tag:jontnet.com,2005:/blogs/jont-e-news?p=2Jont E-News2023-01-31T17:34:35-04:00Jont falsetag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/71464922023-01-31T17:34:35-04:002023-10-16T11:52:58-03:00January 2023 Troubadour Chronicles + Song Sampler<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/f586ee0b9f68b5e59be4d69db86c055d7fb411d6/original/header-jan-2023-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont Troubadour Chronicles + Song Sampler" /></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">I am sitting on the balcony of a wooden bungalow, surrounded by palm trees and other tropical flora on the remote north eastern edge of a small Thai island called Koh Phangan. I can hear the waves lapping on Bottle Beach and the soft putt-putt-ing of the small light blue water taxi arriving to drop off today’s visitors. The sky is clear blue. The birds are singing, making a variety of different sounds that 6 weeks ago were so alien and new to me. Now they are familiar, friendly calls and answering calls that ring out all day long as I sit here writing the all important next draft of my book. As the writing process has gone on, my belief in the book has increased. Each revised paragraph, each note that is addressed, each element of the structure that is reworked, brings with it a more clear picture of what this book is really about. As my belief grows, my excitement grows to finish the book and to share it with the world.</span></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/0df5d8e8d7a626419075f3c9d15963baa9ac3eed/original/jungle.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jungle view" /></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">But I also have duties to attend to. Yesterday evening I recorded a short gig here for all of you subscribers. <em>(Watch on the <a contents="Troubadour Tour " data-link-label="Troubadour Tour" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/troubadour-tour" target="_blank">Troubadour Tour </a>dedicated page for monthly Subscribers). </em>The birds joined in, sometimes more than I wanted. On some songs it felt like they were singing along. And I am writing this now to say hello and to report back from the last month of troubadouring. It has been a marvelous month. After initially surprising myself with the amount of judgements that came up in my mind as I was faced with a demographic full of fellow spiritual seekers at different stages of their journeys, as the days passed I found the judgements passed and the essence of this beautiful island landed in my being. I realized how open everyone here was to talking, to connecting. And either by accident or magic, each person I met was exactly the person I needed to meet at that time. Mariska - the medicine singer who spent the last 20 years in Peru helping set up cultural education for indigenous communities and now travels between Koh Phangang, Rishikesh and Peru facilitating song circles. Orka, the medicine singer from Israel who was here for two weeks facilitating ceremonies and workshops, inspiring people with her songs. I happily presented copies of the Old Traveller Songbook to both of them. So many other people, all chronicled in the Troubadouring pages on my website <em>(i.e., the <a contents="public" data-link-label="Troubadouring NOW!" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/troubadouring-now" target="_blank">public</a> page and all the best content captured for subscribers on the<a contents=" dedicated page" data-link-label="Troubadour Tour" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/troubadour-tour" target="_blank"> dedicated page</a>)</em>, have led to this becoming one of the richest times in my life. My dear friend Oli happened to be here with his violin and we took full advantage of our first time to hang out properly in ten years, driving across the island on our scooters, Oli whipping out his violin at dance parties, restaurants and ceremonies alike. <em>(Watch Episode 2 of the Koh Phangan leg of the troubadour tour featuring Oli on both the public and subscriber pages.) </em></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">My plans after here are not certain, but a visit to India is on the cards when I’m done here. I now have a couple of people I know to visit in Rishikesh and they say my music will go down well there. A new friend asked me to host a Gentle Warrior Ceremony at their home in a small, circular shala in their garden. <em>(The audio of the experienced is captured in full on the subscriber troubadour page and a sample is on the public one)</em>. It felt good to be back in the role of hosting people in a cacao ceremony experience and sharing my songs.</span></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/5678bf58cf1fb424e06bd34e79a1ca742bf4c0f7/original/gw-set-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Gentle Warrior Photos" /></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Time to get back to the book. Go to the website - get your free <a contents="1 month trial" data-link-label="Free Subscription Trial" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/free-subscription-trial" target="_blank">1 month trial</a> to be a subscriber today, it’ll take 5 minutes and I don’t need your credit card number. Just give it a go. Each person that joins and the field gets stronger. Or just trust me that it’s worth it and sign up for Tier I (5 CAD a month, about 3 quid). I feel proud of the amount and quality of content there, all my albums are there to stream (several of which aren’t available online elsewhere anymore) and new goodies every month, plus heaps of live performances and the full extent of the troubadour content.</span></p>
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<hr><p><span class="font_large">Enjoy a taster from a recent subscriber gig. Click on the image to watch. The full version is available to enjoy on the dedicated subscriber page.</span></p>
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<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/rzOLURFNAMw" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/a35dc3b7972cc6e8041055e858cc9ac55c306f03/original/sampler-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Watch a Subscriber Gig Song Sampler " /></a></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Whether you do or not, just opening up this email and following the trip, and connecting with my songs in your life makes the field stronger and helps these songs get out to more people, and I thank you for that and am so delighted when this music can help you in some way. Several of you have donated or joined up since my last post and I really appreciate it, thank you.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Jont</span></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/55906b03f0cb9d040fc7ea9b07736b686a0d7d2a/original/ot-songbook.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Old Traveller Songbook" /></p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/71281022022-12-24T14:00:19-04:002022-12-24T14:00:19-04:00Time for us to let it through...<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/9f70daa522bb7c49dcb39e778e8fcda9500074b1/original/dec-header-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - December 2022 ENews" />…</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I realized the other day that because of a fear of failure I hadn't been very skilful in letting you all know about where you can access the majority of the content I've been working on diligently over the last few years.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>Beautiful Online Resource for YOU</strong></span></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large">My great friend Michelle has devotedly created a beautiful online resource which is home to all my offerings....albums - released and yet to be released, past streamed gigs, recordings, poems, troubadour adventures, videos etc. We started it in 2018 and it's now teeming with concerts and albums and magic from the last 4 years. I was a little put off by how few people initially signed up and let my doubts get the best of me while Michelle kept going and created this gorgeous space for people to appreciate the medicine that comes through these songs I feel so grateful to have been given to sing this lifetime. It's a subscription, so that means we ask a little something of YOU, an exchange in the amount of your choosing, which really helps me to continue this path of sharing my music with the world, something I am planning to do more and more continuously over the coming years. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">I really need your support to do this though. So if you value my music in your life then please consider becoming a paid subscriber. An amount that's just the cost of a latte per month is really really valuable and adds up and allows me to hold this vision of traveling the world and singing my songs to more and more people...including you. Everywhere I go people tell me that these songs speak to them as if they were written about their very own lives. Right now we need music that can give us that universal connection with each other. I am devoted to playing the role of sharing this universal message with people all around the world, whether they are subscribers or not, whether it is in a concert hall or in someone's home or yoga studio or on a park bench. With your help I can keep going with my work, and I also of course love to report back and let you meet the people I meet on my way and give you a good taste of the journey as it unfolds.</span></p>
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<hr><p><span class="font_large">So, better late than never, here I am letting you know about it all. For those of you who are soothed and uplifted by my music, there is heaps of content here to keep you going all of 2023!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/ClpcowovjYg" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/7e33c36453328374c5a72f157bb9c353ab8e017a/original/greeting-hey-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Holiday Hey Video YouTube" /></a><span style="color:#444444;"><em>CLICK THE IMAGE TO WATCH: A greeting, song preview and a bit of an admission about some fears...</em></span></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Importantly, if it's not viable for you right now to put any money towards something like this but you would still love to have access to these hours of ceremonies and recordings to keep your spirits up and not be excluded because of the financial element... that's OK too! Just be in touch personally by email (<a contents="jont@jontnet.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:jont@jontnet.com" target="_blank">jont@jontnet.com</a>) and we will work out an exchange that works for you.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Most importantly I want you to know where all this goodness that has been flowing through me in this very connected and creative last few years is and that it is available TO YOU ALL, with a few clicks, whether you want to be a <a contents="subscriber" data-link-label="Subscribe" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank">subscriber</a>, or to do the <a contents="free trial" data-link-label="Free Subscription Trial" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/free-subscription-trial" target="_blank">free trial</a> (no credit card info needed) or if you need the special medicinal dispensation! :) Thanks to my incredible friend and collaborator Michelle, whose support and shared vision of the power of these songs allows me to carry on and not think I am deluded...it is there for you all...</span></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large">Much love and Happy Holidays....<br>Jont</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">ps check out the short tour of all the beautiful music awaiting you…click on the image to watch!</span></p>
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<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/BUevkBQPh5I" target="_blank"><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/ed8ba472a91c2869456b621d257de4cdeeab9135/original/invite.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="An invitation into the subscription" /></span></a><br> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/71211572022-12-10T21:34:30-04:002022-12-10T21:34:30-04:00Troubadouring Now!<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/1029d0faa8bd4c11f31cf1db3ed625fbf17253c0/original/jont-header-nov-gen-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Troubadouring Now" />…</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I'm really excited and happy to be back on the road again with a guitar on my back. </span></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large">I am in my joy, troubadouring again, meeting fellow humans and sharing connection, creating magical spontaneous experiences together, often shaped around a ceremony or a gig that we decide to put on at short notice in the homes or workplaces of these new brothers and sisters I meet....there is an infectious sense of rightness, joy and flow to these meetings, shared knowings, unspoken yet clear agreements and they feel like important acts of love and more perfect than vinyl, download, video or even concert hall as the medium where these joyfully sad, truthfully joyful heart medicine anthems that are my one long song gift this lifetime can truly live their life. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">...</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>TROUBADOUR MOMENTS</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I am so happy to have you join me in any way on this journey. The best thing would be if you turned up where I am! If that's not possible then troubadour along with me meeting the people and seeing the places I visit via the dedicated pages described below.</span></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/ee70928b16382ba2d8fddfcbf224279ff84fc478/original/troubadour-moments-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Troubadour Moments" /></p>
<hr><p><span class="font_large">**Check out the new public <strong>“<a contents="Troubadouring Now!" data-link-label="Troubadouring NOW!" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/troubadouring-now" target="_blank">Troubadouring Now!</a>”</strong> page - a collection of magical moments, photos, videos and audio captured along the way.**</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">We have also created a dedicated page for our Subscriber Community: <a contents='"Troubadour Tour"' data-link-label="Troubadour Tour" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/troubadour-tour" target="_blank">"Troubadour Tour"</a>. Log in and access the full length gigs and ceremonies, special audio and video features, interviews and some new songs as they come through. It’s a great time to <a contents="Subscribe" data-link-label="Subscribe" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank">Subscribe</a> as we continue to add all of the best content from this year and years past. For those new to the mailing list (…<em>welcome!</em>...), there is a 1-month free trial option that does not require a credit card or annoying ‘auto-sign-up’. Details about it are <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="Free Subscription Trial" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/free-subscription-trial" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Of course we always love receiving your comments and feedback (<a contents="jont@jontnet.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:jont@jontnet.com" target="_blank">jont@jontnet.com</a>) so feel free to send a hello, share a memory if you’ve been to a gig or be in contact if you’d love to help set something up in Koh Phangan where I’m settled until March 2023.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">OK: click on the <a contents='"Troubadouring Now!"' data-link-label="Troubadouring NOW!" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/troubadouring-now" target="_blank">"Troubadouring Now!"</a> page and watch something right now! Meet my doppelganger at Tempelhof airfield, guess what song I sing to bless Kornelia + Lily’s union and new business, find out who I met at the airport leaving Ibiza, or listen to song captured at the November 4th Gentle Warrior Ceremony in Berlin…</span></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large">Enjoy and I hope to offer a LOVEstream gig from my island home here in December.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Jont X</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/fadd1114c60c8ea78e7da2add40b8f08b6c93a83/original/jont-on-bench-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont " /></span></p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/70919362022-10-30T22:04:33-03:002022-10-30T22:04:33-03:00Troubadouring Again<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/41d2a21a9e070cae9e6897d8981f8aca4f45e417/original/jont-october-gen-enews-header-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont ENews October 2022" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">...</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">12 years ago I was asked to sing “Supernatural” at the wedding of Dario and Daniela. Their friends had contacted me out of the blue to see if I would be happy to come to Sicily to surprise the couple on their big day. I am still so happy I said yes to this experience. I ended up teaching the song to Dario and we sang it together in the pouring rain up to Daniela as she stood on the balcony with her friends, as part of the traditional “Serenata”.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">At that time, experiencing how much my music meant to these people I’d never met inspired me to lift myself out of the rut I was in, and set off in to the world to be a “troubadour”, and let my songs organically lead me around the world. They did. They also led me to a complete emotional and spiritual nadir, from where, as we know the only way is up. First I was introduced to meditation which had a dramatic and rapid positive effect, and then shortly after that I was introduced to my daughter - and life got even better.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">I write more about this in the memoir I’ve just finished, which I’ll tell you more about in the coming months as I continue to improve it and get it ready for publication. In the meantime, the reason I’m telling you about it now is because - I’m hitting the road as a troubadour again. I feel quite a different person than I did then - lighter and less grasping after success, but the troubadour side of me (the side that loves to travel and connect with others through my music) is as present as ever.</span></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/8c73af242cc720c463744db05e047881fff54133/original/troubador-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Old Troubadour Meets the New!" /><em>(Image: Secret Garden Party 2011)</em></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">On this first foray back out in to the world after a decade mostly spent in Eastern Canada in Nova Scotia, I will be heading to some places where I expect there might be some like-minded souls. First of all Berlin, where my old friend Lee Lester and I are hosting a <a contents="Gentle Warrior Ceremony Saturday November 4th" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/5299312230178062/" target="_blank">Gentle Warrior Ceremony Saturday November 4th</a>, then on for a quick trip to the more mellow side of the island of Ibiza for a small musical gathering and then to a place I’ve heard a lot about but have never been - Koh Phanang, a small island in Thailand with a thriving spiritual community. Feels like the perfect place for an adventure.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">So, do join me on Instagram if you’re not on there already (<a contents="@jont_songs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.instagram.com/jont_songs/" target="_blank">@jont_songs</a>) as I’ll mostly be posting there when I post, and do remember to hit the “subscribe” button on my <a contents="YouTube" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/jontnet" target="_blank">YouTube</a> page as that will help you see the new videos I post. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>The Life I Froze</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Speaking of sharing on YouTube, here's a video of an unreleased song, “<a contents="The Life I Froze" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/i_db3vZ_x8A" target="_blank">The Life I Froze</a>” from a recent Song Ceremony for the Openhand World Ascension Summit. The lyrics are included in the description for those who appreciate that sort of thing - along with details on how to see the full 85-minute ceremony. <em>(Click on the hypertext or the image below to watch.)</em></span></p>
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<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/i_db3vZ_x8A" target="_blank"><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/42d1f4658a65392f5fa96238ac778fb26eb305f2/original/the-life-i-froze-header-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Watch The Life I Froze on YouTube" /></span></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">Streaming - Album Catalogue</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">There are many changes afoot with the website - I will be taking almost all my music down from the major streaming sites, and streaming all my content free from my official website. Feels cleaner and clearer. And there is a brand new album called “Old Traveller” that we will be launching there early next year. Jont <a contents="Subscribers" data-link-label="Subscribe Now!" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe-now" target="_blank">Subscribers</a> can log in and listen to the whole album now at the “<a contents="Stream Albums and Playlists" data-link-label="Stream Albums And Playlists" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/stream-albums-and-playlists" target="_blank">Stream Albums and Playlists</a>” page where the full music catalogue is available along with playlists and unreleased songs. <br> </span><br> </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">Asyouare - The Film</span></strong></p>
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/c7209469a59276d293e281ac82e243b68ee79966/original/asyouare-square-set2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Asyouare!" /></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Also of course we have a full-feature film from this summer’s epic first performance of ASYOUARE at The Bus Stop Theater (perhaps the most fun night in my entire life?)…Lots to come! </span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Please message me (<a contents="jont@jontnet.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:jont@jontnet.com" target="_blank">jont@jontnet.com</a>) or Michelle (<a contents="michelle.jontnet@gmail.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:michelle.jontnet@gmail.com" target="_blank">michelle.jontnet@gmail.com</a>) if you want to be in touch - we love your letters, queries, questions and requests (including mentions if anything on the site isn’t working technically).</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Sending you love, with a renewed spirit of adventure…Troubadouring again…</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Jont</span></p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/69768982022-05-21T22:39:35-03:002022-05-21T22:39:35-03:00Atlas of Myself + New Music<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/4c94ed6f18794e0fa864c08263f8b3f7f9daa93b/original/general-may-2022-header-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Atlas of Myself" />...</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Something special happened in last month’s subscriber LOVEstream. And we were fortunate enough to record the whole thing. I don't even want to describe it too much. But half way I remembered this poem I'd written at Christmas when I'd gone home to England. I read it out and suddenly dropped into the place I was then. After the first one I thought oooooh I know the perfect song that could come now and so it carries on....</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The final version which is 52-minutes and includes six songs and five poems has just been shared with subscribers. We have clipped the opening poem and song combo as a teaser for you to enjoy. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Click the image below to watch.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/ahxijsWGRVY" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/29575c27f7bfbb3e98b478092fac19d5d6977904/original/atlas-of-myself-teaser.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Watch Atlas of Myself Clip on YouTube" /></a></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Of course I would love to hear your comments on the poem and how this combo worked together, too. Feel free to write me directly or put a comment on the YouTube video!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">…</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It's feeling a bit sunny for a LOVEstream at the moment but I shall return no doubt.... meantime, it's a great time to become a subscriber. I've just put two brand new albums up there exclusively for subscribers, ”Asyouare”, the long-awaited follow up to “Thank You For The Medicine” and last year's medicine song collection, “Old Traveller”.... all yours to stream FREE with your subscription or a free trial of the subscription...just sayin....) </span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Much love,<br>Jont</span></p>
