Jon Franke sings and plays guitar performing an eclectic mix of folk, swing, bluegrass, and country standards. Jon has played guitar, mandolin, double bass, and dobro in numerous bands over the years. It's time to go solo and play a variety of songs from 40+ years of playing music!
Jon is available
October thru May in the Willamette Valley of Oregon as well
as
Northern Wisconsin June thru September.
Song Samples
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Wagon Wheel
Gentle On My Mind
Route 66
Did She Mention My Name
Summertime
Walleye
Sitting Alone in
the Moonlight
Set List
These are songs I often perform
Folk:
Across the Great Divide, City on New Orleans, Coal
Tattoo, Daddy's Hands,
Did She Mention My Name, Dream a Little Dream, Dusty
Boxcar Wall, Early Morning Rain, Edmund Fitzgerald,
Leaving of Liverpool, Leaving Louisiana, Mr. Bo Jangles,
Nobody Knows You, Poor Wayfaring Stranger, Roll on
Columbia, Roseville Fair, Someday Soon, Wagon Wheel,
Will You Walk With Me, You Ain't Going Nowhere, To
Morrow, Walleye Song, Marvelous Toy, Star of the County
Down, House of the Rising Sun, MTA, Go My Way, Poncho
and Lefty, The Gambler, Grandma's Feather Bed, Leader of
the Band, Last thing on My Mind, You've Got a Friend,
If You Could Read My Mind, Fire and Rain, Don't think
Twice It's All Right, Hey Tomorrow, Bobbie McGee
Swing:
Ain't Misbehav'n, Exactly Like You, Lady Be Good, Paper
Moon, Sin to Tell a Lie, Write Myself a Letter, Blue
Skies, Bye Bye Blues, All of Me, Bye Bye
Blackbird, Ramblin Rose, Route 66, Sentimental Journey,
Summertime, Miss Molly, Mister Sandman
Bluegrass:
Sittin' Alone in the Moonlight, Kentucky Waltz, Dark
Hollow, Rocky Top, Dusty Boxcar Wall,
Fox on the Run, Old Home Place, Shady Grove, Red Clay
Halo, Steel Rails, Take this Hammer,
Wait a Minute, Ghost Riders in the Sky, Roll in My
Baby's Arms, Blue Moon of Kentucky
Western:
Abilene, Old Cowhand, Miles of Texas, Night Riders
Lament, Crazy Arms, Sierra Madre
Other:
Diana, Sweet Caroline, I Am, There's a Kind of Hush,
Gentle on My Mind,
Well I Love Her, Hello Mary Lou, Garden Party, Folsom
Prison Blues,
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Lost Highway,
King of the Road, Jambalaya, Long Black Veil,
Jon Franke
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Jon Franke sings and plays guitar performing an
eclectic mix of country, western, bluegrass, folk and
swing standards.
Jon has played played guitar, mandolin, double bass,
and dobro in numerous bands over the years.
It's time to go solo and play a variety of songs from 40+
years of playing music!
Jon is known for his career as a violinmaker
having built more than 100 instruments including acoustic
guitar,
mandolins, violins, violas, cellos, and double bass. He
has won numerous awards for both tone and workmanship.
Learn more about Jon's violinmaking at ProViolins.com.
Jon is a Wisconsin native and splits his time between Conover, Wisconsin and Monroe, Oregon.