Actor/Singer Songwriter Tim Grimm returns to Linden Tree

ACTOR/SINGER-SONGWRITER TIM GRIMM & HIS BAND @ LINDEN TREE COFFEEHOUSE on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH AT 8 PM.

The Linden Tree Coffeehouse is pleased to announce the encore performance of Indiana’s Tim Grimm with his band on Saturday, November 7th. Grimm is a portrait painter with his words and music. Currently the actor/singer-songwriter’s song THE LAKE is featured in Robert Redford’s movie A Walk in the Woods. The opening set welcomes back area duo Fishkin & Groves at 8 pm.

Tim Grimm is a bit of a Rennaisance man in the performing arts world. He has for the past 15 years, blended his love for songwriting, travel, and the storytelling of acting (theatre, film and television). His most recent recording, THE TURNING POINT, produced the #1 song on Folk radio in 2014-- KING OF THE FOLKSINGERS. It was a particularly gratifying honor, given the song is a tribute to Tim’s friend and musical icon, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott.

After several years (1990s) working in Los Angeles (where he co-starred for 2 seasons on the NBC drama Reasonable Doubts, worked on Clear and Present Danger with Harrison Ford, and appeared in several films and tv projects), Tim returned home to Indiana. He grew up in the woods and small town settings of southern Indiana, son of schoolteachers and grandson of farmers, and his return home was a conscious choice to live a life of significance rather than one of “success’. He now lives with his wife on 80 acres close to where he grew up. Tim’s songs are full of the rural rumblings that have shaped his life—rich with descriptive details, and sung with warmth and intimacy—recognizing the inextinguishable national romance with the idea of the family farm and the vanishing landscape of rural America.

He has released 9 solo albums since 2000 (including the newest- THE TURNING POINT), and 2 collaborations- AMBER WAVES (with Jason Wilber) and WILDERNESS PLOTS. Grimm invites you in with his warm, conversational, roughly gorgeous voice. He keeps you listening because the songs richly describe the details of the characters that live in those songs. His two sons and wife’s vocals and instrumentation add texture and beauty to his records and onstage performances.

Grimm is a storyteller, up there, with the likes of Crowell, Earle and Jackson Browne. He sings of families being lost, the loss of rural America, returnees from Basra, slaves escaping a horrendous life, floods, yearning, anguish and the reason why people faced with such adversity carry on whilst being totally empathetic toward their plight or feelings. He also brings in other music genres within the Americana field like some Appalachian on “Or Bust”, Bit like Woody Guthrie.

“One of the best storytelling songwriters in America.” Rootsville, Belgium.

Thanks to support in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Wakefield Chapter, tickets will be $20, students under 13 $10. Doors will open at 7:30. Home made baked goods and beverages will be sold prior to the show and during intermission.

The Linden Tree Coffeehouse is located at the Unitarian-Universalist Church, 326 Main Street, Wakefield. For more information about the show or to reserve tickets, call 781-246-2836 or visit www.lindentreecoffeehouse.org.