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<p><br> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/68435522021-12-16T20:00:48-04:002021-12-16T20:00:48-04:00To Share That Joy - Best of Jont Vol.I Available Now<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/de025852347d332fca94a7ba56d69460acf8631a/original/album-header-december-2021-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="To Share That Joy - Best of Jont Vol.I Available Now" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">…</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Over the last 6 months I have been making a new (very mellow) album called “Old Traveller” that I’m really, really excited about sharing with you. It’s now finished and Michelle and I are working on a beautiful book that is going to accompany the download version of the album. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Only a handful of you buy my work on CDs nowadays, and vinyl is a huge expense and many people don’t have record players - so I thought how about a book with the elements of a vinyl album (art, liner notes, writing about the songs) and also the lyrics and chords that you’d find in a songbook so you can play along if you want? That’s what we are making and it will be coming out in the spring of 2022. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">As we started working on that I felt it was also the right time to put together a release of some of my favourite recordings from the last 20 years. Yes, a “Best of…”!! I am that old. It is “Volume I” though, so there is scope for a volume II! There are a few old faves that have never been on albums (Morley Moo, a remix of When The Time Comes). </span></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/4eaf79aefd394e0634cd34a9666ddd5a0c37332d/original/album-cover.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="To Share That Joy - Best of Jont Vol.I" /></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">For someone who has never heard my music it gives quite a nice flavour of what I have been doing in the studio in the last 20 years. For those who have enjoyed the 11 albums in the catalog to date, it offers a lovely listening experience as a collection. It is called “To Share That Joy: The Best of Jont Vol.I” and it’s available for download now, only from my website.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/6c6dc1f16139bd4761b746e7bd4785c5ab11781a/original/stars-orange.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Stars!" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><span class="font_large"><strong>spread the joy!</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><strong>Gift Option #1. </strong>As a special holiday season offer, you can buy a copy for yourself and 4 for your friends for a very cheap price and we will send it to them just before Christmas (on the 23rd or 24th) with a lovely Jont e-card!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><strong>Gift Option #2. </strong>As an even more special offer, when you buy a copy for yourself and 9 of your friends (at an even cheaper price - almost ridiculously cheap price), we will send it to them just before Christmas with a lovely e-card AND we will also send YOU a download copy of the new “Old Traveller” album that I mentioned in the first paragraph. </span></p>
<p><em><span class="font_large">**NOTE: <a contents="Subscribers" data-link-label="Subscribe" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank">Subscribers</a>, make sure you log in as you can purchase the album and gifts sets for a special price.</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">*Check out the details <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="Best of Jont Vol. I - To Share That Joy" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/best-of-jont-vol-i-to-share-that-joy" target="_blank">HERE</a>*</span></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large">So….you can get your seasonal and Christmas shopping done here, effortlessly share some of this lovely music with your friends and get a copy of the unreleased “Old Traveller” album….our work here is done!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Wishing you and yours joy, fun times, dancing and general merriment this holiday season. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">XXX Jont</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">let's stay connected</span></strong></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">It's summer!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Because I love singing these songs and it's a lot of fun to hang out with you all, I will be playing a second Zoom LOVEstream this coming Sunday June 20th at a time that can hopefully be good for a few different timezones (3 pm Halifax, 7 pm UK, 8 pm Austria, 11 am San Diego)....I want there to be nothing holding you back if you want to be there, so it is pay what you wish (starting at free), just grab your ticket... looking forward to it already! </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><em>(NOTE: When you grab a ticket you also get a copy of the recording.)</em></span></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/d54ab37a4b72dc0e45d8ffab25196f04ecde0db5/original/general-eposter-june-20-600.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Zoom LOVEstream Sunday June 20, 2021" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">PWYW Ticket Link <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/product/687478" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</span><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">Subscribers – always free (check your email for the zoom link).</span></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large">Oh and if you missed the last gig on June 6th, here's a clip to give you an idea of what they are like: It's About Love!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/W9vwDezTy80" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/142419a81cef225e136ff0960dd2eb23c93f9488/original/its-all-love-thumbnail.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="It's About Love - YouTube Video Link" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><a contents="WATCH" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/W9vwDezTy80" target="_blank">WATCH</a> It's About Love</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><strong><span class="font_xl">...</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We are excited to release the full length (1.5 hr), HD concert movie of the "Thank You For the Medicine Album Launch", Friday June 25, 2021 - the one year anniversary after it was recorded. Here's a little teaser! <em>(Note: Subscribers can watch now on the <a contents="Watch it First" data-link-label="Listen and Watch It First " data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/listen-and-watch-it-first" target="_blank">Watch it First</a> page!)</em></span></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/R0biYHVdpBk" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/b4150c0d8e9f56f977a84ddc2dcf2ee069d4faf3/original/tyftm-launch-teaser-fftb-600-x-400.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For The Medicine - Concert Movie Teaser" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><a contents="WATCH" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/R0biYHVdpBk" target="_blank">WATCH</a> the teaser clip!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">...</span></strong><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">I woke up this morning at 4.29am and wrote a poem. Which was kind of good timing as we were sending this out today, nothing better than fresh warm bread straight out the oven!! Here it is! I love you and I will see you on Sunday. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">X Jont</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">~~~</span></strong></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Awake With The Birds</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I wake up this morning at 4.29am.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I can hear the last drops of rain dripping from the branches to the roof,<br>from the eaves of the roof onto the drain, from the drain on to the stones of the drive in a random but continuous pitter-patter, threaded through by a similar, irregular but continuous pattern of birdsong.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Different birds,<br>different songs blended<br>with these different drops<br>that gradually become less and less<br>as the rain has turned to fog<br>and is now hanging in the sky<br>in drops light enough<br>that they simply<br>float in the air.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">(When rain is small and light enough it floats in the air. It hangs around suburban neighbourhoods suffused in one-dimensional orange light pumped out of the tap the government provides.)</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I awake with tightness in my neck and shoulders, a dream of a party my friends will be at that I am not going to in my mind.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Awake, early.<br>In sync with the birds again.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So rare these moments of wakefulness, where it feels worthwhile to write something down.<br>Where writing something down is not a forced act or something I feel I should do.<br>Sitting here with the trilling of the birds as the drops of rain gradually die out<br>and in the edges of my vision the light quickly and perceptibly increases, describing what is happening in words feels like the perfect response to the situation:</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Everything is empty.<br>Even I am barely here.<br>No-one is with me.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The road of people, my neighbours, is asleep or near enough.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The big questions that keep me company implicitly every day, and the small ones, all the questions -<br>they aren’t here, they are asleep too.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It has been so long<br>since I have been here<br>at this moment<br>alone and clear</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">that I almost feel like it hasn’t been like this for a long time, <br>but of course<br>it is like this every dawn<br>give or take the sound of raindrops.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Every day as the sun nears the horizon enough to bring us light,<br>the birds awake before us and start to sing.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">There is light - and the birds, shamelessly start to sing.<br>They have no thought that they might wake us.<br>We do not chase them out of town, stone them, set up committees to work out how to end this pestilence that interrupts our sleep.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We are the ones who deep down are ashamed.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Our improvements to society have changed our relationship to the birds, to the rain, to the sun that rises.<br>And our resulting exhaustion knocks us out of synch with the simple balance of rise and fall that dawn and dusk provide.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The simple celebration of song happens all around us every morning. Apart from the odd day here or there when by some grace we are returned to our true nature and we sit up in bed staring at the wonderment of this panoply of sounds made by a variety of shapes of beak, we miss this most refreshing of reminders as to what life is really about.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">If more of us were awake with the birds and each day woken by the light,<br>we would in turn feel more awake and with the birds, and -<br>more woken by the light.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">And we would feel less left out of the party<br>that the birds have every day.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We would feel less like there was a hole to fill<br>that we have no way of filling.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">And we would seek to build less and conquer less,<br>and celebrate and give thanks more.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">There would be a natural happiness that would spring<br>from simply being with things as they were.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We are so sad not to be a part of anything anymore.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We cling to each other<br>and to what we have been sold as happiness.<br>And actual happiness is so much simpler,<br>uses so much less energy.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It is simply coming in to sync<br>with that which has always been there. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It waits for us patiently to return.</span></p>
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<p><br> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/65992222021-04-09T11:53:00-03:002021-04-09T11:53:00-03:00April 11th Zoom Livestream / This Happened, I'm Sorry<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/73180a912c22997c363c3060e32a5e9ca0bd0c52/original/april-enews-header-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont ENews April 2021" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>this happened, i'm sorry</strong></span></p>
<p>Deeply excited that the first song from a new album is being digitally released into the world beginning April 7th.</p>
<p>It is called “This Happened, I’m Sorry” and it is quite different both stylistically and thematically from last month’s transcendent “Birdwatching” bliss.</p>
<p>I barely want to introduce it. I feel those of you who were interested enough to open up this mail, will find the title enticing enough. It is up on <a contents="Spotify" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7cdkB2N3To0oHS32S9EurR" target="_blank">Spotify</a> / <a contents="Apple" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.apple.com/ca/album/this-happened-im-sorry-ep/1557756274" target="_blank">Apple</a> and the other streaming sites.</p>
<p>But over the coming weeks we will be posting more about it. It’s about the importance of forgiveness. Asking forgiveness. Giving forgiveness. And uniquely for a song, it’s an opportunity to bring forgiveness into a relationship that YOU are finding challenging, where the flow of love has been blocked and is waiting for the sweet nectar of forgiveness to allow things to flow again.</p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/a1472b9af14152312476bbfea6b0d3ac238f9992/original/this-cover-art-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - New Single - This Happened, I'm Sorry" /></p>
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<p>My friend Coco sings with me on the recording and by chance she happened to be over last night so we recorded an acoustic version to share with our $5 a month Subscribers. Along with the full video of our duet, the new single with the incredible full on voices-choir-strings-electronics version plus extra special meditative acoustic b-side is available to our $5 a month Subscribers to stream now <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="Stream Albums And Playlists" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/stream-albums-and-playlists" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>
<p><a contents="Here’s" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/S-5HqYarRQE" target="_blank">Here’s</a> a short clip to give you a feel of the song…</p>
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<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/S-5HqYarRQE" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/ee37173977f73e73344ab02ea7451cbef3440fbe/original/this-teaser.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - This Happened, I'm Sorry Teaser Clip YouTube" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>zoom livestream sun.apr.11</strong></span></p>
<p><br>Our subscribers <em>(did we mention it’s only 5$ a month?)</em> also have their free monthly zoom gig coming up this Sunday April 11th at 4 pm Halifax / 8 pm UK / 12 pm L.A. <em>(Subscribers: keep an eye on your inbox for the zoom link).</em></p>
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<p>I can’t wait. I’m loving the zoom gigs now that the sound is so great. If you’re not a subscriber you can come too but it’s $10 CAD (Tickets <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/event/4249354/557911677/jont-zoom-livestream" target="_blank">HERE</a>)….</p>
<p>Why not just become a subscriber instead? A free gig every month, and heaps of past shows / videos and all the albums available to stream with liner notes and that satisfying feeling in your heart that you’re part of the team helping support me get my music out into the world…</p>
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<p>As always thank you for listening and watching - hope to see you in the Zoom room on Sunday.</p>
<p>Jont</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">...</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">birdwatching</span></strong></p>
<p>Hey there!</p>
<p>The days are getting longer. I am getting to know the crows in my garden. Today I scattered some pecans for them and got a little thrill as they dropped down from the tree and carefully then more confidently started cramming their beaks with them. Birdwatching. Again. </p>
<p>Some songs (as you might have noticed by now) I like to have a second go at. With Birdwatching, as those of you who have heard the new album will know, I thought it would be a shame to only have the very sparse, intimate version that is on Gentle Warrior. So with a lot of help from my friends (massive thank you to string maestro Oli Langford and Piano genius Bob Sherwood) we produced the lush, orchestrated version that is on Thank You For The Medicine.</p>
<p>Seeing that it’s such a popular song, I really wanted to make sure we had a video for it. Happily music video director, Matthew Ingraham, invited me to come up to where he’s from in Cape Breton and shoot something in what is often talked about as the most beautiful region of Nova Scotia.</p>
<p>Ahead of its official release date, here is the new video for Birdwatching - if you like it and enjoy the song, then please do send it on to your friends or post it on social media. As you know, word of mouth about things you love is a kindness!</p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/bgNZXHhhkuQ" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/5178bfc62593733b3bf36ad398528116c53d4133/original/birdwatching-sq-2-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Birdwatching - Video" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><a contents="WATCH" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/bgNZXHhhkuQ" target="_blank">WATCH</a> BIRDWATCHING</span><br> </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>zoom livestream </strong></span></p>
<p>Having done that, grab yourself a <a contents="subscription" data-link-label="Subscribe" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank">subscription</a> (Tier I is $5 for the month) or a $10 <a contents="ticket" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/event/4227078/555340508/jont-zoom-livestream" target="_blank">ticket</a> and get ready for the second ever Jont Zoom gig! It was so much fun last time. We had a blast. It really felt quite like a gig. And the sound was great. So I am seriously looking forward to seeing whoever turns up on Sunday…. if you don’t want to have your camera on - no problem…and if you do and want to say hi, great!</p>
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/c006c4ddd67a0e555f3fac1864b27826b3562a63/original/march-21-zoom-livestream-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Zoom Livestream March 14, 2021" /></p>
<p>Let me know song requests ahead of time (<a contents="jont@jontnet.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:jont@jontnet.com" target="_blank">jont@jontnet.com</a>) if you can so I can make sure I know the words! </p>
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<p>Much love from an almost out of winter Nova Scotia….</p>
<p>Jont</p>
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<p><span class="font_large">On February 10th we release one of my favourite songs and best videos from Thank You For The Medicine, namely “Step Into The Fear”. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Read all about it and be among the first to watch it at the preview link below. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>VALENTINE'S LOVESTREAM</strong></span><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">On Feb 14th I am looking forward to a VERY SPECIAL VALENTINE'S CONCERT. Seeing that I was single for most of my life, I know what it's like to be single on Valentine's Day. I also know what it's like to be in love and as you know I have a few songs about it. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Single or partnered, I am going to be connecting to the inner love and sharing it with you all - subscribers get in free (login and watch <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="Special Live Stream Events" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/special-live-stream-events" target="_blank">HERE</a>), and for the rest of you there is a small fee...as there should be! The best things in life aren't free! ;-)</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/828e672ad36c4a992a9856344688bd546f77554d/original/feb-lovestream-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont -Valentine's Livingroom Lovestream FEB.14.2021" /><br>**Purchase a $10 Ticket <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/event/4195981/551172046/jont-living-room-lovestream" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">There's no better time to become a monthly subscriber. Details (along with how to sign up for a month's free trial subscription) are <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="Subscribe" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large">Oh and if you have a Valentine's request, then let me know in advance so I can be sure to practice it: <a contents="jont@jontnet.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:jont@jontnet.com" target="_blank">jont@jontnet.com</a>.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">SNOW DAY FUN</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Here's a short clip of Old Traveller (with a Metta reflection at the end) from the recent February "Snow Day Lovestream".</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/v02P_ylH6Es" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/0f20830c110ecdc5da23e89067775c5089b1396e/original/old-traveller-metta-600-x-400.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Old Traveller with some metta You Tube Clip" /></a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>FEATURED VIDEO / EVERY TUESDAY</strong></span><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">And finally, EVERY TUESDAY from now on we will be posting a new video of some sort on the front page of the site, something Michelle thinks is fun to watch from somewhere over the years....so make sure you check the website now and again as there will be a new one up on the front page every Tuesday starting FEB.09.... </span><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">See you on Feb 14th... XX Jont</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>...</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>STEP INTO THE FEAR / VIDEO</strong></span><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">When it came to doing the video for "Step Into The Fear", I knew I wanted to do something special. Having worked with Jeep Jones on two of last year's videos (“I Think It Could Be Possible” and “Thank You For My Happiness”), it seemed a good idea to try another one with him and this time I really wanted him to let rip and do whatever he wanted to do. As is the way with Jeep, he had strong instincts from the get-go and immediately suggested we involved his sister, Natalie Morin, a dancer of some considerable note who lives up the road from his place in Moncton.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Despite the sweetness and the uplift of the gorgeous production of the song, the ballast that allows it to soar is in its shadow. And those feelings of anxiety, loneliness, despair, doubt are playfully and subtly brought out by Natalie's choreography. Rather like a character from a weird dream, Natalie struggles to move around the cluttered confines of her interior space attached to what is it? a screen? a bed? Until finally, having waited long enough, like the butterfly that must emerge eventually, she is propelled by an inner force down the stairs and out in to the street of action, movement - where she can flow, surrendered to the natural joy that is her birthright. All the elements of great clowning combine with understated precision and a charming lack of ostentation and an abundance of child-like wonder to create a timeless space for this euphoric song to live in. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Watching it back again now I couldn't be happier that the song has this amazing choreographed video to go with it, bringing out the more subtle hues of its meaning. Many thanks go to Jeep and his partner Peggy who helped with the editing and of course to Natalie Morin for her stellar performance and choreography.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_large">WATCH Step Into The Fear – Click on the image below.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/TCxDG7YQ63c" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/374a9c6db5aeffd32c46d140c0d8b27749ad727f/original/sitf-release.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Step Into The Fear / New Video You Tube" /></a></span></p>
