1. Tim Sparks was born on October 31,1954 and is an American acoustic guitar player, singer, arranger and composer.
11 Facts About Tim Sparks
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Tim Sparks was nominated for a scholarship at the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts.
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Tim Sparks was a featured performer with Crossing Borders at the Bethlehem International Music Festival in July 1995 and has received two Arts Fellowships to pursue ethno-musicological studies.
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Tim Sparks spent one fall studying Fado and Portuguese guitar in Lisbon.
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In 2000, Tim Sparks began an association with American composer John Zorn.
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Tim Sparks has recorded four highly acclaimed CDs of Jewish Klezmer music adapted for acoustic fingerstyle guitar on Zorn's label, Tzadik Records.
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Tim Sparks earned a McKnight Fellowship to notate and edit the arrangements on Neshamah for publication.
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Tim Sparks has performed as an opening act for Dolly Parton and has performed on the same stage as Sandor Szabo, Franco Morone, Cyro Baptista, Isato Nakagawa and Bill Frisell.
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Tim Sparks has performed on such national venues as A Prairie Home Companion, the main stage of the Winnipeg Folk Festival and the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society.
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Tim Sparks has performed at the Edenkoben Festival and the Dresden Guitar Festival in Germany and held a Jazz Guitar teaching residency in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Tim Sparks is a past faculty member at the University of Minnesota Morris and continues to perform in concert.