Tim's Music
Vermont-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Timothy Cummings shares music that is a rare hybrid of traditional folk styles -primarily Scottish and American- which occasionally brush up against classical influences and often expand beyond traditional boundaries.

Tim is an experienced performer and teacher (primarily of bagpipes) and frequently combines music, humor, and informative talks to enliven and educate his audiences about the refreshingly odd world of piping. His repertoire covers traditional/folk, contemporary, sacred, and a variety of other genres.

Tim has been featured on the Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band's Twelve Thousand Miles and Sam Guarnaccia's ‘A Celtic Mass for Peace’ (both 2009); in 'Pastoral' (Vermont, 2008); on Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar (WGDR, 2003); on Radio New Zealand, presenting a two-part series on the history and music of the Highland bagpipe (2002); on a quirky Coca-Cola television commercial (Palomar Pictures, 1997); and several other small-label albums in New Zealand, Canada, and the U.S. His arrangement of 'My Shepherd Will Supply My Need' for Highland pipes and organ was recently published by GIA Music (Chicago, IL), and he now publishes his own compositions, arrangements, and compilations through Beithe Publishing. Tim continues to perform regularly and he teaches privately in Charlotte, VT, and at Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT).