (Discount) $42.50 Advance | $47.50 Day Of Show
• Concert Ticket Only $25.50 ADVANCE | $30.50 DAY OF SHOW
✨ Location: Godfrey Daniels 7 E. Fourth Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015
BYOB: We are a BYOB (Beer or Wine) venue.
The Early American Shape Note Singing Workshop with visiting artist Dr. Tim Eriksen will be based on The Sacred Harp tunebook, first published in 1844 in Georgia, is at the heart of one of America’s most vital homegrown musical practices. Within its pages, “Amazing Grace” meets the toe-tapping “fuging tunes” of early New England, all harmonized for four-part social singing and written in a unique and practical notation system. Dr. Tim Eriksen has been teaching this music around the world for over thirty years, his students ranging from inner-city kindergarteners to the cast of the film "Cold Mountain." This workshop, designed for absolute beginners and more experienced singers alike, begins with the basics of the human voice and group singing and includes an introduction to reading shape-note music, notes on important aspects of history, traditional practice, and lots of full-on singing. No prior experience is required!
For a quick overview of what Shape Note/Sacred Harp Singing is, please enjoy these videos:
🎬 • Echoes of the Past: Singing the Sacred Harp

🎬 • Tim Eriksen leading a Shape Note Choir during the The Great High Mountain Tour, which celebrated the traditional music of Cold Mountain and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

🎬 • Tim Eriksen performing with the Irish band, Newfoundland

🎬 • Tim Eriksen performing in Switzerland

Dr. Tim Eriksen – Acclaimed Performer, Ethnomusicologist, Sacred Harp Singing, Multi-Instrumentalist Music Adventurer, and Punk-Folk Pioneer
Apart from being the coolest-looking man in folk song, Eriksen is an uncompromising performer, ethnomusicologist, Sacred Harp singing master, musical adventurer and punk-folk pioneer, who seems to play every instrument under the sun and has shared a stage with both Kurt Cobain and Doc Watson. – The Guardian, UK
Dr. 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.
About Godfrey Daniels:
Since 1976, Godfrey Daniels has been at the heart of Bethlehem, PA’s vibrant live music scene. Godfrey Daniels is considered one of the best listening rooms in the country, where people come to appreciate live, diverse music, and celebrate a rare place where both the artist and the audience rise to the occasion in an intimate atmosphere devoid of distractions.