Tim van Eyken (born 7 March 1978) is an English actor, singer, melodeon player and guitarist.
[1] Van Eyken first started playing penny whistle after seeing James Galway on television.
He has his own band, Van Eyken, consisting of Nancy Kerr on fiddle, Olly Knight (Lal Waterson's son) on electric guitar, Colin Fletcher on double bass, and Pete Flood on percussion.
He was a member of the now-defunct group Dr Faustus, together with Robert Harbron, Benji Kirkpatrick, and Paul Sartin.
In 2009 John Barleycorn from Stiffs Lovers Holymen Thieves was included in Topic Records 70 year anniversary boxed set Three Score and Ten as track four on the seventh CD.