Jon Svetkey

• Folk
• Singer/Songwriter

In the 1990s, before he spent 20+ years as stay-at-home dad, Jon headlined at dozens of folk clubs, colleges and coffeehouses throughout the Northeast and Midwest. Club Passim, The Bluebird Cafe, Eddie’s Attic, Caffe Lena, Canal Street Tavern, Cafe Carpe, The Blue Moon Coffeehouse at Illinois Wesleyan, Skidmore College, WPI, and Indiana University is just a partial list.

He shared co-bills and “writers-in-the-round” nights with the likes of Kristian Bush, Shawn Mullins, Peirce Pettis, Dar Williams, and Carrie Newcomer. He opened for legendary songwriters like Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III, Peter Case, John Gorka, Cheryl Wheeler and David Mallett.

In 1989, along with Ellis Paul, Jim Infantino and Brian Doser, Jon founded End Construction Productions, the seminal Boston songwriter’s collective whose album Resume Speed is widely regarded as the catalyst for the resurgence of the New England folk scene in the early 1990s.

He recorded three solo albums, this is NOW, yeahyeahyeah, and Take A Breath. His songs have appeared on several nationally distributed compilation albums, and he co-wrote many songs with Don White.

In 1994, Jon formed THE LOOMERS. They released five albums — Reeling Down A Road Tomorrow Today, Shine, Simple As That, and Escalation — and their music has appeared on CBS, Cinemax, The CW, MTV, NBC, and PBS.

Jon also sings and plays with THE YELLOW ROOM — with his wife, Heather Quay, Jeff Isen, Jason Redi & Tom Maher — and JONNY KRINGLE & THE WONDALAND BAND, an annual holiday-rock band that delivers money and toys to kids at Children’s Hospital.