Terry Kitchen with Becky & the Hitmen at Dedham's Paradise Cafe Sat Sept 13

Award-winning Boston contemporary folk singer/songwriter/author TERRY KITCHEN will be performing at The Paradise Cafe, 565 High Street, Dedham on Saturday September 13. Also performing will be folk-pop group Becky & The Hitmen. The concert begins at 8 PM and there is no cover charge. KITCHEN will be celebrating both his birthday and the release of the audio book version of his 2013 novel Next Big Thing, which is based on Kitchen’s experiences with the 1980s Boston band Loose Ties. Call 781-326-5674 or visit www.facebook.com/paradisecafededham for more information.

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 has released ten contemporary folk CDs, and his novel Next Big Thing, based on his experiences with the ‘80s Boston band Loose Ties, was called “a great debut novel” by the San Francisco Book Review. Kitchen’s songs have won the Mid-Atlantic and USA Song Contests and been runner-up in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, and his heartfelt songs, superb guitar playing and offbeat humor guarantee a memorable performance. His book and 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 twenty years. In addition to his 2013 novel Next Big Thing, Kitchen’s releases include the CDs summer to snowflakes (2009), Heaven Here on Earth (2007), that’s how it used to be (2004), Right Now (2002), blues for cain & abel (1999), blanket (1997), and I Own This Town (1995). 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), Solarfest (VT), and South Florida folk festivals.

BECKY & THE HITMEN perform unique arrangements of 60s and 70s pop, rock and folk songs. They are led by vocalist Rebecca Lynch, who was Terry Kitchen’s singing partner when they both attended Occidental College in the early 1980s (along with Barak Obama). Rebecca Lynch’s performance of Kitchen’s song “Same Heart Twice” is featured on the companion soundtrack CD to Kitchen’s new novel Next Big Thing.