Jon Martin is a Canadian/British songwriter, musician, singer, and producer. Starting from humble beginnings making experimental music with a cassette four-track, Jon’s endless curiosity led him to perform at dive bars, festivals, and house concerts across western Canada, releasing several albums and becoming an in-demand record producer in southern Alberta.

Martin embraces his raw and honest voice, both as a songwriter and a performer. He is drawn to the power of a subtle turn of a phrase, the intricacies of song form, and the beauty of delicate melody. In the bittersweet alt-country/Americana heartbreak of his current project, Jon Martin and Lovers, Martin mixes a cocktail of dry wit, honesty, and reality, adds a dash of lyrical surrealism, and pours it into a tall-glass of British pop music.

When COVID threw a wrench in the album release, touring, and festival plans for the wonderful 2020 lined-up for Jon Martin and Lovers, Jon hunkered down and wrote a true "lock down" record. The upcoming Americana/Alt-country/piano pop album, which was recorded at home and remotely with musicians around the world, (including the US, UK, Brazil, and Canada) , reflects on and captures a small piece of the bizarre and unprecedented year we all shared. The album, This Could Be Our Year, will be released in late summer of 2021.

Some of Martin’s recent highlights include working with drumming legend Kenny Aronoff on The New Weather Machine's 2017 album Seas of Dawn, completing his Master’s of Music degree, performing at the Calgary Folk Festival (with Shaela Miller), creating a permanent audio exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, and performing Open Doors and Parallel Windows at the 2018 Burning Man Festival (Black Rock Desert, USA) and Sound Junction Festival (Sheffield, UK). Jon's music have been played on radio across the country, including on CBC Radio One (The Key of A, Homestretch, Eyeopener).