Hi and Happy Christmas to everyone, I am back in Sweden now. Thank you to all the people who follow me on Bandsintown, Facebook, Instagram, my website and all the various streaming services and especially to all those who came along to my 2025 autumn tours in Germany and the UK. I enjoyed playing the new songs and also re-visiting some of the older ones I had not played for a long time. Like wine they seem to mature if you leave them alone in a dark cellar for a few years.

Next year sees a big change for me. I have joined a new trio with a couple of my old Oysterband comrades to be called ‘Oysterband’s John Jones with Ray Cooper and Al Scott’. No doubt that rather cumbersome handle will shrink over time. Suggestions?

https://www.johnjonestrio.org/home

After Oysterband split up this summer, John and Al wanted to carry on performing and asked me to join. The trio will feature John on lead vocals and melodion, Al on acoustic, guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, and vocals, and myself on cello, vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, mandolin and harmonica. In addition to John singing, Al and I will also sing a few songs. The songs will be mostly Oysterband songs with the emphasis on some of the ones that were hardly ever, or never, played live before. Also a few songs from John’s solo albums and from mine. Al Scott has produced all out work and already played on a lot of it, so we are very familiar with each other and with the songs. We got together earlier this year and everything fell into place very easily.

Offers of tours came flooding in and in 2026 we will be out on the road in Denmark, UK, UK festivals, Germany, Austria and UK again. See John’s Bandsintown for dates: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/1609153?came_from=257&utm_medium=web&utm_source=artist_explorer_page&utm_campaign=artist

My next solo tour will be in Germany in September 2026. Next solo tour in UK will be in 2027

Have a good Christmas and see you down the road.