Hello, my name is Lori Elliott, and I am the creator of Olden Time Tunes. I’m so glad you stopped by! I love all things old-fashioned, and that includes my taste in music. The songs on Olden Time Tunes are a mix of genres including hymns, old-time and Celtic fiddle tunes, shape note songs, etc. and all of them are either older, traditional tunes or ones that were inspired by the style of traditional songs.
I’ve been playing the piano since I started taking lessons in 2nd grade, and I also started learning to play the flute a couple of years after that. And then just a few years ago I started learning how to play the violin. I’ve love playing instruments, and I also really enjoy arranging and composing music.
I live in suburban Massachusetts, but I’m a country girl at heart, and someday I’d love to live in an old, historic farmhouse with a front porch and a fireplace and enough land for animals and a big vegetable and herb garden. In the meantime, though, I consider myself a suburban homesteader, and I live as much of the homesteading lifestyle as I can in the suburbs with my small flock of backyard chickens, vegetable and herb gardens, and cooking real food from scratch. I talk about all of these things on my blog called Our Heritage of Health.
I love all things old-fashioned, and my favorite pastimes are the simple ones like taking my dog on a walk through the woods or reading a book on a rainy day. When I’m not playing music, I also enjoy quilting and other craft projects, working in my little backyard garden and learning more about herbs and herbalism. I also love browsing through antique stores and collecting old cookbooks and household items from the 19th century.
More important than any of those hobbies and interests, though, is my relationship with God. I’m a follower of Jesus Christ, and I’m involved in my local church and enjoy spending time with the people in my church. (If you’d like to learn more about what I mean when I say that I am a follower of Jesus Christ you can read more about that here.) My hope is that the music I arrange on Olden Time Tunes will be God-honoring and will point others to Christ as well as being an encouragement to believers.