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<p><a contents="" data-link-label="Subscribe" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/84c54091ac9707f45a8d747b6ed49b11e5366774/original/subscribe-500-x-500.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Subscribe " /></a><br><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/jontnet" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/7a838acfc66280bdbde8315275c7936c642ecd20/original/you-tube-logo.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Follow Jont on You Tube" /></a><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/27PAZpDiy0LBXUVkQ7D2UY" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/25a22053d776ed24d42c242d9327697ea38e0bf9/original/spotify-500-x-500.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Follow Jont on Spotify" /></a><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/jont/91855325" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/ba0cfcf297e39419f748e229452681c3125cf528/original/apple-500-x-500.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Follow Jont on Apple / iTunes" /></a></span></p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/65208902021-01-14T14:32:54-04:002021-01-14T14:32:54-04:00Online Sharing Circle Experiment / Monthly Gig<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/66564676fed928e07d54f1dce5937080ad891d5b/original/jan-header-600-x0-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - January 2021 E-News" /></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Happpppyyyyyyy Neeeewwwwwww Yeeearrrrrrr everybody! It's a delight to be in touch to let you know about a few things. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">ONLINE SHARING CIRCLE EXPERIMENT</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">First up - especially for all of you in the UK - I was wanting to see if anyone would be interested over the next couple of months in having a weekly Zoom hang out / sharing circle? I feel it's such a time of isolation for people globally but especially at the moment in the UK, and it's winter and cold and dark and easy to feel like things are too much....I was wondering if anyone would like to be part of a little online "group of friends" who just hang out with some positive intentions and see what happens?</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">How would it work? Well, I'm not exactly sure, as it's an experiment but how about this:</span></p>
<hr><p><em><span class="font_large">I will host and send you a zoom link. Each week we will open up with introductions, which you can opt out of if you want, and then perhaps I will lead us in a short guided meditation. After that, we will just open it up to the group and see what people want to share. You will also be a valued member of the circle just by being there, meaning: there would be no pressure to read or talk if you don't want to. You could just hang out in "the room" and enjoy the discussion and music and readings, whatever people feel to share. It would be a kind of experiment, an experiment in connection, and each time would be different. Oh and yes it would be a safe place to share, we would all agree not to share the details of what people had shared in the circle with people who weren't there.</span></em></p>
<hr><p><span class="font_large">How does that sound? Would that be fun? I know my mum is reading this and that she would say "No darling I think that sounds like a perfect nightmare" - so I am aware that this isn't everyone's idea of fun. But maybe there are some of you out there who would like to join me in trying this out? I think it would be kind of daring and surreal. In 2006 I did something similar - I travelled across America putting on events in the houses of people I only knew from Myspace, the social media platform of the day. It was a brilliant experience and I made friends I have kept to this day. Perhaps we can have a brilliant experience with this.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">**So, if you would like to be part of it, don't dilly dally, contact me straight away - <a contents="jont@jontnet.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:jont@jontnet.com" target="_blank">jont@jontnet.com</a> - with the subject heading "Sharing Circle" - and let me know which time works best for you - Thursday 8pm GMT (4pm AST, 3pm ET) or Tuesday 7pm GMT.... and I will make you part of a special sharing circle mailing list and will be in touch forthwith.**</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>THIS MONTH'S ONLINE GIG</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I'm desperate to play some songs and get my gig on, jump about the living room and send some full-on RAH energy to your heart-well. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The first online gig of the year will be THIS SUNDAY 17TH JANUARY (AT 5PM UK TIME, 1PM IN NOVA SCOTIA).</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/d97ffa9db1d77c2133693153c2c8f23241a710cf/original/living-room-livestream-jan-21-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Livestream Gig January 17, 2021" /><br>As usual this event is free for subscribers and open to non-subscribers for a ticket price of $10 CAD (a bargain for what is normally a 2 hour show!). </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">**Purchase Tickets on the <a contents="SHOWS" data-link-label="SHOWS" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/shows" target="_blank">SHOWS</a> page or at the link <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/event/4191046/550267160/jont-living-room-livestream" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">What are the online gigs like? Click the image below to get a taste!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/SjALoX-JqR8" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/eb25e540b8f33db41b5de3d178431503367ea0f5/original/watch-thank-you-moments-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Watch Thank You Moments 2020" /></a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>WHEN THE TIME COMES</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Finally, in case you're just wanting a song right now, click the image below. This version of When The Time Comes came through during one of the livestreams from last fall. You never know what’s going to show up in these gigs!</span><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/PGoZfB_nezE" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/29b3125a182ffb35e3df185d8d604515afbce7a7/original/when-the-time-comes.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Watch When The Time Comes" /></a></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">With love,</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Jont</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">LET'S STAY CONNECTED</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="Subscribe" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/84c54091ac9707f45a8d747b6ed49b11e5366774/original/subscribe-500-x-500.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Subscribe" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/jontnet" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/7a838acfc66280bdbde8315275c7936c642ecd20/original/you-tube-logo.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Jont on You Tube" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/27PAZpDiy0LBXUVkQ7D2UY" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/25a22053d776ed24d42c242d9327697ea38e0bf9/original/spotify-500-x-500.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Jont on Spotify" /></a></span><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/jont/91855325" target="_blank"><span class="font_small"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/ba0cfcf297e39419f748e229452681c3125cf528/original/apple-500-x-500.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Jont on Apple / iTunes" /></span></a><br><br> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/65062702020-12-23T13:22:16-04:002020-12-23T13:22:16-04:00Uplifting and fun video to raise the spirits<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/4f02e3a03ef6caef04846d783af5175dfcd947b7/original/december-header-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You 2020 - Moments" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">…</span></strong><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">So many words have been said about this year. So much has already been reflected upon. I think perhaps all a lot of us need right now is a bit of cheering up. Hopefully this uplifting and fun “Thank You 2020” video will do that.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/SjALoX-JqR8" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/415c4191e01e9e7fdfb1c961aca73991e5748db3/original/thumbnail-thank-you-moments.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You 2020 - Moments" /></a></span><br><span class="font_large">It cheered me up a lot. What an amazing thing it has been in my life to meet Michelle and John Coleman. For the last 3 years they have been solid as a rock, supporting me and assisting me and in many cases doing the really hard graft and work behind getting my music out there and keeping my website and communications portals open and working. Then in addition to this I get this video from them in my inbox yesterday! They had put together this really thoughtful compilation of some of their fave moments from this year’s gigs and live-streams and videos…..</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Thank you John and Michelle! I would not be able to be such a goof-ball and sing as openly and freely as I do without the confidence your support has and continues to give me.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">And to all of you reading this, and the ones who didn’t open this one….It has been a pleasure to share these moments of connection with you this year and we shall continue the sharing and these melodic expressions of gratitude and joy in 2021. In fact first up, look out for the two final videos from the Thank You For The Medicine album…. for Birdwatching and Step Into The Fear…. coming in January and February.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">With love</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Jont</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">...</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>LET'S STAY CONNECTED</strong></span><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/4bde5430f87dbdda3c46cdf628a8e20931ec3d6e/original/jont-flower-logo-black-w-white-solid-20-fade.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></a><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/84c54091ac9707f45a8d747b6ed49b11e5366774/original/subscribe-500-x-500.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Subscribe" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/jontnet" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/7a838acfc66280bdbde8315275c7936c642ecd20/original/you-tube-logo.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="You Tube" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/27PAZpDiy0LBXUVkQ7D2UY" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/25a22053d776ed24d42c242d9327697ea38e0bf9/original/spotify-500-x-500.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Spotify" /></a><br><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/jont/91855325" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/ba0cfcf297e39419f748e229452681c3125cf528/original/apple-500-x-500.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Apple / ITunes" /></a></span></p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/64832572020-11-22T11:01:30-04:002020-11-22T11:01:30-04:00To Share That Joy | Songs For You<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/1081d15baabffbb25cf2e1e0185d2eab2a18ea9b/original/jont-nov2020-enews-header-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - November 2020 Enews" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>...</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Greetings pasajeros!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I’m feeling very grateful to be able to write to you each month, that there are a band of you out there in the world, after such a long time doing this music, who still open up the emails and tune in to what I offer. I massively appreciate this long-term relationship! It has made ALL the difference to my journey on this path to have people let their appreciation for what I do be known.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I went in to retreat earlier in the autumn and contemplated deeply the meaning of my existence. Why was I here? What was the point in being here? The phrase “To Share That Joy” came to me and really resonated.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We all sing our song, more or less, in whatever shape or form. But why do we feel like singing? For me I have realized my songs and singing are an expression of gratitude and exultation for this extraordinary experience of life, in all its beauty and complexity. And what overflows from that gratitude is a heart-felt desire “To Share That Joy”.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">In its purest essence this sharing could take the form of a prayer or meditation where you connect to the loving awareness and allow that love to flow outwards and connect with all beings. Since my retreat I have made this a daily practice. I find it grounds me in the reality that feels most comfortable to live in and most beneficial for me and for others.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So the essence of my sharing comes from a very pure place that is not dependent on how many people receive this sharing or how it is received. However - when I do hear that people are appreciating what I am doing, or that they have really seen me, really felt and understood and in some case been helped or uplifted by this sharing - it is a really touching gift, it brings me a lot of joy right back to know that you have shared in these exultations and they have made you exultant too!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So I just wanted to say thank you for being the receivers of these songs over the years. And I am looking forward to sharing songs with you again this Tuesday. I hope you will join us….to share that joy.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Jont</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">...</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>LIVING ROOM LIVESTREAM TUES.NOV.24.20</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Join us for the November 2020 song ceremony happening at 5 pm AST Halifax | 9 pm UTC UK | 1 pm PST LA.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">These ceremonies have become a source of solace with plenty of fresh heart-opening content to uplift, comfort, inspire and ground you - music, musings and of course all the expected Jont antics.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">**Get your ticket $10 <em>(Ticket Sharing Link) </em><a contents="https://jontnet.com/event/4172326/544888196/jont-living-room-livestream" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/event/4172326/544888196/jont-living-room-livestream" target="_blank">https://jontnet.com/event/4172326/544888196/jont-living-room-livestream</a></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Your ticket contains your password to watch on the <a contents="Public Livestream" data-link-label="Public Livestream" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/public-livestream" target="_blank">Public Livestream</a> page. </span></p>
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/d104815a12b673b65ca0d859e9a5905f978e5eba/original/nov-livestream-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Living Room Livestream TUES.NOV.24.20" /></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">See you in the Living Room!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">...</span></strong><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>SONGS FOR YOU</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Enjoy these highlights from recent livestreams and full length features. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">A fully heart-charged version of "Church On Sunday", from the October 2020 Living Room Livestream, including a feast for the eyes with this month’s wardrobe choice!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/6a7Y4k7k9y8" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/a2ffb10b681a90b01350b543cba5be3380c0282a/original/church-on-sunday600-x-400.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Church On Sunday Live / Video October 2020" /></a><em>(Watch & Share Link)</em> <a contents="https://youtu.be/6a7Y4k7k9y8" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/6a7Y4k7k9y8" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/6a7Y4k7k9y8</a></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">This was released for subscribers last month and we also wanted to share with the rest of you: the first clip from the upcoming Thank You For The Medicine Live Album Launch Full Feature. It contains the opening words and the live version of “Before You”.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/cdXXDQwswz0" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/541b1a17bbfc6a917841053fb72b5758ea51922e/original/before-you-600-x-400.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Before You / Live Video from Thank You For The Medicine Album Launch" /></a><em>(Watch & Share Link)</em> <a contents="https://youtu.be/cdXXDQwswz0" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/cdXXDQwswz0" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/cdXXDQwswz0</a></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Here's a video of “Lucky Leaf” from a Full Length Feature of Gentle Warrior Berlin. It’s always fun to hear the group release self consciousness and sing along. (The full feature and other clips are available on subscriber pages).</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/JVXlokonyg8" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/5d807a63d7f35a1aaa5c98f7c52d85508b582fdd/original/lucky-leaf-berlin-600-x-400.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Lucky Leaf / Gentle Warrior Berlin - Video " /></a><em>(Watch & Share Link) </em><a contents="https://youtu.be/JVXlokonyg8" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/JVXlokonyg8" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/JVXlokonyg8</a></span></p>
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<p><em><span class="font_large">We are one. There is no separation. There's no "you" and "me"…just the music, just the songs...and before the songs and after the songs, in the songs and out of the songs. One song, one long song...</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">LET'S STAY CONNECTED</span></strong></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/84c54091ac9707f45a8d747b6ed49b11e5366774/original/subscribe-500-x-500.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Subscribe" /></a><br><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/jontnet" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/7a838acfc66280bdbde8315275c7936c642ecd20/original/you-tube-logo.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Subscribe & Watch You Tube" /></a><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/27PAZpDiy0LBXUVkQ7D2UY" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/25a22053d776ed24d42c242d9327697ea38e0bf9/original/spotify-500-x-500.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Follow & Listen on Spotify" /></a><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/jont/91855325" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/ba0cfcf297e39419f748e229452681c3125cf528/original/apple-500-x-500.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Apple / iTunes - Listen & Follow" /></a></span></p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/64586442020-10-18T21:06:45-03:002020-10-18T21:06:45-03:00Oct.20.20 Living Room Livestream | You Are The Dance<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/4084a106de4005d2cf42ebd0889a88faeb383ce3/original/october-enews-header-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - October 2020 ENews Livestream & New Video Release" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_xl">...</span><br><strong><span class="font_xl">public livestream gig</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Our world is still churning and we have heard from many of you how music supports us all in staying grounded in our hearts. With that in mind, this Tuesday 20th October I will be getting all intimate and online and acoustic and broadcasting to you from my living room - except this time the monthly streamed gig is not for subscribers only! It’s open to the public too…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/fa87666c1b40406fe95616ce86ffbf141953e339/original/living-room-livestream-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Living Room Livestream Oct.20.20" /></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Buy your tickets <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/product/598197" target="_blank">HERE</a> (also available on the main page of the <a contents="website" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/" target="_blank">website</a>). $10 gets you a couple of hours of solace: music, musings, maybe some meditation and of course all the expected Jont antics.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">If you are a Jont Subscriber all you have to do is <a contents="log in" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank">log in</a>, add the item to your cart, and check out to claim your free ticket. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The show will happen on the new <a contents="Public Livestream" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/public-livestream" target="_blank">Public Livestream</a> page. When you buy a ticket it includes your password to watch.</span></p>
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<hr><p><em><span class="font_large">**If you aren't a Subscriber this is a great time to become one. <a contents="Sign up" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank">Sign up</a> for as little as $5/month and become part of the special inner circle that loves this music and contributes to the making and sharing of it. You'll receive access to monthly subscriber livestreams as well as tickets to the new public ones. The entire Jont music catalogue is there for you to explore along with unreleased music and videos.</span></em></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...<br><strong>you are the dance | video release</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">On the same day, October 20th, we launch our next song and video release from Thank You For The Medicine, another award-worthy video from Simon Ratigan, this time teaming up with choreographer Leila McMillan and a bunch of her dance students for an absolutely stunning video for YOU ARE THE DANCE. We shot it on a summers day in East London all the way back in the summer of 2019, when improvised dancing with each other in the street without masks seemed entirely natural… This will be the first video we release through my website, rather than Facebook or Instagram.</span></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large">OK, because you are here and signed up for enews you get to watch it NOW right <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/7zUnCE7ZlbY" target="_blank">HERE</a>! </span></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/7zUnCE7ZlbY" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/277d8e30853b5d59d6f9780d0b32cac6a5fce886/original/yatd-thumbnail-600-x-400.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont - Official Video / You Are The Dance" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...<br><strong>moving to jontnet.com</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">After reflection and discussion with the Jont team (not to mention a viewing of the Netflix documentary "the social dilemma" - a must watch) over the next months we will gradually be moving away from Facebook and Instagram and focusing our energy on the treasure trove that is <a contents="jontnet.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/" target="_blank">jontnet.com</a>. It feels good to make the website the hub of what I do - accessible to the most people - and focus on broadcasting, posting and releasing the best content from there. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Thank you for continuing to be part of the mailing list and subscriber communities (which will be the main points of connection going forward) and for supporting the creation of this music in all the ways you do - listening, buying albums, being monthly subscribers, buying tickets to shows, tossing some love in the tip jar and sending notes about your experience with the songs. Thank you for loving these songs as much as we love making them. They are for you.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Looking forward to seeing you from my living room on Tuesday! Send your song requests to <a contents="hello.jontnet@gmail.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:hello.jontnet@gmail.com" target="_blank">hello.jontnet@gmail.com</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">XX Jont</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/45e46ae85e47a8604c9cf3ef928f74cc450734fc/original/yatd-collage-600-x-400.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="You Are The Dance" /></span><br> </p>
