Tim Jackson

Tim Jackson was born in New York City and raised in Westport Connecticut. He attended Ithaca College in Drama major eventually graduating from the University of Massachusetts Boston in English. He has had a 50-year career as a musician that includes tours with folk singer Tom Rush, legendary singer LaVern Baker and Robin Lane and the Chartbusters - the 11th band featured on MTV in 1981. His own group, The Band That Time Forgot has been a mainstay of the Boston music scene for over 35 years. He taught popular culture, theater, and film history for 20 years in Boston. He has directed five documentaries, four which he wrote and produced. He is a writer for the Boston online arts magazine Arts Fuse and is a standing member of the Boston Society of Film Critics.