Tim Van Egmond, Bio - Tim Van Egmond

Tim has been delighting audiences throughout the country since 1978, appearing at hundreds of schools, libraries, and community centers, various folk festivals, and on a number of television and radio programs. He has been selected by the Massachusetts Cultural Council both for its Creative Teaching Partners roster for Residency Programs in schools, and its Touring Program. He has been chosen a number of times for the Kids, Books, and the Arts Project held by the New Hampshire State Library and the Children's Librarians section of the New Hampshire Library Association for its summer reading program. Tim has presented workshops at Sharing the Fire, New England's annual storytelling conference, the Boston Regional Library System for its Youth Services Librarians, and the New England League of Middle School's United Arts Conference, among others.

Tim is also known as an accomplished hammered dulcimer player and dance caller. He built his first of many dulcimers in 1973, and has been playing ever since. As a member of the contra dance band Swallowtail he has performed nation-wide, including appearances on National Public Radio's "A Prairie Home Companion" and at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. He's recorded three albums with the band, and has played on various other recordings as well. Also appearing as a member of the folk singing duo Yankee Notions and as a solo performer, Tim has brought the sweet and captivating sound of the dulcimer to a great many communities and special events far and wide.

Tim believes in our heritage of traditional story and song as a medium both of entertainment and enlightenment. A spirited and versatile artist, he continues to draw on a broad repertoire to create performances and workshops for a wide range of themes and audiences.

Yankee Notions Folk Music Duo

Created on 06/08/2004 10:00 AM by timvan
Updated on 11/20/2008 11:05 AM by timvan