Someone Amazing: Jon Gomm

One man, one guitar, two beautiful songs:

This song is about I plant a grew in my 10-feet-square backyard in the Leeds inner city. I put the seeds in a tiny tub, but it grew like a Roald Dahl story until it took over the whole yard, then one day the sun shone extra hard and 100 flowers all went “Pop!”. It was amazing, so I wrote a song for it.*

—Jon Gomm

And for those of us in a more melancholy mood:

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*The MP3 of “Passionflower” is for sale—according to the video blurb, a percentage of all proceeds go to The Happy House children’s home in Watamu, Kenya.

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