Jim Page at Lopez Grange - Sat. April 13th
Mar 21, 2024
Lopez Island Grange presents: An Evening with Jim Page
Jim Page is a renowned singer and songwriter living in Seattle, Washington. He sings of politics and romance, adventure and comedy, tragedy, history, and meditations on life, death, and the absurd. His improvisations are legendary, and if there’s anything to talk about that he hasn’t sung about, it’s just that he was too busy singing about something else.
He has 24 full-length albums, has been on a dozen compilations, has done numerous tours, and has written hundreds of songs.
Growing into the great renaissance of the 1960s, when all the arts were mixed together - music, theater, poetry, and politics, his home turf was the same place that gave birth to such bands as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. The border between the folk song and the rock band was blurred in those days, and you can still hear it in his music, in his choice of subject matter, use of imagery, rhythm, and phrasing.
Jim’s early influences were country blues singers like Lightnin’ Hopkins and Blind Willie McTell, then singer-songwriters like Buffy Sainte Marie and the young Bob Dylan. When he was 20, he hitched across the country in the wintertime, 3 thousand miles to New York City and the fabled Greenwich Village, looking to find his own voice. Living on rooftops, borrowing guitars, playing everywhere he could, he stayed for a year until life took him out west to Seattle where the whole city opened up. Carrying his guitar like a sack of tools he left his mark on every square inch of that town. Every theater, cafe, rock and roll bar, and sidewalk street corner was a stage, until a cop came by to shut him down. But he wouldn’t shut so easy. So in 1974, he sang to the City Council that street music should be free and legal and they should overturn an old backward law against it, and they did.
Mixing sounds and ideas like back in the old California days, the attitudes and themes, and organic associations with jazz players, rock players, country, blues, and folk, Jim Page shows no signs of slowing down.
As Bonnie Raitt said; “Jim’s been writing great topical songs for as long as I can remember, bringing his acute wit and wry humor to a host of subjects that can really use both. In the tradition of Woody and Dylan, he cuts right to the heart with music you actually enjoy listening to. I’m a longtime admirer.”
Website: https://jimpage.net/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2QJUfM6iGQ
Time: 7 PM
Tix at door: $20 Adults, $10 Youth 12-17
452 Richardson Rd.
Jim Page is a renowned singer and songwriter living in Seattle, Washington. He sings of politics and romance, adventure and comedy, tragedy, history, and meditations on life, death, and the absurd. His improvisations are legendary, and if there’s anything to talk about that he hasn’t sung about, it’s just that he was too busy singing about something else.
He has 24 full-length albums, has been on a dozen compilations, has done numerous tours, and has written hundreds of songs.
Growing into the great renaissance of the 1960s, when all the arts were mixed together - music, theater, poetry, and politics, his home turf was the same place that gave birth to such bands as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. The border between the folk song and the rock band was blurred in those days, and you can still hear it in his music, in his choice of subject matter, use of imagery, rhythm, and phrasing.
Jim’s early influences were country blues singers like Lightnin’ Hopkins and Blind Willie McTell, then singer-songwriters like Buffy Sainte Marie and the young Bob Dylan. When he was 20, he hitched across the country in the wintertime, 3 thousand miles to New York City and the fabled Greenwich Village, looking to find his own voice. Living on rooftops, borrowing guitars, playing everywhere he could, he stayed for a year until life took him out west to Seattle where the whole city opened up. Carrying his guitar like a sack of tools he left his mark on every square inch of that town. Every theater, cafe, rock and roll bar, and sidewalk street corner was a stage, until a cop came by to shut him down. But he wouldn’t shut so easy. So in 1974, he sang to the City Council that street music should be free and legal and they should overturn an old backward law against it, and they did.
Mixing sounds and ideas like back in the old California days, the attitudes and themes, and organic associations with jazz players, rock players, country, blues, and folk, Jim Page shows no signs of slowing down.
As Bonnie Raitt said; “Jim’s been writing great topical songs for as long as I can remember, bringing his acute wit and wry humor to a host of subjects that can really use both. In the tradition of Woody and Dylan, he cuts right to the heart with music you actually enjoy listening to. I’m a longtime admirer.”
Website: https://jimpage.net/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2QJUfM6iGQ
Time: 7 PM
Tix at door: $20 Adults, $10 Youth 12-17
452 Richardson Rd.
Jim Page