29 Facts About Jason Webley

Jason Webley is an American musician known for his fusion of folk, experimental, and alternative music.

Jason Webley began his career performing solo, but has collaborated with a wide range of artists.

Jason Webley has organized several commemorative concerts and events memorializing everything from tragedies in his hometown of Everett, Washington, to tomatoes.

In high school, Jason Webley played in a punk rock band called Moral Minority.

Jason Webley picked up the accordion in 1996 in his last year in college at the University of Washington when he was part of a performance of Bertolt Brecht's play The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and wrote a couple of songs for the play on the accordion.

In 1999, Jason Webley released Against the Night, which would become one of his most popular albums.

Jason Webley plays various instruments on his albums, including guitar, accordion, piano, marimba, and glockenspiel; when he tours he usually only brings his guitar, an accordion, and a vodka bottle filled with coins from around the world.

Jason Webley has been known to do short tours with a backing band.

Jason Webley has performed at several festivals, including Burning Man, Glastonbury Festival, VanFest, and the Oregon Country Fair.

Jason Webley's sound has been compared to Tom Waits, Vladimir Vysotsky, Leonard Cohen, and Bob Dylan.

Jason Webley performed a special commemorative concert on November 11,2011.

Jason Webley was once known for incorporating vegetables into his performances.

Jason Webley once owned a late 1990s model Toyota Corolla that had been converted into a giant tomato.

Jason Webley reported at a concert that his beloved Toyota had "passed away" around January 18,2011.

From 2000 to 2004 Jason Webley pretended to die every Halloween only to be born in the spring.

In May 2014 Jason Webley performed the songs 'Promise To The Moon' as well as 'These and More Than These' by Joseph Fink; while doing a series of live shows with the show Welcome to Night Vale, as well as writing an original song as the character Louie Blasco on the podcast.

In 2011, Jason Webley scaled back his touring schedule and started focusing more on projects.

Jason Webley organized the Monsters of Accordion tour, an all-accordion extravaganza that took place on the West Coast.

The tour came together when Jason Webley was invited to play at an accordion shop in Oakland, and met two Bay Area accordionists, Daniel Ari and Aaron Seeman.

In 2014 Jason Webley released Margaret, a collaborative album commemorating Margaret Rucker, the daughter of a prominent Everett family.

In 2016 Jason Webley turned to crowdfunding to co-create an album centered on Everett's history.

In 2017, Jason Webley began organizing a floating circus on the Willamette River.

Jason Webley cited the works of Mark Twain as an inspiration for the project.

Jason Webley has announced that there will be a series of 11 collaborative projects between him and his songwriter friends, and each recording will be limited to 1,111 numbered copies.

Jason Webley has thus far collaborated with Jay Thompson, Andru Bemis, Reverend Peyton, and Sxip Shirey.

In September 2007, Jason Webley collaborated with Amanda Palmer to release Evelyn Evelyn's debut EP Elephant Elephant via Jason Webley's Eleven Records.

Jason Webley repeated this tradition the following two nights, first after a concert at Bard College, where he and a group of students collaborated on a song called "Clown Car to Mulberry", then at Sarah Lawrence College, where Jason Webley and almost the entire audience performed the hardcore punk-inspired "Bad Milk".

In December 2011, Jason Webley announced the intention to make his back catalogue available as paid downloads online on the website BandCamp.

In February 2018, Jason Webley announced the release of the new Amanda Palmer music video "Judy Blume" which he directed.