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<p><br> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/64275822020-09-08T02:11:29-03:002020-09-08T02:11:29-03:00The End Is An Illusion - New Official Video<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/3533dc4e19f668c87ccfbcf4aa8a8057338f026a/original/header-600-x-600-sept.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_none border_none" alt="Jont - The End Is An Illusion - Official Video " /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">This morning I remembered.</span><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">But it had been such a long time since I had.</span><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">So hard to remember when the mind and everything the mind makes - the thoughts, that lead to the feelings, and then all the human mind constructs that surround us - be they physical buildings or people or something you might find on the internet - are doing all they can to make you forget.</span><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">It’s hard to remember. Not least, because you have forgotten.</span><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">How do you even go about doing it?</span><br><span class="font_large">That’s how. </span><br><span class="font_large">By asking. </span><br> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">Something inside is crying. Is hungry. Something inside you knows there is a different way, and that something eventually gets the courage up to ask the question. </span><br> </p>
<hr><p><span class="font_xl">This song is about remembering something that the collective mind right now is almost making us forget.</span></p>
<hr><p><br><span class="font_large">The video, directed by my friend and long-time collaborator Simon Ratigan - is a simple and poignant piece that captures the atmosphere of this unique and exceptional 2020 summer. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><em>"Love is the only truth and I was honoured to be shown and allowed to film so much of it."</em> ~ Simon Ratigan</span></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/Z1ZsOaHWgG4" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/b680264f7637f28d5962f969c2707652572d19ce/original/teiai-enews-thumbnail.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="The End Is An Illusion New Official Video" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a contents="WATCH" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/Z1ZsOaHWgG4" target="_blank"><span class="font_xl">WATCH</span></a></strong><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We hope you love it. That you share it. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">At a time when so many are searching for answers, there is a timeless vein of truth that comes through this song and that reconnects us with what we know is true and makes us feel better.</span></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large">We will be just fine…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Jont XX</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Hey everyone,</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I found myself writing some thoughts down in my phone before a meeting the other day. I got carried away and was almost late for the meeting. At the bottom of the page is what I wrote. It's called "The Trajectory Of Truth".</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">birthday live stream</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">In other news, we have finally got the streaming really REALLY working well now and the second subscriber gig is happening on my birthday Monday August 17th @ 5 pm London / 1 pm Halifax / 12 pm Toronto / 9 am L.A...</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The best birthday present really would be a whole bunch of you signing up to be subscribers and coming to the gig! I would love that. Can't say I didn't say what I wanted! If you want a taste of how good the stream is these days and what you're missing check out this awesome extract from Sunday's Avalon Rising Summit which I was a special guest at...</span></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/Kq741mhwl-8" target="_blank"><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/a68eebc0b86db9ca759dbbaeb425da218218f516/original/supernatural-thumbnail-600-x-338.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Link to Supernatural Live" /></span></a></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Subscribe to one of the Tiers <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="Subscribe" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank"><strong>HERE</strong></a>. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">*You can also try a free 1-month trial <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="Free Subscription Trial" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/free-subscription-trial" target="_blank"><strong>HERE</strong></a>. No credit card or anything required upfront. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">All subscribers simply log in and watch the gig at the <a contents="SPECIAL LIVE STREAM EVENTS" data-link-label="Special Live Stream Events" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/special-live-stream-events" target="_blank"><strong>SPECIAL LIVE STREAM EVENTS</strong></a> page. (You can also replay the July gig posted on the page.)</span></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">…</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">That's all folks! My birthday gig, coincides with a great day in your life as you become a subscriber and your life changes forever, you will never be short of Jont gigs to watch and Jont tunes to listen to and Jont videos to pore over.... my golly, that's definitely what I'd get for my birthday!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">OK, back to the ... what is it?</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The trajectory of what? of Truth? OK....sounds serious...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>the trajectory of truth</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We all play our part.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Does it actually matter what part we play?</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">*</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Is someone intrinsically more valuable than another person because of the part they are playing in this existence?</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Or should we attach more importance and significance to understanding what our part is</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">- rather than judging it to be better or worse than others?</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">*<br>When we have understood what our part is, that understanding will be a personal one, based on our own understanding of the existence we are living within, or our self-knowledge.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">*<br>We all play our part with varying degrees of this self-knowledge.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Even though sometimes we might miss opportunities or have the feeling we are messing our lives up, we are always playing our part with the perfect amount of self-knowledge for us at that time.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">And our mistakes and our pain are the teachers that catalyse the blossoming of our self-knowledge.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">*<br>In many ways every single human being is living out an incredibly similar part in an incredibly similar drama.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We are all so alike.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">When we gather to hear music, when we gather to sing, we might experience the flimsy barriers that separate us buckling and being washed away.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">When we smile and say hello and acknowledge people we have never met before, in a subtle way we are saying "I see you, you are me!".</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">When we stand up for the oppressed, when we live lives that are honest, when we call out bullying or inequality we are acting on our recognition that the other person is us.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">And when we look deep inside ourselves to see what lies behind our fears, addictions, limiting beliefs, and emotionality, to see what causes our suffering and then seek to heal it, we are acknowledging that we are intrinsically the same as the freest, happiest most peaceful human beings that exist.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We do not look deep inside and address the causes of our pain for entertainment. We go inside because we have an innate understanding that this misery is not our natural state. We have an innate understanding that something has happened to make us less than at peace, less than in harmony, less than in love.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">By actively seeking to understand what has made us who and how we are, we are declaring that we have the power to live lives that are free from pain and full of love, peace and harmony, and that the only way we will get there, the only possible way to get there for every single being is the same - through our own efforts.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It might take years (or lifetimes) of work to make any significant impact on the past and present blockages, conditioning and trauma that have affected and still affect our family lineages. It might do. Or you might be able to clear something very quickly. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">No matter. Once the direction of our life is set at this trajectory, the trajectory of honesty to ourselves, of transparency between us and all of the world, a sincere desire to live truthfully and to come out of ignorance, to live understanding the other person is you - it is then that we finally can relax.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Immediately, once you have understood that this trajectory of truth is the path of your life, there is the peace you were struggling to feel. There is the stillness you were missing. Amidst all the noise and commotion you were thinking you needed to run from.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It has never been about a final destination. It is this sincere trajectory of truth that allows us to experience our life exactly as it is, to see the beauty in each moment - and call it heaven.</span></p>
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<p> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/63866332020-07-17T21:52:03-03:002020-07-17T21:52:03-03:00Abandoning The Online World<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/04fe73d3fb67183b0f85282243012220e58415be/original/jont-july-header-w-jont.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont July 2020 E-News " /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">For several decades people warned us a pandemic was coming. However, no-one predicted what seems now a rather obvious repercussion: a global awakening (of varying degree, according to each person's situation) as the response to the virus forced us to step away from our routines and gave us the opportunity, in one way or another, to contemplate and appreciate our existence in ways we had never done.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">If we didn't see something that significant coming, then it seems likely that there are more significant twists and turns coming that we also won't be able to foresee. And I don't mean in a doom and gloom kind of way. I think pretty much all the doom and gloom scenarios have been predicted and foreseen ad nauseam. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">*</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Recently, have you noticed how little you want to go online? Have you notice how you can barely bother to watch the news, or check your socials? Or if you do, do you feel the life sapping out of you, one beautiful glistening ball of crystallized life-energy at a time, dissolving uselessly in the mists of the trivial, rotating, repeated chatter of the collective mind-monster?</span></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/1596b80ff8d3257a95ef9e203c753a3a52aaa70a/original/end-of-internet-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Abandoning the world online?" /></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">I have begun wondering - perhaps with the sardonic half-smile of the fantasy novelist subtly glimmering on my face - if perhaps the next twist we won't predict will be a global aversion to being on a screen. A sweeping, global revulsion from all things online. Unavoidable. As unavoidable as swatting the mosquito you see on your hand, or drinking a cool glass of water when parched.... we will all, gradually, like dominoes start contracting this most graceful and liberating of human viruses, that forces us to close our Macbooks, power down our iPhones, lose contact with loved ones, stop streamed gigs, not watch or stream films or music.... because we literally have become averse, chronically averse to being online, to being in front of a screen. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Think how this might derail the 5G / AI world that is both predicted, planned, and "coming to a town near you" along with cyborgs, driverless cars, universal vaccines, no money and a collective feeling of ULTIMATE TERROR that dwells and is created in the dank and fetid crevices of the hearts of all those who refuse to really wrestle with and honour the beauty of their shadow...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">*</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Someone must have put something in my coffee. Hello there folks!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Quickly in music stuff:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span><br><span class="font_xl"><strong>VINYL</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It seems very unlikely I will be able to make a vinyl record as only about 5 people have signed up to the crowdfund. This isn't disappointing, this is just the way it is. If anyone would like to sign up to the vinyl crowdfund, I think there are about 900 of you who open up this mail (27% of the people who it goes to, not a bad opening rate apparently), so it's feasible that 190 of you could go to the site right now and pay $22 USD and we could all get a vinyl copy of the album.... but unlikely.</span> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">Click on the image to get to the link if you want to make this come true: </span></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/227901/jont-thank-you-for-the-medicine" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/34e6404444d9056daa7039c56df6c5807cadbf6e/original/vinyl-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For The Medicine On Vinyl" /></a></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large">If we don't do it now, perhaps at some stage when my Rodriguez status in a far flung constellation is confirmed, there will be funds for me to simply print up a load of vinyl. However, I'm not sure how my mum will feel about housing more back catalogue in the upstairs room of her house. 😁</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span><br><strong><span class="font_xl">SHARING</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So - there are 900 of you out there who open this mail. Great. Please could each of you tell a couple of your friends about Thank You For The Medicine - in any way.... send them a video, or a link to Spotify or Apple, ask them to join the mailing list.... more people listening to this album means essentially more positive loving vibes connecting to more hearts and the reflection going on and on like a real life Esher drawing but instead of stairs, an endless oneness, an endless flow....so, that really can be helped by YOU.....yes, I know, confronting though it may seem, YOU, the person reading this mail is actually part and parcel of the Jont delivery system.... if the medicine is working for you, and you are loving the album, then share it with some friends.... I really appreciate it... thank you!</span></p>
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<p><em><span class="font_xl">Share the following links in socials and in email!</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">WEB PAGE | “Thank You For The Medicine” </span></strong><br><span class="font_large">This page pretty much has it all: shareable links to songs and videos along with bits about the making of the album, links to socials and streaming sites... </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="https://jontnet.com/thank-you-for-the-medicine" data-link-label="Thank You For The Medicine" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/thank-you-for-the-medicine" target="_blank"><span class="font_large">https://jontnet.com/thank-you-for-the-medicine</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/thank-you-for-the-medicine" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/7d41c38bc2c5510b3c0b24aec0b2dc337a1c41e4/original/share-tyftm.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For The Medicine Webpage" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>FULL SONGS | Shareable | With Lyrics</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_large"><a contents="https://jontnet.com/track/2398950/thank-you-for-my-happiness" data-link-label="" data-link-type="track" href="https://jontnet.com/track/2388720/thank-you-for-my-happiness" target="_blank">https://jontnet.com/track/2398950/thank-you-for-my-happiness</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_large"><a contents="https://jontnet.com/track/2398951/surrounded-by-love" data-link-label="" data-link-type="track" href="https://jontnet.com/track/2398951/surrounded-by-love" target="_blank">https://jontnet.com/track/2398951/surrounded-by-love</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_large"><a contents="https://jontnet.com/track/2398955/i-think-it-could-be-possible" data-link-label="" data-link-type="track" href="https://jontnet.com/track/2398955/i-think-it-could-be-possible" target="_blank">https://jontnet.com/track/2398955/i-think-it-could-be-possible</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>VIDEOS | Official YouTube</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_large">I Think It Could Be Possible</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="https://youtu.be/DGS_2VybOpk" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/DGS_2VybOpk" target="_blank"><span class="font_large">https://youtu.be/DGS_2VybOpk</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/DGS_2VybOpk" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/17c4127518a4618780f9083a981d7cf697a739b0/original/iticbp-600-x-300.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="I Think It Could Be Possible" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Thank You For My Happiness</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="https://youtu.be/TnRb6LGkZUA" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/TnRb6LGkZUA" target="_blank"><span class="font_large">https://youtu.be/TnRb6LGkZUA</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/DGS_2VybOpk" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/62756c1c13d783c683b7483d4f768ad14be9a33b/original/tyfmh-600-x-300.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For My Happiness" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Surrounded By Love </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="https://youtu.be/zg9doVL7N7g" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/zg9doVL7N7g" target="_blank"><span class="font_large">https://youtu.be/zg9doVL7N7g</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/zg9doVL7N7g" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/cabdd895fedaa203f53f685bede95b5ec83ae338/original/sbl.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Surrounded By Love" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">ALBUM STREAMING | Follow & Listen</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>Spotify</strong><br><a contents="https://open.spotify.com/album/48qiIb9TMdiqu5Vkb6ttpr?si=7jzzzHF_SpmQFQ-44i1BMQ" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/48qiIb9TMdiqu5Vkb6ttpr?si=7jzzzHF_SpmQFQ-44i1BMQ" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/album/48qiIb9TMdiqu5Vkb6ttpr?si=7jzzzHF_SpmQFQ-44i1BMQ</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>Apple Music </strong><br><a contents="https://music.apple.com/ca/album/thank-you-for-the-medicine/1515801100" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.apple.com/ca/album/thank-you-for-the-medicine/1515801100" target="_blank">https://music.apple.com/ca/album/thank-you-for-the-medicine/1515801100</a></span></p>
