
John Hewitt
PAST SHOWS
* EDMONTON FOLK FESTIVAL * CANMORE FOLK FESTIVAL * WILD OATS & NOTES * WAYNESTOCK * WHITEFISH SONGWRITER FESTIVAL * RED LODGE SONGWRITER FESTIVAL * PEACE VALLEY FOLK FEST * SUMMER KICKS * REVY.LIVE * NEW MOON FOLK CLUB * NORTHERN LIGHTS FOLK CLUB * NICKELODEON FOLK CLUB * LETHBRIDGE FOLK CLUB * GALLERY HOUSE CONCERTS * CALGARY FOLK CLUB * ALBERTA SHOWCASE * HEART OF EDSON * BLACK ROSE ACOUSTIC SOCIETY * ESCALANTE CANYON ARTS FESTIVAL * LILACFEST * TASTE OF CALGARY *
Live at the New Moon Folk Club
Live at the Yardbird Suite
Live at the Black Rose Acoustic Society (Colorado)
Live at Tongue on the Post
(Medicine Hat)
John Hewitt is a master, a choreographer of sound, a man of many hats all worn with style with a dream bigger than the world around him.
John Hewitt is a force not seen since the end of the 70’s. There are bands, artists and songwriters that mimic and imitate but John Hewitt absorbs and reimagines. From folk clubs to house concerts, festivals to halls John is a master of storytelling, arranging, producing and a painter of poems scarcely seen in today’s musical climate. Since his early teens taking in the powerful sounds of the Beatles, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and the Grateful Dead he has been wandering, searching and yielding a crop of new ideas from the old world. A multi-instrumentalist from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and being Alberta bound since 2018 John’s mark on the Western music scene is impossible to go unnoticed. Performing over 150 shows per year (From Alberta and British Columbia to Montana, Colorado, California and beyond), covering 20,000 miles per annum and releasing upwards of 3 albums in that same timeframe there is no comparison to the work ethic, the attitude and the drive that John has as an artist. Fronting the New Americans and touring solo most of the year his output impresses the young and the old, the folk and the rock, the country and the town and the only thing left at the end of the night is a feeling you won’t get anywhere else.







PRESS
"One of the hardest working musicians in Alberta"
- Tom Coxworth, Folk Routes CKUA
"It’s rare for a musician to maintain a prodigious output from year to year, and even rarer to have two releases within a year and have both of them be highly acclaimed, yet that’s exactly what John Hewitt pulled off in 2023. Hewitt’s "Broken Rebels" and "Wonderlust" are among the year’s best releases"
- Chad Huculak, Edmonton Journal
"With artfully crafted songs, masterful musicianship and humbled authenticity, John Hewitt is the full package and the real deal."
- Rhea March, CJSR
"He's so prolific that even his recent record is no longer a recent record!"
-Oskar Zybart, CKUA
Releases:

Postcards For the Afterlife (2024)
1) Ballad of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Yesterday's Breakfast
2) Counting Trains
3) Paradise (By the Light of You)
4) She
5) I Just Can't Wrapy My Head Around Your Kind of Rock N' Roll Mama

The Blackbox Recordings (2024)
1) Reconsider Me
2) Virginia, Please
3) Sad State of Affairs
4) On My Way to Nelson
5) New York City Opera House
6) Shot Down
7) Death in the Woods
8) She's Too Afraid
9) Broken Knight
10) You Don't Have to Live in Fear
11) Emerald City
12) Give it Up to Me
13) Secrets in the Night
14) Ethereal Flower
15) Smokey Mountain Rain
16) Superior Love
17) Northern Rose
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Wonderlust (2023)
1) Wherever You Are Tonight
2) Nebraska Heart
3) The Greatest Line
4) Yesterday's Tomorrow
5) Love Her Just the Same
6) Young Lovers
7) Wonderlust

Broken Rebels (2023)
1) Before the Well Runs Dry
2) Brown Paisley Cowgirl
3) City Lights (North Country Girl)
4) Mama Don't Throw No Stones
5) My Baby Thinks I've Lost My Eye For Her
6) Insomnia
7) Oklahoma
8) My Baby Loves Me
9) Aphrodite & Me

Life Blood & Tears (2022)
1) Mountain Town
2) If Not For Her
3) Don't Cry Molly
4) It's a Funny Little World
5) And I Think About Her
6) Man of Constant Sin
7) Reconsider Me
8) Too Far to Give Out
9) Ramblin' in My Blood
10) Colorado

Dead Lovers (2021)
1) River of Coal
2) Visions of Emma Rose
3) Won't Let You Down This Time
4) You've Been Good to Me
5) Temptation
6) Smokey Mountain Rain
7) Only the River Knows Her Name
8) Albatross

Hollywood Reality (2020)
1) Foreplay 1
2) Madness at the Heart of All
3) You Don't Have to Live in Fear
4) Gone From My Mind
5) Sleeping Dogs

American Hotel (2020)
1) Going Down the Only Road
2) Tel Aviv Nine
3) Mason's Garden
4) Shine On
5) Broken Hearted Lovers
6) Too Many People
7) If You Need Another
8) Ballad in Eb
9) Listen to the Beatles
10) Happy All the Time
11) Thank You For the Rose
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