Songs to stir the senses and melt the heart: Jon Fletcher’s gently soulful voice and sparkling acoustic playing weave strands of English folk, blues, jazz and classic songwriting into a compelling and original take on the troubadour tradition. Jon draws on a wealth of experience in the field of folk and acoustic roots music. A founder member late 90s roots-pop outfit Epona (alongside siblings Kate & Colin Fletcher, and fiddler Nancy Kerr), he has since lent his instrumental skills to a number of singer-songwriters including Lisa Fitzgibbon, Matt Sage and Sharron Kraus, and is a member of Oxfordshire folk sextet Magpie Lane. A Month in the Summer is Jon’s solo debut, and spins tales of love, longing, lazy days, Monday mornings and migratory birds to evoke, as Jon wryly puts it, “the perfect English summer I never had either”. These are finely-crafted songs that combine a storyteller’s instinct with imagery drawn from the natural world and a ...