Jon has performed professionally at festivals, arts centres and clubs across the UK for many years. He has published songs and tunes for commissioned by the National Cooperative Movement, the BBC and Mel Bay publishers (US). He's a previous winner BBC-radio and Folkwrite Magazine songwriting competition and a finalist of the International Songsearch competition. He's toured with professional storytellers and with his band, Moonrakers and has has been a tutor at the Common Ground Festival in Scotland, Broadstairs Folk Week, Wallingford Bunkfest and the Ukulele Festival of Great Britain. He runs Folk Orchestra and ukulele residential weekends at Halsway Manor and Benslow Music every year and founded Moonrakers in 1998.