Who made the music:

Often reluctant to characterize the style of his music, Jeff Brown frequently describes his sound as ‘songs about girls and feelings, mostly.’ His shows and music run the range from delicate indie-folk to more aggressive alt-rock with forays into jazz and chamber pop. His songwriting trends towards the melancholic and, if pressed, he cites his songwriting influences as “Girls and alcohol, mostly,” though in reality, his music is rarely that one-dimensional. Brown writes love songs for people who are sick of the same old love songs.

Brown was born in Chicago, raised on heavy metal (Brown was a veteran performer in several heavier bands throughout high school and college), versed in classical and the blues, and ultimately found his home in the soothing melodies and heartfelt lyrics of modern folk rock, reminiscent of Damien Rice, Iron & Wine, and Glen Hansard. Brown recently relocated to the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia (though if you ask him, he’ll always be a Chicagoan).

Brown has completed numerous Midwestern regional tours, as well as a handful of cross-country tours, and most recently his second tour through Europe – a 23-day string of shows through Iceland, England, Ireland, and Scotland. He has three commercial releases, the second featuring a song that was a part of an MTV show back in 2014, and has been working here and there on a fourth release.

An adept performer, Jeff has toured locally, nationally, and Internationally. His stage presence, sense of humor and above all the passion with which he shares his ideas with others make him a singer-songwriter to be reckoned with. Itunes calls him “a talent and a force to remind us all is not lost, and gorgeous, true, feeling songs are still out there.”