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<p><br><span class="font_large">There is a trusty band of you out there who subscribe each month...this month I am finally going to do a livestreamed gig for you on Wednesday July 22nd at 9 pm GMT / 5 pm AST / 4 pm EST. If it goes well then we might make it a regular monthly thing, for subscribers. If you are not a subscriber and you want to check out what that would be like, you can do a month for free - and you can get the gig too..... sign up for your free trial below.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">A Spoon Full Of Sugar: The Monthly Jont Gig!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/98d97791ca122e1d670f0ffc6a3fcb3f89e96110/original/livestream-gig-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="A Spoon Full Of Sugar Jont Gig" /></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">The gig will be available on the JONT website and you get to it simply by clicking the “<a contents="Special Livestream Events" data-link-label="Special Live Stream Events" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/special-live-stream-events" target="_blank">Special Livestream Events</a>” Subscribers Page .... looking forward to it. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_large">Subscribers can write in with requests for what I should play…starting now! <br>Email Michelle at <a contents="Michelle.jontnet@gmail.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:Michelle.jontnet@gmail.com" target="_blank">Michelle.jontnet@gmail.com</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">...</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">NEW STUFF TO WATCH IF YOU'RE NOT A SUBSCRIBER</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">For those who dig the more acoustic, gentle Jont - we made a film of the Gentle Warrior album launch back in December 2018 and it's been available to subscribers for a while. It’s a very nice watch / listen.... about an hour or so long and might help you connect if you want to have a meditative little ceremony of your own. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="Full Length Gigs" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/full-length-gigs" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/cc6a355341550af5aa6b0b8c9d5a1dae57f2f740/original/gw-album-launch-movie-600-x-300.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Gentle Warrior Album Launch Full Feature" /></a></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">As of Thursday July 16 we are making it free and available to everyone on You Tube and on the website at the <a contents="Full-Length Gigs" data-link-label="Full Length Gigs" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/full-length-gigs" target="_blank">Full-Length Gigs</a> page....</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">…</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">album release | gift</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Alright, the time has finally come.</span></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large">On Friday we are officially releasing the album Thank You For The Medicine in to the world via Spotify and iTunes and all the other streaming outlets.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">You have just one more day left to pick up your free download of the album and its beautiful artwork. Thousands of you have done so already and it makes me so SO happy to think of all the people who now have this album and are going to be able to enjoy it without ever having to listen to a silly advert for something some robot has chosen for them…</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="Thank You For The Medicine" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/thank-you-for-the-medicine" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/38739d903a3f9876e4212be19084d84e7faf77e7/original/jont-album-gift-one-more-day-june2020.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For The Medicine - One More Day - Album Gift" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <br><strong><span class="font_large">GET IT <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="Thank You For The Medicine" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/thank-you-for-the-medicine" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">album launch | event</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">On Thursday night, June 25th, we are holding a global live stream celebratory gig in the legendary Open Mic House in Halifax, Nova Scotia’s north end. As lockdown restrictions have been significantly lifted, we are now able to gather and sing together so I will be joined by a 7-piece choir. Together we will perform the entirety of the new album, plus one old favourite….</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It’s happening pretty late if you’re in the UK 11 pm | 7 pm Halifax | 6 pm New York | 3 pm L.A.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It is hosted by The East and it will be streamed on my website (nice and easy for those who dislike FB) and also on my FB page. Tune in and show your support.</span><br><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/8b6840ea6c6feb3c91759f2c35280e71c6fafd8c/original/album-launch-the-east.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For The Medicine Album Launch June 25, 2020" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"> </span><br><strong><span class="font_large">Facebook Details <a contents="Here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/292487305228738/" target="_blank">Here</a><br>Website Details <a contents="Here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/%20" target="_blank">Here </a></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">surrounded by love | lyric video</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">On Friday June 26th, to mark the album release, we are releasing a new video and single from the album, the feel good anthem of oneness and joy that we know as SURROUNDED BY LOVE. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">My friend Matt Ingraham shot the video part last year and my friend Lee Lester did some really fun animation work on it and now it really pops! </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It’s a lyric video! My first, but it’s quite addictive…..we hope you love it…..if you do, you know the score - please share it with your friends, share it with your world…there is so much joy in these tunes, so please share it with all the people you know….these songs are the antidote to the tough side of what we’re going through right now….</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Here’s a sneak peek!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/zg9doVL7N7g" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/85cc49430e1f52ed705b9fbb8ee9f9d8d03140a0/original/sbl-thumbnail-enews-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Surrounded By Love - YouTube Video" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br> <span class="font_xl">…</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">vinyl</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Oh and finally, if you really want to help me with something I care DEEPLY about, would you like to order a vinyl copy of the record? I’m doing this crowdfund to make a vinyl version of the album….. and I need another 190 of you to sign up for it….so I’m seriously a long way off…please help….we have about a month to go…. Or of course if one of you out there wants to step in and pay for the whole vinyl run….that would be marvelous too! Just be in touch by private message!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/1c722d4040099347643c7d2e59abeff5fa52c750/original/diggers-6002.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For The Medicine On Vinyl" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">Details <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/227901/jont-thank-you-for-the-medicine" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">See you Thursday night at the gig!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">XXX Jont</span></p>
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<p> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/63603032020-06-20T11:26:47-03:002020-06-20T11:26:47-03:00Summer Album Launch, Vinyl Dreams & Flowers<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/5c67024fe6787092db95f65b41bb8781d17f6589/original/jont-enews-jun20-20-header.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Summer Album Launch, Vinyl Dreams & Flowers" /></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Hey there folks!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">How are you doing? Hot days here in humid Halifax, but loving it…..finally summer has arrived.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">…</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">SOLSTICE CONCERT JUNE 21ST</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The longest day is almost here - a time many of us remember for when we went to Glastonbury or some other beautiful festival.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">This year I have been invited to offer one of my Gentle Warrior Ceremonies as part of The Soulstice Spirit Festival.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">If you are at home alone or feeling isolated, I think this will be a really nice way to connect on this special day. The one on June 21 will last a couple of hours and starts 1 pm AST / 5 pm GMT.</span> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="DETAILS &amp; FREE REGISTRATION&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://the-soulstice-spirit-festival.heysummit.com/speakers/jont-openheart/" target="_blank"><span class="font_large">DETAILS & FREE REGISTRATION </span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/6e5e992e70427f42049caffe2f99f544bc5faa09/original/soulstice-festival-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="The Soulstice Spirit Festival" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_xl">…</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">THANK YOU FOR THE MEDICINE ALBUM LAUNCH GIG</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">And with summer we also have the arrival of a BRAND NEW ALBUM….yes, just one week to go until THANK YOU FOR THE MEDICINE is officially launched and streamable across all platforms. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">To celebrate this and also the loosening of lockdown here in Nova Scotia (10 people now allowed to congregate), On THURSDAY JUNE 25TH at 7 pm AST / 11 pm GMT The East Mag is collaborating with me to promote a livestream ALBUM LAUNCH GIG. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/da57f7eef09a1e63d2e4fbc8976669bcb30df9b1/original/album-launch-gig.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For The Medicine Album Launch" /></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It will feature me playing songs from the album and other faves with a REAL LIVE 8 PERSON CHOIR! Yes we are finally allowed to play music together again. So….don’t miss it! </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It will be FREE and up on <a contents="The East Mag" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/TheEastMag/" target="_blank">The East Mag</a> Facebook page, the <a contents="Jont Music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/jontmusic/" target="_blank">Jont Music</a> Facebook page and also (if we get it right) embedded on the front page of <a contents="jontnet.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/" target="_blank">jontnet.com</a>. I can’t wait to sing with some of the members of the choir who sang on the album again and to play a gig for you all…. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">…</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">MY NEW ALBUM - why is it free until the day of release?</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Until the date of release (June 26th), I am offering it completely for FREE as a download, so you can have your very own copy and not have to rely on a streaming platform.</span></p>
<hr><p><span class="font_large">You can pick it up, along with Vanni Mangoni’s extraordinary album artwork <a contents="here" data-link-label="Thank You For The Medicine" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/thank-you-for-the-medicine" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></p>
<hr><p><a contents="" data-link-label="Thank You For The Medicine" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/thank-you-for-the-medicine" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/682718e28ac58d21239b5a06568fa278d9c9978b/original/vanni-album-cover-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For The Medicine Album Gift" /></a></p>
<p><span class="font_large">WHY AM I DOING THIS? Because I love it so much and I want you to experience it in the best way possible and so few people ever get round to buying the download. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Believe me, almost no-one buys music anymore, they just stream it, often with adverts. And it’s so much nicer to have an album as your own, when you want it, never to be taken away when you stop your account with Apple or Spotify, never to be interrupted by adverts.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So go get it while you can. It also happens to be my best album yet (Damn! You’re the one who’s meant to say that, I always get that wrong, but you know me by now….)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_xl">…</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">THE VINYL DREAM</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">“Yes, yes, free this, free that. When can I actually give back in some way for all this beautiful music!” I hear you saying….(yes after all the years of meditating my interior monologue actually comes up with great stuff like that….)</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Well you know how I was saying I want you to experience the album in the BEST way?</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Well I also want you to hear it in the best way too. I personally feel that is through listening to it on vinyl. The entire experience is so different…..taking the record out, putting it on the player, the music you are hearing coming from physical grooves, not a collection of binary numbers. It’s a different sensation. We all know it is. And I actually this time NEED YOUR HELP to make it happen.</span></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/227901/jont-thank-you-for-the-medicine" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/d8c51c628c00f168ced418e86891082ab1d87ae7/original/diggers-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For The Medicine - Vinyl" /></a></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I am collaborating with a vinyl crowdfund platform called Diggers Factory. I need about 150 of you to sign up for a vinyl version of Thank You For The Medicine to make this happen. And you have about 40 days left to do so. I am going to nag you. I really REALLY want to make a vinyl record. Let’s see if there are some of you out there who also want one! It’s on for $17.60 USD (about 14 pounds) … please go and sign up straight away and help this dream of mine become a reality….</span></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">FIND OUT MORE & SIGN UP <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/227901/jont-thank-you-for-the-medicine" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></p>
<hr><p><span class="font_large">Alternately, if a long-term supporter out there would like to help sponsor this limited print run and donate a larger sum to go towards the print run, or even the full sum (you never know!) then please be in touch directly with me. I will happily plaster your name across the cover or get a bench dedicated to you on Hampstead Heath…. !!!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br> <br><span class="font_xl">…</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">VANNI’S ARTWORK</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">My dear friend Vanni Mangoni (who also happens to be an incredible artist) has designed the stunning cover art for Thank You For The Medicine. I thought it would be nice to let you know a bit more about how the artwork came about and his process so I sent him a few questions to where he is living in Nicaragua and my friend Lee Lester put this little film for you…. we hope you like it…. and I hope to see you at one of these upcoming gigs and to hear you saying lots of nice things about me and my music in my interior monologue in the coming days and weeks….</span></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/kvoocPA-vbE" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/68d02b8c994a737087da863f3470e2f08bdbf838/original/vanni-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Watch The Album Cover Art By Vanni Mangoni" /></a></p>
<p><br><span class="font_large">lots of love from Planet Jont XXXXXXXX</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">Until the day of release on June 26th <br>for all who are curious <br>I am offering my new album <br>in the spirit of the gift <br>completely free to download <br>including the stunning artwork by Vanni Mangoni <br>in gratitude <br>for the medicine</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Hey, how you doing?</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I hope you are doing your best to make it through this time.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It can definitely be hard to wind down, not to get stressed about future projections of how life will be, what is in the news, etc.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So, to try to do my bit to help, I've put together a playlist of my most soothing songs and made it available for free to you and anyone in the world, for free, no adverts etc - on my <a contents="website" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/" target="_blank">website</a>. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">It's here for you to enjoy. I've called it “A Way That You Can Ease Your Soul” and it's 16 songs - almost an hour and a half of music.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">Listen <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="Jont Playlist For You" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/jont-playlist-for-you" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Enjoy.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Jont</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">P.S. I wrote this looking out at the sea the other day... </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">LIFE ON EARTH</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">So, after this is there gonna be an explosion of air travel as people go on holiday to celebrate their new found and perhaps temporary freedom?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Are all the big bands gonna do post lockdown celebration outdoor shows where the crowd will drop their empties to the floor and leave the place a total wreck?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Will we go back to fights outside the pub on Saturday night?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Will we continue eating food coated in plastic and chemicals and shipped to us from the other side of the world?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Will we go back to ignoring each other as we pass in the street?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Will we just go back to accepting all the negative aspects of our collective endeavour here on earth....the greed, the short termism, the 1% model, the physical suffering?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Will we continue to ignore the collective emotional suffering that spawns such a world? Fear running the show. Or...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Will enough of us have started waking up to truly make a change?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Now that's the premise for a great show. Call it "Life On Earth".</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/3bad54c6759ef713a988224b34e881003e91fe6b/original/enews-header-for-icicbp-2.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="I Think It Could Be Possible New Singe and Video" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">ENJOY THE OFFICIAL VIDEO</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 2em;">“I Think It Could Be Possible”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGS_2VybOpk" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/26469079e917eea532c9227a3d03edca248f0d01/original/iticbp-enews-play2.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="I Think It Could Be Possible Official Video" /></a></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Loads of people around the world have already resonated strongly with this song: enough to make their own versions and send them in to me. Now we are launching this song in to the world and asking people everywhere to do their own versions and post them online, and to send them in to me so we can post them in our online gallery and make more of these compilation videos. (Scroll down for details.)</span></p>
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<hr><p><em><span class="font_large">If the video touches you, moves you, makes you laugh or even cry...if you believe in the song....I really would love your help in getting this out to your friends, your family - and then asking them to share it too. It's not about making it a "hit", it's about letting people hear a positive message and also giving people something positive and community-oriented to do right now, as we all wake up to our frailty and our interdependence.</span></em></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/afcb57c96378e93d858953d7ab4239315986aa18/original/many-people.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Many people together are posting their versions of the song!" /></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Do you have friends who are music teachers, choir leaders, singers, songwriters, bloggers, journalists, DJs? or do you and your partner, you and your family, want to just have some fun one afternoon and do a version of the song, and potentially lift some other people up when they see your performance - when they see that you cared enough about the message to record it and post it?</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">If you think you can help get this message out there, please take a few minutes now and forward it to the people that are coming up in your head.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">...</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Being part of sharing this, helping us to grow it, is really a valuable contribution to what is a challenging time for all of us and for many people will get more challenging as the days go by.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So go for it! <span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Please help me get the word of this out there ESPECIALLY in the next 48 hours</strong></span>.... ... love bombs away! </span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Over to you! It is our spirit that will carry us through, the spirit of life, of growth, of love....</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">We are all in this together. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Thank you so much for your help!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Jont</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">...</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">TAKE THE POSSIBLE CHALLENGE</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/xnmBWHojhMM" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/b3feb3216cf75aa89d69d09d041eb0ea99b50e72/original/describe-the-challenge2.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Possible Challenge Explained" /></a>...</span></strong><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">THE POSSIBLE CHALLENGE PAGE</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Hey folks</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So I got this special song. It arrived in the shape of a sonnet, yeah an actual sonnet that came through just after I'd dropped my daughter at school on her 16th birthday. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The first 4 lines are the first three verses and the two line concluding couplet is what became possibly the most immediate chorus I've ever written. The song is still metamorphosing. But I wanted to share it with you, because it is a part of this time we are in. It's a work in progress, but we are like family and in fact several of you here ARE family. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">So enjoy the new tune. It's for my daughter. But the lines it speaks of are universal. The wound we carry and are here to heal is universal. It's a deeply universal song that I feel very grateful to have been given to sing. A proper recording is in the works don't worry.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/3Ai1X4IoeEA" target="_blank"><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/fd318e4a25a29d83025b389bb96ab4d2012f7cdc/original/thumbnail-for-news-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="No Lines Video" /></span></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">SUBSCRIBE & ENJOY THESE THANK YOU GOODIES</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">More than the song - man we have some great stuff for our subscribers! </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Who wants to go for it and sign up for the $50 a month subscription? We have a few of you there and boy do we look after you well. This month you get the full-length edited film we made of the Gentle Warrior Album Launch Ceremony in Halifax in December 2018. Bam. All part of the subscription. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">For you gorgeous $15 a month subscribers, we have a download of a 7-minute healing meditation, an a capella song that got left off the Gentle Warrior album but was recorded as a part of those sessions - it's called Healing Holy Golden Feeling. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">And for our trusty $5 a month subscribers....wow, Michelle has put together another great playlist of my tunes. She always likes digging out various things she's come across in the archives. This month it’s a version of “Sea Of Stars” that was never released. Nice.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">I THINK IT COULD BE POSSIBLE</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Other than that - 2020 is the year where I begin to really start unbuckling my wings and brushing off the feathers with a duster. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">I'm not going to be quite in full flight for a little while. But we're easing in to take off. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The first episode will involve the "I think it could be possible" song....wow that thing has got a life of its own! Check out a short bit of video of Leone and his brother Arco doing their own version, “Singing & Beatboxing In Italy”.... I love it! </span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/Ls-m4oU4sr0" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/2bb3557930afb89ce294fce01afa90a2f1e079e6/original/iticbp-italy-short.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Singing & Beatboxing, Italy Short Video" /></a></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">**To watch the rest of this great video and to see more fantastic and unique versions, visit the brand NEW “<a contents='I Think It Could Be Possible" ' data-link-label="I Think It Could Be Possible" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/i-think-it-could-be-possible" target="_blank">I Think It Could Be Possible" </a>webpage.**</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">As you will see from the page, I've been sent loads of different videos of people performing it to use as part of the official video which we will be releasing at the beginning of April. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The song will be released on all streaming sites on Tuesday March 31st and I am going to be putting on several "social justice dance parties" across Atlantic Canada in April and May, which we are calling, handily, "I think it could be possible!".....</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">More to come on them in our next newsletter when all our dates are in. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/e8a6d53c818229b9e951ce37883f5c7dda8b2a64/original/all-of-us-together-can-change2b-sm.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="All Of Us Together Can Change The Way The World Works" /></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Meantime, if you haven't heard it yet, enjoy a sneak peak of the ACTUAL social justice anthem,"I Think It Could Be Possible," the first single from my upcoming album Thank You For The Medicine....</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">**You can download the song for free by going <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/track/2051489/i-think-it-could-be-possible" target="_blank">HERE</a> and adding your email (you are already subscribed to email, so don’t worry, you will not be added twice) or simply stream and listen.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">And there is still time to submit a video! Check out the details on the page and in the song link!</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">J X</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/63163742020-05-14T14:17:06-03:002020-05-14T14:17:07-03:00New Joyful Song & Video<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/cfbb52b8d4a06c1772da0f41df0b5c0793e6035b/original/tyfmh-enews-header-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For My Happiness New Single and Video" /></p>
