Poughkeepsie Chapter: Tim Robinson

Tim Robinson is a songwriter from Croton on Hudson, NY. He got his start among the songwriters of the “Fast Folk” era in NYC when he met Jack Hardy in the early 1990’s. Through Jack, he fell in with Suzanne Vega, Frank Tedesso, Richard Julian, Bob Hillman, and others. It was a cauldron of incredible, vital songwriting. Tim has four full albums to his credit since those days. His first Recording, “Money in the Woods” was produced with the help of Suzanne Vega, who sings backing vocals on several songs and refers to Tim as one of her favorite working songwriters. That recording was nominated for the New Pantheon award and celebrated with 4 stars by Amanda Petrusich, now famous for her role as staff music writer at The New Yorker magazine.

Currently, Tim is still writing and recording music and looks to release an album of new songs, “The Midnight Bird”, as soon as possible. Last year (after taking a pass on songwriting competitions for the past twenty years) Tim was accepted as a New Folk finalist at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas. That said, the dates of the festival conflicted with his eldest son’s college graduation, so… he had to say, thank you, but, no. A man needs priorities. It’s funny to be “New” at age 61.

Tim is now looking to get back out there and have his hundreds unique of songs heard again by new ears. He thanks you all for coming out to listen and getting that process started.