Multi-instrumental artist and songwriter based in Cork, Ireland.

Jon Hughes is an American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Ireland since 2005. His music sits somewhere between the rootsy intimacy of early Wilco, the off-kilter energy of Pavement, and the deadpan literary weight of Bill Callahan — atmospheric, wry, and resistant to easy categorisation. The songs on his new album The Altered Records move between jangly guitars, Wurlitzer and Rhodes and quieter territory of lap steel, strings and acoustic guitar, held together by lyrics that favour mood and implication over direct narrative. Built quietly across two decades, it is music that rewards repeated listening.

He has shared a stage with Damien Jurado, She Keeps Bees, and Buddy Mondlock.