Our local veteran outreach organization Mil-Tree will be holding a three-day Songwriter Workshop with singer-songwriter Tim Easton this Friday, Saturday, and concluding with a final collaborative performance on Sunday, all at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center’s Noble Hall. This workshop is open to vets and all community members with no experience necessary.
This is a three-day event and participant’s attendance will be required all three days. Each day of the event will bring you towards the end of the workshop with a song created by all participants. There will be an intimate performance held on Sunday at the commencement of the workshop where you may invite a special person(s) to attend.
Instructor Tim Easton is influenced by a combination of pop icons and bluegrass/folk legends. Easton found himself busking the streets of Europe on and off for seven years, returning to the USA to record his first solo album in Nashville. He signed with EMI Publishing in 1999, relocated to Los Angeles, performed at songwriter hubs like Largo, and signed a recording contract with New West Records. His first release for the label was 2001’s The Truth About Us, featuring three members of WILCO as the backing band. Next came “Break Your Mother’s Heart,” garnering 4 stars in the print version of Rolling Stone and heralding his songwriting as having a “novelist’s sense of humanity.” World tours have continued for over twenty years and several albums have been released after a relocation from Joshua Tree to Nashville where he signed with Thirty Tigers and Oklahoma’s BLACK MESA RECORDS, and this workshop marks another rare appearance back in town.
Schedule is as follows:
- Friday September 27th 6-9pm
- Saturday September 28th 11-5pm
- Sunday September 29th 11-4pm
(Final collaborative performance at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center Noble Hall: September 29th, 6pm)
To RSVP, please visit https://www.mil-tree.org/events-1/singer-songwriter-workshop-with-tim-easton
