Tim Baker Tickets

Tim Baker in Concert

For somebody who came to fame with Canadian indie rockers Hey Rosetta! (a band with a big, swirling sound), singer/songwriter Tim Baker made a major turnabout when he went solo, presenting his songs in a stripped-down, intimate acoustic setting. This approach allows Baker to really let his songs do the talking, as his haunting tenor glides atop his gentle melodies and carefully picked acoustic guitar patterns. Baker may have made his bones by getting big crowds up on their feet and bouncing along with his band's tunes, but he has also proven adept at bringing the dynamic down to almost a whisper, and drawing his audience closely in to him for a shared musical experience of the kind that would be impossible in the middle of a big rock show. Going solo in 2018, he started playing shows all over Canada that helped him establish a distinctive artist identity all his own, appealing to fans of the poetic songcraft he'd forged with Hey Rosetta! while offering his old admirers something different at the same time. 

Tim Baker Background 

Canadian singer/songwriter Tim Baker grew up in St. John's, Newfoundland, and he started playing piano at an early age, and soaking up his father's pop and folk records, but by the time he was a teen in the '90s he was heavily affected by the likes of Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Attending a creative writing program proved to be a formative influence on Baker's highly poetic lyric style. In 2005 he started Hey Rosetta!, a band where violin and cello were featured alongside the drums and guitars, and folk and pop flavors flew freely through the indie-rock arrangements. The band released its first album, ‘Plan Your Escape,' in 2006, and scored a string of Canadian alternative hits in the 2010s, like "Welcome," "Yer Spring," and "Kintsukuroi." But by 2017, the members announced that they were ready to move onto other things for the time being, and the band went on hiatus. Baker wasted little time starting up a solo career, playing shows around the country and beginning work on his first solo album. But the sound he made on his own was closer to some of the folk-tinged singer/songwriter fare he'd absorbed as a child than the cinematic indie-rock sound he established with his old band.