John Milton Wesley: LIVE!! at Station North Arts Cafe

Singer, Songwriter, & Author John Milton Wesley will perform live at Station North Arts Café in Baltimore’s Station North Art District,  Monday, March 10th, 2012 12:00 pm -- 2:00 p.m.  

Wesley, (a Columbia resident since 1973,) whose new CD "Salvos The Music Part I" is available on iTunes and Amazon.com. writes and arranges all of his music.

His style’ which flows from soulful R&B, to Cool Jazz, to Classical Jazz, to Reggae, to Afro-Cuban, to Big Band, has a sound that is likened to Ramsey Lewis, Lionel Richie, Herbie Hancock, Michael McDonald, Smokey Robinson, Richie Havens, Brian Culbertson, and John Legend. He says, "My sound signature started while listening to the Blues where I grew up in Mississippi.   I was influenced by, Bobby Bland, Nat King Cole, Smokey Robinson,  Brooke Benton,  Lionel Hampton,  Ramsey Lewis, Jerry Butler,  and gospel music.  All the other sounds were later wrapped around it.  I love playing live because it gives me a chance to interact with the audience, and throw in a few stories with the music and the African American signatures in it."

He has performed at Merriweather Post Pavilion, the Bowery in New York, Las Vegas, Denver, Colorado, Carnegie Hall, Baltimore's Marriott at the Inner Harbor, Zella's in SOWEBO, and The Darker than Blue Restaurant in Baltimore among other places.

Wesley, who is also a published author (prose & poetry), has been published in: The Washington Post, Essence Magazine, American Legacy Magazine, The Baltimore Sun, The Afro-American Newspapers, PR Tactics, and in eight anthologies. His writing has been translated into French and Arabic. His music was featured most recently on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", and is the subject of a new documentary from French TV3.