News in 2017

November 27, 2017

Virginia Water Radio published a nice Thanksgiving message last week, and they included some of our piece 'Bass Fisherman's Reel' from the album Virginia Wildlife!

November 13, 2017

With the recent reorder of CDs of our third Christmas album, Hope from on High (2008) we've now reached 132,000 discs and tapes made! (The reorder shipment should come in in a couple of weeks.)

September 12, 2017

Timothy has a new blog post on four very important features of any melody, that should be of interest and help for anyone who does music or appreciates it!

August 18, 2017

Virginia Water Radio has recently posted their new episode on night sounds, featuring clips from a new recording by Timothy of the tune 'Midnight on the Water' on hammered dulcimer!  A studio recording of the same basic arrangement can be found on the albums Quiet in the Meadow and the compilation Common Wealth.

Also, Ken Kaiser has posted a video of Timothy's stage performance at the ODPC Funfest festival in Evart, Michigan Last month!

July 25, 2017

Today's new blog post briefly discusses ways to draw on your favorite music for ideas in making new arrangements of your own!

July 20, 2017

Another new blog post today talks about Timothy's tune 'To Gaze into the Embers' and the event it commemorates, the first moon walk 46 years ago today!

July 19, 2017

Timothy's new blog post today is a short discussion of his re-reading of the great novel by C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces.

July 10, 2017

With our recent reordering of the CDs Profound Joy and Jamestown: On the Edge of a Vast Continent, we are now at 131,000 hard copies made, plus countless downloads and streaming events!

July 2, 2017

Virginia Water Radio has posted an episode about the Bald Eagle (for Independence Day, of course!) --- and they've included a short clip of a new improvisation Timothy recorded this week for the Bald Eagle! He used an Eb Woodsong bamboo flute made by Rob Yard of Floyd, Virginia (whom, incidentally, Timothy visited yesterday for the first time in a long time!).

June 26, 2017

Virginia Water Radio has just posted their latest episode, one about the Roanoke-Staunton River, and it includes a couple of clips from Timothy's composition 'Exploring the Rivers,' from the album Jamestown: On the Edge of a Vast Continent!

May 26, 2017

Timothy's latest blog post discusses the difference in approach between playing a musical instrument and using the instrument to play the music itself!

Sorry, but we've had to cancel today's event at the Colonial Williamsburg Visitors' Center --- a very rare cancellation!  Timothy just has a really bad cold, and we will soon reschedule a make-up signing event at the same location, and we'll post that in the calendar.  Have a very well Memorial Day Weekend yourself!

May 15, 2017

Timothy's new blog post briefly discusses the amazing musical phenomenon of a piece that develops over a repeating pattern of chords, and he cites the ultimate example of this, Bach's Chaconne!

April 21, 2017

Recently Virginia Water Radio featured music by one of Timothy's hammered dulcimer students, Simon Fass, on their episode about Hail!

February 6, 2017

Virginia Water Radio's episode released today features a track from our Jamestown album called 'Fingal's Cave', with Celtic harp played by Ardie Boggs.

January 12, 2017

Historic Jamestowne has made a drone video of this week's snow at James Fort, and they used a track from our Virginia Wildlife album!