Local music, Local history

Drawing on materials discovered in Historic Northampton’s collection, local junk shops, church basements and old newspapers, the performance will include murder ballads, fiddle tunes, shape-note harmony, and haunting originals about time, place, identity, and mystery. Every song has a story, some of which are fictional, and some of which are stranger than fiction.

Tim Eriksen has been performing in the Northampton area for over thirty years, beginning with his band Cordelia’s Dad.  Over the years he has amassed a large repertoire of music with local origin and resonance, which culminated in a 2015 PhD dissertation in ethnomusicology.

Sponsored by Beyond Green Construction, Easthampton, Mass.