Jon Bennett has performed across the UK since the 1980s. He has published children's songs commissioned by the National Cooperative Movement and the BBC and, with arrangements by Jacqui Johnson, has two books of original and traditional tunes published by Mel Bay. He's a previous winner of the BBC-radio/Folkwrite Magazine songwriting competition and a finalist of the International Songsearch competition. Jon's music has featured on the BBC's award-winning Global Echoes programme, and on BBC TV (Beyond Paradise) and on Radio 4 (Poetry Please). Every year, with Jacqui, he manages and teaches Folk Orchestra, Songwriting and Ukulele courses at the National Centre for the Folk Arts (Halsway Manor) and Benslow Music. He has also run courses at festivals such as Common Ground (Scotland), Broadstairs Folk Week, BunkFest and the Ukulele Festival of Great Britain. He has written more than 80 reviews for Shire Folk magazine and is a staff/contributing writer for RnR Magazine. He founded Moonrakers in 1998.
