Monday 22nd July
The Wardrobe Theatre, 25 West St, Bristol BS2 0DF
Tel:01179020344
Tickets: £15.26 inc.BF
Tickets: https://www.colstonhall.org/shows/tim-eriksen-mamas-broke-river-town-2019/
Web: http://thewardrobetheatre.com/livetheatre/tim-erikson/
FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2018887838406586/
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 that ranges from the bare bones of solo unaccompanied singing on Soul of the January Hills (Appleseed 2010) through the stripped-down voice and bajo sexto Christmas album Star in the East to the lush, multi-layered arrangements on Josh Billings Voyage, a new album of northern roots American music.
https://www.timeriksenmusic.com
Mama’s Broke is a unique and powerful folk duo that both honours and defies tradition with their original compositions. Two strong voices blend to create haunting harmonies, while they artfully juggle fiddle, banjo, guitar and mandolin, and incorporate traditional dance and foot percussion as part of their performance.