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"A singer-songwriter of uncommon depth."

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Family Music

Abi, our kids, and I spent some time over the summer putting together a handful videos geared toward kids, families, and educators. Our goal is to create a resource that is useful in home schools, pre-K’s, and other settings.

If you have kids, work with them, or know someone who does, please check out some of the things we’ve uploaded so far at ziegerfamilymusic.com. Each video features a song–original or traditional–and time-lapsed illustrations by Abi. Along with the videos are chord sheets, a coloring page, and some extension activities. There are more videos on YouTube, but we just haven’t finalized all the other resources that accompany them.

Let us know if you think you or someone you know may find these useful.

And, as always, thanks for listening.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYalCywlFgU
This song offers some better alternatives to the “How was your day?” question.

Email List

You may have noticed a pop-up soon after you arrived at my site. (If not, please let me know!) It’s an invitation to join my email list. The purpose of the list is to give me the chance to stay in touch with you beyond a show or this website. I only periodically send out emails to let you know of a new show, project, or song. Trust me–you won’t be inundated! But I will endeavor to stay in contact. And if you sign up when the pop-up prompts you, you will get a link to download an unreleased demo track as a small thank you!

Anyway, I appreciate you listening, and I am always glad to hear from you. Thanks for your support!

Still At It!

  1. Abi and I have been working on an educational kid’s music side-project that we hope to launch within the next few months. I’ll be sure to share that here when it’s all set.
  2. Just realized I forgot to mention that I was able to contribute to Matthew Vass’ track “Dark Wave Revival” last year! It was a privilege. I really love this track, “Digital” from his other project, Doe Eye Twin.
  3. I’m looking forward to backing up Tina Graye on her next radio recording. It’s fun to be playing second-guitar for a change, and Tina’s songs are so well crafted. We’ll be in the studio next week.
  4. It was nice to be featured on Van Wagner’s latest release,Shortleaf Pine. I think this is his twenty-second album…He is certainly prolific, but the timeless quality of his songs doesn’t suffer for it. He’s the kind of songwriter that lives his music, and uses his expansive observations to show us more of this wonderful world. Abi and I happened to be playing a radio concert with Van, and as he was putting the finishing touches on his then-latest song “Be Yourself,” moments before the show started we were picking along. I guess we all enjoyed it enough that he asked us to join him live on air. That’s the recording on the album.
  5. I’m ruminating on a new recording. I’ve got a host of material built up, it’s just a question of narrowing the focus. More on that in time.
  6. House concerts! I’m looking forward to playing one in August with Mark Stuart. Are you interested in hosting one? Let me know if we can work something out.
  7. Just uploaded some videos of past performances. Check them out under the “Videos” tab.

And We’re Back.

So, yes, it has been more than a year since I last posted to this site. Much has happened during that year–including music. I played on some local radio shows, for town festivals and a folk festival, and in a handful of other contexts, and I met with the songwriters at the roundtable about 12 times. One of those times we hosted Sylvie Simmons all the way from LA, and my friend and I were honored to play guitar with her. More recently we hosted Mark Stuart up from Nashville, and had a great time work-shopping some new material.

Mark Stuart workshops the song “Apple Core” with me.

Anyway, I’m hoping to get back into recording again. I’ve got my studio put together, and I’ve been writing a lot. Just have to focus on it.

I’m also looking to line up some house concerts. In addition to writing and recording, and working out some new material locally, I’ll be looking into the house concert thing in the coming months. Send me an email if you are interested in hosting.

Welcome

Thanks for visiting!

I’m happy to have my first album, North Light, done and ready for listeners. It was last winter’s labor of love (and hate), and an initiation into the world of home recording and studio mixing, etc. I probably put too much thought into it, but I intended to make it an album that could offer more with each listen. Please check it out and send me your thoughts. I heartily welcome your feedback, whether positive or negative.

You can keep up with some happenings here. I’ll try to post clips and show dates and times as they become available, and when new music is presentable, I will present it here.

For now, enjoy this song, which I had the pleasure of playing with my wife, Abi, at the Gathering of Singer/Songwriters at The Dietrich Theater in Tunkhannock, PA. Seeing this video should dispel any misconceptions that you may have that I make my music alone. No one does, and I certainly do not, even though the website here is “timothyziegermusic.com”. Whether it is Abi adding her voice, the bass, or her constant support, or you listening, I do not–and cannot–make music alone.

http://timothyziegermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Moses.mp4

 

Here are the lyrics, if you are interested:

Moses sent me a postcard,
and I ripped it, like a ticket, in two.
I thought to hand the stub to my neighbor,
and tell him of the show that’s about to debut.

But I felt once the show got started
I would regret ever letting him in
because there’s something about progress and potential
that sounds an awful lot like a family sin.

Like a ripple on the bank of a lazy river.
Like the fringes of a shadow on the summer ground.
It’s a thing that just keeps moving on forever,
a thing that you can’t ever quite nail down.

I talked with a quiet, gray-haired old woman,
she wore a dress with purple flowers that her daughter found.
She told me Jesus was a carpenter by trade,
that he built the clocks and Peter kept them wound.

That the pendulum’s swung back and forth since Easter,
that her baby and her clothes are all she’s ever changed,
that her husband was the mayor of this town,
but he still liked to spend his nights roving around.

And with a laugh like a quiet whimper
she sang me a simple song, she sang:
“That’s the way that the world goes ’round,
that’s just the way this silly world goes round.”

And I had right then a brand-new revelation,
lit with seven plastic lanterns scattered all around
her imitation pearls like some gateway to my brain,
but I forgot to get a pen and write it down.

So I think I’ll leave this stub in my pocket.
It’s better off there than spreading it around town,
and I’ll spend the nights talking with my baby,
and maybe I will get her some flowery gown.

Like a ripple on the banks of a lazy river,
like the fringes of a shadow on the summer ground,
like a thing that just keeps moving on forever,
like a thing that you can’t ever quite nail down.

 

August Happenings

Greetings!

Thanks for coming to visit my little home on the web. This is a relatively new site, so please bear with us as we navigate the land of website-building.

August is an exciting month for us. My first album, North Light, will be released this month, both in hard copy and digital formats. I welcome you to check it out!

We will also be playing on several occasions in August. Here’s the schedule:

For specific addresses or directions, please feel free to contact me here, or follow Zieger Family Music on Facebook where we post event pages with detailed information.

Thanks again so much for stopping by! We look forward to seeing you soon!

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  • 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm, May 2, 2020 – "Up in a Balloon" Premiers on Alt 92.1
  • 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm, May 17, 2020 – Songwriters' Roundtable
  • 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm, June 21, 2020 – Songwriters' Roundtable

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