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Tim Eriksen and the Trio de Pumpkintown

"stark songs and breakneck picking" - New York Times
"among the world's finest folk practitioners" - Toronto Star

Love songs of the sea, fiddle tunes, ballads, shape-note and afro/celtic gospel: much of the Trio's music comes from Pumpkintown's diverse early inhabitants; Yankees, Africans, Native Americans, Irish, Scottish and Germans. Also influential are the sounds of the cotton trade, which brought many of the town's youth to Southern India via Zanzibar and back. They write their own music too, and you can hear it all on the new album "Josh Billings Voyage."

Tim Eriksen ("Cold Mountain") 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 the 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 that ranges from the bare bones of solo unaccompanied singing to the lush, multi-layered arrangements on his latest album "Josh Billings Voyage" (timeriksenmusic 2012). Tim is joined by Peter Irvine on percussion and Zoe Darrow on fiddle.