Terry Kitchen

Born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Kitchen grew up first in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then on Easton, PA's College Hill (home of Lafayette College, setting for that's how it used to be's "The Greatest Game They Never Played"), where he was surrounded by the music and spirit of the 1960s. As a bored teenager in the '70s, Terry roamed the small town streets of Findlay, Ohio (the setting for "I Own This Town" and "The Seven Eleven Overture") before escaping to Los Angeles for college (Occidental...

For the past twenty years Terry has performed on the New England and national coffeehouse and folk festival circuits (including Club Passim in Cambridge, Cafe Lena and the Postcrypt in New York, Godfrey Daniels in Pennsylvania, and the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, and the Falcon Ridge, Telluride and South Florida folk festivals) and shared the stage with such artists as the Roches, Richard Shindell, John Gorka, Cheryl Wheeler, Dan Bern, Vance Gilbert, the Nields, Susan Werner, Holly Near and Michelle Shocked. He was a finalist in the 1992 Falcon Ridge songwriter showcase (and a featured performer ever since), a '94 Telluride Troubadour, a finalist in the 2003 South Florida Folk Festival's singer/songwriter showcase and a Top 40 finalist in the 2006 Kerrville Music to Life competition. His songs have won Grand Prize in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, First Prize in the USA Songwriting Competition, Runner Up in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, and Third Prize in the WUMB Mockingbird Song Contest.

In addition to his songwriting Kitchen has written 2 plays and a collection of autobiographical stories. He's worked as a summer camp counselor, union steward, ice cream scooper and bicycle messenger, has a brief but distinguished FBI record for anti-nuclear protests, has finished last in a Boston Marathon, and was once mentioned in a Harlequin romance novel.

Please see Mr. Kitchen's official site at http://www.terrykitchen.com