Jonathan McEuen
Jonathan McEuen was born to play music and bring joy to those listening. Good genes and a star-studded 'extended musical family' are great (his dad's a famous rock star banjo picker), but when people respond to Jonathan's extraordinary voice and guitar playing, it’s obvious he’s more than ‘just another son of a star.’
He spent his youth and now his young adult life on the road, doing what he loves most, playing guitar and singing with the family, playing electric & acoustic guitar & singing background for a number of world class artists, and fronting his own bands. Most recently, he put in serious time as half the lead of major label duo Hanna McEuen. That experience confirmed he was ready to move forward and create music outside the confines of his influences or a specific genre.
With more shows behind him than he can count (Jay Leno, Grand Ol’ Opry, and Red Rocks among them), Jonathan’s prepared to take music, and audiences, to a new place. Playing music without limitations is what he’s interested in pursuing these days. He’ll be creating new genres, breaking some molds and fusing musical traditions in his own, inspired way.
With a guitar in his hands, and his head thrown back in song, if there are people within earshot you can almost hear the sound of jaws hitting the floor and frequent religious invocations. Audiences are stunned into silence by the unbridled passion of the “edge of your seat” guitarist, moved to tears by the depth and intense beauty of his singing, and scream with abandon when he turns creative versions of Prince, Dan Fogelberg or Cream songs into McEuen masterpieces. Moving fluidly in and out of folk, rock and bluegrass/country influences, armed with a quick wit and a lot of charm, Jonathan’s traveling some new ground these days. He’s making it all work in his delightfully eclectic way, for everyone along for the ride.
Grab your friends and get ready for a THE show – he’s setting some exciting new standards on stages everywhere.
Touring, recording, playing, filiming & writing are going to be his focus for the next year or more. He sure does appreciate hearing from you when he gets a chance to come up for air, so please visit his guest book on this site and send messages. If you do the ‘Myspace thing’, comments there are also nice (visit from his “links” page.) We'll make sure he reads them . . . we’ll even make sure he writes something fun on his front page every few weeks . . . so check back often.
If you have pictures, video or stories about Jonathan - please send them along to his manager via the link on his "contact" page.
Join his email list (from the front page of this site, or his myspace), so we can let you know about shows in your area, and let us know if you have a suggestion for a venue near you.
Thanks for listening – that makes it all worthwhile!