Tim Grimm will make his long-awaited Sundilla debut on Friday, March 7. Showtime at the AUUF (450 E. Thach Avenue in Auburn) is 7:30. Advance tickets are just $20 and can be found at Spicer’s Music, Ross House Coffee, and online at www.sundillamusic.com. Admission at the door is $25, and $15 for students. Free coffee, tea, water and food will be available, and the audience is invited to bring their own favorite food or beverage.
Tim Grimm is a bit of a Renaissance man in the performing arts world, forging a rich and varied career that blends his love of songwriting, travel, and acting in theatre, film and television. For most of his 25-year career as a storytelling balladeer in the tradition of John Prine, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, Tim has written primarily about community, history, family, and social issues – often framed by his strong sense of place and the many years he spent on the family farm he built in rural Indiana.
Though he had a reasonably successful acting career for a while (a recurring role on “Reasonable Doubt,” and appeared with Harrison Ford in “A Clear and Present Danger,” to name a couple of roles) it’s his music that will live forever. With about a dozen albums to his name, the awards and recognitions have started to pile up. His 2021 album “Gone” was the #1 album on folk radio for 2021, and its title song was the #1 most played song on Folk radio for the year.
Despite the awards and accolades, and the time spent in Hollywood, what defines Tim Grimm best is the word PLACE. His songs are filled with rural characters and landscapes, written and sung with vivid warmth and intimacy. For most of his career he was known as “that guy from Indiana,” but now Tim currently splits his time between a 100-year-old cottage in Oklahoma and 50 acres of pristine Southern Indiana woods purchased by his father in 1971. And what did he do when he found himself leaving Indiana? He wrote some songs and turned them into his latest album, “The Little In-Between.”