Jon Gomm

Shchedryk merch has landed! Before it became Carol Of The Bells, the original lyrics were about the first swallow of spring arriving back in Ukraine. I imagined it flying in a storm. To me the music & image are about resilience in the face of brutality.

Get a shirt/art print at jongomm dot com

Some more guitar magic from @jongomm.bsky.social

The intense bridge from Shchedryk. This section is my own addition to the Ukrainian original. I hope it's in keeping. It's cathartic to play, like screaming at the sky.

Full vid, stream links, guitar tab/lesson & merch at jongomm dot com

The intense bridge from Shchedryk. This section is my own addition to the Ukrainian original. I hope it's in keeping. It's cathartic to play, like screaming at the sky.

Full vid, stream links, guitar tab/lesson & merch at jongomm dot com

New single Shchedryk (Carol Of The Bells) out today. My take on the Ukrainian folk anthem turned Xmas classic

So happy to finally get this out. If you think it's worth a like/comment/share please don't hold back

Stream / full video / guitar tab / lesson video / t-shirt / art print at jongomm.com

Making a new cover photo for my bluesky and it feels like 2011 twitter :'(

My new single is out one week today, Monday Dec 1st - my interpretation of the Ukrainian classic Shchedryk, aka Carol Of The Bells. You can pre-save the song at jongomm.com/shchedryk

I've poured everything into the arrangement, production, video, the artwork, to try to do justice to this music.

Jon Gomm's fundraising for The Swan Song Project Help Ben Slack raise money to support The Swan Song Project

I've got a £2000 fundraising goal for @swansongproject.bsky.social who enable people facing death to write & record their own song. To create something unique & permanent for yourself & those you leave behind. Please give us a few bucks or a repost or both.

www.justgiving.com/page/jon-gom...

Jon Gomm's fundraising for The Swan Song Project Help Ben Slack raise money to support The Swan Song Project

I've got a £2000 fundraising goal for @swansongproject.bsky.social who enable people facing death to write & record their own song. To create something unique & permanent for yourself & those you leave behind. Please give us a few bucks or a repost or both.

www.justgiving.com/page/jon-gom...

Nostalgia-fest: The first time this team made videos together was for Passionflower and Ain't Nobody, 14 (F-O-U-R-T-E-E-N) years ago. Filming something together again felt totally surreal and totally natural and the same time. 🤍

Bootcamp 2026 is go! Booking now open for my Acoustic Guitar Bootcamp in The Forest Of Dean, UK, August 26th-30th 2026.

Me, Thomas Lee, Pino Forastiere & Chris Woods will be massaging campers' brains and fingers into new musical shapes.

All the info you could ever need is at jongomm.com/bootcamp

Don't doubt your power! I'd be nowhere without this phenomenon. (And I'm releasing something new for the holiday season in a few weeks, and I'm hoping to harness it again...)

Turns out when I'm full of cold, my ADHD medication doesn't work & my brain is full of squirrels. It's so difficult to play that way, I don't know how I ever did it. No wonder life was so stressful

Thanks for getting me through it Leeds! You made it glorious fun

Telepathy - A song from when my bad mental health messed up my ability to communicate with the people I love. Might take it for a spin on Sunday night in Leeds (the song not the bad mental health)

Wukan Motorcycle Kid from my album Secrets Nobody Keeps. A eulogy for the Siege of Wukan in 2011, when a village in China rose up against authoritarianism

I got the sanxian-esque sound by wedging a pick through some of the strings. (Tab at jongomm dot com)

First solo Leeds gig since 2022 in two weeks! I have new songs for you, and old ones obvs

My old mate Angelo Palladino is opening up, which is a terrible mistake cos he's better than me

The Kate Bush bit in Everything, from my album Secrets Nobody Keeps, live in Montreux. I love dropping quotes from other songs into my own songs, it's like dialling between radio stations

My cover of Song For A Rainy Day by Jonny Walker, live for Backlight Sessions

Full song streaming now on all platforms. Get the guitar tab jongomm.com/guitar-tabs

#guitar #fingerstyle #originalmusic #acoustic

Weakness is not your weakness;
You are what you grow into; You're not what you were.

-Jon Gomm (Passionflower)
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I used to get nervous about playing live. Here's how I think about it now

WAKE UP! Acoustic Bootcamp 2026 will be happening August 26-30, at The Asha Centre, Forest of Dean, UK. Pre-register with no obligation at jongomm.com

(In Jacob's defence, he'd had a very late night)

Blimey that is an old one! My autograph has evolved since then...

WAKE UP! Acoustic Bootcamp 2026 will be happening August 26-30, at The Asha Centre, Forest of Dean, UK. Pre-register with no obligation at jongomm.com

(In Jacob's defence, he'd had a very late night)

Nowadays, I get to play shows in them! Two clinics this month, at Rockamusic in Belgium, and Fellowship Of Acoustics in The Netherlands. Come along, maybe they're your barber shop

I skipped school a lot. People think atypical teenagers are being different on purpose to be cool. But you're not even cool, you're viewed with suspicion, or even bullied

I'd hide in music stores. Everyone is a musician, so it's chatting on easy mode. I go to them like old fellas go to barber shops

Yes thank you!

Sometimes I look at a photo and I can't tell if I'm playing a song or tuning up for the next one

Anyway, I LOVE HARMONIA CORDIS! Thank you everyone in Transylvania for the amazing few days of music

What is a "guitar clinic"? Nobody knows, which means I can choose to believe it's a gig but in between songs the audience can ask me ANY QUESTION THEY LIKE. Some of my favourite past questions:

"Can you play guitar normally" (yes)
"Have you lost your shoes" (no)
"Is ADHD a super power" (I wish)

This work © 2025 by Lee Zimmerman is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

This work © 2025 by Lee Zimmerman is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

This work © 2025 by Lee Zimmerman is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

This work © 2025 by Lee Zimmerman is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

The album Faintest Idea by @jongomm.bsky.social has my drawings carved into the vinyl and all over the packaging

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I'm going back to Hersbruck Guitar Festival this weekend. Here's a photo from last time I was there in 2017, mostly of Wilma (now retired). No idea what's written on my hand, probably hotel room number #adhd