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James Stephen Terrell Live Music Washington , DC, USA Home page: http://www.myspace.com/crucifiedtothecross... Phone: 202-441-1765(day) Email: jstephent@gmail.com Performing: 05/16/2008 - 7:00pm, 05/29/2008 - 8:00pm

Fri May 16 - 7:00pm-7:50pm
Electric Stage

James Terrell is a renaissance man,
He is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and figurative painter.

Born in D.C, he holds a BFA from Howard University, a MFA from Parsons School of Design and a M. Div from Union Theological Seminary/ Columbia University in New York City.

James Stephen Terrell creates and delivers songs, which emerge, from the American Experience. The music crosses cultural lines. It is grass roots sprouting out of the urban concrete paved environment.

The Music of James Terrell is commentary on the world in which we live.
It combines words with rhythmic freedom and naturalness with soul stirring fervor.

The music incorporates the basic principle of urban folk, country, gospel and blues.

The music is saturated with spirituality, immersed in reflection and draped in mediation that melodically stimulates the mind and soothes the soul.

His music is sympathetic to the wants of humanity and sincere to the needs of the spirit.
It has a quality of not just entertainment but enlightenment.

The subject matter of the music preserves a sense of continuity with the past, a critique on the present and a longing for a brighter tomorrow.

The music of James Terrell is heartfelt.