Tim van Eyken

Tim van Eyken (born 7 March 1978) is an English actor, singer, melodeon player and guitarist of Belgian descent.
Van Eyken first started playing penny whistle after seeing James Galway on television. He graduated to playing for his mother, then a member of the Beetlecrushers clog dance team. There was pressure from the team to play something louder, so he learned the melodeon. He first came to prominence in 1998 when he won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award.... more