Jon Gailmor

Jon Gailmor has been performing in schools, colleges, resorts, restaurants and folk clubs throughout the country for almost 40 years, serenading at child care and senior centers, singing at prisons, hospitals, conferences, corporate and private parties and delivering unorthodox high school commencement addresses. He sang in Lima, Peru and in Quito, Ecuador, and in schools and concert halls in the former Soviet Union.

Jon presents songwriting residencies and workshops for students in preschool through college and helps companies and other organizations create their own masterpieces. Jon has been honored as an “Extraordinary Vermonter” by the governor, received the Mayor’s Peace Prize in Burlington, and was awarded a Silver Citation by the Vermont Arts Council.

He toured with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, sang as Vermont’s representative at the 25th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and was chosen to carry the Olympic Torch through Brattleboro, on its way to Atlanta, in 1996.