Michael Tomlinson in Concert at Bake's Place

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Dinner Time: 6:00 - 7:15pm
Performance Time: 7:45 - 10:00pm
Show price: $25.00
Tickets http://www.bakesplace.org/event_detail.php?id=51

*If you plan on dining with us, please make your entree selection at the time you place your reservation.

In the mid-1980s, Michael Tomlinson found himself in the rare position of being an aspiring singer/songwriter having a number one hit - before he had ever even released a record. A homemade cassette of his song, The Climb, had been given to the manager of popular Seattle radio station, KEZX, where it became the most requested song in the station's history. Within six months time, Michael had given up his bicycle repair job in Austin, Texas, and made Seattle his home. Drawing from the loyal listener support that he'd found in the Pacific Northwest, Tomlinson recorded and released his first album, Run This Way Forever, on his own Desert Rain label. The record sold 15,000 copies in Seattle in it's first month and was picked up by a dozen independent stations around the US, where many reported it as their most requested album of the year and sold over 100,000 copies....

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Details:

Dinner Time: 6:00 - 7:15pm
Performance Time: 7:45 - 10:00pm
Show price: $25.00
Tickets http://www.bakesplace.org/event_detail.php?id=51

*If you plan on dining with us, please make your entree selection at the time you place your reservation.

In the mid-1980s, Michael Tomlinson found himself in the rare position of being an aspiring singer/songwriter having a number one hit - before he had ever even released a record. A homemade cassette of his song, The Climb, had been given to the manager of popular Seattle radio station, KEZX, where it became the most requested song in the station's history. Within six months time, Michael had given up his bicycle repair job in Austin, Texas, and made Seattle his home. Drawing from the loyal listener support that he'd found in the Pacific Northwest, Tomlinson recorded and released his first album, Run This Way Forever, on his own Desert Rain label. The record sold 15,000 copies in Seattle in it's first month and was picked up by a dozen independent stations around the US, where many reported it as their most requested album of the year and sold over 100,000 copies.

On this momentum, Michael Tomlinson signed a recording contract with an emerging Los Angeles label and scored a Top 10 Adult Contemporary Hit with his song, Dawning On A New Day, from this second album, Still Believe. His music, which had been previously known at only a handful of alternative stations, was now being featured on national TV and played on radio stations in nearly every city. On the strength of his next two releases, he began headlining major theaters, The Greek and Universal Amphitheaters in L.A., The Paramount in Denver, Wolftrap in Washington, D.C., and many others around the U.S.

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