Bio & Pictures

Call me Jonathan, Jon or Jonny, whatever you prefer. I was born raised and am currently living in Princeton in central Minnesota. I am absolutely living my dream and I keep getting deeper and deeper into it every day! Since I was 4 years old I wanted to be a rockstar!

I have been playing guitar on and off since I was 14 years old, but never took it serious until a couple years ago. I would play it for a few days and then forget about it for months or years. 

A friend Jay Kroska reached out to me about playing a show together, and after telling him multiple times I wasn't prepared, I decided to take the risk and agreed to the show. We played July 8th 2021 at Alpha Omega Farm in Princeton, and we were asked to play an extra half hour.  A few days later on July 17th My wife and I attended a Whitey Morgan and Cody Jinks show in Dubuque IA. On the 5 hour trip home I did a lot of thinking, and decided that I needed to pursue music.  At the time we were living in a camper in our yard and broke ground on a house a month later, that took up most of my free time for the next year. Some of my YouTube videos are in our house when it was still under construction.  August of 2022 I had the time to start practicing for one hour a day, and played my first solo show at Shooters Sports Bar in Princeton on December 10th 2022.  

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My Musical Philosophy

In a world of overproduced over commercialized music, I believe there is a hunger for something simple, genuine and real. I'm just a guy and a guitar, playing you a song that means something to me. I hope you can feel it. 

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Music can communicate, thoughts, feelings and emotions that words alone cannot. It can help heal our heart, or bring back cherished memories. 

 

When I am playing, I am in another place, and when the song is over I come back to Earth. I am not playing the song, I am the song.  I want to make music that connects with people, and makes them feel the way I do when I am playing it. 

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As a musician I try to be as genuine and humble as I can.  If you like what I am doing, please come say hi to me at a show, or tell a friend about me. 

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-Jonathan