Big Jon Short

Based in the Northeast US, he travels and performs between 150-200 shows per year in BBQ joints, blues rooms and festivals from Massachusetts to Mississippi.
With performing experience in fifteen states, and five countries over the last ten years he has been able to perform at some of the best known venues for blues music, has been a staple of the festival season in Clarksdale, MS and for years he held a residency at the famed Terra Blues in NYC – all while continuing his work as a public school teacher, running Blues in Schools programs and workshops.
Recipient of multiple awards as a performer and educator, in 2018 Short won a Worcester Music Award for "Best Blues/R&B Act" and was voted a finalist for "The Best of Central Mass: Entertainer of the Year". In 2010 he was awarded the Worcester Cultural Commission Artist Fellowship for his work as a performer and educator and he is currently supporting his most recent live recording of country blues “Live at Birch Tree”.

Shared stage/festivals/opened for:
David “HoneyBoy” Edwards, Taj Mahal, John Hammond, Paul Rishell & Annie Raines, Rory Block, Charlie Musselwhite, Elvin Bishop, Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers, Shemeika Copeland, Henry Butler, Booker T. Jones, James “Superchikan” Johnson, Big George Brock & the Houserockers, Robert Belfour, North Mississippi All Stars, Jimbo Mathus, Bobby Rush, James Montgomery, Duke Robillard, Troy Gonyea, Kerry Kearney, Reggie Walley, Toni Lynn Washington, Willie King & the Liberators, Cedric Burnside, Kent Burnside, Lightnin’ Malcolm, LC Ulmer, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, John Sinclair, Billy Gibson Band, Brandon Santini, Michael Powers, Ray Shinnery, Saron Crenshaw, Michael Hill, Slam Allen, Frank Morey & His Band, Jeff Pitchell & Texas Flood, Chris Fitz Band, Seth Yacavone, Junior Brown, Pete Huttlinger, Ed Gerhard, Rev.Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Hillstomp, Jawbone, The Delta Generators, Ten Foot Polecats, Pork Chop Willie, Mark Miloff, Max Creek, Strangefolk, Zen Tricksters, Ryan Montbleau
For more information: bigjonshort@gmail.com

Worcester Music Award 2018: Blues/R&B
Voted Best of Central Mass 2017: Entertainer - Finalist
Semi-finalist at the 2008 & 2010 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN
2010 Worcester Cultural Commission Artist Fellowship Award
Winner of the 9th Annual Lyon/Pitchford Cigarbox Award – Memphis, TN 2010
Voted “Best Blues Musician” by Worcester Magazine: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Selected as Downstate NY Blues Society’s “Artist of the Month” January 2007
Selected as one of Pulse Magazine’s “27 to watch in 2007″
Winner of The Pulse Magazine’s 2006 Worcester Music Award for “Best Blues Act”