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<p>Hello everyone!</p>
<p>I do hope you are all doing as well as you can.</p>
<p>I know there are a huge variety of situations being experienced right now. Some of us are feeling trapped or lonely in places on their own, or are working in very stressful environments. Others are having an enlightening break from the norm and are living life as if they were on something akin to a spiritual retreat.</p>
<hr><p><span class="font_large">Whatever the situation, we are all experiencing a time like no other for our civilization. And each day it seems the choice is quite similar - whether to choose Love, or Fear.</span></p>
<hr><p>LOVE. Being here - not giving in to the addiction of trying to work out what is going to happen in the future. NEVER has there been a time when more people didn't know what was going on. None of us really know the actual ins and outs of what is going on. There are so many different people, organisations, countries and "forces" trying to control our opinion of what is going on right now. In such times, it is absolutely natural for us to be drawn to look outside ourselves (online, in the news) for answers.</p>
<p>But have you noticed yet? The answers are not there.</p>
<p>You will not find the answer on YouTube. Or on the news. The universal laws have not changed. No-one actually knows what is going to happen in the future. And however many articles you read and YouTube clips you watch about who is behind this and how it all began you are still not going to have actual proof that what you are seeing is actually the truth. Looking on the outside for answers is an endless and ultimately frustrating, stressful and futile pastime.</p>
<p>To understand this is actually very freeing. Because then you can finally stop the search.</p>
<p>And look around you at what you do have.</p>
<p>At what you have always had.</p>
<p>And see that your stress is being largely caused by the search for an answer to how things are going to be in the future.</p>
<p>From there it's a small jump to realise - If I don't focus on that and I simply focus on what is going on right now, today, here, in my room or garden, then things are a lot easier. There might be problems here. But they're much smaller than the huge things I kept thinking about but getting nowhere nearer to an answer for.</p>
<p>It's obviously not easy, for any of us. This time is dragging us out of our peaceful place even when that's where we most need to be.</p>
<hr><p><span class="font_large">But we are in charge of how we react to any given situation. And right now to be happy, the same timeless rules exist that have been taught by all the great masters for thousands of years.</span></p>
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<p><br>I almost forgot! Music helps.</p>
<p>It can be a tool that allows us to drop in to this moment of now very easily. Especially if it's a good song!</p>
<p><span class="font_large">So, here's one of my very best. It's called THANK YOU FOR MY HAPPINESS and I hope it drops you right in the Joy Zone.</span></p>
<p><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/TnRb6LGkZUA" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/5a6d090ea4b44f6accf7bcc26b0959f125bb5c67/original/tyfmh-video-thumbnail3.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For My Happiness Video - YouTube" /></a></p>
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<p>The recording has taken the last couple of years to bring together - it includes Electronic beats, Sitar, Harmonium, a choir and a string quartet. I thought I'd completely finished it but then re-did the drums because they weren't quite right, weren't making it sound like the hit I knew it was, and now it really sounds amazing.</p>
<p>So many people involved to make this song! Thank you so much to them - if I count it up I think there were 28 people involved in making the recording. So much love and good energy has gone in to this, it's literally bursting at the seams and has the capacity to really help you shift some energy if you turn the volume up, and have a proper dance to it!</p>
<hr><p><span class="font_large">I really invite you to turn this song up and dance like a crazy person to it. It starts off pretty relaxed, but builds up to a mammoth climax.</span></p>
<hr><p>The video was filmed on the same day I did my bits of filming for I Think It Could Be Possible, at the house of Jeep Jones - we didn't know then that we would have no more chances to film together for a while... So we were lucky that the concept was always going to be a green screen video. Jeep and his partner Peggy Gedeon have done an amazing job editing and animating and crafting this video and I think it really brings out the JOY in the song. So, massive thanks to them too.</p>
<hr><p><span class="font_large">How much it is seen in some part is down to you. Yes, really. You! Please share this song with your friends, either via the YouTube or the Spotify link. It really makes a difference.</span></p>
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<p>With much love and much happy anticipation of you enjoying this new song!</p>
<p>Jont</p>
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<p><br> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/61982682020-01-31T12:06:40-04:002020-01-31T12:10:27-04:00Winter: Sneak Peek & Going Deep<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/4d7d82ce2758388516b59efc549a431e81785757/original/jan-enews-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
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<p> <span class="font_large">Hey folks</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Are you enjoying your winter? </span></p>
<p>For some of you (especially if you're Canadian!) it might only just be getting going....if you're in Europe then you might be having one of those abnormally spring-like days. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Well, all I'd say is if you've got a bit of your winter left.....use it!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Go deep, it's gonna be gone soon. </span></p>
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<p>All those darker places you might go to in the darker months, you won't have access to them in the brighter days of summer. Maybe there are some things there that would be worth looking at.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">...</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Winter makes me write poems. Here's one I wrote last week:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><br> <br><strong>One Day Soon</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">I'd like to live in the country<br> <br>with a dog and a woman<br> <br>and not do any of the things I am doing<br> <br>get away completely</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">there'd be a waterfall nearby we would<br> <br>walk to in the day, sometimes when it was nice<br> <br>but there'd be nothing much to do<br> <br>just me and you and all the countryside and us<br> <br>all the things to do would be done we'd have<br> <br>got them done before we came so there'd be<br> <br>no reason to go in town again</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">I'd wake up<br> <br>and just be with the trees<br> <br>and the animals yeah let's see how long <br> <br>that would last you say</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">yeah one day and it feels like it should be soon<br> <br>I'd like to live in the country with just a<br> <br>woman and a dog and the trees, by a waterfall<br> <br>and our phones would all be off</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">we'd have put them in a drawer, the one<br> <br>with the ball of rubber bands and the <br> <br>postcard from Japan</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">and the fire there would roar<br> <br>every night we'd burn it to keep us warm<br> <br>and you'd fall asleep reading your book and <br> <br>I'd carry you to bed and everything would fade<br> <br>until the sun came back again</p>
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<p><span class="font_large">I've been busy - I am preparing the best recordings I have ever made in my life. For you. For me. For whoever ends up hearing them.</span></p>
<p>I think they will form the basis of a really exciting live show. They kind of a hybrid of electronic dance tracks with warm, explicit humanity in the form of a string quartet and a choir. </p>
<p>I am going to start releasing them in the form of singles from Earth Day (April 22nd) onwards, when we will release the first track, an uplifting, truth-telling anthem about seeing the other person as you and addressing inequality RIGHT NOW.... It's called I Think It Could Be Possible.</p>
<p>Thanks to my amazing godchildren we have an wonderful video on its way for that - loads of different people all over the world are doing their own version of the song and sending me very simple phone camera recordings of it and I am going to compile them all together to be part of the official video....</p>
<p>...<span class="font_large">if you want to see my amazing godchildren do their utterly captivating and heart-swelling version of the song <em>(infinitely better than I could ever hope to do....you'll see... it's adorable)</em> or to read more about the project and possibly even send in your own version, then click to watch and read the details...</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/blfKvYbRYqs" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/617fe4dee3ebeaa99c146901e675981049cc3260/original/choir-600-x-400.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="ITICBP Halifax, UK Choir!" /></a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">GENTLE WARRIOR EUROPE TOUR</span></strong></p>
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<p>In the build up to that I will be coming to Europe in February <em>(primarily to spend a few days with my mum) </em>but thought I would fit in a few Gentle Warrior dates...</p>
<p><span class="font_large">...so if you are in or near Austria or Slovenia or Ibiza, then - get in touch or look on the <a contents="SHOWS" data-link-label="SHOWS" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/shows" target="_blank">SHOWS</a> page on the website or the FB page. I would love you to come and join us for these ceremonies.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">That's all folks....</span></p>
<p>Connect with your inner hermit (is that a tautology?) - soon the ice will have gone (well, soonish) and we will all be swimming in avocado toast & sun cream & smiles and your chance to address the fundamental crisis at the center of your being will have drifted off to merge with a far away cloud.... do it now! (and remember the key to it ALL is the one month subscription trial <grin>). </p>
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<p><span class="font_large">With much love....and gratitude that you are there on the end of this and that we are connected. </span></p>
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<p> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/59772202019-11-26T11:29:48-04:002019-11-26T11:29:48-04:00Birds, Spaceships & Choirs<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/435b3ceab69086a5b4c1433123f2c8c2e14749a0/original/nov-2019-enews-header-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="JONT November 2019 E-news " /></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Wow, what beautiful ceremonies we had in our fall Gentle Warrior Eastern Canada Tour.</span> Thank you for being with us – in person and as subscribers and followers on social media. We met lots of lovely new friends and it felt like the nature of the ceremonies themselves and how the music comes through evolved to another level of grounded intimacy and connection. </p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/814852a42ffdb1247e87b0f27992356e288bfc61/original/tour-image2-nov-e-news.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Gw Tour Photos" /></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Michelle has gathered the best moments - recordings, video, photos - from the tour and they are all up and available for Tier I subscribers on the <a contents="JOIN THE TOUR" data-link-label="Join The Tour" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/join-the-tour" target="_blank">JOIN THE TOUR</a> page.</span> <span class="font_large"><em>You have to check out this page! It’s amazing!</em></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Enjoy a video from the tour page: “On My Way”. </span>It is a pre-ceremony song recorded in the moment at Joyful Yoga in Truro, October 25th.</p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/Gse1QHcyoII" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/f718b273bffc1cb1197f09af443fb6fd17d0ee6d/original/on-my-way-header2.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="On My Way" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong> BIRDS </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>NOV.28.19. It's new video time! </strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">I have been absolutely blessed over the last few years to have several very beautiful videos made for my songs.</span> Who can forget the Italian team led by Matteo Serafini who animated Big Open Heart? Or my late dad's one and only stellar music video performance in Dave Depares' Old Traveller?</p>
<hr><p><span class="font_large">But there is one director who I keep coming back to work with again and again and I am so lucky to do so - Simon Ratigan. He is one of the UK's very top commercials directors and very rarely makes music videos and when he does they are always something a little out of the ordinary.</span></p>
<hr><p><br>This latest video he has made for the acoustic version of the song "Birdwatching" (the opening song from Gentle Warrior) is no exception. </p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Here’s a Sneak Peek of the BIRDWATCHING Video (30 SEC) </span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">I don't want to ruin the surprise....but let me at least say this: imagine you are watching this in a darkened room at the Tate Modern. </span>The sort of complex issues to do with narrative, transcendence, oneness, beauty and our journey as humans that arise as he juxtaposes this very romantic, mellifluous English folk song with the daily realities of life in a small Ethiopian village community…are more the sort of fare you might expect from a revered video artist rather than something you might see on MTV. Just a heads up! Would love to hear your thoughts on it. <em>(Tier I subscribers are invited to let it rip on the forum!)</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>SPACESHIPS </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>It's new album time, too! </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>(Stay tuned for the December release details)</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/d004446635517cd0806bc02e6104902bf38fbbad/original/spaceship-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="A Spaceship On The Ocean Floor" /></p>
<p><span class="font_large">A year on from the release, and with a brand new studio album on its way in to the world next year, we sate your keen appetite for Jont music with this sublime edited live recording of a Gentle Warrior Ceremony from November 2017.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">The title refers to an improvised story at the beginning of that night's version of "The Song That You Love".</span> The album is full of spontaneous little outbursts from me, singing along and just a nice feeling throughout....it's a great partner to the studio album "Gentle Warrior" and if you connected with what was offered there, then put this on when you want to really relax, it has some pretty gorgeous moments...<span class="font_large">(Available for purchase and streaming in December!)</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Anyone who knows me in Halifax knows that ever since the “Fridays For Future” school strike eight or so weeks ago when 10,000 climate activists took to the streets and were part of the biggest protest ever in Nova Scotia, I have been obsessed with creating a Climate Action Anthem for the movement </span>- something to motivate, inspire, educate, bring hope, bring people together in right action..... so the song is coming, and there are various exciting plans for it. </p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/047356985bc179de2cf040a65298fa4c50ba7b53/original/iticbp-card-600-x-600.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="All of us together can change the way the world works" /></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">I wanted to get a choir to sing on it and so after a lot of complications in its organisation (I felt of course in my optimistic way that this was just the universe seeing how much I really cared) we managed to finally bring 14 singers together to a studio in Halifax and record a gorgeous uplifting choir arrangement on the song.</span> This is being mixed next week and will be a big part of my next year.....disseminating, promoting, teaching the words to singers and people I meet, finding other singers and choirs from different countries to translate it and sing it in different languages.... </p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Check out this short and fun little video about the choir and the song.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/zS47OWwMl8s" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/ec71cfc0e780d62e35293db31b9fb444018f9428/original/choir-image-enews2-600-x-400.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="HFX Climate Change Choir" /></a></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">If you are interested in seeing and hearing about it and want to keep up to date there is a FB group named after it called <a contents='"I THINK IT COULD BE POSSIBLE"' data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2592304644333466/" target="_blank">"I THINK IT COULD BE POSSIBLE"</a></span> so add yourself to that. More details will also be on the www.jontnet.com website soon, too.</p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Until next time…</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>WARRIORS</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>GENTLE WARRIOR SACRED SONG CEREMONY (EAST) TOUR</strong></span> </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>OCT 18-26, 2019</strong></span></p>
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<p>Join Jont, with friends John & Michelle as we share these gatherings of music, healing and connection. Amplify the intentions for love and peace by being there with us and sharing the invitation with friends!</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Fredericton NB - OCT.18<br> <br>Quebec City QC - OCT.19<br> <br>Ladysmith, QC - OCT.20<br> <br>Belleville, ON - OCT.21/22<br> <br>Cornwall, ON - OCT.23<br> <br>Truro, NS - OCT.25<br> <br>Halifax, NS - OCT.26</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>SPACESHIPS & BEAUTIFUL DEMONS</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/da7515f5108599357df81c661fac2dc3faf815bb/original/spaceships-beautiful-demons.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Spaceships & Beautiful Demons" /></strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><strong>Thank you to all who signed up to be Jont subscribers! <em>(I am one, too!</em></strong><em>)</em></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Along with the exclusive goodies we receive as subscribers, we also become direct contributors to the making and sharing of these beautiful creations! </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">This music is Jont’s work in the world and I love that we can be part of amplifying it with our tangible ongoing support! </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>A Little Taste of What’s There For Subscribers...</strong></span></p>
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<p>...<span class="font_regular">curated playlists </span>- the most recent includes an <span class="font_large">unreleased version of “Morley Moo”</span> – a much loved song about a cat- with a cool moog arrangement... </p>
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<p>...live stream video from the tour and unreleased video of songs performed at gigs, <span class="font_regular">the most recent is a version</span><span class="font_large"> of "My Favourite Story"....</span></p>
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<p>...be the first to listen to two upcoming albums: <span class="font_large"> Thank You For The Medicine</span> (which includes all those gorgeous songs with the choir that you wish you could hear more of) and the live album: <span class="font_large">Spaceship On The Ocean Floor</span>, along with great songs that have not yet found their way on to an album (including one I want to listen to over and over,<span class="font_large"> “Beautiful Demons” </span>with a smooth groove and catchy vibe!)</p>
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<p><span class="font_large">New items are added monthly so check back regularly. Soon we will launch some love-the-world campaigns and projects that you can become involved in if, like us, that is your thing!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">GW MOMENT</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Enjoy "Source Of Love" from the most recent album GENTLE WARRIOR (2019) and recorded live at the Gentle Warrior Sacred Song Ceremony, Fall River, NS (2018).</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/O39c7vFAAlk" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/a4242f1ec0d9b1f420445d967a12bc249c728e8e/original/source-of-love-title.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Source Of Love" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>COMING UP</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">The Official Release of Birdwatching (Video)<br> <br>Spaceship On The Ocean Floor (Live Album)<br> <br>NEW Items For Seasonal Gift Giving</span></p>
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<p> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/58496212019-08-06T19:26:32-03:002019-08-06T19:26:32-03:00Subscribe! Free Trial<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/563fb37b08fbf4c39cd01a633e1b86738e69414a/original/aug-enews-2019-header-edited-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Welcome To The Jont Community" /></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">After a soft release in the spring (and a lot of work) our subscription is now launched for real!</span> We are being featured this week by our website provider, <a contents="Bandzoogle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bandzoogle.com/" target="_blank">Bandzoogle</a>, literally as the advert for their new subscription service. </p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Meantime, if you're in Berlin, I will be hosting / performing a Gentle Warrior Ceremony this coming Saturday 10th August.</span></p>
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<p> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/58174612019-07-08T14:56:20-03:002019-07-08T15:01:49-03:00Summer, Songs & Subscribers<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/012e1053ba77023679dcabb050ab0206bdfc2712/original/july-enews-edited-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Hey! I hope you are well and enjoying the beginning of SUMMER.</span></p>
<p> <br>We have great stuff going on and I have asked Michelle (our Community Connector & Cacao Queen) to share below.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Jont XXX</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>A SONG</strong></span></p>
<p>All My Life (Set It Free)<em> </em>is a Jont favourite, radiating celebration and a summer vibe...a feeling of "YES" when the waiting, when some of the work of trying is over. It invites us to dive into each moment - whether it is a summer-moment, a love-moment, the realization of a dream-made-real-moment... </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong><a contents="LISTEN" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/music#featured-song" target="_blank">LISTEN</a></strong></span><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/44ca1d87ad4b92f25829a7b75f2888b95aa6b033/original/all-my-life-edited-3.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="All My Life Lyrics" /></p>
