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      Well, Thanks to the efforts of Jeff Munro (allowing me to use his gear and his first bringing me to the place) and Alex Weston (the wonderful host), I’ve had the opportunity to do a few features at the Starbucks Coffee House on Bedford Street in Lexington.  I’d stongly suggest any musicians out there looking for a nice little place to play check this out.  They usually only do shows booked for Saturday nights, but the atmosphere here is incredible.  Not to mention the room is ALOT bigger than you would expect, and has an amazing sound to it.  Can’t wait to lug the piano down here one day and give it a shot.

Check it out sometime, heck you might see me there again soon I hope.

Until Then,

Jon

Was a great night last night.

Lot of friends, family, and other random people there to show their support.  Was very awesome to play for over and hour and a half and look up to see alot of familiar faces.

The people that opened for me…Chris Lizzi and Rick Macomber, also did a tremendous job.  Big thanks to them.

And of course a big thanks to Jeff and Justin who got there early, helped set up, and allowed me to use all of their stuff for the show, as well as my roomate Greg for helping me lug everything out there and back home.  Incredible people.

All in all, an amazing time. 

Catch ya soon,

Jon

  The monumental first news post.

  Hey everybody, and welcome to my site.  A big thanks to Ben Payne for helping me tremendously in getting it off the ground and doing alot of the design work for a “non-html” schlubb like me.  Keep in mind there will be some changes to the site as the first few weeks pass…as far as links, uploading media, maybe some layout things…so bear with us while we work out some of that stuff.

 Anywho, This will be the place where anything related to my music will be based.  Shows, CD’s, brand new material, random lyrical ideas, some of my funny “sitting around with a group of friends making fun of them” songs…you name it!  I intend to do alot of “self recording” using my own equipment and just posting it up here for people to listen to, so they’ll always be a steady influx of new material.

 Speaking of which, my new professionally reorded CD, “Buzz” has just arrived and is set for release!  I’ll be having a release show at the Avenue C in Malden, MA on March 7th at 7:30pm until 10pm, should be a great time.  You can either grab one of the CD’s from me in person ($5) or order them online for a tad more (shipping costs). 

  I’ll be making regular posts in the news sections here about anything from songs I’m working on, show updates, to random seeking of inspiration…so be sure to sign up on the site so you can post some comments and also join the mailing list so you’ll be notified of show dates and new media postings, etc.

 Take it easy everyone, I’ll catch ya around soon.

Jon