Singer songwriter finale!

This is the final show of the fall concert season from the all-volunteer series that has been serving the region since 1988.

For Charley Wagner music and writing have been lifelong passions. Working as an arborist, climbing trees around the world, he collected stories and perspective. His travel spawned music that captures the human experience and reverence for nature.

“A wise man once told me that the first half of your life you’re living to learn, about mid-life you make the switch to learning to live,” Wagner said. He crafts his songs to capture moments, perspectives and emotions gifted though life. 

With the use of a guitar, harmonica and foot percussion (bass cajon drum and tambourine) he tells his stories.

He also takes to heart renditions of some of his favorite artists’ stories to include Jon Prine, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, and Gordon Lightfoot.

Blessed with a passion for arboriculture, he makes a living climbing and caring for trees around the world. With a recipe of fresh air, hard work and tree dust he serves up a healthy perspective of life texture.

"Charley is an authentic local musician who paints sometimes thoughtful, sometimes humorous pictures through his music.   Whether playing alone or with his band, Charley is always the consumate entertainer and storyteller.   If you know him, you love him.   If you don't, you soon will. . . ." John Sumption

GRASSROOTS CONCERTS are held at the LIVE WELL NIGHTCLUB AND COFFEE BAR at the Journey Church, 5459 Lakers Lane, Nisswa, MN.

Admission is $15 at the door for adults and $5 for children under 12 with listening attention, when accompanied by an adult. At all shows, seating is first-come, first-served.
Show-time is 7:30 PM (doors open at 6:30), and you are encouraged to come early to claim your choice of seats. 

At each concert, decidedly the best family entertainment in the Brainerd Lakes area, GRASSROOTS welcomes your nonperishable food (or cash) donation to a local food shelf.  

"Grassroots Concerts are the nonprofit cultural offerings of a small, happy society of largely omnivorous but gentle folk dedicated to the preservation of live entertainment in vicarious times."