Terry Kitchen, Jim Infantino, Danielle Miraglia

Called \”one of New England\’s best songwriters\” by The Boston Globe, Terry Kitchen creates songs that are portraits of ordinary people and emotions, captured with extraordinary compassion, honesty and humor. He\’s been performing on folk stages since the 1990s, releasing a dozen albums filled with literate musical storytelling, supple guitar playing and distinctive, intimate vocals. His 2020 album Next Time We Meet reached #5 on the national Folk-DJ airplay chart (with its single \”Party on the Roof\” reaching #4 on the song chart) and his songs have won the Mid-Atlantic and USA Song Contests and been runner-up in the John Lennon Song Contest. In the 1980s he was the leader of the groundbreaking Boston band Loose Ties, whose experiences he recounts in his novel Next Big Thing, called \”a great debut novel\” by The San Francisco Book Review. He also published a short story collection, Coping Mechanisms, in 2020. More on Terry at terrykitchen.com

 Jim Infantino has been writing and singing his own brand of off-kilter folk music in the New York / New England area since the early \’80s when he was a underage performer heading into Dave Van Ronk\’s open mic at The Speakeasy on Macdougal Street. His songs have been described as satirical, witty, sardonic, urbane, funny, heartbreaking, catchy, philosophical and razor sharp. He writes from a shifting perspective of human beings confronted by a rapidly changing whir of technology, work, love, death, money, facts and belief. Sometimes political, sometimes personal, sometimes abstract, his songs weave in the hint of humor when you expect sadness and tragedy when you expect levity. Since 1996 he has been performing mostly with his band: Jim\’s Big Ego, who describe themselves as \”the greatest band in the history of recorded music\” and compare themselves to \”the great wall of China, Antarctica, and other things you can see from space.\” With the band he has released 7 full-length CDs adding to his 3 solo releases including his latest, Utopia Revisited. He is also a novelist, with his debut book The Wakeful Wanderer\’s Guide to New New England and Beyond winning the 2017 Wattys Newcomer\’s Award. He currently lives in Boston, practicing and teaching meditation. His blog can be found at jiminfantino.com and the band site is bigego.com

 Blues/rock diva Danielle Miraglia comes armed with a strong steady thumb on an old Gibson, an infectious stomp-box rhythm, harmonica, and tunes ranging from heartfelt to socially conscious that will move both your heart and hips. After graduating from Emerson College\’s Creative Writing program, she attended an open mic at the late great Kendall Cafe and hasn\’t looked back, sharing the stage with such legends as Buddy Guy, Joan Osborne and Robert Cray. She was the New England Music Awards\’ 2019 Female Performer of the Year, and, with her band The Glory Junkies, a Boston Music Award nominee for Blues Artist of the Year for both 2019 and 2018. Her latest recording Bright Shining Stars, which reached #15 on the Billboard Magazine blues chart, blends her musical influences (The Rolling Stones, Prince, Janis Joplin) with her lyrical ability to explore human nature at its best and worst. More on Danielle at daniellem.com