A songster with a notebook full of tunes and a pile of instruments to play them on
A Tim Thornton set list might include songs from the Carter Family, the Mississippi Sheiks and The Band; Dock Boggs, Uncle Dave Macon and Randy Newman; Tom Waits, Warren Zevon and Charlie Poole. Tim might play those songs on guitar, banjo, dulcimer, banjo-ukulele, mandolin, banjo-mandolin, fiddle, guitjo, Dobro, harmonica or kazoo.
A prize-winning old-time musician and singer
Tim has won ribbons for singing and playing guitar, bass, banjo, Dobro, autoharp and dulcimer at fiddlers’ conventions from Happy Valley to Buena Vista. Most of those ribbons were for playing a dulcimer, including seventeen top ten finishes and one first place at the Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax, Virginia, which calls itself the “World’s oldest and largest Old Fiddlers’ Convention.”
Tim Thornton 