Jim Page

Name: Jim Page
Start: 2025-08-03T19:00:00-0700
End: 2025-08-03T21:00:00-0700
Location: The Back Room

Sun, Aug 3, 7pm - 9pm PDT

The Back Room

Berkeley CA, United States

The Back Room

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Jim Page is an America singer/songwriter from Seattle, WA, who has released two dozen albums and written a mountain of songs - some covered by the likes of Christy Moore, The Moving Hearts, Dick Gaughan, Roy Bailey, Michael Hedges, and the Doobie Brothers. On top of being a great concert performer, his workshops on fearless songwriting are deeply effective and open to all skill levels. He does not shy away from the hard topics – politics, historical residue, and the labors of love. If you can talk about it you can sing about, that’s how he sees it. He has been named "One Of the 50 Most Influential Musicians In Seattle History." He’s been doing it since the '60s and he shows no sign of slowing down.

“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. He cuts right to the heart with music you actually enjoy listening to. I'm a longtime admirer.” - BONNIE RAITT

“Every now and again I encounter a singer who gives me a glimmer of hope. Jim Page carries the light.” - CHRISTY MOORE

Jim’s 24th album – The Time is Now: “Songwriting master craftsman delivers career defining album.” - Graeme Tait, Americana UK

“If Jim Page ain’t the bastard son of Woody Guthrie I’m T-Bone Walker.” - ROBERT HUNTER

Tickets are $20 general admission. Children under 12 are free. Advance tickets are available here, or if the show is not sold out, you may purchase your tickets at the door before the show.

Doors open 30 minutes before show time. We accept cash or Venmo only at the door.

The Back Room is an all-ages, BYOB (for those 21+) space, dedicated to (mostly) acoustic music of all kinds. You are welcome to bring your own food and beverages. The venue is ADA accessible. If you need more information or have any questions, please call us: #510-381-1997.

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When, as a young man in 1981, Sam Rudin moved from his native Philadelphia to the East Bay, he quickly fell in love with the Freight & Salvage, Berkeley’s quirky little 87-seat concert hall.

Filled with comfortable thrift store furniture and an informal ambience of appreciative attentiveness, the Freight was a perfect fit for performers of modest renown and acoustically-based music.

As a solo (albeit high-energy) pianist, Sam’s music fit the bill, and the Freight became Sam’s home base. In the absence of other Freight-like rooms, Sam turned his solo performer attention to the outdoor fair and festival circuit, and later started the jazz/blues band Hurricane Sam & the Hotshots.

Now, maybe it’s all the energy he put into becoming a master piano teacher, or maybe the fair and festival circuit just doesn’t have the right ingredients to nurture a high-profile career. Whatever the reason, despite critical acclaim, four CD’s, and a whole bunch of happy audiences, years later Sam was still a performer of modest renown, and he missed that great little room.

As the Freight grew and expanded, ultimately arriving at the gorgeous 420 seat theater that it occupies today, Sam started to feel that maybe it was up to him to recreate that wonderful small space. No longer a young man, it would be his late-life adventure.

Eventually, he found the perfect spot: a beautiful space with brick walls and vaulted wood ceilings right by the Arts District in downtown Berkeley. As of April 2016, it is open for business, complete with the requisite thrift store furniture.

The space is actually the back room of a larger building, so of course it is called The Back Room, and the tag line on its logo says it all – “an intimate place for music.”

The site, at 1984 Bonita Ave., also functions as Sam’s teaching studio, so if you’re looking for “The Piano Lessons You’ve Always Wanted,” now you know where to find them.

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Sun, Aug 3, 7pm - 9pm PDT

The Back Room

Berkeley CA, United States

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