The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum commemorates the anniversary of the American Revolution with an outdoors concert series of period and revolution-inspired music, The Revolution in Concert, held in the Museum’s sunken garden.
Tim Eriksen, leader in the “shape-note” tradition, experimentalist and ethnomusicologist, opens the series on June 11th at 6:30pm, with traditional ballads from the Appalachians to the Pioneer Valley and original pieces that have been described as “magical realism in song.”
With a PhD in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, Eriksen has taught courses in American and World Music at Dartmouth College, Amherst College and the University of Minnesota and published scholarship on early New England music in connection to 19th century abolitionism, apocalyptic theology, technology and the birth of science fiction. As frontman of the legendary folk- noise outfit Cordelia’s Dad, Eriksen is the only singer/songwriter to have shared a stage with both Kurt Cobain and Doc Watson.
