(Please go to 'listen' and 'music producer & Credits...' pages for details on CD releases and more...)

Jon Strider, a 5th generation, native Californian, began performing music in the (San Francisco) Bay Area, emerging with an artistic destiny shaped by the cultural upheavals and artistic revelations of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.

In 1986 Jon took his craft to Los Angeles, California producing and creating music and songs and albums in his Pacific Songworks studio which was a part of Intermix, Inc.--a video and film production house. In this period he also logged time in Nashville, Austin and the Pacific Northwest.

Starting in 2001, love and music brought Strider repeatedly to Europe and Scandinavia. Since 2005 he has called Sweden his home.

As the father of a form of music described as "Rhythm & Folk", Strider has synthesized the rock, blues and acoustic worlds, a hybrid of storytelling, grooves and keen empathy.

December 2006 marked the release of Jon's 5th solo CD ‘WHITE WINGS' on New Sky Records. (Please go to 'listen' for details on CD releases.)

Spring 2008 marked the release of 'Meet theOfferingband' (12 song CD) on New Sky Records. Jon co-founded this group with Vera Renella in 2003.

February 22, 2010 marked the release of Jon's 6th solo album "Fresh Tracks" (10 song CD) on New Sky Records. (Please go to 'The Making of Fresh Tracks', 'Who Did What on New Sky Records releases' and 'Listen' for more information)

Credits: As a keyboardist / back-up vocalist:
Eddie Money / Larry Graham / Van Morrison / Mink Deville / Chuck Berry / John Lee Hooker / Dan Hicks
Credits: As a solo singer-songwriter/performer
Opened for Etta James / Jorma Kaukonen (of the Jefferson Airplane) / Rodney Crowell / Talking Heads / Albert King
Credits: As a producer/singer-songwriter
Jon has been blessed and honoured to have produced, worked, co-written and/or played with the musicians from the bands of Paul Simon, Elton John, Don Henley (lead singer of the Eagles), Jackson Browne, Carlene Carter, Supe & The Sandwiches, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Dwight Yoakum, George Thorogood, Steely Dan, Tori Amos, John Hiatt, Little Feat and Whitney Houston. Thanks goes out to all of them for their contributions.

Strider has toured the world, recorded 6 solo albums, produced dozens of other artists, found a radio audience, built recording studios, scored films and television shows, (December 2000 through 2003 featured song in Fox Network’s U.S. and International television drama ‘Dark Angel’ directed by Dirk Cameron,) and willingly and joyfully entertained people with his music.

"My feet are deeply rooted and earth speaks up and through me,
My brain taps the infinite sky above… "......strider