<p><span style="color:null;">(When you join the new </span><a contents="Subscription Community " data-link-label="Subscribe" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank"><span style="color:null;">Subscription Community </span></a><span style="color:null;">you can stream Jont's albums while enjoying the lyrics and commentary about the making of them. More are being added!) </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><span style="color:null;">***</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>A COMMUNITY</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Thank you for signing up to be part of the new online Subscription Community! </span></p>
<p>Over the coming weeks we will be adding content that will make you laugh, sing, cry, dance and perhaps dive in to one of the "love-and-peace-expanding projects" along the way...all part of a conscious online community based around the fundamental concept that we are One!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <strong><span class="font_large">We'd love for you to join and create it with us!</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong><a contents="SUBSCRIBE" data-link-label="Subscribe" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank">SUBSCRIBE</a></strong></span><br> <br> </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> <span class="font_large">***</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">A TOUR MOMENT</span></strong></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">One of the best parts of being on tour is meeting people and simply being together! </span></p>
<p>A lovely and curious thing happens when we share space and disappear into the magic and intention of music - we forget our names, we forget our our troubles, and even some of our physical pains. We dissolve into each other and into life and feel that we truly "know" each other outside of all the separating ideas and concepts.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <span class="font_large">It is one of our favourite experiences of Oneness. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/eb9a33267b75ede3639270cdfd3ea169f89edda2/original/collage-gw-600-x425-july-edited-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Tour Moments" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">***</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> <strong><span class="font_large">A CHANCE TO ENJOY THE MUSIC</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Check out these <a contents="SUMMER EVENTS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/shows#tours-events" target="_blank">SUMMER EVENTS</a>!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> <br><strong><span class="font_large">JULY 6, 2019 (HALIFAX)</span></strong><br>Jont at <a contents="The Carleton" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.thecarleton.ca/" target="_blank">The Carleton</a>. A night of music that includes a choir!<br> <br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_large">JULY 19, 2019 (WEST SUSSEX)</span></strong><br>Jont at the <a contents="The Magical Festival" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.magicalfestival.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Magical Festival</a><br> <br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.magicalfestival.co.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/8d82991473937da410aafb501492d7c7165d7296/original/magical-2019-edited-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_none" alt="Jont At The Magical Festival" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> <br><strong><span class="font_large">AUGUST 10, 2019 (BERLIN)</span></strong><br> Jont and Lee offer a <a contents="Gentle Warrior Sacred Song &amp; Cacao Ceremony" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/608043636381874/" target="_blank">Gentle Warrior Sacred Song & Cacao Ceremony</a>. The first in Berlin! <br> <br>**<a contents="Tickets" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/event/2762921/502077033/gentle-warrior-sacred-song-cacao-ceremony-berlin" target="_blank">Tickets</a> can be purchased through the event on the Shows page</p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/ef0a2abe83affc471a036061cc44f601793e1cda/original/gw-berlin-aug-10-19-sm.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_none" alt="Gentle Warrior Sacred Song Ceremony BERLIN" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">***</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <br> <br><strong><span class="font_large">A REVIEW</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Did you get a chance to read Alex Cook's <a contents="review" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.theeastmag.com/2019/06/05/new-music-jont-offers-existential-wisdom-on-gentle-warrior/" target="_blank">review</a> of Gentle Warrior in The East? </span><br> <br> <br>"At its heart, the album questions our beliefs, our place in the universe, our sense of permanence, and comes back with the fact that it doesn’t matter what you believe, so love as you can love." </p>
<p> <br><span class="font_large"><strong>Email us with YOUR <a contents="thoughts" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:hello.jontnet@gmail.com" target="_blank">thoughts</a> on the <a contents="album" data-link-label="Gentle Warrior - The Album Experience" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/gentle-warrior-the-album-experience" target="_blank">album</a>!</strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Enjoy every summer moment! </span></p>
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<p> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/58174602019-07-08T14:49:09-03:002019-07-08T14:58:45-03:00Welcome To The First of Many Firsts<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/7a34ad2d8f06bcaaa7b7b5f068ec6b5f13f7ca68/original/welcome-subscribers-edited-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Welcome Subsctibers" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>WELCOME TO THE ONLINE COMMUNITY!</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">In the spirit of trying new things, we are going to have some fun with this first note: a conversation with Jont, Michelle & You!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#444444;"><strong><span class="font_large">Jont: "</span></strong><span class="font_large">THANK YOU all so much for being among the first to sign-up for this new online community experience!</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#444444;">It will be the hub for my creativity and I appreciate you being part of it from the beginning. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#444444;">As well, I am so happy to have Michelle (and hubby, John) working with me to support the growth and sharing of my music. Many of you know Michelle. She is our “Community Connector” and among other roles, she is enthusiastically adding the best content and hosting the main bits of our online community."</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#336666;"><span class="font_large"><strong>Michelle:</strong></span> <span class="font_large">"I am delighted to meet you all and excited to see how this online community experience will evolve. </span> </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#336666;">As many of you know, I LOVE finding new ways for people to experience Jont’s music!</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#336666;">It’s amazing to think back to a year ago, when we were first exploring how we might create a meaningful and engaging online community - one that finds each other through the beacon of love that this music (its messages and the people who enjoy it), beams out! Now it is here and we are honoured to be among a handful of artists working with the programmers to make this part of the site engaging and user-friendly.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#336666;"><span class="font_large">This gathering “space” feels like a way to bring like-minded-and-hearted people together to inspire and support each other, as well as a way to directly support Jont's ongoing creative offerings as an artist we all love!</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#336666;">I am so grateful and excited about the possibilities!"</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/2ff836d807e3c6c76ad2345d2e4dacf1018fc70a/original/michelle-cc-edited-2.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Michelle Community Connector and Cacao Queen" /></p>
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<p><span style="color:#444444;"><strong><span class="font_large">J:</span> </strong> "And this is only the beginning. We launched the community a few weeks ago while on the Gentle Warrior Western Canada Tour. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#444444;"><span class="font_large">Over the coming weeks we will continue to share amazing content that makes you want to laugh, sing, cry, dance and perhaps become part of the "love-and-peace-expanding projects" along the way</span></span><span class="font_large"><span style="color:#444444;">...as part of a conscious online community based around the fundamental concept that we are one and that you are us.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#444444;">I think the real power of this community is in its shared values, it’s desire to make positive change in the world, and to provide a chance for people with these similar values from different parts of the world to connect and discuss how to bring wisdom and positivity to their communities in such challenging times for the world."</span> </p>
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<p><span style="color:#336666;"><span class="font_large"><strong>M:</strong> </span>"Yes! And we will be reaching out in the coming weeks to ask for some input and feedback as we move forward. We promise to honour your time, energy and freedom to choose and participate.<span class="font_large"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#336666;"><span class="font_large">It is our intention that this be a community space where you feel called to engage with the ideas, people and experiences that really move your heart!"</span></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><strong>J:</strong></span> <span class="font_large">"On that note: Have you all watched the newest <a contents="official video for the song, “Birdwatching" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/birdwatching-official-video-release" target="_blank">official video for the song, “Birdwatching</a>” posted on the Subscribers page? </span></p>
<p>When I first saw it I was totally spellbound. It is challenging and deep and it seems to have an ineffable quality a bit more than the sum of its parts....of realness...no trying to cover up the truth here…"</p>
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<p><span style="color:#336666;"><span class="font_large"><strong>M:</strong></span> "Yes, I know what you mean. I had to watch it three times to sort out all the feelings and sensations that arose. And where I eventually landed was in a space of relief…one of holding all of life a little more lightly... </span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"><span class="font_large"><strong>Now, here’s where YOU come in! Sign-in and watch the video. </strong></span> <span class="font_large">Then please take a moment to post a reflection or comment on the Gentle Warrior<a contents=" Subscribers Forum page" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/gentle-warrior-forum" target="_blank"> Subscribers Forum page</a> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"><span class="font_large">under the “Birdwatching - The Video Experience” topic. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">I have posted my reflections there – feel free to comment on that, too. This is one of the ways we practice seeing and understanding together."</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#444444;"><span class="font_large"><strong>J:</strong><span class="font_regular"> "</span>And in the meantime, as we continue adding content and working out any bugs in the site with the programmers, if you have any questions, suggestions, feedback, please share it with us. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#444444;"><span class="font_regular">It helps everyone have the best possible experience.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Thank you all for joining us on this adventure in music, community and connection!"</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><span style="color:#444444;">Jont XX</span></span></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/e1a9f5b7c3bf92be493b28f457c6a1b5adebf6a9/original/adventure-edited-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Here's to the adventures" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">***</p>
<p> <em>“They might dance down the street on the way to work, gaze into the eyes of a complete stranger and speak of love at first sight, or defend an apparently absurd idea. Warriors of light allow themselves days like these.</em></p>
<p> <em>They are not afraid to weep over ancient sorrows or feel joy at new discoveries. When they feel that the moment has arrived, they drop everything and go off on some long-dreamed-of adventure. When they realize that they can do no more, they abandon the fight, but never blame themselves for having committed a few unexpected acts of folly.</em></p>
<p> <em>Warriors do not spend their days trying to play the roles that others have chosen for them.”</em></p>
<p> ― Adapted from Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light</p>
<p> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/58174592019-07-08T14:41:52-03:002019-07-08T14:41:52-03:00Birdwatching & Lovebombs<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/84a463c9f66c49644b6c558193df626cb0f16193/original/subscriber-birdwatching-600-x-400-jpg.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Birdwatching & Lovebombs" /></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span class="font_large"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hey folks!</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span class="font_large"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Greetings from the road. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We are having a marvelous time in Western Canada, meeting lots of new friends, dropping <span class="font_large">lovebombs</span> along the route and spreading the Gentle Warrior vibe.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/8304dfa7860be4c39bbec5e1d57f208dd7745106/original/hello-from-the-road.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Hello From The Road" /></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">***Thank you to all who have immediately joined our long-awaited subscription community and become Gentle Warriors.***</span></p>
<p> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I so appreciate both your tangible support so I can focus more clearly on my music in this next phase and also the opportunity to co-create a vibrant and connected online community of lovely people around the world with aligned values who like getting together and singing and dancing to these songs. May it grow and grow!</span></span></span></p>
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<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"> If you haven't joined up yet, it's as easy as clicking here <a href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe">https://jontnet.com/subscribe</a>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There are three different amounts you can pay, and the first one is basically the price of a coffee per month (and for that you get to stream my entire life works, plus other special things….like the first viewing of new videos).</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">***</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="font_large">This month, our exclusive subscriber content is the brand new video for Birdwatching,</span> the opening track on Gentle Warrior. Directed by Simon Ratigan (my old friend and award-winning director of Superstar), it is a really interesting and beautiful video - almost more like something you would see in an art gallery. I can't wait for you to see it.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/98eSVJlVGGI" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/2c3b189d3f3b204fab04328dcdd526f4a5a9357d/original/bw-trailer-600-4002.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Birdwatching Trailer" /></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Watch it and then share your reflections, ideas, questions on the <span class="font_large">Gentle Warrior Subscribers Forum</span>. This is one of the ways we can practice “seeing and understanding” together.</span></span></span></p>
<p> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ok, gotta run!! Gentle Warrior Ceremony tonight in Nelson, B.C. (my new fave place in the world). Don't worry, we are filming and recording everything and will be making things available to subscribers shortly.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="font_large">Check out our photos below of folks we "lovebombed" on our road trip. </span>More on the <a contents="Instagram Page" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.instagram.com/jont_songs/" target="_blank">Instagram Page</a>! Yes, my distribution model (one-on-one delivery of albums as free gifts in exchange for a hug and a photo with the technicolour scarf) has its drawbacks and won't be used by the mainstream music industry any time soon, but I think it's a rather lovely way of getting these songs out in to the ether.....</span></span></span></p>
<p> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Singing the love out to you all.....</span></span></span></p>
<p> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">XXXXX Jont</span></span></span></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/4cf35f63b6de2f98f868a35e02533af99df082ef/original/sam-and-jen-copy.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jen & Sam" /></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/f6775cdad8d7d4e816bad9e88a1e0a452aaea7a7/original/dharma-gang.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Dharma Gang" /></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/57e4904e9f0c6c6bb11b64e3ce2f331eac527349/original/alexandria.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Salt Spring Beauties" /></p>
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/c7f4b6867ce83dd71c92d395ef1b07112a6c23a6/original/here-kitty.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Kitty Love Bomb" /></p>
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<p> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/58174562019-07-08T14:36:30-03:002019-07-08T14:36:30-03:00Very Exciting Big News!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/55e306c1ad80844dcc57ac49bc7d9829e5809e5a/original/subscription-header.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Big News - New Subscription Community" /></p>
<p><span class="font_large">OK here we go. This is a big one for me. </span></p>
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<p>I’ve been waiting for years to do this - until I felt absolutely sure that what I’m doing with my music merited your support.</p>
<p><span class="font_large">Today I launch the Gentle Warrior subscription page on my website.</span></p>
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<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>SUBSCRIBE HERE</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><a href="https://jontnet.com/subscribe" target="_blank">https://jontnet.com/subscribe</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_large">If the songs I sing and the gigs and ceremonies I put on are something you appreciate, then now you can sign up for a monthly subscription (three levels to choose from) and help me go full-time with my music. </span> <span class="font_large">At the same time you also become part of an online community - an engaging and interactive space for connecting with others around this music and sharing what inspires you in this dance of life. </span></p>
<p>As a Gentle Warrior you can stream all my albums, watch my videos (brand new one for Birdwatching, directed by Simon Ratigan up today), hear as yet unreleased albums and watch live streams of my gigs and ceremonies. There will also be group Zoom hang outs and discussions on the forum, discounts at the store, and even the chance for one-on-one consults and to help us plan what type of events and releases we do next and where.</p>
<p>A new era for my music starts today. One where with your help I start the process of focussing on my music full-time and between us we are able to share a whole lot more joy with the world….</p>
<p><span class="font_large">X see you there</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">Jont</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">*****</span></p>
<p>P.S. Right now we are on tour in Western Canada, sharing song and ceremony with communities in SK, AB and BC. Check the<a contents=" SHOWS" data-link-label="SHOWS" data-link-type="page" href="https://jontnet.com/shows" target="_blank"> SHOWS</a> page or follow the tour on<a contents=" Facebook" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/tours/2277931829141403/" target="_blank"> Facebook</a> to see if we will be in your area. If you know anyone in these places, please spread the word.</p>
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<p> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/57016702019-03-31T17:02:42-03:002019-03-31T17:02:42-03:00Three Bits of Jontness to Ease You Into Spring<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/09c1459c06d55c0176614c33dc186f3cefa465c7/original/enews-header-mar-2019-600-x-400-edited-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Three Bits of Jontness to Ease You Into Spring" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>1. FOR THE WARY...</strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><strong><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/pAXQqTSoG48" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/376484cb095ac3120ef83f0accecf07e0f22af68/original/ahwj-8-600x-400.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Thank You For My Happiness" /></a></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="WATCH" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/pAXQqTSoG48" target="_blank"><span class="font_large"><strong>WATCH</strong></span></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">***</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>2. FOR THE WEARY:</strong></span></p>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_regular"><strong>AHHHHHHHHHHH</strong></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And today what we are going to do is stop. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Stop being good.<br> <br>Stop trying to be positive.<br> <br>Stop fending off the inevitable snow plough<br> <br>coming for you from behind through the blizzard in the dark.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today we are going to shut down<br> <br>the part of the production line where you are running,<br> <br>stumbling, arms flailing in the dark and snow<br> <br>in mute terror.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">With one press of the button...</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <br>HERE</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br> <br>We are going to make you stand up straight,<br> <br>smiling, arms aloft in victory - like an arrow that has found its mark<br> <br>or a sword firmly embedded in its stone -<br> <br>and then as the plough arrives with all its growling menace,<br> <br>smilingly we are going to laugh at the cleverness of the program:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">as the knees buckle softly with their first contact with the plough<br> <br>and you plop down softly onto the plough itself,<br> <br>and we suddenly zoom in<br> <br>to see you breathing<br> <br>an enormous, relaxed sigh.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">That's what we are going to do today folks.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br> <br>From there we shall greet the world<br> <br>and all its madness<br> <br>with a gentle opprobrium<br> <br>that resonates from within to without<br> <br>with the limpid calm of the stillest of ponds.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">***</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>3. FOR THE WILLING:</strong></span></p>
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<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/_rr8omTPgNI" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/f32fd92199ded050324a99c6205b7a4175140146/original/ahwj-6-600-x-400.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="A Meditation" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="WATCH" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/_rr8omTPgNI" target="_blank"><strong><span class="font_large">WATCH</span></strong></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">***</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> XXXX</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> with love from Jont</p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><strong>Coming soon</strong> - Birdwatching video launch (May 1st) and Western Canada tour (May 24 - June 9th).</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">New stuff all the time at the <a contents="JONT WEBSITE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.jontnet.com" target="_blank">JONT</a><a contents="JONT " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.jontnet.com" target="_blank"> </a>website.</span><br> <br> </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>May these billion cells of true peace and true happiness blossom in your heart forever...</em></strong><br> <br> </p>
