Jon Watts is a dedicated member of the Religious Society of Friends as well as a prolific songwriter and poet. He has spent the last two years touring extensively throughout North America and is now in the studio recording his 3rd full-length album.
Final Vlog Episode! In two months I played 20 shows, biked a thousand miles, spread the word about my music in 10 states, posted 18 videos online, redesigned my website and loved every minute of it! Here now (after a quick and much-deserved break) is the final video in my two wheel tour series. This vlog episode covers the last leg of my trip, including shows at Ithaca Quaker Meeting, Alfred Friends Meeting, Rochester Friends Meeting, Buffalo NY and the Farmington-Scipio Regional Gathering.
Vlog # 9 in my Two Wheel Tour series. In this episode I bike the final leg of my journey from Manhattan to Beacon Hill Friends House in Boston and share music with Moses Brown Friends School and Friends Meeting at Cambridge.
Jon stopped in at Friends School of Baltimore on his 2010 Two Wheel Tour and performed a few songs for the Middle School students. This piece is called “Together We Compose This Bloody, Bleeding, Beating Drum”
I am pleased to announce to you my Spring tour, which will encompass all of the major cities from Chapel Hill to Boston.
One reason that I am extra-excited about this trip is that I’m going to be doing things a little differently. Instead of driving a car from city to city, making my way up the coast powered by fossil fuels and reliance on our vast (and vastly expensive) interstate system, engulfed in our hurried, irreverent culture, I am going to attempt to inhabit a new mindset: slow movement. Meditative travel.
I am going to ride my bike to Boston.
This is a totally new kind of adventure for me. I have never been on an extended bicycle trip and have no way of fully grasping what’s in store.
But I’ve known for a long time that the centeredness required to be faithful to the music I’ve written is contradicted by the superficiality and hurriedness in the typical career of a professional musician.
If I am going to come to your city and be fully present with you in the moment, I need to be in my body, breathing, and having been present with the land as it passed below and around me.
