Jon and Roy

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Canadian three-piece folk rock and reggae band

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::summary Canadian three-piece folk rock and reggae band ::

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Field	Value
name	Jon and Roy
image	Jonandroy.jpg
caption	Jon and Roy at the original Richard's on Richards venue, in Vancouver on January 23, 2009.
landscape	no
background	group_or_band
origin	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
genre	Folk rock, reggae
years_active	–present
associated_acts	Bocce Avocado
Jon Middleton
Ocie Elliott
Current Swell
website
current_members	Jon Middleton
Roy Vizer
Louis Sadava
past_members	Ryan Tonelli
Dougal McLean
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Jon and Roy is a Canadian three-piece folk rock and reggae band from Victoria, British Columbia.

Career

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Jon Middleton—who is also vocalist and guitarist in the band Ocie Elliot—and percussionist Roy Vizer met at University of Victoria. They formed Jon and Roy, and began performing around Victoria and Vancouver in 2003. They added multi-instrumentalist Dougal Bain Mclean in 2004 and recorded their first album, Sittin' Back, in 2005 with recording engineer & producer Stephen Franke.

After traveling together in Australia, Jon and Roy went on hiatus from 2006 to 2007, during which Middleton recorded the solo album, After A Trip, while McLean and Vizer relocated to Vancouver. In 2007, Jon and Roy reformed and the duo recorded the album Another Noon, once again with Stephen Franke, at Blue Heron Studios. The album's title track was featured in a Volkswagen TV commercial that ran for nine months across the United States, giving the group considerable profile in that country. The success of the album also spawned the YouTube hit "Little Bit of Love".

In April 2010, Jon and Roy released Homes. Reviewers stated the music "wants you to get outside, enjoy the sunshine and leave all your material possessions behind." Homes earned them further airtime and exposure, as well as a placement in a six-month Scotiabank ad campaign, in addition to a headlining performance on Canada Day.

With the fourth album, Let It Go, the band were deemed notable, by some critics, for their "folk sound, their light swing rhythm and their predominant use of acoustic instrument." Their fifth LP, By My Side, released in 2014, was written during jams at Roy Vizer's house.

Discography

Albums

2005 * Sittin' Back*
2008 Another Noon (2009 US)
2010 Homes
2012 Let It Go
2014 By My Side
2015 Riverside
2017 The Road Ahead is Golden
2019 Here
2021 Know Your Mind
2024 Restore

References

[http://music.cbc.ca/#!/artists/Jon-and-Roy "Artist Jon and Roy biographical info"] {{webarchive. link. (2016-03-01 , [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). CBC]]
[http://www.indiemediamag.com/2010/uncategorized/album-review-homes-by-jon-roy/ "Album Review: ''Homes'' by Jon & Roy], by Aldo Singer, ''Indie Media Mag'', April 29, 2010
[http://mvremix.com/rock_blogs/2012/07/jon-and-roy-let-it-go-album-review/ "Jon and Roy – ''Let it Go'' album review"] by Melissa Mendoza, ''MCRemix'' website
[http://exclaim.ca/Music/article/jon_roy-by_my_side_album_stream "Jon and Roy ''By My Side''"] by Alex Hudson, ''[[Exclaim!]]'' website, May 20, 2014

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