JP Unplugged presents a concert by singer/songwriter DAVE CROSSLAND on Saturday December 8 at the historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain. The concert will begin at 8 PM and admission is $10. Opening the concert will be singer/songwriter (and JP Unplugged founding member) TERRY KITCHEN. For reservations call 857-928-5417 or email reservations@jpunplugged.org. Advance reservations strongly suggested. Please arrive by 7:45 to claim your reservation.
JP Unplugged is a concert series dedicated to presenting quality live acoustic music in an intimate listening environment in Jamaica Plain. It is organized by Boston-based singer/songwriters and acoustic music supporters who believe both the community and its artists benefit when the music is the focus. JP Unplugged is dedicated to presenting both nationally known and local artists to the Jamaica Plain community.
A dynamic vocalist with solid command over his 1949 Gibson J-45, DAVE CROSSLAND is one of the best performing songwriters under the radar today. Crossland began playing professionally while a college student in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A local favorite, he became a frequent opener for national acts and a regular headliner at the Ark, one of the finest acoustic music clubs in America. Finishing college with an honors thesis on Woody Guthrie, he left for Boston to hit the open mikes and sharpen his craft. There, Crossland quickly rose to headliner status, to be counted “among the most promising voices in the Boston folk scene” by the Boston Globe.
A witness and caretaker during his mother’s prolonged battle with cancer, Dave’s experience effort greatly affected the direction of his songwriting as well as his life. His new CD Pearl is the harvest of this journey. Produced by Jim Infantino (of Jim’s Big Ego), the CD is striking in its sophistication and substance and is a seductive mix of imagery, nuance and grace - a unique, genre-blending body of work that reveals the polished maturity of Crossland’s songwriting and musical talents.
Called “one of New England’s best songwriters” by The Boston Globe, TERRY KITCHEN’s songs are portraits of ordinary people and emotions, captured with extraordinary compassion, honesty and humor. He will be performing songs from his latest CD Heaven Here on Earth, which spent fourth months on the national Folk-DJ airplay chart, reaching #25. His songs have won the USA Songwriting Competition and the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest and been runner up in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. His CDs will be available at the performance, and are also available at www.terrykitchen.com.
TERRY KITCHEN has been performing on the national folk coffeehouse and festival circuit for the past fifteen years. Heaven Here on Earth is Kitchen’s 7th CD for the urban campfire label, following 2004’s that’s how it used to be, 2002’s Right Now, 1999’s blues for cain & abel, 1997’s blanket, and 1995’s I Own This Town. Kitchen has performed at such folk clubs as Cambridge’s Club Passim, the Postcrypt Coffeehouse and Cafe Lena in NY, Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem, and the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, and the Falcon Ridge (NY) and South Florida folk festivals. A former Jamaica Plain resident (and a founding member of JP Unplugged), Kitchen currently resides in Roslindale.
The Loring-Greenough House, built in 1760, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and has been a historic house museum since 1926. Its beautiful period decor and intimate size make it an ideal setting for acoustic music.
For more information on DAVE CROSSLAND visit www.davecrossland.com
For more information on TERRY KITCHEN visit www.terrykitchen.com