<p> </p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/55615212018-12-19T18:50:06-04:002018-12-19T18:50:06-04:00Gentle Warrior : Expanding the Love<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/7575226c2f8914f731b0023942cd0001ee9b8f34/original/dec-header-2-600-x-400-edited-2.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">GENTLE WARRIOR</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="font_large">DEC.08 was a special day as we began the process of launching the album, sending a wave of healing intentions out into the world.</span> </p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Thank you for being part of this new direction and expression for the music and for purchasing an album inspired by the stillness and profundity of ceremony...and a divine intelligence far beyond anything to do with "me". </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><span style="color:#990000;">**Purchase "Gentle Warrior" </span><a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/gentle-warrior-the-album-experience" target="_blank"><span style="color:#990000;">HERE</span></a><span style="color:#990000;"> as CD and Download exclusively via the new JONT website.**</span></span></p>
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<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#2c3e50;"><em>“Such a wonderful CD release filled with love, thank you for the heartfelt gentle warrior spirit song.”</em></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#2c3e50;"><em>“Jont, the whole evening was absolutely stellar. It was all medicine for the soul and deeply real and nourishing. Thank you for your open heart. Thank you for your music. You ARE a gentle warrior.”</em></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular"><span style="color:#2c3e50;"><em>“Jont Openheart's music is profound. It transports you to another place while touching some of the deepest parts within you.”</em></span></span><br> </p>
<hr><p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/63169ff87ee2229310ad61116ffe20eceb3bf504/original/freedom-600-x-600-muted-edited-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Freedom from shame" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">~~~~~</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">EXPAND THE LOVE - GIFT IT</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_large">If this music touches you, re-connects you with your self, makes you dance, laugh and cry, expand the energy by sharing it. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/846da2c73c5d0f28317a0a6df12d2dc9e01945e5/original/album-600.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Gentle Warrior Album" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#990000;"><span class="font_large">**Purchase a <strong>GIFT DOWNLOAD</strong> of “Gentle Warrior” for family and friends this holiday season. We’ve made it easy!** </span></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">INSTRUCTIONS</span><br><span class="font_regular">1. Visit the <a contents="STORE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/store" target="_blank">STORE</a> on the Jont website.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">2. Purchase the Downloads ($7.50).</span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">3. In the "Notes", provide the NAMES and EMAIL ADDRESSES of those to whom you want a download sent. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><span class="font_large">Between December 24th and 25th, recipients will receive a special greeting + download code!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>No waste or packaging. No shipping fees or waiting.</em><br><span class="font_regular"><em>Enjoy the sensation of surprising and delighting someone with something special.</em></span></p>
<hr><p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Gentle Warrior, with its meditative and soulful energy offers a sound dose of vibrational medicine. It’s intention is to help hold our hearts open to ALL in this wild and wonderful dance of life.</span></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/4d07e06ad0bb8e4c52de99bdc252e9fa6d14a55e/original/put-my-love-600-x-400-edited-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Put Love into Everything" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">~~~~~</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">THE NEW JONT WEBSITE</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/7202c6b944fa2dde15d36a18cae4a88e4b0621ef/original/website-600-x-400-edited-1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="New Jont Website" /></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">On DEC.08 the new website (brilliantly re-designed by our Community Connector, Michelle) was launched. </span><span class="font_regular">I am pleased to have a site that reflects how I want to create and share this music now and into the future: as a Community of old travellers, gentle warriors and open-hearted lovers...</span></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">These are Our songs, Our stories of living, loving and healing…I’m simply the conduit.</span></p>
<hr><p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><a contents="Take a tour" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com" target="_blank">Take a Tour</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><a contents="Watching" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/watch" target="_blank">Watch</a> ~ <a contents="Listening" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/listening-lounge" target="_blank">Listen</a> ~ <a contents="Connecting" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/community" target="_blank">Connect</a>…</span><br> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~~~~~</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Thank you for your enthusiastic and loving support. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Enjoy the holiday season and the final days of 2018!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span class="font_regular">May these billion cells of true peace and true happiness blossom in your heart forever...</span></strong></em></p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/55354592018-12-01T20:36:52-04:002018-12-01T20:36:52-04:00New Album - Gentle Warrior DEC.08.<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/7339aba3a3377e4ed4bd695e8217420425a6e226/original/nov-header-600-x-400-px.png/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>GENTLE WARRIOR</strong></span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">One morning, a voice told me I had a new name: Gentle Warrior.</span> Following this feeling, I started singing from a place inside that felt more connected to my true essence. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Days later, I went into the studio and recorded an album. It’s ready to launch and I am very excited to share it.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/1c1f2a5c810711a35df36fb225fd135af2cb82ea/original/on-the-rocks-colour.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Across the Rocks" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><br> <br><strong><span class="font_xl">ALBUM</span></strong><br> <br><span class="font_large"><strong>Available DEC.08.2018</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/Iu2H6-yktBI" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/eacb29cf0363ae9023677f652591e5c274990a89/original/album-preview-image-yt-600-px-wide.png/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Link to Gentle Warrior Album Preview" /></a></p>
<p> <strong><em>...Enjoy listening to a preview of the album...</em></strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font_large">This album lives its fullest life when you take some time to be still and fully commit to listening to it.</span> </p>
<p> <br>The musical arrangements are as simple as possible so as not to distract from the pure, undiluted, rhythmic, melodic and energetic message of each song, exactly as it came through.</p>
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<p><span class="font_large">Put this album on when you want to go deeper. </span><span class="font_regular">On your own, or in a sacred space with others who want to go there too. When you want to feel. When you can close your eyes. When you are able to receive. </span></p>
<p> <br>These songs have much more in them than I could ever have put there myself. And the way to access what is there is through stillness of mind and body and through listening.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <br> <br><em>**This is the first of my albums that I will not be releasing digitally. You will be able to hear it by purchasing the download or CD from my <a contents="website" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com/" target="_blank">website</a> beginning DEC.08.2018.** </em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">LAUNCH</span></strong></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/5e03d8d567c29ff15caa53ad51b76eddaf64d2ec/original/album-600.png/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Gentle Warrior Album" /></p>
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<p><strong><span class="font_large">Gentle Warrior Album Launch (HALIFAX)</span></strong><br><span class="font_large">DEC.08. 7:30 PM<br>Tickets $20 Cash @ the Door </span></p>
<p>Join a group of gentle warriors, old travellers and open-hearted lovers for a memorable and magical night of celebration as we launch Jont's most soulful and healing album of songs to date.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <span class="font_large">Live Music with Jont ~ Ecstatic Dance ~ Cacao </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> DANSpace 1531 Grafton Street, Halifax<br> <br><a contents="Details on Facebook" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/351729975599871/" target="_blank">Details on Facebook</a> </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>CEREMONIES</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <span class="font_large">~From Michelle~</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">The Gentle Warrior experience has arisen out of a new expression within Jont’s songs. </span></p>
<p> <a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/ZRgBHiv9M8g" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/cf3ddea13a84a3e8388a692d6d309bb8daa4a868/original/gw-promo-600-edited-1.png/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="What is a Gentle Warrior Ceremony" /></a><strong><em>Enjoy a short video that captures what's at the heart of the Gentle Warrior song ceremonies and why so many people love them! </em></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">"....intimate, honest, bursting with healing and celebration..."</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">"...radiant, expansive and uplifting...."</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <em>**Join us in the experience and connect with us by <a contents="email" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:%20gentlewarrior.online@gmail.com" target="_blank">email</a> to host one in your community.**</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl"><strong>WEBSITE</strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large">The final touches are being added to the Jont website which will offer a refreshed space to experience the songs, music and more.</span> It will be ready in time for the DEC.08 album launch and over the coming weeks will include an expanded listening lounge and a unique subscription community. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><br> <br><em>**Thank you for sharing your experience with Jont’s music. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Your words and essences are the foundation of this new space to connect and engage with the music and each other.**</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">~~~</p>
<p> <img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/2d4b8321c38a5e65964a053c19d9d875f3a38e38/original/in-the-trees.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Jont in the trees" /></p>
<p> <em>Thank you to Jamie McDonald for the lovely photos shot near Halifax.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><span style="color:#663333;"><strong>YOU CAN RELAX…YOU’RE HERE NOW…</strong></span></span></p>
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<p>Hey everyone. </p>
<p>Here in Halifax, we are in the heart of the brilliant fall colours as the leaves turn and let go after another season…</p>
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/be67141bf8a1c855eca4c1e3b1c028f387320296/original/fall-colours-edited-2.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Fall scene in Halifax" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">GENTLE WARRIOR ALBUM</span></p>
<p>I'm happy to share that the new studio album (solo acoustic - with some of my most soulful, healing songs) will be available for purchase in the beginning of December. </p>
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/d7118731c65b75332071fad831067d75f30651f3/original/gw-cover-edited-1.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="New Album Cover" /></p>
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<p>There will be a limited edition CD (with cover art by Vanni Mangoni - above) and a download package with a cool e-booklet containing video, photos, lyrics and liner notes. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#663333;"><strong><span class="font_large">**HOLD THE DATE Saturday December 8th for the Halifax Album Launch!**</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">THE SONGS SPEAK...</span></p>
<p>As for where I'm at these days, I will let the songs speak for me...</p>
<p>...an audio clip of “Old Traveller” from a recent gathering of old travellers, Gentle Warrior, Kentville, NS. </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/RH6DFPXmuAs" target="_blank"><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/bcdf97e1fa6de3697ff2ad74feb66141933a8af2/original/old-traveller-audio-edited-1.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Old Traveller Preveiw" /></span></a></p>
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<p>...and a new song I wrote on a similar theme, how those old traumas keep coming on back, called “My Identical Twin”, posted on FB Live from my kitchen late one night…</p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/zgOAFEnpozA" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/4f156121a62d5448ff76abcfb1a1f12eef30d4df/original/identical-twin-2.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="My Identical Twin Preview" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">LISTENING CEREMONIES</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Wolfville NOV 3 (LaHara Yoga)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/745119285841298/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#663333;">Wolfville NOV 3 (LaHara Yoga)</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Fredericton NOV 10 (Breathing Space Yoga Studio)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.breathingspaceyogastudio.ca/fredericton-workshops/jont-gentle-warrior-sacred-song-ceremony" target="_blank"><span style="color:#663333;">Fredericton NOV 10 (Breathing Space Yoga Studio)</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#663333;">Noel Shore NOV 17 (hosted by Tasha) </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><em>(Thank you Jamie MacDonald at <a contents="ECVP" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.ecvp.com/" target="_blank">ECVP</a> for the great photos)</em></p>
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/89e1a76290f81a1e6d57562d39cda32e556c8fe8/original/gw-nov-dates-600-px-edited-2.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Gentle Warrior " /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_xl">COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">~ a Request from Michelle</span></p>
<p>Many of you have told us how much you appreciate immersing yourself in Jont’s intentionally created music and its "healing" vibes. </p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><span style="color:#663333;">We would LOVE it if you would <strong>share a few words</strong> about your experience with Jont’s music. </span></span><br><span class="font_large"> </span><br>Take inspiration from the questions below...</p>
<p> <br><span style="color:#663333;"><strong>What do you love best about Jont’s music? <br>How does this music make you feel?<br>How has it touched you or what are its gifts? </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#663333;"><strong>Please reply to <a contents="Jont" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:jontmark@hotmail.com" target="_blank">Jont</a></strong></span> (right NOW while it’s top of mind and heart). We will also be reaching out via Facebook and personal messages.</p>
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<p>With deep gratitude for your enthusiastic support....</p>
<p><span class="font_large"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/930a78372edef457016d752b9b287455fb074355/original/all-this-love-edited-1.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="All this love" /></span></p>
<p>Big Love,<br>JONT XX<br> </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Sign-up to receive E-News directly in your email box!</span></p>Jont tag:jontnet.com,2005:Post/54270172018-09-13T12:31:26-03:002018-12-15T20:58:51-04:00Connected & UN-Separate<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/0dfb5ca9d52ffee6ab9f2c16158b969f5d69b8d9/original/jont-header3-72-dpi-600-px.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#667da9;"><span class="font_large"><strong>YOU CAN RELAX...YOU’RE HERE NOW…</strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><em>It’s September and there’s a gorgeous feeling of new beginnings spinning to life… </em></span></p>
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<p>I’m not sure if it’s the time of year, time of life, or the time I’ve recently dedicated to healing but I have a surge of new energy and am offering it out, trusting that the healing, loving intentions will find you in the form of new songs, albums and community connections…</p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/f2b378cbb0fcfd05197c6692b816912377250fc6/original/autumn-leaf-600-px-edited-1.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Fall Leaf" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#ef5c52;"><span class="font_large"><strong>NEW MUSIC & INSPIRATION</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><br><span class="font_large"><strong>SOLO ALBUMS.</strong></span> A couple of weekends ago, I experienced the exhilaration of when a new album mysteriously coalesces into what it wants to become. I wasn’t planning on making another album but have learned that my role in these things is to simply allow songs to come through - and now we are ready to mix. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><em>There are two new intimate solo albums that I’ll be releasing very soon…soulful and overflowing with sonic medicine…</em></span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><strong>ONLINE SHOW.</strong></span> Most of what I do is trust music as a natural force for healing and connection. Thank you for listening to the spontaneous pieces I post and for sharing how they touch something in you that makes you sob or sometimes makes your heart burst open and your feet start to dance. In the spirit of this, I am starting a regular online show, a kind of hangout for those who enjoy my music and what it inspires. </p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/d0a649063d462ed8800ebf16557a88a1327b6275/original/poems-notation-edited-1.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Rumi Quote" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#424c18;"><span class="font_large"><strong>SUPPORTERS & CONNECTORS </strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_large">I have such gratitude for the people I get to create and collaborate with around the globe, and for those who share this music.</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p>Michelle is one of these people and I am so happy she is my "Connector" (as she calls herself), connecting my music and goings on with the world and with you.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_large">Michelle has such a great vibe and feels a strong calling to share these songs along with ways you can engage with them for your own healing. </span></em></p>
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<p>She (along with hubby, John) is working with me to rebuild my website and on some other projects and will be reaching out to you, so I wanted to introduce her in this brief bit of video fun.</p>
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<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://player.vimeo.com/external/289538787.hd.mp4?s=b281f0d0cf54a78295f192750e171d4703cbdbe6&profile_id=175" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/87149f73437cc87b5a0f6e53e7bffa8006a031b2/original/split-screen-600-dpi.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Video Intro to Michelle" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#667da9;"><span class="font_large"><strong>TROUBADOURING</strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_large">This month I get to travel and sing my way around NS and its beautiful neighbouring provinces. Each time, I am in awe of how music offers a natural feeling of connection and belonging.</span></em></p>
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<p>Here is a brief audio piece about how listening experiences, like Gentle Warrior, offer an exercise in “UN-separateness”, a sneak peek from the upcoming live album “The Story of Jake”. </p>
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<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://soundcloud.com/jontmusic/separation-chat" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/010ef999c04168d1171d34f8c7d7e69fdb963d7d/original/separate.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Audio Link to Story of Jake" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><strong>UPCOMING LISTENING EXPERIENCES</strong></span></p>
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<ul> <li><span class="font_regular"><strong>An Acoustic Evening of Song, FREDERICTON, 18 SEPT </strong></span></li> <li><span class="font_regular"><strong>Gentle Warrior, OTTAWA, 20 SEPT</strong></span></li> <li><span class="font_regular"><strong>An Evening of Song at "la Lumiere du Mile End", MONTREAL 22 SEPT</strong></span></li> <li><span class="font_regular"><strong>Gentle Warrior, WOLFVILLE, 29 SEPT </strong></span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Thank you, generous hosts - Don in NB, Jonathan in ON, Karyn in QB and Dina in NS!</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large">Details on <a contents="Facebook" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/jontmusic/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and the <a contents="JONT website" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jontnet.com" target="_blank">JONT Website</a> </span></p>
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<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/ff9328fb052cab3f1273a796607b8e1901d3375c/original/simple-generic-for-enews-600-px.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Poster of Jont Acoustic Dates" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#ec5c53;"><span class="font_large"><strong>NOT ASKING SO MUCH</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#667da9;"><span class="font_large"><em>~ a Listening Reflection from Michelle ~</em></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#667da9;">This life is a gift. When it becomes too full of doing, striving and trying it can lose some of its shininess. It is a deep practice of love to stop, slow down and open our eyes and hearts to the abundance – beauty, peace, joy, freedom – that’s alive in each moment.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><em><span style="color:#667da9;">“Not Asking So Much” is a song that reminds us to live with gratitude and to take a break from our wanting and striving, at least for today…</span></em></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#667da9;">**This version is a sneak peek of a newly mastered track from the soon-to-be-released "Gentle Warrior" album. </span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#667da9;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://soundcloud.com/jontmusic/not-asking-so-much-new-mastered" target="_blank"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/154510/0b41e747dbe1ed864535e7ffe4aa3230126a6db7/original/not-asking-polly-600-px.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="Audio link to " /></a></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#667da9;">"...i've been asking for a lot<br>ever since i could talk<br>but i never got enough <br>to make me full up <br>so now i'm opening my eyes<br>to see what i forgot<br>oh today i'm gonna try not asking so much...”</span></p>
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<p><span class="font_large"><strong>Big Love...<br>XX</strong></span></p>
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