Don Ross and Jon Gomm
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Hermanns Jazz Club
753 View St., Victoria BC
Doors 6pm – Show 7:30pm
Tickets: $28.50 + s/c
Available at: 
Lyle’s Place 770 Yates St. (250) 382-8422
High Tide Simpletixhttp://hightideconcerts.simpletix.ca/Event/24259/Don-Ross-and-Jon-Gomm/
Ticketweb 1-888-222-6608 or www.ticketweb.ca
McPherson Box Office (250) 386-6121 and www.rmts.bc.ca

Don Ross is a Canadian fingerstyle guitarist. He is the only person to twice win the US National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship. His album Huron Street reached the top ten on the Billboard new age chart.

Jon Gomm is an English singer-songwriter and performer. Using a single acoustic guitar to create drum sounds, bass lines and melodies simultaneously, his songs draw on a range of influences and styles including blues, soul, rock and even metal.

Youtube Don Ross:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=170GfcR1i_A 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKk8oKm7Sb0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XwE5vn7-RU 
Youtube Jon Gomm: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnAq6Znw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOofWEjNInc 

Don Ross website: www.gobyfish.com 
Jon Gomm website: www.jongomm.com 

Don Ross 
Don Ross grew up in a musical family, first learning piano before moving to the guitar. In his early teens, Don discovered the fingerstyle guitar and started experimenting with altered tunings. He eventually went on to study music at Toronto’s York University. Rather than studying guitar, Don focused more on composition, electronic music, and sound recording. After graduation, Don decided that he was best fit to perform his compositions. In 1988, he won the U.S. National Fingerstyle Guitar Competition. This earned him national recognition and his first record deal. Don took first place at the same competition in 1996. To this day, he is still the only player to have won the competition twice. Signing with Narada Records in 1999, Don released his first solo guitar CD, Passion Session. Some of the compositions on Passion Session, such as “Michael, Michael, Michael,” “Klimbim,” and “Tight Trite Night” have become standards in world guitar repertoire. In 2005, Don Ross was the first artist to be signed to Candyrat Records, a U.S.-based indie label focused on internet promotion and distribution. Don has since release six records and two DVDs on Candyrat, his most recent being PS 15

Jon Gomm
Jon Gomm, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire in the UK, is an acoustic singer-songwriter with a revolutionary virtuoso guitar style, where he uses one acoustic guitar to create drum sounds, basslines and twisting melodies all at the same time. The emphasis is still on the soulful vocals and songwriting, and his original material is influenced by everything from Robert Johnson to Radiohead.

His live shows combine deeply personal performances and a natural wit, with a once seen, never forgotten two-handed guitar style, both physical and complex, producing sounds people can barely believe are coming from a humble acoustic guitar.

Jon first laid his hands on a guitar at the age of two (actually it was a ukulele - his parents couldn’t find a guitar small enough). He wrote his first song at the age of six, and was soon accompanying his father, a music critic, to gigs in his hometown of Blackpool. Touring musicians would often stay at the Gomm household on the understanding Jon would get a guitar lesson, meaning he had one-to-one instruction from such blues legends as BB King and Jack Bruce of Cream.

Nowadays, Jon tours worldwide. In January 2012 his song Passionflower went viral online, with the video passing 6 million hits, resulting in national TV appearances in the UK, Portugal, Holland, Brazil and Turkey, and plaudits from new celebrity fans, such as:

“Wonderful to watch. Genius.” - Stephen Fry

“I love your work and style so much. You are very special” – Jon Anderson (Yes)

“Wonderful playing and singing” - David Crosby (Crosby, Stills and Nash)

“Hands down the most amazing guitarist I have ever seen!” - Tommy Lee (Motley Crue)

"Jon you are a genius man, I LOVE your music and playing!" - Steve Lukather (Toto)